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PAGE A6, KEIZERTIMES, MARCH 9, 2018 AVID, continued from Page A1 back because they feel loved and supported and they know that we’re here for them,” Mc- Nary AVID Coordinator Heidi Tavares said. strategies. The school’s gradu- Jespersen has heard that Mc- ation rate went up 4 percent Nary just feels different than last year and McNary seniors other schools in the area. received $6 million in scholar- “There’s a vibe that we’re ships, up from $1.9 million the trying to create and it’s a vibe of year before. excellence and it’s a vibe where “We are producing a prod- we care about our kids and the uct in a McNary High School kids have a really distinct pride graduate that is exemplary,” Jes- in coming to school here and persen said. “That doesn’t just that’s a very real happen on it’s thing and we’ve own. That hard been very inten- work is a result tional about cre- of us having ating that here,” systems in place Jesperson said. that are giving “Culture is ex- kids experien- tremely important. tial learning in It’s really hard to classrooms in get but it’s some- context that thing that you are helping cre- must have if you’re — Erik Jesperson going to have a ate a competi- McNary principal great high school.” tive advantage. That’s really McNary has set what we’re try- a goal of becoming an AVID ing to do is give our graduates National Demonstration School a competitive advantage when by 2020 as part of the process of they apply to college, when they being a world class high school. apply for scholarships, when A textbook and fi lm based they’re out in the work place, on AVID’s new curriculum on they have all the skills needed.” focused note-taking, featuring Past students are also return- McNary students, is set to be ing to get help with scholar- released in April. ships. “We also want our students “The students are coming to be noticed and recognized,” Jespersen said. “When you go into a classroom with some visitors, I see it, kids have that pride.” “It’s a vibe of excellence ... where we care about our kids.” CASE, continued from Page A1 see if Speten was inside. An autopsy determined Speten died of blunt force trauma to the head and she had been deceased at least 24 hours before she was found. At the time, a neighbor told the Keizertimes he had last seen Speten about four days prior to the discovery of her body. He said Speten came to his apartment after he overheard her side of an argument with a man, claiming she was being “manipulated.” She asked to use a cell phone, and called her own after it had allegedly been stolen. He also said there was music playing in the apartment for several days before Speten was found. Keizer police investigated Speten’s death for the next few months, but leads eventually dried up. Lathrop said they do know who was coming and going from the apartment around the time Speten was killed. “At the very least, we believe there are people who know what happened and, if we had that, it could lead to making an arrest,” Lathrop said. “Especially in homicides, there’s always leakage because people talk.” The most recent leads in the case are now about three years old and didn’t turn up enough to move forward with offi cial charges. Lathrop declined to speak on the details of the scene, a weapon or possible motive because that information will help police validate any new information they receive. “We don’t want those individuals to know what we know. If we let too much information out it could help them formulate a story,” he said. While there hasn’t been much movement in the investigation recently, Lathrop said Speten’s murder isn’t what police offi cers consider a “cold case.” “With cold cases, you don’t have a suspect or you don’t have a place to investigate. This is dormant. It’s still something we talk about amongst ourselves and we maintain regular contact with the victim’s family,” he said. “We still think about her and her family and we LAWYER: Finding substance in the emotion continued from Page A4 solution was too short-term; the funding provided by them can do great work, but once they’ve dried up you’re back where you started. The third option was to establish a parks fee, which is the route they ended up taking. Or, they could simply do nothing and begin shutting parks down. The parks fee, then, became a massive undertaking for Matt. After countless meetings and handing out surveys with his 12-year-old daughter Baylee, it fi nally came down to the vote in July of 2017. Matt says the initial public response to the survey results was at fi rst very negative. “I was getting absolutely blasted on social media,” he said. “It was terrifying, I was so scared to jump in that arena.” But that fear quickly turned into a realization about how important the discussion taking place was. He began responding to comments and engaging directly with the public on the details of the plan. “Everybody’s opinion matters even if they don’t share the same view as I do.” It became a learning experience. “There’s substance and objective in the emotion that are important that need to be pulled out and used in objective factual responses,” he explained. “I went from being terrifi ed to being able to say ‘look, these are the facts as I know them.’” This is how all public policy should be decided, according to Matt: by listening to the people with an open mind and fi nding the facts. Only through rigorous and productive discussion and diligent work can honest policy be made. Volunteerism “You could be as effective or non-effective as you want to be in Keizer,” Matt said. “But it’s so much more fun to be effective.” Matt cites his family as the reason he’s able to put want to get this resolved for them. The people that were involved need to be held accountable regardless of what happened.” Until then, it’s a waiting game for police and Speten’s surviving family, which includes her mother and four children. “The hope is that the right people will have a change of heart and they realize that this is important. We can’t force them to talk, but we hope that guilt gets to them,” Lathrop said. If you have information about the murder of Christina Speten, call the Keizer Police non-emergency number at 503-390-3713 or email Tips@keizer.org. Tipsters can remain anonymous. so much work in. “It’s only because of their support that I’m able to do what I do.” He is excited to see his son Zach, 6, and daughter Baylee, 12, begin to get involved as they grow older. 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