NOVEMBER 18, 2016, KEIZERTIMES, PAGE A7
Man celebrates Trump victory with cannon fi re
One Keizer man was ar-
rested and two more given
citations stemming from a
decision to celebrate Donald
Trump’s presidential victory
by lighting off a cannon.
On Wednesday, November
9, at 8:47 p.m. offi cers from
the Keizer Police Department
responded along with mem-
bers of the Keizer Fire Dis-
trict to the intersection of 7th
Avenue Northeast and Kestrel
Street Northeast on a report a
loud explosion.
One
concerned
and
alarmed citizen reported there
was a large plume of smoke
seen after the explosion. The
cause was not immediately
known and it was not known
if anybody had been injured.
The responding police of-
fi cers arrived within two min-
utes of receiving the call and
observed the large plume of
Submitted
A Keizer man was ticketed after lighting off this cannon at his home. He was ticketed for disor-
derly conduct.
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days and was there and helped
on his worst days. I am truly
thankful for everything she has
done. She gave me hope when
I needed it the most.”
When a new student
was having a tough time
adjusting to Gubser and having
behavioral problems, Mills
would spend most of her day
helping him cope with the
stress of the school. And when
the boy's mom got him an
appointment to see a local
child psychiatrist, Mills went
with them, even though snow
and ice cancelled school and
most of the district staff was off
that day.
That kid has also moved on
but Mills stayed in touch.
smoke was still lingering in
the air behind the residence
located at 5130 7th Avenue
N.E.
Offi cers made contact
with a female subject who
was located in the driveway
of the residence and began a
conversation with her as they
attempted to determine the
cause of the explosion and if
anybody had been injured. As
“When kids leave here
that doesn't mean that's the
end of my time with them,
especially when it's not that
they just graduated and moved
on,” Mills said. “You spend the
most time with the kids that
have the most needs so I get
to know them the best. They
wiggle their way into your
heart. I like to keep in touch
with them.”
Mills received one of 13
Crystal Apples out of 47
nominees at a ceremony on
Thursday, Nov. 4 at Salem's
Historic Elsinore Theater.
“Just the nomination itself
was amazing,” Mills said. “It
was just nice to know that
the work I do day in and day
out was recognized by other
people.”
Mills, who grew up in
Forest Grove, has been the
school counselor at Gubser for
16 years.
“A lot of my friends
growing up came from
divorced families or in crisis
families and I didn't have that
and I always felt really lucky to
come from a family that wasn't
a broken home and just was
always fascinated with helping
and supporting people that
needed that help,” Mills said. “I
wanted to work with kids and
I just really liked the school
setting where you got to work
with all the kids instead of just
select ones.”
Along with doing exercises
in problem solving and anger
management for all the
students at Gubser, Mills also
runs small groups for kids who
need additional help and works
with children one-on-one.
She brought Pennies for
Patients to both Gubser and
Cummings, where she also
worked for three years during
budget cuts.
Gubser alone has raised
$15,000 for the Leukemia and
Lymphoma Society.
“I just wanted our school
to do a community service
project,” Mills said.
Mills also coordinates a
memorial fund, named after
former Parent Teacher Club
Treasure Cathy Short, who lost
her battle with cancer. Each
year, Gubser uses $400 from
the club's budget to help its
students in need with basics
like clothing, tooth brushes,
sleeping bags, glasses and even
paid the electric bill for a
family last year.
“She stretches every dollar
and fi nds ways to make the
biggest impact with the
offi cers were speaking with
the female subject in the
driveway, her boyfriend con-
fronted them. That man, later
identifi ed as 21-year-old Tris-
ton Poteet of Keizer, refused to
follow the offi cer’s orders and
he grabbed one of the offi cers
as he confronted them. Poteet
was taken into custody at that
time for harassment and inter-
fering with a police offi cer.
The offi cers continued in-
vestigating the incident and
identifi ed another individual,
45-year old Michael Dingle,
as being the individual who
caused the explosion.
Dingle cooperated with the
investigation and told the in-
vestigating offi cers he ignited
a cannon in his backyard as
he was celebrating Donald
Trump’s presidential election
victory.
Dingle told the investi-
gating offi cers no projectiles
were shot from the cannon
and that he hid it in his ga-
rage just prior to police and
fi re units arriving on scene.
He said the cannon had been
made and given to him by his
father several years ago and he
feared offi cers would seize it if
it were found.
Dingle gave the investigat-
ing offi cers consent to enter
his garage to view and pho-
tograph the cannon he had
hid. Offi cers cited and released
Dingle at the scene for one
count of disorderly conduct.
In addition to Dingle being
cited and Poteet being taken
into custody, offi cers also cited
the female they initially en-
countered in the driveway of
the residence. Velda Housley,
20, of Keizer, was cited for
one count of interfering with
a police offi cer.
Gubser staff
and students
congratulated
Michelle Mills
on their reader
board.
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Memorial Fund money,” said
Vickie Jackson, the club's
bookkeeper. “Cathy Short
would be so proud.”
Mills noted she gets a lot of
help from the Gubser staff.
“I love everything about
this school,” she said. “Our staff
is not just a staff, it's a family
and most people refer to it as
our work family, our Gubser
family. People don't usually
leave from here unless they're
retiring so we've all gotten to
know each other really well
and when things are rough,
we're there to support each
other. It's not my kids and your
kids. It's our kids so everyone
is willing to always step up and
help others and when people
are in need and struggling,
whether it's personal or at
school, everyone's got each
other's back for that as well. We
look out for each other.”
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