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— September 9, 1776
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The Month Ahead
Friday, September 9
Complimentary Veteran Appreciation Barbecue for senior
(55 years and older) veterans at McNary Golf Club 11 a.m.-
3 p.m. Sponsored by Bonaventure at Keizer Station. Event
will feature military museum display, raffl es and a veteran
recognition ceremony. RSVP to 503-689-8084.
The Lord and Schryver Conservancy of Salem present Four
Gardens, Four Gardeners, a garden wine social, 6-9 p.m. at
Gaeity Hollow and Bush Barn Annex (545 and 600 Mission
St.). Featured speaker will be writer Donald Olson.
Veteran Appreciation BBQ, McNary Golf Club, 155 McNary
Estates Dr N Keizer, OR 97303. From 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Free for Senior (55+) veterans. Contact info: Clair Clubb
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Friday, September 9 – Sunday, September 11
Sublimity Harvest Festival. Many activities to see and
take part including a tractor pull and monster trucks. Paid
admission. For festival schedule and tickets prices visit
sublimityharvestfestival.org.
Saturday, September 10
MHS Band Day, bandmembers will collect cans/bottles/
cash from Keizer homes. Collection at McNary High
School and Creekside Center, 8 a.m.-8 p.m. For more info
visit mcnaryhsband.org.
Free child safety seat check hosted by Keizer Police,
8 a.m.-noon, parking lot of Keizer Civic Center, 930
Chemawa Rd. N.E.
Shred Day, a document shredding acitivty sponsored by
Oregon State Credit Union, 4952 River Road North in
Keizer. Limit is three boxes per household. 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Willamette Valley Genealogical Society will meet at 10:30
a.m. in Anderson Room A of Salem Public Library (585
Liberty St SE). Webmaster Dennis Hill will speak about
WVGS Website Overview and Ancestry.com.
Keizer Public Arts Commission will dedicate the city’s
newsest mural, 11 a.m., Town and Coutntry Lanes, 3500
River Road N. The public is invited.
JFK appears at Keizer Rotary Amphitheatre at Keizer
Rapids Park in the fi nal concert of the series. Doors open at
5:30 p.m., show at 6:30 p.m. No outside food or beverage;
no animals allowed.
Sunday, September 11
9/11 Memorial at Keizer Fire District, 661 Chemawa Road
N.E. 7 a.m. Continental breakfast follows ceremony.
Narrated tour with stops at three area attractions: E.Z.
Orchards Farm Market, The Oregon Garden and Silver
Falls State Park (no host lunch stop at Silver Falls). $49/
adult. Tours every Sunday through Oct. 16. 503-241-7373.
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NE, Salem. First toss at 11 a.m.; check-in begins at 10
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Tuesday, September 13
Free admission all day at Hallie Ford Museum of Art, 700
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Wednesday, September 14
Elsinore Theatre presents, Western fi lm series: The Man
Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962). 7 p.m. Tickets $6. 170
High Street SE. 503-375-3574.
City Hall Week at Keizer Civic Center, 6 p.m. City leaders
from around the region discuss pressing issues of the day
with Oregon legislative leaders. Free.
Thursday, September 15 – Sunday, September 18
Mount Angel Oktoberfest. For a full list of activities and
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By ERIC A. HOWALD
Of the Keizertimes
There will not be a trusted
vendor program for organiza-
tion hoping to display work
in the Keizer Civic Center. At
least not yet.
Lore Christopher of the
Keizer’s Public Arts Commis-
sion (KPAC) presented the
Keizer City Council with a
plan to expedite approval of
artwork from organizations
with regular exhibits at Keizer
Civic Center.
The request was met with
trepidation by members of
the city council who opted to
tread carefully around any mat-
ter that would draw it or city
employees into regulating the
content of artwork destined
for display in the civic center.
“We went through this con-
versation when the art com-
mission was established to keep
the council and city out of
content regulation. We want to
protect the freedom of speech
and make sure that everyone is
granted the fairness of a pro-
cess,” said Mayor Cathy Clark
in voicing her opposition to
the program.
The primary benefi ciaries
of the plan would have been
the Salem-Keizer Education
Foundation (SKEF) and the
Colored Pencil Society of
America. Both groups have
had exhibits in the civic cen-
ter in the past, but the Colored
Pencil Society said the amount
of work required to organize
the show and get all the art-
work approved for exhibition
took too much time on behalf
of its volunteer coordinators.
Christopher said KPAC was
willing to compromise by in-
stituting the preferred vendor
program as a pilot project for
two years and limiting it to the
two named vendors instead of
the three originally envisioned
by KPAC.
KPAC commissioners had
hoped to ease the burden on
exhibitors like the Colored
Pencil Society through a trust-
ed vendor program that would
have allowed it to submit an
exhibit without having every
single piece approved by the
commission in advance.
City Attorney Shannon
Johnson strongly opposed the
implementation of such a plan
in memo submitted to the
council.
Johnson cited concerns
about artwork being submit-
ted through trusted vendors
that could be deemed explicit
or simply not appropriate for a
public setting. Without pre-ap-
proval, he suggested, a process
would need to be established
for removing objectionable
pieces and that could trigger
questions regarding the fairness
of the process.
