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PAGE A2, KEIZERTIMES, JUNE 2, 2017 SKSB budget gets grim nod presented by DRIVE A LITTLE – SAVE A BUNCH! 3893 COMMERCIAL ST SE • SALEM MORE INFO AT NORTHERNLIGHTSTHEATREPUB.COM UFC 212 Aldo vs. Holloway Saturday, JUNE 3, at 11:00 am MOVIE: S MURFS : L OST V ILLAGE [ PG ] Sensory Sensitive Show ONLY $4 Special showing for kids and adults with Autism or other sensory sensitivities. LIVE STAND UP COMEDY SATURDAY, JUNE 3 —–———— 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 Babe Ruth, one of the greatest players in the history of baseball, ends his Major League playing career after 22 seasons, 10 World Series and 714 home runs. The following year, Ruth, a larger-than-life fi gure whose name became synonymous with baseball, was one of the fi rst fi ve players inducted into the sport’s hall of fame. — June 2, 1935 Food 4 Thought “The two things that can hurt you are if you need money or if you need fame. Those are the things that can be your Achilles heel. But if you don’t need money and you don’t need fame, then you’re free.” — Dana Carvey, comedian born June 2, 1955 The Month Ahead Continuing through Tuesday, June 27 Pentacle Theater presents Leading Ladies. Located at 324 52nd Avenue NW. The show starts at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $25 per person. pentacletheatre.org. 503-364-7200. Saturday, June 3 McNary Athletic Booster Club Auction and Dinner, 5 p.m. at Log House Garden at Willow Lake. Tickets can be purchased at mcnaryabc.com. Artist’s reception for The Annual Photography Show, 2-4 p.m., Keizer Art Association and Enid Joy Mount Gallery at the Keizer Heritage Center, 980 Chemawa Rd. N.E. Show continues through July 1. Visit keizerarts.com for gallery times. WillaMutt Strut 5K and Fun Run/Walk, 9 a.m.-noon, Salem’s Riverfront Park. Fee is $35 which includes race and T-shirt, food, news, music and dog training. $10 for kids 12 and under. whs4pets.org. Sunday, June 4 Big Band Sacred Jazz at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 1444 Liberty Street S.E. 4 p.m. Monday, June 5 Keizer City Council meeting, 7 p.m. Keizer Civic Center. The Historic Grand Theater presents Igor and the Red Elvises in concert, 8 p.m. Tickets are $20 at the door, $17 advanced purchase. enlightenedtheatrics.org. Tuesday, June 6 Free admission all day at Hallie Ford Museum of Art, 700 State Street. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, June 9 McNary High School Class of 2017 commencement ceremony. 5 p.m. at the Pavillion at State Fair Grounds. Tickets required. Saturday, June 10 Knit in Public Day, bring your latest project to the Willamette Heritage Center, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The WHC and Teaselwick Yarn are sponsoring the event. Monday, June 12 Keizer City Council work session, 6 p.m. Keizer Civic Center. On the agenda: Fee to create dedicated police funding. Gordon Lightfoot—In Concert: The Legend Lives On, 8 p.m. Tickets range from $49 to $69. elsinoretheatre.org. Tuesday, June 13 Keizer Parks Advisory Board meeting, 6 p.m. Keizer Civic Center. Wednesday, June 14 Keizer Planning Commission meeting, 6 p.m. Keizer Civic Center. Thursday, June 15 Last day of school, all grades. 2017 Cherry City Music Festival at Downtown Salem, 900 Court Street NE. Free admission unless otherwise noted per location. 503-364-1403. cherrycitymusic.com. Friday, June 16 Keizer’s Awesome Burger Bash Car Show at Avamere Court, 5210 River Road N. from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. 503-393-3624. Friday, June 16 – Sunday, June 18 Oregon Garden Briefest. Sixty breweries pouring 120 beers from all over the state Hours are 3-11 p.m., Friday (21 and older only), noon to 11 p.m., Saturday (minors until 5 p.m. only) and noon to 6 p.m., Sunday. Admission is $15 which includes tasting glass and fi ve tasting tickets. oregongarden. org/events/brewfest Saturday, June 17 Vans Warped Tour, Cascade Hall, Oregon State Fairgrounds and Expo, 11 a.m.