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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
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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,
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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.”
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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.
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