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Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is placed under house
arrest during a coup by high-ranking members of his own
government, military and police forces.
— August 18, 1991
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“When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping.
Men invade another country. It’s a whole different way of
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— Elayne Boosler, comic, born Aug. 18, 1952
The Month Ahead
Through Sunday, August 27
Enlightened Theatrics presents You’re A Good Man,
Charlie Brown located on 187 High Street NE, Suite
300. Performances at 7:30 p.m. with 2:30 p.m. matinees
on Sunday. Reserved seating, admission $20 to $30.
Youth under 18 $5 off. enlightenedtheatrics.org/
charliebrown/.
Friday, August 18
Syco Billy concert at Keizer Rapids Park, 1900 Chemawa
Road N. Gates open at 5 p.m., show starts at 6:30 p.m.
kraorg.com. 503-910-3232. No outside food or beverages
and no pets inside the amphitheater.
Friday, August 18 – Sunday, August 20
The Elsinore Theatre presents Little Shop of Horrors
located on 170 High Street SE. Performances at 2 p.m.
and 7:30 p.m. Doors open at 1 p.m. and 6 p.m. Tickets
$25 to $45. elsinoretheatre.com.
Salem-Keizer Volcanoes EclipseFest, BrewFest, NASA
Presentations and baseball game each day. For tickets
and more information, go to http://www.milb.com/
index.jsp?sid=t578.
Friday, August 18 – Saturday, September 2
Pentacle Theatre presents Monty Python’s Spamalot,
located on 324 52nd Avenue NW. pentacletheatre.org
for show times and tickets. 503-400-6582.
Saturday, August 19
Ty Curtis concert at Keizer Rapids Park, 1900 Chemawa
Road N. Gates open at 5 p.m., show starts at 6:30 p.m.
kraorg.com. 503-910-3232. No outside food or beverages
and no pets inside the amphitheater.
Dance with music by Charles and the Angels at Keizer/
Salem Area Seniors, Plymouth Drive Northeast. $5
per person. All are welcome to weekly Bingo, every
Wednesday from 12:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Admission is
$5.50. Individuals will have a chance to win monetary
prizes, free game cards and Daubers.
Sunday, August 20
Renowned violinist David Klinkenberg (with Brady Goss
opening) concert at Keizer Rapids Park, 1900 Chemawa
Road N. Gates open at 4:30 p.m., show starts at 6:00 p.m.
This concert has an admission of $15. Tickets available
at Uptown Music in Keizer at the concert venue. kraorg.
com. 503-910-3232. No outside food or beverages and
no pets inside the amphitheater.
By ERIC A. HOWALD
Of the Keizertimes
Salary surveys for unrepresented em-
ployees spurred debate among members of
the Keizer City Council during a meeting
Monday, Aug. 7.
The city conducts salary surveys of
comparable employees at other agencies on
a regular basis and then adjusts compensa-
tion packages to bring them in-line with
average pay for the given type of work. The
city is required to perform such surveys for
union-represented employees, but conducts
the surveys for non-union employees as a
matter of policy every four years. Unrep-
resented employees generally perform su-
pervisory roles.
This time around Human Resources
Director Machell DePina recommended
raising compensation in nine of the city’s
39 job classifi cations, affecting 14 employ-
ees in six departments.
“The last time we performed the survey
(2013) we recommended adjustments in
more than half the classifi cations,” DePina
said.
The total cost of the cost of living
(COLA) and merit adjustments – which
will affect positions including the event
center coordinator, legal assistant, account-
ing technicians and Keizer police sergeants,
among others – is $52,300. The city will
absorb the additional costs through better-
Keizer City Council meeting, 7 p.m. Keizer Civic Center.
Thursday, August 24
Keizer Points of Interest Committee meeting, 6 p.m.
Keizer Civic Center.
Friday, August 25 – Monday, September 4
The Oregon State Fair at the Oregon State Fairgrounds,
2330 17th Street NE. Open from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Admission is $1 to $6.
Saturday, August 26
Movies in the Park at Riverfront Park. Rogue One: A
Star Wars Story, 2016, PG-13, 133 minutes. No charge
to attend. Donations are suggested.
Patrick Lamb concert at Keizer Rapids Park, 1900
Chemawa Road N. Gates open at 5 p.m., show starts at
6:30 p.m. kraorg.com. 503-910-3232. No outside food
or beverages and no pets inside the amphitheater.
Dance with music by Country Gents at Keizer/Salem
Area Seniors, Plymouth Drive Northeast. $5 per person.
All are welcome to weekly Bingo, every Wednesday from
12:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Admission is $5.50. Individuals
will have a chance to win monetary prizes, free game
cards and Daubers.
By ERIC A. HOWALD
Of the Keizertimes
New visitors to Keizer
Rapids Park might not realize
that the sand volleyball courts
replaced a smaller court in-
stalled by an Eagle Scout as his
service project.
How and whether to hon-
or that contribution sparked
some intense debate among
the members of the Keizer
Parks Advisory Board Tuesday,
Aug. 8.
The conversation had its
start during public testimony
when former city council-
or and parks board member
Richard Walsh provided an
update on the Willamette Wa-
ter Trail Committee and then
switched hats as the father of
Michael Walsh, the Eagle Scout
who installed the original sand
volleyball court.
“We encourage the scouts
that – when they make some-
thing that lasts – it’s a big deal,”
Richard Walsh said. “We want
to encourage people to donate
their time and energy. I do
have a confl ict, but my prefer-
ence would be for there to be
something mention his name
and the project.”