-9:30 p.m. Tickets range from $35 to $50. vanswarpedtour.com. Add your event by e-mailing news@keizertimes.com. who did not focus on any parts of the By HERB SWETT curriculum but said there was a need for For the Keizertimes Reluctant budget committee recom- more counselors and graduation coaches mendations for the proposed 2017-18 and above all more than the $8.1 billion Salem-Keizer School District budget the state was budgeting for education. “Our state won’t fund teachers ade- closed the committee’s session Tuesday, quately, period,” Green said. “$8.1 billion May 23. Monday and Tuesday, both set aside for is a ridiculous amount for the state to put public testimony, were the last two days in the school fund. Call your legislator.” Green said the staff should look at the of committee meetings; two more days strategic plan to decide had been scheduled what cuts in teachers, if in the event of failure any, should be made. of the committee to Director Chuck Lee reach an agreement asked Superintendent Tuesday. The School Christy Perry to fi nd Board, whose members out what the staff ’s constitute half of the choices for any two committee, is expected added positions would to approve the budget proposal June 13. — Jim Green be should two teachers The budget pro- Budget committee be cut, and what the posal of $671,019,221 member consequences would be. is lower than the cur- The committee re- rent budget, which is $677,547,775. This results from a re- ceived a class size report for the district as of the second semester of the 2016- duced state school fund of $8.1 billion. The greatest concern of committee 17 school year. For the elementary class- and audience members was the elimina- rooms, 6 percent in kindergarten and fi rst tion, by district staff recommendation, of grade, 15 percent in second and third two science specialist positions for kin- grades, and 23 percent in fourth and fi fth grades had over 30 students. The dergarten through fi fth grade. Of four speakers from the audience, classrooms with 25 to 29 students were Monday, John Yoder and Linda Wallmark 43 percent for kindergarten and fi rst, spoke against removing the science spe- 44 percent for second and third, and 59 cialists. Ross Swartzendruber said any cuts percent for fourth and fi fth. Classrooms should be made in computer hardware were 24 or fewer students were 51 per- and software purchases. He contended cent for kindergarten and fi rst, 41 per- that hours students spent with computers cent for second and third, and 18 percent failed to improve their performance and for fourth and fi fth. caused various health problems. In the middle schools, 9 percent of Mindy Merritt, president of the Sa- classrooms had 35 or more students, 59 lem-Keizer Education Association, said percent had 26 to 34, and 32 percent had her disappointment was the reduction in 25 or fewer. In the high schools, 37.5 state spending on schools. She also ex- percent of courses had 35 or more stu- pressed concerns about class sizes and dents. support for English language learners. Mark Bateman, a committee member, Budget committee members had a asked Perry whether she could interpret variety of comments and questions. The the proposed budget into those fi gures. most outspoken was director Jim Green, She said she could not, because “each “Our state won’t fund teachers adequately, period.” class has a different look.” Director Nancy MacMorris-Adix asked whether a parent would have the opportunity to move a child to a school with smaller classes. “I believe that’s correct,” Perry said. MacMorris-Adix asked for the su- perintendent’s recommendation for a hierarchy for budget add-backs. Without recommending one, Perry said the dis- trict could have a supplemental budget. Yoder repeated his position Tuesday, saying studies of mathematics classes elsewhere showed that math can help with literacy. Also Tuesday, Angel Reyes, president of the Salem-Keizer Coalition for Equality, urged the use of Spanish in teaching. Lloyd Chapman, a committee mem- ber, said Tuesday that during his time on the committee he always had looked at “signifi cant additions and reductions” but did not know the signifi cance of numbers of science specialists. “This budget produces (no specialists) for science, and I think that’s wrong,” he said. Saying there should be a way to de- lete enough from the budget proposal to fund two