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Today in History
By ERIC A. HOWALD
Of the Keizertimes
The rates for camping in
Keizer Rapids Park in the
days leading up to the total
solar eclipse passing over the
city were set at a meeting of
the Keizer Festival Advisory
Board (KFAB) Monday, Feb.
27.
Campers looking to scoop
up spots will need to pony up
$150 for three nights of tent
camping or $300 for three
nights of RV camping.
Members of KFAB also
decided a fl at rate would be
charged rather than a per-
night fee, meaning campers
will have to pay the full fee re-
gardless of whether they stay
all three nights.
Keizer City Councilor
Marlene Parsons has taken
over leadership of the eclipse
event coordination after the
prior coordinator resigned.
The prices set fall in line
with rates being charged at
other camping sites along the
path of the eclipse, said Allen
President Herbert Hoover signs a congressional act
making The Star-Spangled Banner the offi cial national
anthem of the United States.
— March 3, 1931
Barker, who has been helping
coordinate the camp plan-
ning.
“Madras is charging $150
for tents and $300 for RVs
for fi ve nights,” Barker said.
While the rate is somewhat
higher for Keizer Rapids park,
very few spaces along the path
of the eclipse are still available
and many sold out within
hours months ago. “We are
also right on the I-5 and a
lot of the other cites offer-
ing camping don’t have that,”
Barker added.
Spaces would be avail-
able for reservation when the
event website, keizereclipse.
com, goes live. That was ex-
pected sometime in the early
days of March.
Campers who reserve a
spot will not be able to choose
a space in the park at the time
of their reservation. Those will
be assigned at check-in with
the hope of accommodating
requests for groups of camp-
ers to be in close proximity to
each other, Barker said.
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watch
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A total of 166 spaces will
be available. Campers will
need to abide by the same
rules governing state park
camping.
Proceeds from the camp-
ing reservations will benefi t
the Keizer Parks Foundation
with the intent of donating
them to the city’s parks as a
one-time shot in the arm.
In other business:
• Parsons said she would
be requesting an $8,000 line
item in the city’s 2017-18
budget to pay for portable
toilets during the eclipse fes-
tival. She is also working on a
$5,000 request to the Keizer
Parks Foundation to level out
KT on vacation
Robin Barney took
her Keizertimes
to the Oregon
coast and met
some locals at
the Yaquina Head
Lighthouse.
Food 4 Thought
“It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on
the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power
each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his
own.”
— Herbert Hoover
You too can have
your photo in the
Keizertimes. Simply
take the paper to
your destination,
snap a picture with
you and your group
holding it, and send
the photo along
with everyone’s
fi rst and last names
to kt@keizertimes.
com.
The Month Ahead
Through Sunday, March 5
Brush Creek presents the play The Further
MISadventures of the Seven Dwarfs. Performances at
7 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays, 2 p.m. matinees on
Saturdays and Sundays, and two 7 p.m. performances on
Thursday, Feb. 23 and Thursday, March 2. Tickets are
$8-$10. For more info, contact Michael Wood at 503-
508-3682.
Submitted photo
Through Saturday, April 29
Batman! at the Keizer Heritage Museum, from the
private collection of David Sherman. Free admission.
Museum hours are 2-4 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10
a.m.-4 p.m. Saturdays. keizerheritage.org.
Saturday, March 4
Artists’ reception for The Color Show/Green exhibit,
2-4 p.m. at Keizer Art Association’s Enid Joy Mount
Gallery, Keizer Heritage Center, 980 Chemawa Rd. N.E.
Exhibition runs March 2-March 25. Visit keizerarts.com
for gallery hours and art class information.
Saturday, March 4 – Sunday, March 5
T-Rex Planet at Oregon State Fairgrounds. See what
it was like to experience the Jurassic, Triassic and
Cretaceous periods. Over 40 life-sized animatronic
dinosaurs. Hours are 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday, 10 a.m.-
7 p.m. Sunday. Admission is $25 for children 1-12 which
includes unlimited access to the Fossil Dig and Bounce
Castle. trexplanet.com.
Sunday, March 5
Festival Chorale Oregon performs Messa Di Gloria,
a choral mass composed by Puccini at the Historic
Elsinore Theatre at 4 p.m. Tickets range from $5 to $20.
ticketswest.com.
Tuesday, March 7
Open house for the Winter/Maple Family Friendly
Bikeway planning project from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Located
at Broadway Commons, 1300 Broadway Street N.E.
Admission is free.
Free admission all day at Hallie Ford Museum of Art,
700 State Street. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Thursday, March 9
West Keizer Neighborhood Association meeting at the
Keizer Civic Center, 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. Meetings are on the
second Thursday of each month. Admission is free. For
more information go to www.westkeizerna.org.
Friday, March 10
Poet and essayist Ross Gay to read at Oregon State
University in the Valley Library Rotunda at 7:30 p.m.
A question-and-answer session and book signing will
follow. Event is free and open to public.
Saturday, March 11
Oregon cat video festival from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. Located
at the Oregon State Fair & Expo Center.
