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Today in History
In one of the most crushing victories in the history of U.S.
presidential elections, incumbent Lyndon Baines Johnson
defeats Republican challenger Barry Goldwater, Sr. With
over 60 percent of the popular vote, Johnson turned back
the conservative senator from Arizona to secure his fi rst
full term in offi ce after succeeding to the presidency after
the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
— November 3, 1964
Food 4 Thought
“Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers
understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of
creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so
tragically in our time, it leads fi rst to conformity and then
to despotism.”
— Barry Goldwater
The Month Ahead
Continuing through Sunday, November 12
Enlightened Theatrics continues its run of Geoffrey Nauffts’
Next Fall at the Historic Grand Theatre in downtown Salem.
Visit enlightenedtheatrics.org for show times and tickets.
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By ERIC A. HOWALD
Of the Keizertimes
Mark Akimoff, an envi-
ronmental technician with
the City of Keizer, is hoping
a new project undertaken by
the Claggett Creek Water-
shed Committee will change
the polling results from stu-
dents he encounters on fi eld
trips.
Akimoff typically asks stu-
dents he leads on educational
trips if they can name the
two bodies of water that run
through Keizer. If he’s lucky,
a handful can name Claggett
Creek, far fewer identify La-
bish Ditch. Even parents are
hard-pressed to come up
with the answer.
“Almost every kid I talk
to has seen the markers that
shows where water drains to
the river, but they don’t know
where it goes,” Akimoff said.
The drains most often lead to
some part of Claggett Creek
or the Labish channels and
then to the Willamette River
itself.
With the help of the wa-
tershed committee, Akimoff
is constructing a Geographic
Information System (GIS)
story map of Claggett Creek
that traces the creek from its
origin and through Salem,
Saturday, November 4
Public reception and artist awards for the Black, White and
Gray Show, presented by the Keizer Art Association, 6-8
p.m. Keizer Heritage Center. keizerarts.com.
obituaries
‘Beatles vs. Stones’ Renowned tribute bands Abbey Road
and Satisfaction will pay tribute to the Beatles and the
Rolling Stones, featuring seven songs with McKay Chamber
Orchestra, Elsinore Theatre, 170 High St. $35 to $55.
Ticketswest.com, 800-325-7328.
Eva J. Blake
Salem Pops Orchestra “Hooray for Hollywood” will feature
singer Cindy Dicken. 7 p.m., Chemeketa Community
College’s Building 6 Auditorium. $15, $5 for students and $2
for ages 6 and younger.
Eva J. Blake passed away on
Oct. 4, 2017.
Blake was born in Pond
Creek, Okla., on Dec. 13,
1921.
She
married Hom-
er E. Blake in
Long Beach,
Calif., in 1947.
They moved
to Keizer in
1975.
The
E.3Blake
couple had fi ve
children, three
boys and two girls, named
Dan, Sherri, Jeanie, Lon and
Dean.
She was a longtime book-
keeper for St. Edward Catho-
lic Church and enjoyed knit-
ting in her spare time.
Interment was at Claggett
Creek Cemetery.
Saturday, November 4 – Sunday, November 5
THC Fair-The Hemp and Cannabis Fair, Jackman-Long
Building, Oregon State Fairgrounds. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday,
11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday. Admission, $14. Visit thcfair.com.
Sunday, November 5
St. Paul’s Evensong Concert Series presents Music of Felix
Mendelssohn, 4 p.m., St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 1444
Liberty St. SE, Salem. stpaulsoregon.org.
Wednesday, November 8
A Salute to America and Veterans. The Keizer Community
Band will present patriotic music, marches and Service
Songs, 7 to 8 p.m. . Keizer Community Center, 930 Chemawa
Rd N. 503-930-0707.
Thursday, November 9 – Saturday, November 11
The Wizard of Oz Musical, McNary High School’s Ken
Collins Theatre, 7 p.m. on Thursday and Friday, 2 p.m. and 7
p.m. on Saturday. Additional shows November 16-18. Adult
tickets $10, students $7.
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Thursday, November 9 – Sunday, November 19
The Music Man’ 10:30 a.m. Nov 9, 7:30 p.m. Nov 10-11 and
17-18, and 2:30 p.m. - Nov 19, The Psalm Center at Corban
University, 500 Deer Park Dr Salem. $15 for adults, $12
for students (with ID) and ages 62 and older and $10 for
children.
Friday, November 10
Cherry City Roller Derby Panty Raiders vs Rose City’s High
Rollers, 7 p.m. at The Hangar at Oaks Amusement Park Oaks
Park Way, 7805 SE. in Portland
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THIS WEEK’S
MOVIE TIMES
Dunkirk (PG-13)
Sat 6:35, Sun 5:00
Friday, November 10 - Sunday, November 12
Home Again (PG-13)
Fri 6:20, Sun 12:40
Saturday, November 11
Valerian and the City of a
Thousand Planets (PG-13)
Sat 1:55
Kingsman: The Golden
Circle (R) Fri 5:55, 8:35,
Sat 6:15, 9:00, Sun 8:10
The Hitman’s Bodyguard (R)
Fri 9:00, Sat 8:40, Sun 7:10
Cherry City Roller Derby Season 9, Bout 5: Dolls of Anarchy
vs Thrill Kill Kittens, 7 p.m. at The Mad House, 1335 Madison
Street NE.
Mother (R) Fri 8:50
Willamette Master Chorus Veterans Concert. Patriotic music
performance of the Willamette Master Chorus Honor Choir,
which includes top choir students from Salem-Keizer area
high schools, 3 to 5 p.m. Hudson Hall at Mary Rogers Music
Center, Willamette University 900 State St.
