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Today in History
Just before midnight in the North Atlantic, the RMS
Titanic fails to divert its course from an iceberg, ruptures
its hull, and begins to sink. The Titanic was designed by
the Irish shipbuilder William Pirrie and spanned 883 feet
from stern to bow. On its fi rst journey across the highly
competitive Atlantic ferry route, the ship carried some
2,200 passengers and crew.
— April 14, 1912
Food 4 Thought
“There are many talented people who haven’t fulfi lled
their dreams because they over thought it, or they were
too cautious, and were unwilling to make the leap of faith”
— James Cameron, fi lm director of “Titanic”
The Month Ahead
Friday, April 14 – Saturday, April 29
Willamette University’s theater department presents
Macbeth at M. Lee Pelton Theatre on campus. General
admission is $10. 503-370-6221. thtr-tix@willamette.edu.
Through Saturday, April 29
Willamette University’s theater department presents
Shakespeare’s Macbeth at the M. Lee Pelton Theatre on
campus. General admission is $10. 503-370-6221. thtr-tix@
willamette.edu.
Through Saturday, May 6
Jesus Christ, Superstar at Pentacle Theatre, 324 52nd
Avenue N.W. on Wednesdays through Saturdays at 7:30 p.m.
and Sundays at 2 p.m. Tickets $27.50 to $29 for weekends,
$26.50 to $28 for weekdays. $1 more for opening night,
includes after party. 503-485-4300, pentacletheatre.org.
Saturday, April 15
Dance with music by “Charles and the Angels” at the
Keizer/Salem Area Senior Center, 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. $5 per
person. Contact Bo Allen at 503-390-7441 or boallen555@
comcast.net.
Monday, April 17
Weekly meeting of the Iris Festival coordinating committee
at Keizer Chamber of Commerce offi ce, 6150 Ulali Dr. in
Keizer Station. Open to the public.
Keizer City Council meeting, 7 p.m., Keizer Civic Center.
Tuesday, April 18
Federal and State taxes are due.
Free admission all day at Hallie Ford Museum of Art, 700
State Street. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Keizer Public Arts Commission meeting, 6 p.m., Keizer
Civic Center.
Wednesday, April 19
Artist Hank Willis Thomas to speak at Oregon State
University in Construction & Engineering Hall at The LaSells
Stewart Center, 875 26th Street S.W. The talk, “Divided We
Fall,” will be at 6:30 p.m.
BERNINA Stretch and Sew Fabrics hosting a BEAR-NINA
Sew-In event, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., located at the store in
Schoolhouse Square, 5089 River Road N. Call 393-0132 to
register.
Thursday, April 20
By ERIC A. HOWALD
Of the Keizertimes
In March, Lt. Andrew Co-
peland became the fi fth Keiz-
er cop to graduate from the
the FBI National Academy in
Quantico, Va.
Copeland spent 10 weeks
in Virginia and took part in a
variety of classroom activities
and discussions in addition to
physical training courses and
activities.
“When you start and go
through the Oregon police
academy, you deal with the
revised statues, use of force,
confrontation simulation and
then you go into fi eld train-
ing. It’s all the basics, but you
don’t get a ton of education
on leadership issues,” said Co-
peland. “This was really an op-
portunity to disconnect from
the agency here and refl ect on
how I’ve policed and how I’ve
led.”
The
highly-competitive
FBI program draws offi cers
and leaders from through-
out the nation and the world.
Copeland’s class included
representatives from 25 other
countries.
It made for a variety of
entertaining, and sometimes
harrowing stories. He recalled
one from a colleague in the
Republic of Ghana in par-
ticular.
“He told us how he was go-
ing after a suspect he’d caught
up with at a bank getting
money under someone else’s
name. As he was chasing the
suspect, people started chasing
with him and when he caught
up a crowd of people had sur-
rounded the suspect,” Cope-
land said.
The problem was the
crowd wanted to have the trial
and punishment delivered on
the spot. The pursuing offi cer
ended up protecting the same
suspect he had just chased
down.
Copeland took part in a
number of classes, read a wide
variety of books and spent
time writing on the practical
applications at home in Keizer.
In one course, a survey of
cyber threats to modern-day
agencies and institutions, Co-
peland was tasked with gain-
ing a deeper understanding of
not only the potential dangers
but how to work with those
who are knowledgable on
such issues.
In another class on con-
temporary issues in modern-
day policing, Copeland and
classmates dug deep into the
history of police work and
how it has been perceived by
the public.
He became animated
when talking about a Nor-
man Rockwell painting of a
cop and a runaway boy sitting
at the counter of a diner.
“That’s a picture that came
out before the civil rights
movement. But it’s not who
we want to be in law en-
forcement. We can’t and don’t
want to be focused on just the
people who look like us,” Co-
peland said. “We focused on
building community trust and
what that looks like because
we need permission from
the community to do police
work.”
Copeland left the class
feeling that KPD was doing
a better job than some other
departments he’d heard about
Submitted
Keizer Police Department Lt. Andrew Copeland at the FBI Na-
tional Academy in Quantico, Va.
at the academy, but that there
is still room for improvement.
“I think we do a better job
of hiring people. Especially in
the past few years, we are try-
ing to hire for character. The
recruits may not have any law
enforcement background at
all, but once you have some-
one with good character you
can train them to do the law
enforcement,” Copeland said.
“We are in a good spot, but
we need to do better by lis-
tening and having empathy.
