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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
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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. His wife,
Jessica, has been a huge source
of support: “My wife has the
biggest heart in the world.”
Matt is working on
wrapping up the second
Keizer Rotary Arboretum
Project and recently joined the
Keizer Planning Commission.
“The planning commission
is going into some heavy
discussions about the future
of Keizer,” he said.
Now that the parks will
have steadier funding, much
of his and other parks board
members’ time can be spent
making sure parks are kept up
and continue to serve their
communities.
“Keizer is one of those
places where I think we do a
really good job of taking care
of each other as neighbors
and do a really good job of
trying to make Keizer a great
place to be,” he said.
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