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The American freighter Mayaguez and its 39-man crew
was captured by gunboats of the communist government
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“If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can’t,
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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
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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-
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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.
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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
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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.
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