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PAGE A2, KEIZERTIMES, AUGUST 25, 2017 Schrader: White House turmoil begets Congressional opportunity presented by DRIVE A LITTLE – SAVE A BUNCH! 3893 COMMERCIAL ST SE • SALEM MORE INFO AT NORTHERNLIGHTSTHEATREPUB.COM UFC 215 Johnson vs. Borg Saturday, SEPT 2, at 11:00 am MOVIE: C ARS 3 [ G ] Sensory Sensitive Show ONLY $4 Special showing for kids and adults with Autism or other sensory sensitivities. LIVE STAND UP COMEDY Lights, Comedy, Laughs! Saturday, Sept. 16 SATURDAY, SEPT. 9 —–———— 21 & OVER —————— Live Fights at 5 pm – Tickets $13 9 fi ghts in all on the HUGE screen! Reserved Seats Available Now Online TOBE HIXX AND MONICA NEVI will perform at 7pm and 9pm. Admission is only $10. Ages 21 & over only. Reserved seating for this show. Purchase tickets at box offi ce or at our website. Today in History After more than four years of Nazi occupation, Paris is liberated by the French 2nd Armored Division and the U.S. 4th Infantry Division. German General Dietrich von Choltitz, commander of the German garrison, signed a formal surrender that afternoon, and on August 26, Free French General Charles de Gaulle led a joyous liberation march down the Champs d’Elysees. — August 25, 1944 Food 4 Thought “There is nothing like a challenge to bring out the best in man.” — Sean Connery, born Aug. 25, 1930 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/. Through 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. 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. Admission is $5.50. Individuals will have a chance to win monetary prizes, free game cards and Daubers. Saturday, September 2 Paradise of Samoa concert at Keizer Rapids Park, 1900 Chemawa Road N. Gates open at 5 p.m., show starts at 6:30 p.m. Tickets available at paradiseofsamoa.com. adults, $20, seniors and students, $15, kids under 5, free. kraorg.com. 503-910-3232. No outside food or beverages and no pets inside the amphitheater. Saturday, September 9 Artists’ receptionn for Keizer Art Association’s September show, Wild Over Watercolor, Enid Joy Mount Gallery, 2-4 p.m., Keizer Heritage Center, 980 Chemawa Rd. NE. Show runs through Sept. 30. keierarts.com. Capital City Cornhole Classic from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the State Capitol State Park, 155 Waverly Street NE. 2-Player teams, $45 per team. 1-Player Rule Breakers Division for children (ages 6 to 12) and people with disabilities who need accommodation $10. ShangrilaOregon.org. community@shangrilaor.org. By ERIC A. HOWALD Of the Keizertimes Congressman Kurt Schrad- er (D-Ore.) is trying to fi nd the bright side of controversial remarks by President Donald Trump regarding protests in Charlottesville, Va., which left one counter-protestor dead. “Trump’s horrifying re- marks on Charlottesville have been denounced on both sides, and I think it will help us real- ize we are more on the same page than not,” Schrader said. Rep. Schrader is home from Washington, D.C., while Con- gress is on a break and made a swing through Keizer Thurs- day, Aug. 17, that included speaking at a Rotary Club of Keizer meeting and a stop at the Keizertimes offi ce. At a time when the na- tion seems as divided as ever, Schrader said he is looking for solutions. “I think there is great op- portunity as (Trump) pushes Republicans and Democrats closer to working together,” he said. Despite partisan battles over the future of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Schrader and several of his fellow Democrats began formulating a plan to solve the problems of the ACA rather than repeal it entirely. That effort spawned a biparti- san plan to stabilize individual health care markets. The plan encompasses sev- eral changes, including a repeal of a medical device tax, adjust- ing the employer mandate to affect only those businesses with 500 employees or more, allowing for more innovation within state-run health care exchanges and placing control of the cost-sharing-reduction (CSR) payments under the oversight of Congress. CSR payments are made to insurers to offset the costs of providing discount insur- ance plans for Americans who make up to 200 percent of the federal poverty limit. Recently, KEIZERTIMES/Eric A. Howald Congressman Kurt Schrader talks with the Keizertimes publisher and editors on a swing through the area Thursday, Aug. 17. Trump threatened to withhold the payments entirely before deciding to make the August payments. It is uncertain what will happen in the coming months. “Under reconciliation, the plan to repeal the ACA, the President can stop the pay- ments from occurring, but the insurance companies still have to offer those plans,” Schrader said. “If the payments are with- held one of two things occurs: premiums go through the roof, or insurance companies decide they don’t want to play in the individual market.” Putting the authority for mandating those payments under congressional purview would restore some certainty while still maintaining over- sight, he added. Schrader said the effort to put forward solutions has giv- en the Blue Dog Democrats, a caucus of conservative Demo- crats of which Schrader is a member, more traction in DC than they’ve had in the past. “We are being welcomed back into the fold because the route back to the major- New dental offi ce for Keizer Station By ERIC A. HOWALD Of the Keizertimes Kaiser Permanente is seek- ing city approval to add a 16,000-square-foot dental of- fi ce to its Keizer Station loca- tion. The city coun- cil will examine the request at a future meeting after allowing the proposed amend- ment to bypass the Keizer Plan- ning Commission at a city council meeting Monday, Aug. 21. The Keizer Station Area A plan originally called for offi ce space up to 100,000 square feet, but the current Keizer Perman- ente offi ces are only a bit larger than 20,000 square feet. Adding a second building deviates from the original plan and requires an amendment. “We are asking you to call it up directly is because the origi- nal