SINCE 1979 • VOLUME 38, NO. 39
SEPTEMBER 9, 2016
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KEIZERTIMES/Eric A. Howald
Nyla McCarthy and Joe Botkin rehearse for Keizer Homegrown Theatre's
production of The Guys at Salem's Kroc Center.
FALL SPORTS PREVIEW
New KHT play is a different
kind of 9/11 memorial
By ERIC A. HOWALD
Of the Keizertimes
In the wake of the attacks on Sept.
11, one fi re chief is faced with crafting
eulogies for several of his men at once.
He connects with an editor who
helps draw out that material he needs
from a hodgepodge of memory and
trauma.
The story of how the two worked
together to craft remembrances is the
basis for Keizer Homegrown Theatre’s
latest production, The Guys, writ-
ten by Anne Nelson and directed by
Linda Baker.
Keizer man recognized for volunteer efforts
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Bob Shackelford, with wife Tanya, was honored as Keizer's Volunteer of the Quarter at the
city council meeting Tuesday, Sept. 6.
To this day, he drives
around town with a weed
wacker in his truck looking
for trouble spots where he
can jump in and fi ll a gap.
After becoming MAK’s
de facto leader, Shackelford
brought together groups of
volunteers to assist KNOW
with its giving tree operation
around the holidays and then
started branching out.
“We
started
looking
around and identifying some
of the areas along River
Road where the landscaping
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‘Cow
pasture’
rezone
draws
more
detraction
was getting in the way of traf-
fi c and going out to address
those problems,” he said.
One recent outing took
the group to Creekside Shop-
ping Center where shrubbery
was blocking the view as cars
tried to exit. The MAK crew
cleaned up the area to make
for safer egress.
While they’ve tackled
many projects of that nature,
MAK members have tried to
fi nd other ways to plug in.
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By ERIC A. HOWALD
Of the Keizertimes
Keizer residents continued
a drumbeat of opposition to a
proposed rezoning of the area
commonly known as “the cow
pasture” in documents submit-
ted to the city.
Residents had until Mon-
day, Aug. 29, to submit rebut-
tals to the new evidence pro-
vided by the Herber family, the
owners of the property west of
Verda Lane Northeast between
Chemawa Road northeast and
Dearborn Avenue Northeast.
The Herber family is seek-
ing approval of city offi cials to
rezone the land and pave the
way for a new high-density de-
velopment in the form of 112
apartments.
The Keizer City Coun-
cil rejected the proposition in
October 2014, but the family
returned earlier this year with
a slightly modifi ed plan calling
for eight fewer apartments and
a new look designed to help
the apartments fi t in among
the residential neighborhoods
surrounding it.
The city council is expect-
ed to make another decision
on the rezone proposal at its
Sept. 19 meeting. No public
testimony will be allowed at
the meeting, which begins at
7 p.m. at Keizer Civic Center,
930 Chemawa Road N.E.
Karen Okada provided the
most lengthy and detailed re-
buttal of the proposal. While
the plan proponents have sug-
gested that the decision to re-
zone the property for apart-
ments was based on Keizer’s
housing needs and inventories,
the need for residential housing
Saluting the people that make
us proud of our community
town with the word “volun-
teerism” embedded into the
city’s motto, he got his fi rst
taste of volunteering in Bend.
“There was a committee
that got together and volun-
teered on the weekends to go
trim and weed the places the
city didn’t have time for. The
city supplied the vests and the
gloves and the shovels and
the rakes and we did the rest.
I really got into that because
I’m a yard guy and like to see
things looking really sharp,”
Shackelford said.
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GIRLS SOCCER – PAGE 16
BOYS SOCCER – PAGE 18
The play opened at Salem’s Kroc
Center, 1865 Bill Frey Drive, Sept 8
and continues with shows Sept. 9-11
and 15-17. All tickets are $15. First
responders can buy one ticket and get
one free. Curtain time is 7 p.m. each
night except Sept. 11.
The memorial performance of the
show begins at 4 p.m., Sept. 11, and
will be followed by an opportunity to
talk with the actors, director and local
fi rst responders. A portion ($5) of each
ticket sold to the 9/11 performance
will be donated to Firefi ghters Cancer
‘Shack’ puts the action in MAK
By ERIC A. HOWALD
Of the Keizertimes
When Bob ‘Shack’ Shackel-
ford took notice of the work
the Keizer Network of Wom-
en was doing around the city,
he wondered why there wasn’t
a male-led counterpart within
the Keizer Chamber of Com-
merce.
That’s when he found out
about Men of Action in Keizer
(MAK). Shackelford began at-
tending meetings of the group
at Big Town Hero, but soon
grew dismayed at the lack of
actual action.
“They would meet for cof-
fee and talk about fantasy foot-
ball or the latest movies they
saw. They weren’t doing much
of anything,” Shackelford said.
After about three meet-
ings, Shackelford started trying
to move the group in a new
direction – toward providing
material support to the city
and its residents. For those ef-
forts, Shackelford was honored
by the Keizer City Council as
the Volunteer of Quarter by
city offi cials at a meeting Tues-
day, Sept. 6.
Shackelford grew up in
Keizer and graduated from
McNary High School before
opening and operating the
Game Crazy store that used to
be part of the Creekside Shop-
ping Center. He later moved to
Bend and then Arizona before
returning to Keizer as a real
estate broker with Berkshire
Hathaway HomeServices.
Despite growing up in a
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