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BAGE A2, KEIZERTIMES, DECEMBER 23, 2016 Eclipse event gets fee waivers presented by DRIVE A LITTLE – SAVE A BUNCH! 3893 COMMERCIAL ST SE • SALEM MORE INFO AT NORTHERNLIGHTSTHEATREPUB.COM START SHOPPING NOW! CHRISTMAS SPECIAL 8 Movie Passes for $25 We also have Gift Cards available in any amount! UFC207 - Fri, Dec 30 ROUSEY VS. NUNES WOMAN’S BANTAMWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP 9 FIGHTS IN ALL ON THE HUGE SCREEN Live Fights at 5:00 (21 & Over) - Tickets $13 Reserved Seating Available Now Online. EscapeQuest LIVE ESCAPE ROOM – THE CABIN ESCAPE Can you solve the puzzles & dodge disaster in 50 minutes or less? $15 weekday or $20 weekend per person with groups of 4 –8 people. See website for further details. Today in History Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh, suffering from severe depression, cuts off the lower part of his left ear with a razor. Today, Van Gogh is regarded as an artistic genius and his masterpieces sell for record-breaking prices; however, during his lifetime, he was a poster boy for tortured starving artists and sold only one painting. — December 23, 1888 Food 4 Thought “Conscience is a man’s compass.” — Vincent Van Gogh The Month Ahead Through Monday, December 26 Keizer Miracle of Christmas Lights Display, 6 to 10 p.m. Gubser neighborhood. Free admission but cash and food donations for the Marion-Polk Food Share are welcome. Through Saturday, December 31 14th Something Red Art Walk, Exhibit and Sale presented by Artists in Action. More than 20 businesses in downtown Salem will participate. artists inaction.org. Through Sunday, January 1 Christmas in the Garden, located at The Oregon Garden, 879 West Main Street. Features ice skating, a traditional German Christmas Market, and a light display in the Rediscovery Forest. Ice skating is available daily (Garden closed Dec. 24 and 25.) Visit www.oregongarden.org/ christmas-schedule-of-activities/. Friday, December 23 The Nutcracker will be performed at the Historic Elsinore Theatre, 7:30 p.m. Tickets range from $24 to $39. Youth (high school and younger) cost between $22 and $35. Group (15 or more) cost between $22 and $35. Buy tickets at elsinoretheatre.com. Pajama Party with Santa and Mrs. Claus at Salem’s Riverfront Carousel. Starts at 6 p.m. $20 per person, children under three free. By reservation only. Call 503- 540-0374. Saturday, December 24 Salem Tuba Holiday presented by Historic Elsinore Theatre and Salem Concert Band, noon. 170 High Street SE. Open seating, $15, reserved seating $20. Students $5. 503-375- 3574 or 1-800-992-8499. salemconcertband.org. Sunday, December 25 Christmas Day. Government offi ces closed. Tuesday, December 27 Free admission all day at Hallie Ford Museum of Art, 700 State Street. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday, December 27 – Saturday, December 31 Keep your eyes open for Whale Watch Week at the Whale Watching Center in Depoe Bay. Don’t pass up the opportunity to catch a glimpse of a whale. Sunday, January 1 New Year’s Day. Government offi ces closed. Tuesday, January 3 Free admission all day at Hallie Ford Museum of Art, 700 State Street. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday, January 10 Free admission all day at Hallie Ford Museum of Art, 700 State Street. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, January 14 Millstream Knitting Guild meets at Arrowhead Mobile Park Community Center, 5422 Portland Road N.E. in Salem,10 a.m. to noon. New members welcome, $24 membership per year. For more information, visit millstreamknitting.wordpress.com. Friday, January 20 Menopause the Musical at the Elsinore Theatre. Starts at 7:30 p.m. Doors open at 6:30. Tickets are between $29 and $55. Buy tickets online. Sunday, January 29 Fellini at the Circus. Hudson Hall Willamette University, 3 p.m. Saturday, February 11 Millstream Knitting Guild meets at Arrowhead Mobile Park Community Center, 5422 Portland Road N.E. in Salem,10 a.m. to noon. New members welcome, $24 membership per year. For more information, visit millstreamknitting.wordpress.com. Saturday, March 11 Millstream Knitting Guild meets at Arrowhead Mobile Park Community Center, 5422 Portland Road N.E. in Salem,10 a.m. to noon. New members welcome, $24 membership per year. For more information, visit millstreamknitting.wordpress.com. Add your event