OCTOBER 6, 2017, KEIZERTIMES, PAGE A3
Sign will address gunfi re concerns
A sign and more limited
usage will be used to address
gunfi re coming from across the
Willamette River into Keizer.
Lt. Andrew Copeland re-
ported to city offi cials last
week that he met with the
owner of Northwest Rock,
Lance Davis, and toured the
area’s of the property that have
been used for target practice.
“He told me he will restrict
the amount of people on his
property to his sons, police of-
fi cers, and other close friends
of the family,” Copeland said.
Davis also welcomed the
placement of a red ‘caution’
sign to designate the area
where stray bullets might fl y
across the river.
On Sept. 10, residents and
park goers fl ed the park and
their houses when a hail of
gunfi re erupted and bullets
whizzed overhead. Concerned
neighbors turned out in droves
at the Keizer City Council the
following week asking for ac-
tion.
No bullets were found on
the Keizer side of the river, but
Polk County sheriff ’s deputies
did make contact with a group
of men in possession of a semi-
automatic rifl e. No one admit-
ted to having fi red it.
The Keizer police offi cer
who responded said there was
no reason to doubt bullets had
crossed in the park and sur-
rounding area.
Keizer Christian celebrates
54 years with KHC exhibit
By ERIC A. HOWALD
Of the Keizertimes
Keizer Christian Church is
celebrating its 54th anniversary
this month and the congrega-
tion is celebrating with a special
service on Sunday, Oct. 8, all of
it coincides with a new display
at the Keizer Heritage Museum.
Kim Free, wife of Keizer
Christian’s new pastor, Erik, led
the charge to get the display
into the museum and is hoping
it paves the way for the church
itself, at 6945 Wheatland Road
N., to become an offi cial histor-
ical point of interest in the city.
“It was either the third or
fourth church in Keizer to have
its own building, and it’s the
only one that still contains part
of the original structure,” Free
said.
Keizer Christian Church,
which is associated with the
Disciples of Christ, held its fi rst
services in October 1963 at the
Keizer Grange Hall. The con-
gregation built a home of its
own on the corner of Lockhav-
en Drive Northeast and River
Road North between 1966 and
1968. When Albertson’s bought
that property in 1984, the origi-
nal structure was moved to its
current location.
“The original building was
split in half and a new sanctu-
ary and offi ces were built be-
tween the two halves. The old
sanctuary is now a community
space and the space that was the
school is still our preschool,”
Free said.
The move was not without
its harrowing moments. After
fi nding a local mom-and-pop
operation that was willing to
move the building to the new
site at half the cost a Portland
fi rm wanted to charge, multiple
obstacles presented themselves.
“They started down River
Road and found out that the
building was too wide and they
had to clear some branches
and trees, they got a little fur-
ther and had to call the power
company to lift the power lines
so the church could go under
them. Finally the cable broke
and the building went sliding
down the hill on Wheatland
and into somebody’s fence,”
Free said.
The church has video of the
whole thing, but Free said her
husband found the camera op-
erator to be the most humorous
aspect of the fi asco.
“We were watching it to-
gether and he couldn’t believe
the camera person didn’t curse
the whole time all of this was
happening,” Free said.
The exhibit in the Keizer
Heritage Museum features sev-
eral artifacts from throughout
the church’s history. Many are
tied to missionary work mem-
bers of the congregation have
performed in Congo and Ec-
uador, but the highlights are
a Communion set and a large
clay tile featuring a Biblical
scene.
“They are made from clay
that came out of the creek be-
hind the church when it was
on River Road. The school
children dug the clay out and
a local artist made the plaques
and communion set with de-
sign input from the students,”
Free said.
KEIZERTIMES/Eric A. Howald
City staff, city councilors, members of the Keizer Traffi c Safety, Bikeways and Pedestrian
Committee and representatives of Cherriots all gathered to dedicate a new bike repair sta-
tion behind the Keizer Civic Center Sept. 14.
GRASSROOTS
GOVERNMENT
The Keizer Traffi c Safety, Bikeways and Pedestrian Committee had its most recent meeting Thursday,
Sept. 14. Here’s what was discussed:
• Prior to the meeting,
members of the committee
and representatives of Cher-
riots held a formal dedica-
tion for a new bike repair
station outside the Keizer
Civic Center. Commit-
tee Chair Hersch Sangster
and Public Works Director
Bill Lawyer applauded the
collaboration between the
committee, city and Cher-
riots in bringing the proj-
ect to fruition. Cherriot’s
Trip Choice program paid
for the air pump and repair
station, which includes a
bike repair manual you can
download to your phone by
scanning a QR code.
• Committee member
Wayne Frey reported on two
possible sources of funding
he discovered by attending
a recent area transit meet-
ing. He suggested beginning
the process of inventorying
the streets around Keizer
schools for needed improve-
ment to take advantage of a
rekindled Safe Routes to
Schools program. He also
suggested the committee
investigate the Sidewalk Im-
Out of the Darkness Walk Oct. 14
The Oregon chapter of
the American Foundation for
Suicide Prevention (AFSP)
will host its second annual Sa-
lem Out of the Darkness Walk
on Saturday, Oct. 14.
Registration is free and any-
one is welcome; the fundrais-
ing goal this year is $125,000.
In 2016, the fi rst year of the
walk in Salem, organizers in-
cluding Keizerites Shawn Lott
and Ryan Price, the Oregon
area director, collected more
than $100,000 and the event
won the national award for
Best First Walk from AFSP.
Registration can be com-
pleted at bit.ly/2fwPy1b or
at Salem Riverfront Park the
day of the walk. Registration
opens at 9 a.m. and will be
followed by an opening cer-
emony at 10 a.m. The walk
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