science specialists, Chapman moved that the specialists be reinstated. His motion died for lack of a second. Marcia Atkinson, a committee mem- ber, asked Perry whether any elementary teachers who remained in the budget proposal specialized in science. Perry said she did not know. Rachel Dewey Thorsett, committee chairperson, said she was “torn on this” but took the position that “a thought- ful approach to determine how science teaching is used” was still more impor- tant than reinstating the specialist posi- tions. The committee recommendation passed with 10 votes in favor, Chapman opposed, Lee and Green abstaining be- cause they saw potential confl icts of in- terest, and Adam Kohler absent. Keizer man nearly hits home in Bronco A Keizer man ended up in the hospital after kicking a Keizer Police Department pa- trol car door so hard it began to bow. On Tuesday, May 16, at 7:15 p.m. a woman reported her adult son was “tearing up the house.” The woman shared an address with her 37-year-old son in the 900 block of Lee- ward Court North. While she was still on the phone, she reported her son was leaving in a Ford Bronco under the infl uence of alcohol and drugs. The man allegedly backed out of the driveway and then sped into the front yard striking a tree and another ve- hicle and nearly crashing into the front of the house. Offi cers arrived at 7:26 p.m. and found the suspect about a block from his residence. He was placed in handcuffs and put into the backseat of a patrol car. The responding offi cer drove the man back to his home to begin an investigation and saw the extensive damage the Bronco had caused, about $1,500 to the tree and another $1,500 to the second vehicle. While talking with witness- es, the offi cer heard pounding noises coming from his patrol car and saw the rear passenger- side door bowing out as the suspect kicked at it from the inside. After telling the man to stop kicking the door and a momentary pause, the suspect resumed. When another of- fi cer opened the door to ask him to stop, he saw the suspect bleeding from his head. Police suspect he slammed his head against the cage separating the front and rear seats. Medics were called to the scene after removing the man from the car and placing him in leg restraints and a spit hood. Charles Anthony Lott was taken to Salem Health where he was found to have a dislo- cated and broken right ankle. looking back in the KT Submitted Charles Anthony Lott was jailed after allegedly barrelling to- ward his mother’s home in a Ford Bronco on May 16. Five hours after fi rst being tak- en into custody, a breathalyzer test showed a blood-alcohol level of .08. Lott is charged with crimi- nal mischief in the fi rst and sudoku 5 YEARS AGO Good grades lead to big bucks McNary High School seniors Jessica Mendez-Vasquez and Justin Schneider were both named Gates Foundation Scholars, a college funding package that will pay for all their college expenses up through and including graduate work provided they keep up their grades. 10 YEARS AGO Whiteaker principal retiring after 36 years A 36 year career in education is coming to an end for Larry Goss, principal at Whiteaker Middle School the past fi ve years. Goss announced he is retiring at the end of June. 15 YEARS AGO Police crunch the numbers to determine Keizer’s most dangerous intersection River Road and Lockhaven Drive. Traffi c hazards in that area, especially near the end of the noon hour, have earned the intersection a top spot on the Keizer Police Department’s list of dangerous places to drive in Keizer. 20 YEARS AGO Citizens chase, catch Keizer robbery suspect Mr. LaDuke was robbed by a man that pulled out an eight inch knife and threatened him. Mr. LaDuke gave the robber his wallet, then the attacker demanded the LaDukes drive him. When Mr. LaDuke refused, the attacker tried to stab him. Mrs. LaDuke sounded the car horn and three citizens chased the attacker to Staats Lake development and was caught. third degrees, driving under the infl uence of intoxicants, reck- less driving and menacing. He was taken to Marion County Correctional Facility after re- lease from the hospital. 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.
