SINCE 1979 • VOLUME 38, NO. 27
SECTION A
APRIL 7, 2017
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One EPIC pick
Antique hunters strike gold
in Keizer man’s garage
it and my brother, he’s never
By DEREK WILEY
going to ride it. I’m 46 years
Of the Keizertimes
Mike Wolfe and Frank Fritz old. I’m probably never going
have been all over the coun- to ride it in my lifetime. We
try since their television show can take the money from that
American Pickers debuted on to get something that we re-
the History Channel in 2010. ally want on the road.”
The one car that comes to
But their most expensive
purchase, airing Monday, April mind is a 1950 Frazer Con-
vertible the family took on
10 at 9 p.m., came in Keizer.
Last September, a week be- trips to Colorado Springs,
fore the pickers were sched- Long Beach and into Canada.
“Our family vacation was
uled to visit, Zane Leek, along
a car show,
with his moth-
usually,” Leek
er and broth-
said. “It’s been
er, met to go
all over. It’s
through all the
a pretty rare
stuff his father
car. They only
had left them
made like 65
to determine
of them.”
what was and
But
the
wasn’t for sale.
Frazer hasn’t
One item
ran in 15 years.
they decided
— Zane Leek
“I’m trying
they wanted
to get it back
to hold on to
on the road
was a 1922
Ace motorcycle. But that was and make it drivable again,”
before Wolfe offered $45,000 Leek said. “It needs brakes and
for the bike Leek believes his carburetor work, all that stuff
dad paid around $35 for when from sitting. It needs atten-
he spotted it under someone’s tion.”
Wolfe and Fritz weren’t sat-
porch in Portland in the early
isfi ed with just the 1922 Ace.
1960s.
“I love the bike,” Leek said. The pickers also purchased
“It was a classic old bike but three 1930s motorcycles, a
it didn’t run and it needed a 1947 Knuckle engine and
lot of parts. Obviously, none of another $5,500 worth of mis-
the stuff is mine. It’s my mom’s cellaneous items for a grand
stuff and I got to thinking my total of $90,550, the biggest
mom is never going to get any buy Wolfe and Fritz have ever
enjoyment out of that motor- made.
The pickers, with a crew of
cycle, she’s never going to ride
“What you
see on TV
will be exactly
the way it
happened.”
KEIZERTIMES/Derek Wiley
ABOVE: Keizer resident Zane
Leek received a visit from the
American Pickers crew. LEFT:
Mike Wolfe and Frank Fritz.
11 people, spent two days be-
tween Zane’s childhood home
in Keizer and his parent’s
property out in Macleay. They
ate lunch at Birdie’s Bistro.
“The nice thing was there
was nothing that was staged,”
Leek said. “Mike and Frank
never went inside the build-
ings fi rst. What you see on
TV will be exactly the way
it happened. All the negotia-
tions were real. It was a really
good time. It was so much
fun. I woke up at about two
in the morning after the fi rst
day, after we fi lmed here and
at my dad’s, and thought ‘Oh
my God, did I just sell all my
dad’s stuff? Is this real?’ My dad
would be pissed if he knew I
was selling all his stuff. I’m part
hoarder, too. I try not to be.”
When Zane’s father Larry
died, he left the family 150
cars, jammed pack into storage
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Lots of questions, few answers Parks
fee gets
at state rep.’s Keizer town hall majority
doephedrine products over the counter
By ERIC A. HOWALD
again.
Of the Keizertimes
“That was my No. 1 priority and it
Rep. Bill Post has had a rough go of it
in the early weeks of the 2017 legislature. got killed yesterday,” Post said.
Later on in the evening, Post
“As of yesterday, all my
walked back on the claim that
13 bills are dead. They didn’t
all his bills had died. He did
make it out of committee,”
manage to get one cosponsored
Post said.
bill passed – but all it did was
Post spoke with about
offi cially recognize Newberg as
three dozen area residents at
Oregon’s “Camelia City.”
a town hall meeting Friday,
Post and his support staff put
March 31, at the Keizer Fire
up a poll on social media in the
District station.
days leading up to the event
Post had submitted a
asking what issues constituents
number of bills prior to the
would like him to address dur-
legislative session, but said
Rep. Bill Post
ing the meeting. However, the
most hope for what he called
the “Sudafed bill,” which would have ones that received the most attention in
allowed Oregonians to purchase pseu- the poll – like the state budget, transpor-
tation package and funding for veterans
– were not ones Post has a hand in craft-
ing.