by e-mailinc news@keizertimes.com. Mayor Cathy Clark contended that waiving the fees for the eclipse event differed from recent requests by the Keizer Chamber of Commerce to waive some costs for the Holiday Lights Parade two weeks ago. “One of the reasons I am considering this is because this event will come back to the city in the form of a donation to general fund for Keizer Parks. It’s a wash and we have the potential to receive far more than the $1,000 we are waiving,” Clark said. Organizers hope to raise as much as $26,000 for city parks through the event. “I look at this event as a big deal in promoting Keizer and I think it’s a great investment for the city,” said Councilor Roland Herrera. In other business: • The council approved changes to the city’s marijuana sales regulations in- cluding allowing recreational sales shops By ERIC A. HOWALD Of the Keizertimes At its meeting Monday, Dec. 19, the Keizer City Council approved fee waiv- ers totaling a little more than $1,000 for the upcoming Keizer Eclipse 2017. Totally! event. The Keizer Parks Foundation (KPF) is planning an event at Keizer Rapids Park to mark the passage of a total solar eclipse over Keizer in August 2017 and intends to donate any proceeds back to the city as dedicated parks funds. Permits for the event were recently approved and led to the request for fee waivers, which to a large extent repre- sent foregone revenue. KPF requested waivers totaling $1,021 including $55 for an amphithe- ater permit, a $150 refundable deposit, $776 for four days worth of use fees and $40 for four days of electricity costs. The council agreed to waive the costs with a unanimous vote. to also make medicinal sales. Keizer’s three pot shops currently operate under “early sales” models, but are classifi ed as dispensaries. All three shops are expect- ed to convert to recreational sales as the early sales window closes Dec. 31. An additional change will mean the own- ers will not have to redo background checks on current employees. • The council approved plans for the parks survey to be sent out to the fi rst half of city residents with the December water billed that will be issued Dec. 29. The city general fund will absorb the $1,000 cost of sending out the sur- veys with the bills. It will also be avail- able online. City offi cials are asking residents about their priorities regard- ing Keizer’s 19 parks and to what ex- tent they would be willing to support a fee to create a dedicated parks fund. Additional volunteer outreach is planned with details being hammered out in the coming weeks. Local nonprofi t has near-perfect record in reshelterinc families – including St. Edward Catho- By ERIC A. HOWALD lic Church in Keizer – opens Of the Keizertimes The Keizer City Council up its doors to homeless fami- got a glimpse into one of the lies who receive a meal and more successful organizations spend the evening there be- tackling the problem of fore returning to the IHN day homelessness in the mid- site in west Salem to prepare for school and work. Keizer’s Willamette Valley. Recently-arrived Keiz- Salem Mennonite Church and Church er resident of Jesus Christ TJ Putman of Latter Day briefl y spoke Saints are sup- to the coun- porting con- cil about his gregations, but work as execu- do not host. tive director “Volunteers of the Inter- from the faith Hospital- churches and ity Network the community (IHN), a non- prepare meals profi t collec- for families and tive of 19 lo- there is always cal churches an overnight transition- — TJ Butman volunteer to ing homeless IHN exec. director help in case of families into emergencies,” homes of their said Putman. own. As families progress “We’re having great outcomes. You guys are making through IHN’s continuum a difference in homelessness of care, they can eventually and you probably didn’t even qualify for housing assistance that covers security deposits know it,” Putman said. Salem and Keizer partner and assists with rent payment. families themselves as a joint jurisdiction to tap The into the HOME Investment contribute a minimum of $50 Partnership Program offered and as much as a third of their by the federal Department income depending on their of Housing and Urban resources. It costs about $3,500 per Development. IHN receives about family to make the leap from $200,000 annually to help homelessness to their own rehouse families with