master plan was developed with a lot of work and input and the proposed changes are minor,” said Community De- velopment Direc- tor Nate Brown. “The conditions established remain largely intact and it will not af- fect stormwater or transporta- tion issues.” The council voted unani- mously to hear the matter di- rectly. Aaron Lewis The Sinner Tour at the Elsinore Theatre, 170 High Street SE. Performance at 8 p.m. Doors open at 7 p.m. Tickets $32 to $47. $5 day of show. elsinoretheatre. com/event-details-aaron-lewis.html. Sprit of Aloha KNOW Fundraiser at the Keizer Civic Center, 930 Chemawa Road NE from 5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Tickets $30 to $240. Thursday, September 28 Champions for Children Luncheon from noon to 1 p.m. at the Salem Convention Center, 200 Commercial Street SE. To attend, call 503-540-0288. Friday, September 29 – Saturday, October 21 Pentacle Theatre presents Almost, Maine, located at 324 52nd Avenue NW. pentacletheatre.org/plays-musicals/ upcoming-shows/. 503-400-6582. Saturday, October 7 Popovich Pet Comedy Theatre at the Elsinore Theatre, 170 High Street SE. Performance at 3 p.m. Doors open at 2 p.m. Tickets $25 to $35. $17 for children 12 and under. $25 for family four pack. elsinoretheatre.com/event- details-popovich-pet-comedy.html. Add your event by e-mailing news@keizertimes.com. rakis (R-Fla.). “If we can give the right in- centives, we can get the gener- ics companies into the market. With that, the incentive to rip off the marketplace goes away,” Schrader said. Schrader is also part of a subcommittee dealing with energy policy and trying to forecast what that looks like for the years and decades ahead. “I’m an all-of-the-above energy guy. I favor renewables – I am a Northwesterner – but there are great swaths of this country that depend on fossil fuels to power their economy,” he said. Given the Blue Dogs’ seem- ing resurgence, Schrader said there are lessons the group – and the Republican coun- terpart, the Tuesday Group – could impart to all of the na- tion’s lawmakers. “Don’t demonize someone because they have a different point of view. Try to fi gure out what that person really needs. We all want healthcare, but do we need to repeal ACA or are you worried about the growth in entitlements or the increase in premiums,” Schrader said. “Long-term solutions are bi- partisan solutions. Partisan de- cisions are not representative of where the American public is at during any given point in time. Ostensibly, the Congress is supposed to represent the people, not just the team that won the last election.” sudoku Enter digits from 1-9 into the blank spaces. Every row must contain one of each digit. So must every column, as must every 3x3 square. looking back in the KT Thursday, September 21 Percy Presents: The Spirit of Aloha, a Keizer Network of Women event, 5:30-8:30 p.m., Keizer Civic Center. Oral and silent auction, Coach handbag raffl e. Proceeds benefi t The Keizer Chamber Foundation and KNOW’s projects. Limited number of tickets, $30, includes dinner, available at keizerchamber.com. ity is the Blue Dog Democrats. We have to get back into the districts that were underper- forming from the Democratic standpoint in terms of Trump support,” Schrader said. Aside from the fi ght around health care, circumstance has placed Schrader at the helm of two efforts to reform vet- erans rights. He is sponsoring two bills that could have a big impact on veterans through- out the country. The fi rst, the HOMES Act, would establish a 10-year statute of limita- tions on civil obligations for deployed soldiers. The intent would be to prevent active duty service members from losing their homes while serv- ing. The second, the Involun- tary Recall Bill, would provide exemptions for soldiers who accepted retirement buyouts and were later injured while involuntarily recalled to active duty. Under current rules, re- tirement checks can be with- held until the buyout amount is repaid. Schrader said both bills were just recently introduced, but he doesn’t foresee resis- tance within Congress. Another bill that has already cleared both the House and Senate takes aim at prescrip- tion drug prices by clearing hurdles to get generic op- tions on the market and offer- ing limited exclusivity for the companies that produce them. The bill was a bipartisan effort of Schrader and Rep. Gus Bili- KEIZERTIMES.COM 5 YEARS AGO Line drive hit to head hospitalizes Volcanoes pitcher, Giants 1st rounder Salem-Keizer Volcanoes pitch- er Chris Stratton was taken to Salem Hospital by ambulance when he was struck in the head by a line-drive hit dur- ing batting practice. He was held overnight for observation. Bobby Evans, the Giants’ vice president of baseball opera- tions, told Comcast Sports Net that Stratton had concussion symptoms. 10 YEARS AGO DA: More charges could be in store Two of the boys that were accused of stealing chemicals from McNary High School in a possible bomb plot re- mained in custody, and all fi ve boys arrested were in danger of facing additional charges. The fi ve boys faced a litany of felony and misdemeanor charges, including conspiracy to commit second-degree burglary, second-degree bur- glary, second-degree criminal mischief, and second-degree theft. 15 YEARS AGO Plan sees big changes for Chemawa Road Mayor Lore Christopher unveiled a plan to develop a commercial corridor on Chemawa Road that would link the proposed Keizer Station development at the freeway with Keizer’s downtown district. Christopher said the corridor concept was developed in response to concerns voiced about the proposed Keizer Station development at the freeway. 20 YEARS AGO Work starts on 4-story hotel Keizer’s fi rst inn, the Wittenberg Inn, began construction. The four-story, 86-room hotel was being built across from Keizer Retirement & Health Care Village off Claggett Street. Web Poll Results Should statues honoring the Confederacy be removed from public spaces? 56% – Yes 44% – No Vote in a new poll every Thursday! GO TO KEIZERTIMES.COM