Despicable Me 3 (PG)
Fri 2:10, 4:00,
Sat 11:30, 1:20, 3:10, 4:30,
Sun 12:00, 2:05, 3:40
Saturday, November 18 – Sunday, November 19
2017 Old Fashion Christmas Show, Jackman-Long Building,
Oregon State Fairgrounds. Crafts, art, antiques, food, live en-
tertainment, Candyland Maze to Santa. Hourly drawings. Ad-
mission is $5, bring a canned good to benefi t Marion-Polk Food
Share. Children under 6 are free. centraloregonshows.com.
there, that was the biggest
surprise for me. I borrowed
a GoPro and put it in at a
very sterile-looking part of
the creek. It didn’t look like
there was much going on
standing back, but I put the
camera in and waited for a
few minutes and there was a
prickly sculpin and a red-side
shiner, both native fi sh spe-
cies to the basin here,” Aki-
moff said.
While Akimoff started
with the idea for a multi-
media map, members of the
watershed council embraced
the idea and helped enlist
the services of Salem Aerial,
a drone photography busi-
ness, which has added to the
scope.
“With the aerial instru-
ments, we can look at tem-
peratures and depths, the
types of trees and how they
are impacting the bank of the
creek, all those things critical
to the health of the water-
shed as a whole,” said Matt
Lawyer, chair of the water-
shed committee.
Lawyer sees the story map
as another tool the commit-
tee can use to engage the
larger community in the care
of Claggett Creek.
“One of our biggest
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Senator Ron Wyden will hold a town hall meeting at Mc-
Nary High School on Saturday, Nov. 4.
The town hall begins at 3 p.m. in the school auditorium.
“Oregonians’ message from my 73 town halls so far this year
is one of unprecedented interest in sharing their views about
the impact in our state of all that’s happening in Washington,
DC,” Wyden said. “These upcoming town halls in Washington,
Marion and Clackamas counties are part of my work to provide
those Oregonians with unprecedented access to voice both their
concerns and ideas.”
Wyden’s schedule includes town halls on Friday, Nov. 3, in
Tigard; on Saturday, Nov. 4, in Sandy and Keizer; and on Sunday,
Nov. 5, in Forest Grove.
These four town halls also will increase to 858 the number of
town halls Wyden has held since pledging when fi rst elected to
hold annual town halls in each of Oregon’s 36 counties.
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Fri 6:45, Sat 4:15, Sun 3:55
The Emoji Movie (PG)
Fri 2:45, 4:35,
Sat 12:10, 2:30,
Sun 1:50, 3:15
Leap! (PG)
Fri 2:20, Sat 12:45, Sun 12:20
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struggles is engaging people
and partners like Salem in
maintaining the waterway.
The map will create a much
clearer picture of the water-
shed as a whole so that we
can see the impacts of spill-
age downstream,” Lawyer
said.
Elizabeth Sagmiller, di-
rector of the Keizer envi-
ronmental department, said
projects already undertaken
outside the map effort have
made a difference. One of
the major undertakings was
a restoration of the Claggett
Creek banks at Ben Miller
Park. When an illicit dis-
charge occurred last year,
Sagmiller ordered testing of
the waters north of the Ben
Miller and found that the re-
stored waterway had cleaned
out much of the toxins.
“That little patch of good-
ness cleaned the water,” Sag-
miller said. “The most im-
portant part of this project is
citizens taking ownership of
the creek and understanding
the waterbody as a whole.
The more people know
about the history of it and
the people attached to it, the
less likely they are to behave
in ways that are detrimental
to it.”
To that end, Akimoff and
Sagmiller are interested in
those with stories about
Claggett Creek and Labish.
Tales of fi shing out of the
waterways to picnicking
along it are all fair game. Dia-
ry mentions of the creek and
how people used it in days
of yore would be especially
helpful. Contact Akimoff at
akimoffm@keizer.org to fi nd
out how to submit materials.
“Some of the things we
can tell by looking at maps,
but the oral history is where
it gets really interesting,” Sag-
miller said.
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new boat ramp at Keizer Rapids
Park on Oct. 29, slated to open
to the public Nov. 5.
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Veteran Keizerites may already
know the 1999 graduate of
McNary High. Keizer native
Scott Keniston is the newest
offi cer in the Keizer Police
Department.
Spiderman: Homecoming (PG-13)
Fri 4:10, Sun 5:30, 7:25
Pentacle Theatre presents A Christmas Carol by John
Mortimer, adapted from the Charles Dickens classic. Tickets
are $25. Visit pentacletheatre.org for days and times of
performances.
Keizer Homegrown Theatre presents Heaven Can Wait, The
Salvation Army Ray & Joan Kroc Corps Community Center,
1865 Bill Frey Dr, Salem, Friday and Saturday at 7 p.m.,
Sunday at 3 p.m. Additional shows November 17-19. Tickets
$15.
Marion County and Keizer.
The story map includes his-
torical information about the
creek as well as anecdotes
from people who used it dif-
ferently than we do today.
The map, which can be
found in progress at arcg.
is/2xi3PpF, includes infor-
mation that many would fi nd
surprising. For example, the
historic origin of the creek,
which Akimoff places along
south Lancaster Drive in Sa-
lem.
“As best we can tell, it
started under Dick’s Sport-
ing Goods,” Akimoff said. It
was probably fed by a natu-
ral spring and had far more
channels spreading in all di-
rections before reaching the
Willamette River.
Development over time
had led the creek to fi nd
pathways through Salem that
are mostly hidden. In Keizer,
the creek is readily visible
in most areas, but especial-
ly around Ben Miller and
Claggett Creek parks and
at the intersection of Lock-
haven Drive Northeast and
River Road North.
The creek also supports
the ecosystem in and around
it.
“There’s fi sh living in
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