children, living space. The goal is for every family but services it has developed around that core need have to enter their own home after led to a 96 percent success leaving the church sheltering rate once families move out of program, but Putman attributes its high success rate to the temporary shelter. Each week, an IHN church supplemental services IHN wraps around each family. “We know that parents want a better life for their “They will choose to sleep outside rather than be separated from their pets” lookinc back in the KT 5 YEARS AGO Missinc: One cym Platinum Sports closed suddenly, members wonder where their membership dues went. Platinum Sports and Fitness owner Corey Ahrens said memberships will be transferred to another gym. kids, so we have case managers that work with families on everything from parenting to budgeting and confl ict resolution,” Putman said. Last year, IHN added an on-site pet facility that has served more than a dozen cats, dogs and one snake in the past year. “The reality is that for someone facing the most diffi cult time of their life, they will choose to sleep outside rather than be separated from their pets so we added that to our services,” Putman said. Even after graduating to a space of their own, families continue to work with IHN case managers, which helps bolster the effort to remain independent. IHN started in 1999 with eight churches and has more than doubled since then. Unfortunately, need is also on the rise. Putman said IHN has seen a 31 percent increase in requests for services in the past year and has had to turn away 40 to 50 families each month. The squeeze is partly the result of the lack of affordable housing in the area, he said. “On average there is somewhere between a .5 and 4 percent vacancy rate in the available housing stock each month. Only about a quarter of that is available to people who struggle,” he said. “Currently, there are 3,400 people on the waiting list for Section 8 housing in Salem and Keizer and the list is closed. Housing everyone on the list right now might take three years or more.” To make a contribution or view the IHN “wish list,” visit salemihn.org. sudoku Tensions build over bic box stores at I-5 Battle lines are forming over a proposed shopping mall at Keizer’s freeway interchange, and so-called “big box”stores emerged last week as the fl ashpoint. 20 YEARS AGO Whiteaker students pick colors in uniform vote The school is moving closer to requiring student uniforms next year. Parents will vote in February on the issue. Whiteaker Middle School students want earth tones. 3893 COMMERCIAL ST SE THIS WEEK’S MOVIE TIMES Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (PG-13) Sat 6:45 Sully (PG-13) Fri 7:15, Sat 4:45 The Magnifi cent Seven (PG-13) Fri 9:15, Sat 3:45 Allied (R) Fri 4:20, 6:45, Sat 6:20 The Accountant (R) Fri 6:00, 8:30, Sat 6:00 Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (PG-13) Fri 11:50, 4:45, Sat 2:15 Trolls (PG) Fri 12:10, 2:05, 4:00, Sat 12:10, 1:45, 4:05 Enter dicits from 1-9 into the blank spaces. Every row must contain one of each dicit. So must every column, as must every 3x3 square. Storks (PG) Fri 12:35, 2:20, Sat 11:45, 2:00 The Secret Life of Pets (PG) Fri 2:40, Sat 12:25 FOR ALL SHOWTIMES GO TO NORTHERNLIGHTSTHEATREPUB.COM 10 YEARS AGO 15 YEARS AGO Keizer Boy Scout Troop 121 will be of- fering Christmas tree re- cycling Dec. 30, 31 and Jan. 1, 7, 8. Trees can be dropped off at Keizer U.S. Bank, 5110 River Road N. from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Pick-up in Keizer and North Salem can also be arranged on Dec. 31, Jan. 1, 7, 8 by calling or texting 503-877- HAUL or visiting www. keizertroop121.com. The suggested dona- tion is $10 for pick-up or $5 for drop-off. The Girl on the Train (R) Fri 9:05 City, police civinc procrams raise $3K The employees of both the city and police department raised nearly $3,000 this past year, which was donated to local families in a variety of ways. Recycle that tree KEIZERTIMES.COM Web Poll Results Why do you celebrate Christmas? 51% – Relicion/Faith 41% – Tradition 5% – The presents: Gettinc and civinc 3% – For the children We are Everything Except Overpriced Simple Cremation $795 Inexpensive Burial and Funeral Options Pre-Planning Available On-Site Crematory 4365 RIVER RD N, KEIZER Vote in a new poll every Thursday! GO TO KEIZERTIMES.COM 503.393.7037 Se habla español
