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PAGE A2, KEIZERTIMES, MAY 12, 2017 Man eludes cops, SWAT after hours-long standoff presented by DRIVE A LITTLE – SAVE A BUNCH! 3893 COMMERCIAL ST SE • SALEM MORE INFO AT NORTHERNLIGHTSTHEATREPUB.COM UFC 211 Miocic vs. Dos Santos Sat. May 14, at 11:40 am, MOVIE: M OM ’ S N IGHT O UT [ PG ] Mother’s Day Brunch Brunch: $12 Includes: movie ticket, food, and beverages LIVE STAND UP COMEDY SATURDAY, DEC 30TH —–———— 21 & OVER —————— Live Fights at 5 pm – Tickets $13 9 fi ghts in all on the HUGE screen! Reserved Seats Available Now Online Lights, Comedy, Laughs! Saturday, June 10 JAMES P. CONNOLLY & JOHN HILDER will perform at 7pm and 9pm. Admission is only $10. Ages 21 & over only. Reserved seating for this show. Purchase tickets at box offi ce or at our website. Today in History The American freighter Mayaguez and its 39-man crew was captured by gunboats of the communist government forces in Cambodia, setting off an international incident. The response of the United States government was quick. President Gerald Ford called the Cambodian seizure of the Mayaguez an “act of piracy” and promised swift action to rescue the captured Americans. — May 12, 1975 Food 4 Thought “If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can’t, you’re right.” — Mary Kay Ash, businesswoman, founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics, born May 12, 1918. The Month Ahead Saturday, May 13 Distinguished Young Women of Keizer, 7 p.m., Ken Collins Theater at McNary High School. Tickets at the door. Dancing with the Salem Stars 2017, 7:30 p.m., Historic Elsinore Theatre. Tickets range from $15 to $40. Proceeds benefi t the theatre. 503-375-3574 or elsinoretheatre.com. Stamp Out Hunger food drive. People can participate by putting out bags of food by their mailboxes, which will be collected by their letter carrier. 503-581-3855 ext. 314 or email hmcpherson@marionpolkfoodshare.org or marionpolkfoodshare.org. Willamette Valley Genealogical Society meets at 10:30 a.m. in the Anderson room of Salem Public Library (585 Liberty St SE). Pam Vestal will speak on “Migration: Why the left, Where they went, and What it can reveal about our ancestors.” For more information, call (503)363-0880. Sunday, May 14 Keizer Fire District Mother’s Day Pancake Breakfast, 7:30 to 11:30 a.m. All you can eat sausage, eggs, pancakes, coffee and milk. $6 for adults, $3 for children 3-12, 2 and under free. Mother’s Day Brunch Buffet at McNary Restaurant and Lounge, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Adults $24.75 Children 4-12 $12.75. Free Glass of Champagne for Moms. Reservations highly recommended. Call 503-990-7550 Monday, May 15 Keizer City Council meeting, Keizer Civic Center. 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 17 – Saturday, May 20 McNary High School drama department presents #Caesar, an orginal adaptation of William Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar. 7 p.m. at Ken Collins Theater. Tickets $5, available online at mcnaryhs.ticketleap.com/caesar/. Thursday, May 18 Iris Festival Kickoff Party, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., at the KeizerFest tent in front of the Keizer Lions Club. Music by the Flextones begins at 7 p.m. Friday, May 19 – Saturday, May 20 Keizer Community Library Book Sale, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, Saturday 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Keizer Civic Center. By ERIC A. HOWALD Of the Keizertimes A fl eeing suspect caused portions of a Keizer neighborhood to be barricaded off for nearly eight hours and, when it was fi nally over, the man was nowhere to be found. On Wednesday, May 3, at 3:26 p.m. an offi cer from the Keizer Police Depart- ment (KPD) observed Jose Luis Gonzalez Jr., a Keizer resident, operating a motor vehicle in northeast Keizer. The offi cer knew Gonzalez had a state-wide felony caution warrant for his arrest issued by Washington County. The warrant is for failure to appear in court on two counts of theft in the fi rst degree. The offi cer who was operating an unmarked police vehicle observed Gon- zalez in front of his residence located at 1617 Kinglet Way N.E. and he attempted to approach and apprehend him, but the suspect quickly ran to a vehicle, a 2009 Toyota Camry, that was parked in the street and used it to fl ee from the offi cer. The offi cer followed him and initiated a traffi c stop, but Gonzalez failed to pull over, ignored the emergency lights and siren and attempted to elude the offi cer. A very short pursuit ensued in the im- mediate neighborhood, which included attempting to elude the offi cer in a school zone. Gonzalez ultimately doubled-back through the neighborhood and parked By ERIC A. HOWALD Of the Keizertimes It’s somewhat telling when the most disputed item in Keizer’s current proposed budget is whether to begin broadcasting the meetings of the