Christopher tried to coun-
ter Johnson’s concern stat-
ing that two KPAC members
would be on-hand during
art intake to reject any pieces
deemed unsuitable. That how-
ever didn’t pass muster with
Councilor Roland Herrera.
“Deciding last minute
doesn’t play well for me. I feel
like we can come up with a
better solution,” he said.
Johnson also suggested that
other vendors would be able
to claim city standards as a
whole were unfair if the coun-
cil wasn’t approving an actual
process. They were instead be-
ing asked to support a concept
with a process to follow after
approval.
As a last ditch concession,
Christopher asked the council
to approve the program for at
least SKEF because artwork
was already passing through
MCSO looking for a few good cadets
The Marion County Sher-
iff ’s Offi ce is recruiting for its
Cadet Program. The program
introduces cadets to what it
takes to be a patrol deputy, pa-
role and probation deputy or
corrections deputy.
To join the Cadet Pro-
gram, a person must be be-
tween 14.5 and 20 years old,
and they must be enrolled full
time in school. They must also
have a 2.5 grade point aver-
age.
Cadets learn about team-
work and develop leadership
skills while being mentored
by deputies. Individuals who
are selected will participate in
an interview process and must
pass a background investiga-
tion. Successful applicants will
begin an eight-week cadet
academy starting in January.
The classes will be held on
Sundays. Applications are due
Oct. 14 by 5 p.m.
Once trained, individuals
will ride along with deputies
on patrol, participate in com-
munity relations programs,
assist with traffi c control and
looking back
in the KT
security, and learn more about
the professions associated
with the fi eld of law enforce-
ment. The cadets will be ex-
pected to dedicate 20 hours of
volunteer work each month.
For more information, go
to www.GoMcso.com and
click on the Cadet Unit link
for an application.
GRASSROOTS
GOVERNMENT
The Keizer Traffi c Safety, Bikeways and Pedestrian Committee
had its most recent meeting Thursday, Aug. 11. Here’s what was
discussed:
• Chair Hersch Sang-
ster suggested the devel-
opment of more bike ride
routes that could be posted
to the city’s website. He
volunteered to redesign
an existing ride route and
suggested that ‘kid rides,’
‘neighborhood
cruiser
rides’ and longer recre-
ational rides be developed
and posted as well. Exist-
ing routes can be accessed
at www.keizer.org/Bike-
Routes/.
• Committee member
Pat Fisher suggested look-
gatekeepers at the school level.
However, if that were to be
approved at some later date,
Clark wanted to see it opened
up to all education entities.
That proposal met with
resistance from Nate Brown,
Keizer’s community develop-
ment director.
“The only reason SKEF has
been given that latitude is be-
cause of the extreme oversight.
I would caution that smaller
organizations would not have
that oversight, and I would
want to make sure that was in
place,” Brown said.
The total value of an exhibit
is also something kept in check
with the existing process. Un-
der the city’s current insurance
policy, no individual piece of
artwork can be valued at more
than $3,000, and an entire ex-
hibit cannot be valued at more
than $50,000. Without pre-ap-
proval, exhibitors would have
to be held accountable for the
values of each individual piece
so as not to run afoul of insur-
ance limits.
Christopher said the KPAC
members present at intake
would take responsibility for
the valuation, but that seemed
to be the least of the council’s
concerns before approving a
pilot program.
“I am a little reluctant to
move forward without seeing
the policy we are approving,”
said Councilor Bruce Ander-
son.
Johnson
recommended
keeping the current process in
place while city staff worked
with members of KPAC to re-
solve any issues brought forth
by vendors. In the end, that’s
the path the council took.
local
weather
ing into the Safe Routes
to School mini-grant and
that the committee do a
city-wide assessment of
the conditions where chil-
dren are walking to school
and the physical barriers
preventing children from
walking to school.
• Committee member
Kathy Lincoln suggested
working on a speed study
of Wheatland Road and/
or a safety study of River
Road for incorporation in
an upcoming Traffi c Sys-
tems Plan update.
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5 YEARS AGO
Two Celt alums head
to New York for 9/11
memorial, Keizer Fire
plans local ceremony
Two McNary HS graduates,
Shelby Magnuson and Ashley
Eddings, will travel with
members of the George Fox
University choir to join with
an additional 150 singers to
take part in a 9/11 memorial
in New York City.
10 YEARS AGO
Keizer teen accused
of pulling knife
A 15 year old Keizer boy was
arrested after threatening three
other individuals with a knife
on River Road near the Taco
Bell. The victims called 911,
offi cers located the boy and
after a short foot chase, the boy
was taken into custody and
charged with two counts of
physical harassment, unlawful
possession of a weapon and
disorderly conduct.
15 YEARS AGO
Keizerites stunned as
terrorists strike
Although the terrorists attacks
focused on the Northeast - The
Pentagon and the World Trade
Center towers - authorities
locally were directed to take
extra precautions to ensure
residents safety.
20 YEARS AGO
Giants want to play
ball in Keizer
A team affi liated with the San
Francisco Giants would start
playing professional baseball
in Keizer next summer if the
city can come up with about
$2 million to launch a stadium.
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