We serve the community and
we need to meet them where
they are.”
In that regard, Copeland
came back with a slew of new
ideas for one of the depart-
ment’s recent hires, Commu-
nity Service Offi cer Dorothy
Woman pleads guilty in pedestrian death
A Medford woman pleaded guilty
to criminally negligent homicide in the
death of a Keizer man last week.
Melody Ann Krewson, 50, was sen-
tenced to 36 months of probation, had
her license permanently revoked and was
ordered to perform 180 hours of com-
munity service for her part in the death of
James Alton on Sept. 25, 2015. Krewson
was also ordered to pay a $200 fi ne.
On Sept. 25, 2015, about 7:30 a.m.,
Keizer police offi cers responded to Che-
mawa Road North and Newberg Drive
North on a report of a vehicle-versus-
pedestrian traffi c collision. As offi cers ar-
rived they observed a male laying on the
ground with a citizen attempting to ren-
der fi rst aid.
Krewson was driving a 1999 Ford
Ranger pick-up and she remained at the
location for offi cers to arrive.
The initial investigation indicated
Krewson was driving east on Chemawa
Road and did not see Alton as he was
crossing the roadway.
Alton suffered life threatening injuries
and succumbed to those injuries after be-
ing transported to Salem Hospital. Krew-
son cooperated fully during the investiga-
tion.
She had been scheduled to go to trial
earlier this week when the guilty plea
ended the proceedings.
McLeod: Home sales strong
Realtor Amy McLeod de-
livered her semi-annual report
on the state of the real estate
market at the Rotary Club
of Keizer luncheon Thursday,
April 6.
Here are some of the high-
lights from the presentation:
• A shortage of homes is
benefi tting homeowners. Price
increases in December 2016
were the largest in more than
two years. The year-over-year
increase in Oregon is 10.3
percent, and 3.3 percent on a
quarterly basis.
• Home appreciation is up
to 5 percent per year since
lows of -5.4 percent during the
Great Recession. It is expected
to gradually decline to about
2.8 percent in 2021.
• Homes spend an average of
30 days on the current market.
• The largest growth in
home sales has been for those
in the range of $200,000 to
$400,000.
• A new home is typically
sold within three months of
completion.
• Sales of distressed proper-
ties is down to 7 percent from
a high of 35 percent in January
2012.
• Oregon is one of many
states where the buyer traffi c
is strong. Washington state’s
numbers are currently the
highest with Oregon in the
second tier.
• Mortgage rates are about
half a percent higher than they
were a year ago.
McLeod is principal bro-
ker of the The McLeod Group
with Keller Williams Capitol
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Greater Gubser Neigborhood Association meeting, 7 p.m.,
Gubser Elementary School, 6610 14th Avenue NE.
Laila Ali is the featured speaker at the annual benefi t for the
Medical Foundation of Marion-Polk Counties, 7 p.m. at the
Historic Elsinore Theatre. Tickets range from $32 to $47.
Proceeds benefi t individuals without health insurance or are
underserved. mpmedicalfoundation.org.
10 YEARS AGO
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5 YEARS AGO
Down in the dirt
Smoke alarm clears
Claggett Creek
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Now available for only
Southeast Keizer Neighborhood Association meeting, 6:30
p.m., Salem Mennonite Church, 1045 Candlewood Drive NE.
looking
back in
the KT
Grant Snitker is studying
archaeology. It’s rare enough
that McNary High School
graduates choose to pursue
doctorate-level degrees. Rarer
still when two of them happen
to be siblings at the same
university, Aundrea and Grant
Snitker are doing just that.
State Sen. Kim Thatcher and state Reps. Rich Vial and Bill
Kennemer will hold a town hall meeting on transportation
from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Wilsonville City Hall Council
Chamber, 29799 Town Center Loop E.
Friday, April 21
Diehl.
“Dorothy is my agent for
public trust, and I had to write
a 10-page paper on public
trust and it gave me a ton of
ideas,” Copeland said.
In the coming months, he’s
hoping to organize Coffee
with a Cop sessions around
town for residents to drop
by and ask questions or alert
offi cers to the problems they
know about.
“We want to change peo-
ple’s minds if they have a neg-
ative view. We need to do a
better job of working with the
communities that don’t have
a voice right now and doing
those types of things will also
get the next generation geared
up to become police offi cers,”
he said.
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Schoolhouse Square, 5089 River Road N. Call 393-0132 to
register.
Firefi ghters found the school
building
evacuated
and
smoke was visible. Fire crews
identifi ed the source of the
smoke as a faulty electrical
cord in a lamp used as a prop by
the school’s drama department
in a backstage dressing room.
Firefi ghters removed the
lamp and ventilated the area.
Students were then allowed
to return to the building. No
injuries were reported.
15 YEARS AGO
Softball squad extends
win streak to three
McNary has climbed into
a tie for fi rst place with a
three game winning streak.
The varsity girls softball team
outscored three Valley League
foes by a combined 20-1 to
improve to 3-1 early in the
season.
20 YEARS AGO
Keizer’s water is
state’s best
Saturday, April 22
Marion County presents Earth Day at the Oregon Garden
from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is free, parking on site is
$5. For more information, call 503-874-8100 or email info@
oregongarden.org.
www.WoodburnEstatesGolf.com
Keizer’s water was up against
water from 20 other cities
and in the fi rst year Keizer
competed for the distinction, it
was named “The Best Tasting
Groundwater in Oregon”.