During the meeting, parks
board members voted to name
the new courts after the Hans
and Vicki Schneider family,
who donated time, effort and
fi nancial support to installing
the new courts and are in the
process of adding a covered
shelter nearby. However, the
fate of Michael Walsh’s recog-
nition was left undetermined.
Richard Walsh suggested
that something in smaller type
could be added to the fi nal
dedication plaque. Michael
Walsh’s original contributions
are currently commemorated
with a metal sign that hangs on
a fence near the courts.
Parks Board Member Clint
Holland said he spoke to the
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A sign near the Keizer Rapids Park volleyball courts commem-
orates the efforts on a project that has since been replaced.
Schneider family and they
preferred that the Walsh dedi-
cation remain separate from
theirs.
“(Hans) said they were fi ne
with leaving the current mark-
er in place,” Holland said.
While the parks board has
previously-adopted
policies
regarding dedications, the vol-
leyball court dedications threw
a wrench into the works.
“We have the parameters,
but this is unprecedented be-
cause it was something that was
replaced,” said Matt Lawyer, a
parks board member.
Keizer Public Works Direc-
tor Bill Lawyer saw the dedi-
cations as two separate issues:
naming the current courts and
new shelter, and recognition
for projects that have been re-
placed.
Matt Lawyer also saw the is-
sue arising again in the near fu-
ture, which he said was reason
enough to establish new policy.
“The skate park is going
to be something where we
might encounter the same is-
sue. It was great for this area,
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but the times and needs have
changed. Memorialization of
prior work is important,” Law-
yer said.
Carlson Skate Park is in
need of substantial repairs for
safety reason, which are be-
ing prepped, but a larger re-
model might be in the works.
It’s named after a family that
contributed substantially to
the $360,000 effort. The city
may end up paying for all of
the new work with a parks fee,
but other donors could arise
prompting the need to rethink
dedications.
A motion to table the dis-
cussion until a future meeting
failed, and the dedication was
approved in it’s place. How-
ever, parks board members
planned to invite Schneider
and Michael Walsh to a future
meeting to discuss how the
older commemoration could
be handled for the volleyball
courts.
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“That’s
$120,000 in
raises right
when we are
asking for
(residents) to
help us make
right our
police and
parks.”
Confl icting dedications prompt debate for parks board
Monday, August 21
David Klinkenberg will perform at the Keizer Rotary
Amphitheater at Keizer Rapids Park from 9 a.m. until
10:30 a.m. to celebrate the total solar eclipse. kraorg.
com. 503-910-3232. No outside food or beverages and
no pets inside the amphitheater.
than-expected revenues from franchise fees parks.”
The approved 2017-18 budget included
and liquor taxes and lower-than-expected
$67,400 in cost-of-living
health care costs, said Tim
and merit-based raises.
Wood, city fi nance director.
Ryan
questioned
DePina said the raises only
why the salary survey
bring current Keizer employ-
was not included as part
ees within 5 percent of aver-
of budget talks that took
ages.
place in May.
“It doesn’t even bring
“The budget com-
them even,” DePina said. She
mittee is going to look
suggested failing to do so
at the allocation of re-
could be more costly in the
sources, but I don’t think
long run because of increased
it is up to the budget
turnover, reduced productiv-
committee to determine
ity and morale issues. “We do
whether (unrepresented
the same work as other cities
employees) should be
with a third of the employees,
paid competitively,” re-
and lower salaries would make
sponded Mayor Cathy
it diffi cult to recruit the ex-
Clark. “The compensa-
ceptional candidates.”
tion is a policy decision
Councilor Amy Ryan took
that we have chosen
issue with the timing of the
raises, which will be retroac-
— Amy Ryan to take care of (non-
tive to July 1, and the ask itself.
Keizer City Councilor union) in same manner
as unionized employees.”
“I think we have some
It still did not sit well
great quality people, but as a
budget committee member we approved with Ryan who voted against the imple-
(COLA) raises at $67,000 in June,” Ryan mentation of pay adjustments.
“$119,000 in increases when we are ask-
said. “The timing is poor – not because of
employees – but because we just approved ing our tax payers to step up is very unfair,”
fees for police and parks. That’s $120,000 Ryan said.
The increases were approved with a 5-1
in raises right when we are asking for (resi-
dents) to help us make right our police and vote. Councilor Laura Reid was absent.
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Federal
wildlife
offi cials
received a permit from the
city of Keizer to shoot any
coyotes that were found in the
McNary Estates area. Several
coyotes had been spotted on
the golf course, and there were
reports circling of at least two
eyewitnessed coyote attacks on
small pets.
15 YEARS AGO
Boy’s condition
improves after
BB gun accident
The condition of an 11-year-
old Keizer boy who accidentally
shot himself with a BB rifl e
was upgraded from serious to
fair. Eddie Quintero had been
handling his older brother’s
BB gun when it accidentally
discharged. The BB penetrated
his skull above the right ear and
lodged in his brain. The boy
had been alone in a bedroom
of an apartment, but his older
brother and mother had also
been in the apartment.
20 YEARS AGO
Car slams into
Keizer home
A drunk driver crashed into
a Keizer house located on
Crestwood Court at the
intersection with Lockhaven
Drive in the early morning.
The couple in the house had
been asleep. The man was
arrested for drunk driving
and driving with a suspended
license. No one was hurt.