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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.
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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.
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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.
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