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MYERS: ‘I’ll take this day with FEE,
me for the rest of my life’
Co $ t of proposed offi cers
continued from Page A1
another fi ve offi cers to the
roles in a variety of different
capacities, none are desk jobs.
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yourself or you doubt what it. There's no better way to
The total cost of adding
honoring Myers. After senior you're doing,” Myers said leave.”
those
fi ve offi cers would be
Heidi Hays presented him after watching the video.
Myers compared the
somewhere
in the range of
with a book full of photos “You go through the most evening to a scene in his
$500,000
to
$600,000
per year.
from all of the shows over the gut-wrenching self doubt. favorite movie, Dead Poets
That
includes
wages,
health
last seven years, a video played You guys have seen it in me. Society, when students stand
insurance,
retirement
payments
that began with “Dallas Myers This just pays for it. I'll take on their desk, declaring “Oh
is the teacher that we will this day with me for the rest Captain, My Captain” to and payroll taxes for each
offi cer. The reason for the wide
remember for the rest of our of my life and I'll take all support their fi red teacher.
range is that the specifi c salary
lives, and we just want to say of you with me, too, your
“As a teacher you dream of
THANK YOU,” followed by passion and your memories that moment, not of getting for each offi cer would depend
testimony from more than 30 and your smiles. I don't have fi red, but of that experience,” on whether a new offi cer is
current and former students words. I had a feeling that this Myers said. “Thank you hired or if they transfer from
on what Myers taught them. night was going to be really for this. I will lock this another agency.
If the city spreads that cost
“There are times as a hard for me and I was going memory in for the rest of my
over
each residential dwelling
teacher where you doubt to stumble my way through existence.”
and business in the city, it
would total about $44 per
year, or about 12 cents per day.
The city council will still have
to determine how to collect
“Lighthouses are one of the more romanti- the fee, but the cheapest route
The Keizer Community Library will pres-
ent Oregon Coast Lighthouses by Keizer resi- cized subjects in the history of this and other would be adding a new line
dent Dr. Doug Kroll, a retired history profes- nations,” Kroll said. “The dutiful and solitary item to the existing sewer and
sor. The event, which is free to the public, is life of a lighthouse keeper has long been a water bills.
From the start, Teague has
scheduled for 7 p.m. Tuesday, June 20, upstairs source of fascination for writers and fi lmmak-
at the Keizer Heritage Center, 980 Chemawa ers. They have been called ‘America’s castles’ urged residents and the Keizer
City Council not to equate
and remain popular tourist attractions.
Rd. NE.
Oregon has 11 lighthouses. Nine were con- adding more offi cers with
Kroll will share stories of lighthouses on the
Oregon Coast, which were built on prominent structed and operated by the federal govern- an immediate drop in crime.
headlands or near major estuaries supporting ment, and two are privately built lighthouses, Instead, he suggests, think about
commercial fi shing and shipping in the late both certifi ed by the U. S. Coast Guard as of- it in terms of better customer
service.
fi cial private aids to navigation.
19th century.
“Instead of a patrol offi cer
turning up at your burglary,
a property crime detective
would,” Teague said.
The new offi cers would be
Mail
pre-registration
and spread over several units within
The 12th annual Knights of
donations
to: Knights
of the department – one offi cer
Columbus Car Show will be July
Columbus Car Show, 988 each for traffi c, the Community
15 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at St.
Greenwood Drive. NE, Response Unit (CRU) and
Edward Catholic Church,
Keizer, OR 97303, or detectives, and two for night
5303 River Road N.
complete and bring patrols (see related story A1).
All proceeds will go to
registration form to the
support the Father Taaffe
While are fi ve offi cers
show. For more information,
Homes For Young Teens
contact Mike Gander at 503-
and Their Babies. Food will be
390-0826, or email mikenginger@
available served by the Knights of
comcast.net.
Columbus St. Edward Council.
Navy vet talks Oregon lighthouses
Register for St. Ed car show
It would cost
each dwelling and
commercial location
in Keizer about…
12 cents per day = $3.67 per month = $44 per year
Infographic by Andrew Jackson
are needed in their varying
capacities, shortages on the
night shift have drawn headlines.
At least twice in recent
months, the KPD night shift
has been caught short-handed.
In March, a would-be burglar
got trapped in a window while
trying to enter a local tobacco
store and all of Keizer’s night
patrol offi cers were tied up
with an investigation into a
menacing incident, involving
an armed suspect, down the
street.
In April, a lack of offi cers
to create a secure perimeter
and evacuate a family that was
the victim of a home intruder
delayed an arrest by almost an
hour.
“At any given hour, one
of those offi cers might be at
the jail with a suspect or at
the hospital taking statements
from a DUI crash,” said Deputy
Police Chief Jeff Kuhns.
The addition of one offi cer
to each of the night shifts
would alleviate the problem
for high visibility crimes like
robberies, but it would also
have an impact on domestic
disturbances, which also occur
more frequently in the late
night hours and require at least
two offi cers to respond for
safety reasons.
On the detective unit, a
fi fth offi cer would be tasked
primarily with property crime
investigations. Property crimes
take a backseat to persons
crimes, like sexual and child
abuse and robberies. Sex and
child abuse cases constitute
about 60 percent of the cases
detectives are working at any
given time, said Det. Chris
Nelson.
In the Community Response
Unit, there are currently two
investigators and a supervisor
for a unit that once had four
investigators. The CRU inhabits
a grey area between patrol and
detectives, Teague said. Patrol
offi cers respond to calls that
can be quickly brought to some
resolution, whereas detectives
are in it for the long haul. CRU
works cases that involve a level
of effort somewhere between
the two, for example surveilling
homes where drug or gang
activity is suspected.
“Persistent neighborhood
problems are their niche,”
Teague said.
The fi fth offi cer would
be placed on the traffi c team.
One of the top requests from
residents is additional traffi c
enforcement. Teague has said
traffi c isn’t the worst problem
the city faces, but the demand
for additional enforcement is
ever-present.
“Our numbers are low, but
the public repeatedly tells us
they want more attention put
on traffi c,” Teague said.
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