Traffi c Safety, Bikeways and Pedestrian Committee. While that might seem strange, it’s an indicator of how little the budget is changing from the past fi scal year. The Keizer Budget Advi- sory Committee, comprised of the city council and mem- bers of the public, met for nearly seven hours in the fi rst week of May to hash out priorities, but revenues are expected to increase by only slightly more than $1 mil- lion in 2017-18, and much of those increases can only be spent on specifi c items like water, sewers and streets. City staff project revenues to increase from $24.4 mil- lion to $25.5 million in the next fi scal year. Expenses are expected to climb from $37.8 million to $41.8 million. The difference between the in- creased revenues and the to- tal expenses will be made up for with existing balances of roughly $13.2 million and $3 million in other proceeds. The city’s general fund, which pays for things like police and parks services will only increase by about $440,000. More than a third of that will be sent to the Public Employees Retire- ment System. At that level, it makes adding personnel a stretch, said Tim Wood, Keiz- er fi nance director. “If we were to add one po- lice offi cer, we would have to lay off two people. It would Author Karen Russell to read at Oregon State University at 7:30 p.m. in the Valley Library Rotunda, 201 S.W. Waldo Place. The event is free and open to the public. 541-737- 1658. 3893 COMMERCIAL ST SE Southeast Keizer Neighborhood Association meeting, 6:30 p.m. Southeast Keizer Community Center, 1045 Candlewood Drive N.E. THIS WEEK’S MOVIE TIMES The Keizer Stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints hosts Family Discovery Day at the Family History Center, 862 45th Ave N.E. in Salem. 8:30 a.m. to noon. Learn how to research vital records and online databases to trace your familial roots. Free. Iris Festival Parade, 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Road closures begin at 9 a.m. Sunday, May 21 The Salem Concert Band presents a Pacifi c Premiere at 3 p.m. at the Willamette University in Hudson Hall. $5 student general admission, $15 general admission, and $20 reserved seating. salemconcert-band.org or 503-362-0485. Sunday, June 25 McMinnville Garden Club 17th Annual Garden Tour and Faire. Garden tour from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. $10 admission. Free garden faire from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tickets available in McMinnville at: Kraemer’s Garden Center, Incahoots, and Great Harvest Bread Company; June 15 and 22 at the Farmer’s Market; and June 25 day of tour at the garden faire, Kraemer’s Garden Center, and fi ve tour gardens. mcminnvillegardenclub.org. Add your event by e-mailing news@keizertimes.com. could be heard throughout much of the neighborhood,” Kuhns said. The Keizer Police Department applied for and received a search warrant to en- ter the residence for the suspect. SWAT members entered the home about 8:45 p.m. and executed a slow and methodical search. The team cleared the scene at ap- proximately 12:30 a.m. Police offi cials believe the suspect pos- es a risk to the community based on his prior history and the fact he demonstrat- ed his willingness to elude a police offi cer in a school zone putting others at risk. While a lack of offi cers has hampered police efforts to establish perimeters in some recent instances, Kuhns said it was not a primary factor in the Gonzalez’s es- cape. “We had an excellent perimeter es- tablished within minutes of the suspect fl eeing from the vehicle up along the east side of his residence. This was one reason we thought for sure that we had him con- tained,” Kuhns said. At least a dozen Keizer offi cers re- sponded within minutes of the call for a perimeter. Kuhns said perimeters are still a challenge during evening and weekend hours. Anyone having information about Gonzalez or his whereabouts are asked to call 9-1-1 or their local law enforcement agency. Little room for dissent in status quo budget Friday, May 19 Saturday, May 20 the vehicle in the street directly in front of his residence. The pursuit ended within a couple minutes of it being initiated. The man fl ed from the vehicle on foot and was believed to have run into the home. Other Keizer patrol offi cers and mem- bers of the KPD Community Response Unit responded and quickly established a perimeter around the suspects residence. “We basically closed down Kinglet Way from Chemawa Road Northeast to 15th Court North. Residents who reside on Brian Court NE and 15th Court NE were allowed to go to and from their resi- dence for some time, but not after SWAT arrived about 7:30 p.m.,” said KPD Dep- uty Chief Jeff Kuhns. One resident was given a ride to an- other home while police were in the area. Two others elected to shelter in place. Several unsuccessful attempts to es- tablish communication with the suspect and