He lamented his lack of a voice in the
legislative fi scal committees saying, “It’s
kinda bad, but kinda good because I’m
not responsible for what happens.”
Post spoke to some high points in
recent budget assessment from the Leg-
islative Revenue Offi ce, and summed it
up saying, “The revenue is going up, but
the spending is going up slightly more
rapidly.”
He added that when the state was
more fl ush with revenue, he and other
colleagues had supported socking mon-
ey away in a rainy day fund, but that did
not come to pass.
bus every day.
“I asked my teacher to keep
a look out for a job that came
By ERIC A. HOWALD
Of the Keizertimes
The future of a fee that
would create a dedicated parks
fund is now in the hands of
the Keizer City Council.
At its meeting Monday,
April 3, members of the parks
board and public works staff
submitted the fi ndings of a
parks survey that residents
completed during the past
three months. The council
agreed to schedule a special
council meeting to look at
what the next steps will be.
No date was set, but there will
be time for residents to offer
public testimony.
Matt Lawyer, a member of
the parks board and the point
man leading up the survey ef-
fort, delivered the results with
visual aids. Lawyer brought
in two basketball hoops, one
that was rusty and broken
taken from a court in Claggett
Creek Park and a new one he
purchased himself and was do-
nating as a replacement.
“One of these is where
we are right now, the other is
where I think we deserve to
be,” Lawyer said.
Residents returned 1,102
surveys, which amounts to
about 8 percent of Keizer’s
roughly 14,300 households.
Most survey respondents (23.8
percent) said they supported
a $4 fee, but the results were
fairly close across the board.
An $8 fee was supported by
21.9 percent of respondents; a
$2 fee garnered in with 21.6
percent of the votes; 17.2 per-
cent wanted no fee; and a $6
Please see 100, Page A10
Please see FEE, Page A8
Please see TOWN, Page A8
Keizer’s fi rst doctor turns 100
By ERIC A. HOWALD
Of the Keizertimes
Dr. Vernon Casterline sus-
pected he might make it to 100
years old.
“I had a second cousin who
lived to 100 and two aunts who
lived a little longer,” Casterline
said. “I thought maybe I would,
but it wasn’t something I was
shooting for. Now, I’m getting
cold feet.”
He attributes crossing the
threshold to “moderation in all
things,” but he suggests getting
started pre-birth.
“Pick good ancestors,” he
quipped.
Casterline will celebrate the
centennial of his birth with
friends and family at Avamere
Court on Thursday, April 13,
but those who have gotten to
know him over the past 10
decades are invited to attend a
birthday open house at Keizer
Heritage Center on Saturday,
April 15, from 3 to 5 p.m.
Casterline’s time in Keizer
predates the city itself by more
than three decades. He was the
fi rst doctor with an offi ce in
town and served as the team
doctor to a generation of Mc-
Nary High School athletes.
Casterline was born on his
father’s homestead in eastern
Montana, but ended up living
with his grandmother in Min-
nesota after his mother died a
year-and-a-half after his birth.
He never set out to be-
come a doctor, but some old-
fashioned grit and curiosity led
him to his vocation.
“My family was all farmers.
The homestead was thistles,
grasshoppers and rocks. When I
look back on it now, I didn’t re-
alize it was happening,” he said.
Casterline departed Minne-
sota with a plan to fi nish high
KEIZERTIMES/Eric A. Howald
Dr. Vernon Casterline opened the fi rst doctor's offi ce in Keizer
on Sept. 8, 1950.
school back near his father’s
home, but the nearest school
was 35 miles away in Glasgow,
Mont. It meant a long trek on a
support
Veteran
gets helping
hands
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goals
vandalized
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