SINCE 1979 • VOLUME 38, NO. 45
SECTION A
AUGUST 11, 2017
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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
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KEIZERTIMES/Eric A. Howald
Angelica Castillo speaks with reporters
at a press conference Aug. 9.
Keizer
crashes
Hoopla
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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
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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
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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
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consume the earth,” Davidson of colleagues traveled to
AVID camp
for teachers
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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.
Isaac allegedly struck his
older brother on the head
with a hammer as he tried
to sleep. Joel Haskins was
immediately transported to
Salem Health by paramedics
Netters
hit gym
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