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SEPTEMBER 9, 2016, KEIZERTIMES, PAGE A9 Audubon plans KRP birding trip PLAY, continued from Page A1 A birding fi eld trip will be hosted by the Salem Audubon Society at Keizer Rapids Park Wednesday, Oct. 5. There are a variety of habitats that attract a variety of birds including sparrows, fi nches and towhees. Many others can also be found such as waterfowl, raptors, wood- peckers, warblers, and creep- ers. Swallows, ospreys, king- fi shers, and an occasional eagle are spotted occasionally near the river. Meeting time is at 7:30 a.m. at the far parking lot in Keizer Rapids Park, 1900 Chemawa Road North. People are en- couraged to bring water and a snack for the trail. SHACK, continued from Page A1 they’ll choose to do at a later date,” he said. “Everyone has something they can do, and I think more people would vol- unteer if they just knew where to go to do it.” Those in need of assistance are also welcome to contact MAK through Facebook. “It might just be an older couple who needs things hauled away. If they pay the fee to dumping site, we’re happy to provide the service,” he said. While he’s been a driving force behind the expansion of MAK, Shackelford doesn’t want it to become a one-man show. He’s more interested in getting the MAK name out in the community. Shackelford recalls “terror- izing the town” between pa- per routes and tearing down River Road North in his car in his youth. He expects sev- eral of the people who saw him in those days wouldn’t have expected him to turn out as well as he has, but he’s cur- rently enjoying nothing more than going out and helping someone in need. “I feel awesome at the end of the day. Giving to the com- munity gives back, and I’m fortunate in my career to be able to do the things I’ve been able to do,” he said. “It’s nice to have my effort recognized, but I want the focus to be on MAK.” Support Network. For the play’s two principals, Joe Botkin and Nyla McCarthy, rehearsals alone have tapped into some deep wells of emotion. “I think we’ve had one rehearsal where we didn’t break down,” said Botkin. While the production is timed to coincide with the 15th anniversary of the 2001 attacks, McCarthy thinks there is something in the script for those who don’t remember where they were the day it happened. “My character, Joan, talks a lot about media coverage and how watching things happen isn’t the same as being engaged,” she said. “There are so many people who don’t know what to do when bad things happen. This play is kind of a lesson in engaging and fi nding ways to connect as individuals that has a hell of a lot more value than liking something on social media.” Botkin’s Nick, a fi re department captain, fi nds himself trying to assemble something meaning- ful from, at times, mundane interactions. “When he starts talking about the men he is eulogizing he has trouble expressing who the “A couple of weeks ago we helped (a local resident) clean out her garage because she’s caring for her husband. We got the whole thing organized and hauled away donation and scrap piles,” Shackelford said. MAK is always looking for new volunteers and members do not need to be members of the Chamber of Commerce. The best way to contact Shackelford and his cohorts is through the MAK Facebook page. “A lot of the projects in- volve some sort of manual la- bor, but we have several mem- bers of the group who are retired guys just looking for something to do. If they aren’t members of the Keizer Cham- ber now, maybe it’s something Award-Winning Authentic American BBQ Now 2 Locations 1210 State Street 503-362-2194 2505 Liberty St NE 503-689-1082 REZONE, continued from Page A1 is greater than the need for high density housing, Okada wrote. She also contested issues re- volving around school impacts. While the schools will not turn away additional students, “putting a 112-unit apart- ment complex on a busy road – right next to a roundabout, where traffi c never stops – is not a smart or logical choice to make.” Okada contacted Salem- Keizer School District in an effort to determine just what the impact to schools might be. The results contradict the 41 new students projected in the rezone proposal. “I contacted the SKSD to fi nd out how many students lived at Keizer Terrace Apart- ments, which are directly across the street from Kennedy (El- ementary) School. There were 124 students from the 153-unit complex – the ratio of students to housing was 81 percent. If the 81 percent ration were ap- plied (to the new complex), BETTER THAN NEW WITH A CLASSIC TOUCH there would be 91 new students from this property – more than twice the amount currently