efforts to convince him to surrender peacefully were unsuccessful. “From about 3:30 p.m. throughout the rest of the evening until SWAT eventually made entry into the residence, we used the public address system on one of our patrol vehicles and gave several warnings and verbal commands that were directed at the residence for hours. Not only did we give warnings, the suspect’s wife used our system to communicate with him as did the suspect’s mother. The commands reduce some departments to one person in a somewhat full-service city,” Wood said. Only two portions of the proposed budget were the subject of any dissent among the committee members. The fi rst was a proposal to include the Traffi c Safety Committee in the offer- ings on the Keizer commu- nity cable channel. Resident Rhonda Rich approached the committee last year and made the request so that citi- zens could know what was happening in the committee without needing to attend meetings. Adding the meet- ings to broadcast program- ming will cost about $6,000 annually. The money would come from a dedicated fund, with a balance of almost $230,000 in it, available only for costs associated with the Keizer TV. Committee member Jerry McGee took issue with the proposal. “Where would this end? What about the other com- mittees will be next to re- quest this?” McGee asked. Committee member Ron Bersin suggested that leav- ing the funds sitting in the account, which is funded through payments from cable companies, was doing noth- ing for the city. “There is a lot of money in the this fund and it can only be used for this. At $6,000 a year, it’s not a huge amount,” Bersin said. The request passed with an 11-2 vote. McGee and committee member JD Gillis opposed. McGee was the only dis- senter in a motion to ap- prove $5,000 to help fund a new position at the Mid- Willamette Valley Council of Governments to oversee ef- forts to reduce homelessness in Marion and Polk counties. “If there is a camel’s nose under the tent (this is it), without any contractual ar- rangement we are hoping to start a program without knowing what we are agree- ing to,” McGee said. The request for the mon- ey came from Mayor Cathy Clark who spent a year as co- chair of the Mid-Willamette Homeless Initiative conduct- looking back in the KT 5 YEARS AGO Choir takes 2nd in state competition McNary High School’s choir took second place in statewide competition at George Fox University. The Celtics fi nished a mere four points behind the top choir in the land, Sprague High School. ing research into the various issues surrounding increasing homelessness in Keizer and the great mid-Valley. The funds will be used to institute a program manager position overseeing public and private efforts to com- bat homelessness and the cir- cumstances that lead to it. “There have to be deliver- ables and accountability and not a single dime will leave until that is determined,” said Clark. Bersin said he was “leery” of approving the expenditure without some sort of metrics for quantifi able results, but ended up supporting the ask. Committee member Allen Barker said he supported it with the caveat that he want- ed the budget committee to review any additional expen- ditures in the future. “We get an actual bill and we can include it as a handout for the group, these services will be an opt-in. This group can have full authority as to whether to supply this service from year-to-year,” said City Manager Chris Eppley. In the end, McGee was the only “no” vote. sudoku 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 Power Rangers (PG-13) Fri 3:55, 5:50, Sat 12:10, 2:35, Sun 1:55 Ghost in the Shell (PG-13) Fri 6:45, 8:50, Sat 3:50, 8:35, Sun 4:15, 8:40 The Great Wall (PG-13) Fri 4:40, 8:25, Sun 6:40 Hidden Figures (PG) Sat 3:00, Sun 7:45 The Shack (PG-13) Fri 2:00, Sat 5:30, Sun 12:45, 5:15 Logan (R) Fri 6:20, 9:00, Sat 5:55, 8:00, Sun 6:20, 8:55 A Dog’s Purpose (PG) Fri 1:45, Sat 12:45, Sun 3:15 The LEGO Batman Movie (PG) Fri 1:50, 3:45, Sat 11:40, 1:45, Sun 2:20, 4:30 FOR ALL SHOWTIMES GO TO NORTHERNLIGHTSTHEATREPUB.COM Beilke will be parade grand marshal The Keizer Chamber of Commerce has opted to honor Joanne Beilke the 20th anniversary Iris Festival grand marshal. 15 YEARS AGO New schools dedicated Keizer’s Claggett Creek Middle School and Weddle Elementary School were dedicated May 1, 2002. The Claggett Creek Jazz Choir, Advanced Orchestra and Jazz Ensemble performed in between dedication remarks by members of the Salem- Keizer School Board. 20 YEARS AGO Wittenberg to build motel Keizer will get its fi rst motel. The 86-room motel will be built off Claggett Street on Northeast Wittenberg Lane. The motel will be owned and operated by Paul and Judy Wittenberg. KEIZERTIMES.COM Web Poll Results Do you care about the total solar eclipse coming on August 21? 52% – Yes 44% – No 4% – What’s that? Vote in a new poll every Thursday! GO TO KEIZERTIMES.COM