SINCE 1979 • VOLUME 39, NO. 16
SECTION A
JANUARY 19, 2018
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Homegrown Theatre fi nds home
By DEREK WILEY
Of the Keizertimes
Keizer Homegrown The-
atre will have its own home
for its 2018 season.
The theatre, which did three
of its 2017 shows in Salem
at Chemeketa Community
College and the Kroc Center,
is moving into the events space
at the Keizer Heritage Center.
“It's nice to have a real
address,” said Linda Baker, the
company's founder. “It's easier
for them to fi nd us. It's easier
for them to connect with us.
When we are in the middle of
Keizer, our Keizer audiences
are much larger than when
we're out wondering around
in the outermost parts.”
KHT has scheduled an
open house for Saturday,
Feb. 17 from 12-3 p.m. with
snacks, coffee, tea and juice to
welcome the community to
the new home, which seats an
audience of 75.
The company performed
Love Letters in the space last
year.
“It's going to be wonderful,”
Baker said. “There's a lot
of opportunity. There's a
wonderful synergy that we
get to create, too, with our art
association right next door
and all kinds of really neat
things can happen. We'll be
able to do more sophisticated
sets and lighting because we'll
“ It’s nice to
have a real
address.”
Changes
coming to
football?
— Zinda Baker,
Founder, Keizer
Homegrown Theatre
File
be able to put that in place and
leave it in place.”
KHT will have auditions
for its entire 2018 season at its
new space, 980 Chemawa Rd.
NE, on Thursday, Jan. 25 at 6-8
p.m. and Saturday, Jan. 27 from
12-3 p.m.
The company is opening
the season with The Brother's
Grim Spectaculathon, a one-act
readers theatre in which two
narrators attempt to recreate
all 209 of the fairy tales of
the Brothers Grimm in a
wild, fast-paced extravaganza.
To make it more diffi cult,
they combine them into one
gigantic fable using Rapunzel,
Rumpelstiltskin, Hansel and
Gretel, Snow White, Sleeping
Beauty, Cinderella and other
more obscure stories like
Lean Lisa and The Devil's
Keizer Homegrown Theater will make its permanent home up-
stairs in the newly-renamed Keizer Cultural Center on Chema-
wa Road Northeast.
Grandmother.
“It's insanely funny. It really
is,” Baker said. “If people really
want to do something truly
absurd and ridiculous. That's
what the Spectaculathon is. It
is very tongue-in-cheek, very
irreverent.”
The
Brother's
Grim
Cinema greenlit at Keizer Station
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master plan at Keizer Sta-
tion allowing for the new
building. In November
2017, the proposed design
was unveiled at a meeting of
the Keizer Planning Com-
mission and waivers were
approved for fewer windows
than would otherwise have
been required.
The city will begin col-
NE
lecting rent on the prop-
erty – $12,260 per month,
or $142,120 annually – 90
days after the theater opens
or beginning March 1, 2019.
Rent will increase two
percent per year with a
“look back” every 10 years
to adjust up or down based
on the Consumer Price In-
dex.
Merkley, Schrader fi nd narrow paths for progress after 2017
By ERIC A. HOWALD
Of the Keizertimes
Sen. Jeff Merkley and Rep.
Kurt Schrader sat down with
members of the media for a
brief
question-and-answer
session before taking the fl oor
for a town hall at Claggett
Creek Middle School on Sat-
urday, Jan. 13.
Despite short time, the
congressmen fi elded a num-
ber of questions on a number
of topics facing Oregon and
the nation.
The pair started by talking
about the next steps in an ef-
fort to stop the repeal of net
neutrality, rules that prevent
internet service providers
from throttling internet speeds
and charging premiums for
faster service. In December,
the Federal Communications
Commission voted along par-
ty lines to repeal net neutrality
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First
Citizen to
be named
Saturday
Construction of the the-
ater will require a new, sig-
naled intersection on Keizer
Station Boulevard, that proj-
ect was already in the works
as part of a deal with the
Salem-Keizer Transit Dis-
trict but will likely be fast-
tracked now that the theater
is imminent.
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THEATER
2,000 trees
removed
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The Keizer Chamber of
Commerce is getting geared
up for a party Saturday, Jan.
20.
Tickets are now on sale for
the upcoming First Citizen &
Awards Banquet sponsored by
the Keizer Chamber of Com-
merce. Ticket cost is $55 for
individuals. The night begins
at 6 p.m.
To purchase tickets, go to
www.keizerchamber.com.
In addition to naming the
city’s new First Citizen, awards
are presented for Merchant of
the Year, Service to Educa-
tion and a President’s Award
goes to a person selected by
the outgoing president of the
Chamber board of directors.
The Keizer Civic Center,
930 Chemawa Road N.E.,
will host the event.
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By ERIC A. HOWALD
Of the Keizertimes
Keizer is getting a movie
theater.
At its meeting Tuesday, Jan.
16, the Keizer City Council
authorized City Manager
Chris Eppley to sign a lease
for a site in Keizer Station
with the owner of Keizer
Cinema 9 LLC, Charles Na-
kvasil.
The site is located across
from the Transit Center on
Keizer Station Boulevard
Northeast and the lease will
net the city nearly $150,000
annually over at least the next
50 years. The cinema will
have the option to extend
the lease for up to 99 years.
Construction is expected
to begin soon with an open-
ing in the fall or winter.
Keizer Cinema 9 will be a
fi rst-run theater with nine
screens offering beer, liquor,
wine and food.
In October 2016, Nakva-
sil approached the city about
leasing the land through a
broker, Pate Retail Proper-
ties. In July 2017, Keizer
made adjustments to the
Spectaculathon will open at
the Cherry Blossom Theatre
Festival on March 10 at
the World Beat Gallery in
downtown Salem and then
move to the new Keizer space
the following two weekends,
March 16-18 and 23-25.
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despite out-
pourings of
opposition.
Members
of the U.S.
Senate are
planning to
put the issue
to a Con-
g ressional
Review Act
(CRA) vote
that might
stop the re-
peal.
The
Congressio-
nal Review
A. Howald
Act allows ABOVE: Sen. Jeff Merkley speaks with constituents as a town hall meeting disperses KEIZERTIMES/Eric
at Claggett Creek Middle
Congress an School. RIGHT: Rep. Kurt Schrader talks with another group of constituents.
expedited
way to over-
place under President Barack it has to be put on the Fed- offi ce received were 100-to-1
rule a regulation. It’s also the Obama.
eral Registry. I am not sure (against the repeal) and noth-
same tactic the Trump Ad-
“We already have enough of the timing of that, but my ing has 100-to-1 support. It’s
ministration and Republican- co-sponsors to force a vote impression is that is a couple the one issue it seems like ev-
controlled Congress have used on the fl oor as soon as it goes of months before it happens,” erybody agrees on.”
to kill many regulations put in through all the hoops. I think Merkley said. “Phone calls my Please see NARROW, Page A9
Mastering
the cube
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New K9
officer