Willamette University Pow Wow, 4-10 p.m., Sparks
Athletic Center on the campus. Free admission.
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.
Monday, March 13
American Red Cross blood drive, Keizer Civic Center, 9
a.m.-2 p.m. To schedule an appointment all 1-800-RED-
CROSS or at redcrossblood.org (use sponsor code
KeizerCommunity).
Tuesday, March 14
Free admission all day at Hallie Ford Museum of Art,
700 State Street. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Thursday, March 23
Salem Grow & Show Garden Club, 7 np.m. at Center 50+,
2615 Portland Rd. N.E., Salem. Speaker will be a Master
Food preserver from the OSU Extension Service. Free.
Interviewers
sought for
HS students
The Salem Chamber is
looking for a few good inter-
viewers. Well, 300 to be exact.
At the Salem Convention
Center, mock interviews will
be held for over 1,000 Salem-
Keizer high school students.
They will be helped to im-
prove their interview skills.
Students do not need to be
in a hiring position to partici-
pate. The event is from 8 a.m.
to noon.
Volunteers to conduct the
interviews are needed and can
be there any portion of time,
or for the entire event. Volun-
teers don’t need to have any
experience.
To sign up to volunteer,
email kathy@salemchamber.
org or fi ll out the Smart sheet
form at http://bit.ly/2lPSSbz.
Keizer museum needs volunteers
The Keizer Heritage Mu-
seum is seeking volunteer
hosts for two- and four-hour
shifts. Two hours shifts are
available on Tuesdays and
Thursday; four-hour shifts
are available on Saturdays.
The museum, which pre-
serves Keizer’s history dating
back to the mid-19th centu-
ry, hopes to extend museum
hours, especially during sum-
mer months.
Duties of a museum host
include asking visitors to sign
in, answer questions about
exhibits and the Heritage
Building. New hosts will be
Sidewalk improvement contract awarded
Shoreline Drive North
will be more navigable for
those with disabilities thanks
to a contract awarded at the
Keizer City Council meeting
Tuesday, Feb. 21.
The council approved a
$26,675 contract with Salem
Concrete Paving to install 13
new drop ramps along Shore-
line Drive North. The new
ramps are part of continu-
ing effort in the city to make
sidewalks more Americans
with Disabilities Act-compli-
ant.
The installation of the
sidewalks will complete work
along Shoreline Drive North.
The city received three
bids on the projects ranging
from Salem Concrete’s low
bid to a high of $85,800.
sudoku
trained.
To be considered for a
host position contact the
Keizer Heritage Center at
503-393-9660.
looking
back in
the KT
5 YEARS AGO
Workers credited for
saving life
Five employees at the Verizon
store at Keizer Station had swift
action to aid and comfort a man
suffering a seizure. They were
all given the Credo Award and
named as Verizon Ambassadors.
They get an all-expenses paid
trip to Disneyland as a reward
from their employer.
Enter digits
from 1-9 into
the blank
spaces. Every
row must
contain one
of each digit.
So must every
column, as
must every
3x3 square.
10 YEARS AGO
Honors go to Celts
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THIS WEEK’S
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Fri 6:20, 9:30, Sat 2:05, 8:20,
Sun 5:05, 8:45
Fences (PG-13)
Fri 7:00, Sat 5:45, Sun 8:10
Passengers (PG-13) Fri 8:30,
Sat 6:45, 9:00, Sun 6:30
Fantastic Beasts and
Where to Find Them (PG-13)
Fri 1:40, 4:25, Sat 11:30, 4:10,
Sun 12:15
Doctor Strange (PG-13)
Fri 3:30, Sun 2:50, 7:15
Patriots Day (R) Sat 3:10
Friday, March 17 – Sunday, March 19
Cherry Blossom Theatre Festival. Twenty performances,
six venues in downtown Salem. Hosted by Salem
Theatre Network. Performance schedule available at
salemtheatrenetwork.org/performanceline-up/. Tickets
available at pentacletheatre.org.
some of the more undulating
areas of the lawn where tent
campers will be placed.
• Board members hope to
enlist McNary High School
graphic design students to
come up with a logo for the
festival.
• There is hope to create
a “goodie bag” of items that
would be given to campers
to inform them about what
businesses and services are
available locally.
“The whole purpose is to
introduce this city to out-
of-town visitors. We want
to keep them busy and keep
them in Keizer, not going to
Salem,” Parsons said.
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Two McNary High School
swimmers were honored by
the Salem Sports and Breakfast
Club. Natascha Mangan is the
club’s Senior Athlete of the
year for swimming: Amber
Boucher is its Female Athlete
of the week.
15 YEARS AGO
New ferryboat rollin’
upriver to Keizer port
The new Wheatland Ferry,
the Daniel Matheny V. could
be heading up the Willamette
River. The new, larger boat will
replace the Daniel Matheny IV
at the ferry landing.
20 YEARS AGO
Council guards Keizer
business, bars big
grocer
Keizer shoppers won’t be get-
ting their own discount grocer
anytime soon. The Keizer City
Council unanimously upheld
strict limits on commercial
development at the Chemawa
freeway interchange.