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CARRIED,
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Judy Craig assists Bev Ikeda with settings on a sewing machine.
BEARS,
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Craig is hoping to turn out
a sloth – the name for a group
of bears – of 35 bears by the
end of June. After just two
sessions, she’s already got four
on-hand.
The workshops take place
in a single, fi ve-hour day with
a break for lunch and cost $10,
but the fabric is pre-cut and
provided free to participants
who get to take home the
pattern.
Craig’s two students on
Monday, March 24, were Betsy
DiNitto and Bev Ikeda, neither
of whom had experience with
the type of sewing required for
the project.
“It’s the fi rst time I’ve tried
a project like this. I’m used to
clothing,” said DiNitto.
Nevertheless, she found
some elements familiar. While
stitching together her bear’s
face, she said it was “like setting
a sleeve.”
Ikeda said she was looking
PARKS,
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For the fi rst time, parks
board members suggested that
the city could proceed with a
weighted average amount for
the fee.
“The council wouldn’t
have to go with the amounts
listed in the survey,” said Jim
Taylor, a former city councilor
and member of the parks
board.
A weighted average would
incorporate the level of
support for each fee level
into the calculation of the
fi nal dollar amount. Lawyer
said the weighted average of
the respondents at that time
was, “Five dollars and some
change.”
While there is no timetable
forward to putting what she
learned to use on other projects
that have been lying around
her sewing room for years.
“I have a bunch of patterns
for stuffed animals like these,
but I never quite knew how to
start them,” Ikeda said.
For those with experience
making patchwork items, it
might not take the full fi ve
hours.
“I think it really depends
on what they’ve done before,”
Craig said.
RARE Bear workshops at
Bernina are scheduled on the
following dates from 10 a.m. to
3 p.m.: April 19 and 21, May
1 and 13, and June 13. Space
is limited to fi ve-per-class. Call
503-393-0132 to register.
The
program
is
a
partnership
of
RARE
Science, which focuses on
accelerating identifi cation of
more immediate therapeutic
solutions for kids with rare
diseases and lowering the
barriers to rare disease medical
research, and Switzerland-
based Bernina.
for how soon the council
might act on the survey
results, there is a desire to
get the discussion underway
in advance of the budget-
planning meetings that begin
in early May.
“We want (the fee) to be
part of budget discussions,”
Lawyer said.
The council will hold a
public hearing on the matter,
but would need to provide
public notice. The soonest
available date would be the
April 17 meeting.
To this point, the most
talked about method of
collecting the fee would be
attaching it to water bills
issued by the city. The council
could choose to set it up as a
separate bill, but that would
incur additional costs.
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faces of people who are impor-
tant to someone else. We’re all
coming together to try to end
blood cancer so it’s really awe-
some to see all these faces in
the stairwell that we’re trying
to make a difference for them.”
In 2016, the event featured
over 1,900 fi refi ghters from
over 330 different departments
and fi ve different countries,
bringing in a record $2.3 mil-
lion for blood-cancer research
and patient services.
While the climb is competi-
tive, Butler noted she’s a fun-
draiser fi rst and a competitive
climber second. That became
even more true this year as
Shultz, a physician in the Sa-
lem area and Butler’s mentor,
began to go down hill around
Thanksgiving, when she would
typically begin getting in shape
for the climb.
“Last year, when Ted was
healthier and I knew time
was kind of winding down, I
thought this has got to be my
best year ever, I’ve got to make
him proud so I raised $11,081
and set a personal best for my
time (31:55) and I was really
proud and honored to be able
to do that and then he got re-
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(best time) wasn’t my prior-
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raising awareness and raising
money so I worked even harder
this year to raise money. This
year I didn’t set a personal best
(time) but it still means just as
much to me to be able to climb
across that fi nish line and call
Ted’s family and say ‘I did it.’ To
know him for 14 years and just
learn so much from him, about
being a great nurse and being a
great human, he was extremely
important in my life.”
Butler didn’t stop there,
competing in the New York
City Memorial Stair Climb just
a week later with fellow Keizer
volunteer fi refi ghter Jim Simp-
son.
They climbed the 72 stories
of the 4 World Trade Center
in memory of two of the 343
fi refi ghters killed on Sept. 11—
John Williamson and Edward
D’Atri.
Butler said the New York
climb was physically and emo-
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Amber Butler checking in at the New York City climb.
tionally more draining.
“Every building is ginor-
mous to a girl that was born
and raised in Keizer, Oregon,”
she said. “It was just different
and you get in the stairwell and
then you realize it’s 72 fl oors
up for thousands of employ-
ees so no wonder the stairwell
is twice as wide, the landing is
four times as large and it’s just
a bigger beast than the Seattle
tower. It’s 69 fl ights in Seattle
and 72 in New York City but
man those fl ights are different.
It was grueling.”
Butler, who completed the
climb in 43:21, has been a vol-
unteer at KFD for 20 years and
participated in 15 total stair
climbs in Seattle, New York and
Portland.
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The Rotary Club of Keizer
is recruiting students and host
families for its Youth Exchange
program.
There will be an informa-
tional meeting for interested
students and potential host
families on Tuesday, April 4
from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at the Mc-
Nary High School library.
Three host families are
needed each year. You need not
have children of high school
age or even children at home
to host. All host families are in-
terviewed and everyone 18 and
older must pass a background
check. These are volunteer
positions, though a stipend to
cover an exchange student’s
cell phone, lunch and inci-
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Book Clubs
Community Action Teams
Café
Boutique
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Lunch
dental expenses is provided by
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Keizer Rotary is recruiting
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