planned by the school district,” she wrote. Okada concluded with an analysis of the traffi c impact. “The impact of an addition- al 100 cars, and probably closer to 200 cars, from this proper- ty, driving every day on Verda Lane, will not be absorbed by the addition of the roundabout. It will just add more cars to the already long lines that currently exist,” she wrote. The rezone plans call for a cap of 750 trips per day, but Okada said it is unreason- able to expect such a limit to be enforced on future resi- dents, particularly given that a 112-apartment complex is ex- pected to generate an average of 745 trips per day. “The report submitted by the engineering fi rm hired by the family has a trip generation cap that will be immediately exceeded once the apartment complex is fully occupied,” Okada wrote. In the new evidence pro- vided to the city last month, at- torney Wallace Lien and Mark Grenz of Multi/Tech Engi- neering, suggested that city of- fi cials grant more weight to the testimony of “experts” rather than the voices of concerned We are Everything Except Overpriced residents when it came to im- pacts on traffi c and schools in the surrounding neighbor- hoods. Resident Laura Wells took issue with both the substance of the development and the tone of its proponents. “I realize that growth is in- evitable, but it must be done tastefully and thoughtfully, and 112 apartments on the Verda farm property is neither,” Wells wrote. “The attorney said, “Schools’ lack of capacity would still exist ...” well that’s just an indifferent and irrespon- sible statement. It just adds to the evidence that these folks don’t care about anything but lining their pockets.” One of the reasons, pub- lic testimony has dragged on for months is the status of the farmhouse that rests on the property. It was likely built around 1860 making it one of the oldest structures in Keizer. A report fi led with the Or- egon Department of Parks and Recreation lists the site as po- tentially historic, but further investigation and several public hearings would be required for it to attain an offi cial designa- tion. Multi/Tech Engineering provided a structural assessment in its latest wave of documents that claim the home is “unsal- vageable.” Deanna Fuller wrote that the source of the study could not be trusted. Simple Cremation $795 BEFORE AFTER men were. As she draws it out of him it is pow- erful, powerful stuff,” he said. The experience of working with the char- acter for the past several months has shed new light on both his work and home life. “Things get under my skin and they will eat at me for a while, but since I started working on this play, I’ve let a lot more of the little stuff go by. I’ve taken the moment to pause and realize that we’re all in this together and we’re shar- ing this,” Botkin said. “The play has helped me make space for those moments to think about the people who mean the most to me and ap- preciate everything they do.” Botkin is also curious to see how his family reacts when they come to see the play; some of his kids were barely into the double digits when the planes struck the World Trade Center. For McCarthy, it is the play’s message of con- nection that she hopes is received most power- fully. “We drive by people living on the streets, we see photos of impoverished people all over the world, but no matter what role you play, we’re all citizens of this world and no one should have to be on the outside,” she said. “I want people to come out of the theater feeling like they want to go be close to people they love.” “It seems to me to be a confl ict of interests to have the developer be the one to decide the professional assessment. Of course he would deem it un- salvageable. He has bigger plans for monetary profi t and that is his job,” she wrote. Resident Eamon Bish- op suggested that signifi cant changes in the zoning of the property require a re-exami- nation of the fl ood plain map under the National Flood In- surance Program and Endan- gered Species Act. In fact, the existing house was likely built on the ridge due to the regular overfl ow fl ooding of Claggett Creek during Oregon’s rainy season. Resident Alan Kendall called upon the council to rec- ognize what would be lost if the rezoning is approved. “The introduction of high density housing onto Verda Land, and its attendant crowd- ing, is more than a slow deg- radation, it is a huge step in the wrong direction,” Kendall wrote. “Of all the proponents of this plan, the Herber fam- ily, the hired attorney and the hired engineering fi rm, no one has a motive to benefi t this neighborhood. 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