SINCE 1979 • VOLUME 38, NO. 36
SECTION A
JUNE 9, 2017
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Gambling on a safe city
Council
takes on
police fee
By ERIC A. HOWALD
Of the Keizertimes
For the fi rst time since
last summer, the Keizer City
Council will formally address
the possibility of additional
police in Keizer.
The council will take up
the issue at its work session
Monday, June 13. The session
begins at 5:45 p.m. at the
Keizer Civic Center. Public
testimony is welcomed and
encouraged.
Keizer currently has 37
police offi cers, but that
average of roughly one-
offi cer-per-1,000-residents is
well below national and state
averages. Keizer Police Chief
John Teague would like to add
Please see FEE, Page A6
KPD night shift makes do
KEIZERTIMES/Eric A. Howald
Keizer Police Sgt. Jeff Goodman arranges an impromptu race between young residents at a
south Keizer apartment complex.
McNary says goodbye to Dallas Myers
department but how much
By DEREK WILEY
you care about each of us as
Of the Keizertimes
When outgoing McNary individuals,” an emotional
drama director Dallas Myers Purkey said. “You are the
asked the student thespian person that was there to
board to nominate someone support me when my dad
for the Ken Collins Award, didn't and you have offered
there was only one name they me all the advice that I needed
could come up with, whether to get through my high school
years and I couldn't have made
he liked it or not.
“We decided there was it without you. Thank you.”
Myers, who's taking a
no one more deserving and
less willing to accept this position at Auburn High
School
in
award than
Washington,
Mr. Myers,”
he
M c N a r y “You have offered said
didn't want
s e n i o r
me all the advice to accept
Michael
Dugan said
that I needed to the award
because he
during
the
get through my
didn't want
G o l d e n
admit he
Onions on
high school years to
was leaving.
Friday, June
and I couldn’t
“When
2. “Coming
I picked up
into
this
have made it
this plaque
depar tment,
today,
(I
I never knew
without you.”
thought) it
how much I
— Annie Purkey, Senior doesn't look
would need
real,” Myers
theater in my
said.
“It's
life and how I
would need someone like Mr. been an honor to be here
Myers to not take it easy on for seven years. I don't have
me and to really know what words for my experience this
I needed at that point. He just year, just the fact that my own
knows what people need in kids, this is like their second
their lives and it's an amazing home so that I'll be able to
talent, makes the department leave my name on something
is really neat. I don't regret
what it is today.”
To senior Annie Purkey, anything that I've done here
or any shows that I've done
Myers was like a father.
“One reason why this here or any letters of hate or
award was so easy for all of any letters of praise that I've
us is not only because of how received. I don't regret any of
much you care about this it. This experience at McNary
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retired members of the U.S. Military, Veterats
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families are eligible to receive $750 military
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purchase or lease of at eligible tew Ford vehicle.
and this experience with you
guys this year will make lots
of things pale in comparison.
Thank you.”
Please see MYERS, Page A6
CCMS
4x100
takes gold
PAGE A12
Turning it
around
PAGE A5
Big honors
for player,
coach
PAGE A12
Please see NIGHT, Page A9
Head of the class
Volcanoes
return
June 13
PAGE A13
KEIZERTIMES/Derek Wiley
McNary has 19 valedictorians in its 2017 graduating class. Front row, from left, Ke'alohi
Tombleson, Annie Purkey, Rebecca Amerino, Abigail Smith, Mireille Martinez, second row,
Brenna Wilson, Heidi Reed, Spencer Lamb, Miguel Araiza, Sean Burrows, third row, Alfonso
Pacheco, Elizabeth Russell, Matthew Levis, Alan Mueller, back, Easton Neitzel, Michael
Dugan, Caleb Kiefi uk-Yates, Matthew Ismay and Cade Goff.
750
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KEIZERTIMES/Derek Wiley
Dallas Myers (center), the dra-
ma director at McNary High
School for the past seven
years, is leaving to take a new
job.
By ERIC A. HOWALD
Of the Keizertimes
At 11:30 p.m. Friday, June
2, Sgt. Jeff Goodman and
Offi cer Kevin DeMarco are
at the front door of a home
where gang members are
known to associate – not
far from the Keizer Police
Department (KPD) station.
DeMarco was fi rst on the
scene and Goodman joined
him a few minutes later on
the a report of a domestic
disturbance that became a
noise complaint. The caller
said several juveniles were in
the driveway playing music
loud.
Goodman knocks on the
door, announces the presence
of police, and a TV fl ickering
behind a curtain goes dark.
Then the world's worst ninjas
try to make their escape.
Behind the home, there is
rustling and movement that
can be heard in front of the
house, it goes on for several
seconds as Goodman makes
his way around the left side
of the house and DeMarco
watches the fence along the
right side. The pair calls for
assistance from the two other
offi cers on duty, Rodney
Bamford and Scott Bigler.
Reserve Offi cer Garrett Van
Cleave is riding with Bigler.
Soon enough, DeMarco spots
a young man trying to leap
over a fence. He disappears
behind the home and
approaches with the intent to
detain him.
Goodman is still in the
backyard
and
DeMarco
returns to the front of the
home with a man in handcuffs
when someone emerges from
between two homes a couple
of doors down and begins
walking away from the scene.
The fi gure is out of sight by
the time the back-up offi cers
pull into the short dead-end
street.
All four offi cers spend
about 15 minutes on the scene
trying to fi gure out what
happened before they arrived
and why at least two people
tried to run. In the end, no
one ends up going to jail.
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