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SINCE 1979 • VOLUME 38, NO. 45 SECTION A AUGUST 11, 2017 $1.00 THREE WEEKS GONE KPD asks for public’s help fi nding missing woman By ERIC A. HOWALD Of the Keizertimes The Keizer Police De- partment is asking the public for assistance in the case of a Woodburn woman who went missing after an evening at Te- quila Nights Bar & Grill last month. Cynthia Martinez, 26, was last seen leaving Tequila Nights about 2:35 a.m. on July 16. Her mother, Angelica Cas- tillo, fi led a missing persons report with KPD a little less than 24 hours later. In the intervening three weeks, Martinez, a mother of four, has not been seen or heard from. Deputy Po- lice Chief Jeff Kuhns held a press c o n f e re n c e Jaime Alvarez- regarding the case Wednes- Olivera, a day, Aug. 9, "person of interest" in and released Martinez's additional disappearance. information to coincide with asking for public assis- tance. Family members were also present. Shaking and holding back tears, Castillo told reporters that the family wants their Closing the gaps about each person’s role,” said By ERIC A. HOWALD Tristina Mariquez, one of two Of the Keizertimes Less than a year ago, the case workers assigned to the Keizer Police Department Keizer Police Department. and Oregon Department “With that there are also two separate of Human Services (DHS) frequently embarked on a pilot project investigations happening, one with police to place two and one with child protective DHS, and that services (CPS) “We have is frustrating for case managers greater the families that at the Keizer confi dence in we work with.” police station. Hillary Ro- The pro- each other’s eder, the other gram’s suc- interviews CPS case man- cesses are al- ager work- ready changing because we’ve ing alongside the way DHS done enough of Keizer police assigns case them together.” offered an ex- workers and smoothing re- — Hillary Roeder, ample. “If we get lationships be- Case Manager, DHS, a report of tween public Child Protective Services potential abuse, safety offi cers we need to and case man- respond in 24 hours, which agers. “Police and social workers means talking to the child have different ways of going and then letting the parents about the same job, keeping know we talked with their kids safe, and there have been child,” Roeder said. Typically, rough patches and confusion that means meeting a child daughter back, “We are asking for anybody who knows to call the tip line, call us. What- ever feels comfortable.” Martinez’s children, ages 3 months to 9 years, are stay- ing with their grandparents and Castillo said the family is eating dinner together every night and praying. “They miss her and they want her home. We pray and ask Jesus to keep her safe and bring her back to us. My heart tells me she is alive and she will come back to us. We pray for the offi cers every day and to give our daughter strength,” Castillo said. Martinez had at- tended a birthday party in the Wood- burn area Saturday evening, July 15, and then went to Tequi- la Nights in Keizer arriving at about 12:30 a.m. on Sun- day, July 16. She was last seen leaving Tequila Nights with two Hispanic males approximately two hours later in a blue 2004 Honda Odys- sey minivan. The Please see GONE, Page A10 KEIZERTIMES/Eric A. Howald Angelica Castillo speaks with reporters at a press conference Aug. 9. Keizer crashes Hoopla PAGE A13 When Keizer police suspect a child is being abused or neglected, help is closer than it's ever been. at school where the concern was raised and then meeting with the parents at their home, but those needs can clash with priorities on the law enforcement side of the Keizer teen on mission to Mars PAGE A4 equation. “If it becomes more of a criminal investigation, law enforcement likes to wait to talk with the perpetrator until after they have done other interviews. Knowing that, we can often coordinate and go do those interviews together,” Roeder said. The collaboration is streamlining the process for Please see GAPS, Page A10 Lessons in eclipse viewing from someone who saw the last one By ERIC A. HOWALD Of the Keizertimes When the total solar eclipse passes over Keizer on Monday, Aug. 21, the fi rst instinct for many will be to pull out their phone or camera and try to capture a defi ning image. Steve Davidson, a photog- rapher with Photos by Orion, advises against it. Primarily because there is a lot to miss if you’re only looking through a camera lens. “When I went to photograph the eclipse in 1979, I immediately went WIKIPEDIA/Lutfar Rahman Nirjhar into my planned series of The "diamond ring effect" is one of many unique features of a exposures changing shutter total solar eclipse.. speeds and f-stops and it fi nally dawned on me that I said. Goldendale, Wash., to view hadn’t seen the eclipse with A solar prominence is an and capture the eclipse on my own eyes,” Davidson said. eruption on the surface of fi lm and through telescopes. For the fi nal 15 or 20 the sun. Davidson isn’t any His account of the event seconds, he put his camera armchair astronomer either, serves as a reminder that there aside and he remembers those his undergraduate degree will be much more to see than moments most vividly. was in physics and astronomy. just a big black disc in front of “The sun was shimmering When the last eclipse passed the sun. as it passed behind the peaks over Oregon on Feb. 26, Davidson said he would and valleys of the moon. 1979, he was the director have been among the fi rst You could also see the sun’s of the planetarium for the to discount ancient beliefs prominences in a pinkish- Southwest Oregon Museum about the sun disappearing red color. It was startling to of Science and Industry in as an omen of end times, be able to see that. Those Eugene. but experiencing it fi rsthand are explosions that would He and a small team Please see ECLIPSE, Page A9 consume the earth,” Davidson of colleagues traveled to AVID camp for teachers PAGE A6 KEIZERTIMES/Eric A. Howald Keizer police offi cers debrief after making an arrest in an al- leged assault that led to closing down Wheatland Road North. Negotiators called in after alleged assault By ERIC A. HOWALD Of the Keizertimes A 23-year-old Keizer man barricaded himself in a home on Wheatland Road North after an alleged assault Friday, Aug. 4. After negotiators were called to the scene and made contact with Isaac Lee Haskins, he surrendered peacefully shortly before 9 a.m. Police responded to 7225 Wheatland Drive N. about 6 a.m. on the report of a do- mestic disturbance and as- sault. Offi cers arrived on scene to fi nd 27-year old Joel Haskins had been assaulted by his younger brother, Isaac Haskins. 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