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PAGE A2, KEIZERTIMES, APRIL 20, 2018 New convenience store in the works presented by DRIVE A LITTLE – SAVE A BUNCH! 3893 COMMERCIAL ST SE • SALEM MORE INFO AT NORTHERNLIGHTSTHEATREPUB.COM Lights, Comedy, Laughs! Saturday, APRIL 28, at 11:00 am MOVIE: P ETER R ABBIT [ PG ] Sensory Sensitive Show ONLY $4 Special showing for kids and adults with Autism or other sensory sensitivities. LIVE STAND-UP COMEDY! UFC224 - Sat, May 12 SATURDAY, MAY 19 Nunes v. Pennington Susan Jones & Spenser O’Neill 7 pm & 9 pm (21 & Over) Admission only $10. Reserved Seating for this show. 9 FIGHTS IN ALL ON THE HUGE SCREEN Live Fights at 5:00 (21 & Over) - Tickets $13 Reserved Seating Available Now Online. WOMEN’S BANTAMWEIGHT TITLE Today in History Two teenage gunmen kill 13 people in a shooting spree at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, south of Denver. Dylan Klebold, 18, and Eric Harris, 17, dressed in trench coats, began shooting students outside the school before moving inside to continue their rampage. By 11:35 a.m., Klebold and Harris had killed 12 fellow students and a teacher and wounded another 23 people. Shortly after noon, the two teens turned their guns on themselves and committed suicide. — April 20, 1999 Food 4 Thought “Journalism is not a precise science, it’s a crude art.” — Dan Rather The Month Ahead Saturday, April 21 A Soggy Day in the Park. Join the Claggett Creek Watershed Council at Keizer Rapids Park, 1900 Chemawa Road N. Guided nature walks, boat tours, hotdogs, and more, including a preview of the new Keizer Rotary Arboretum and water-safety education. 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. For more information call 503-930-7481. The Oregon Garden Resort celebrates Earth Day with workshops, crafts, live music and more. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Keizer/Salem Area Seniors Saturday Night Dance and Potluck. Featuring music by The Country Gents. 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Admission is $5. 930 Plymouth Drive NE. Saturday, April 21 – Sunday, April 22 Cherry City Comic Con, Columbia Hall at Oregon Fairgrounds and Expo. Tickets are $25 for Saturday, $20 for Sunday, $35 for 2-day pass, $60 for VIP and $5 for kids up to 12. For show times and more information visit cherrycitycomiccon. com. Tuesday, April 24 Free admission all day at Hallie Ford Museum of Art, 700 State Street. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, April 27 Word Slam at McNary High School. 7 p.m. in the choir room. Come and listen as student writers take the spotlight to share poetry, short stories, essays and more. Hosted by the MHS Write Club. Free. Mid-Valley Literacy Center presents its annual Spotlight on Literacy Award Dinner, Creekside Golf Club 5-9 p.m.. Guest speaker is former governor Barbara Roberts. Tickets are $50 per person or $500 for a table. To purchase tickets visit idvalleyliteracycenter.org. Saturday, April 28 Diabuddies Dash. Assemble of team of walkers and runners to support the Chris Dudley Foundation and raise diabetes awareness. Prices vary; visit https://bit.ly/2GRosBi for register information. Children under 12 and groups of over 10 individuals are subject to discounts. Takes place at Keizer Rapids Park, 1900 Chemawa Road N. Registration ends on April 21. For more information, contact kelsey@chrisdudley. org or call 503-830-0780. By ERIC A. HOWALD Of the Keizertimes Nick Dhote purchased the building that was recently Classic Tap, at 390 Chemawa Road N., three years ago. With Classic Tap moving across the street recently, he’s now in the process of retrofi t- ting the old dance studio into a new convenience store. “We’re working on getting set up and looking at opening in about a month,” Dhote said. Dhote, a native of Punjab, India, owns fi ve other conve- nience stores with locations in Salem, Monmouth and Eu- gene-Springfi eld. He moved to the United States 22 years ago. The new store will have an 18-door cooler with a sepa- rate beer cave and offer the usual fare like beer, milk, chips, fountain drinks and hot deli items. Lunch specials will be a regular thing. Dhote hasn’t set hours yet, but expects to open at either 5 or 6 a.m. and close DRIVE 4 UR School. For every test drive of a new Ford vehicle, Ford will donate $20 to McNary High school. One test drive is allowed per household. 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Takes place at McNary, 595 Chemawa Road N. (Rescheduled from April 7th due to weather) Saturday, May 5 Champoeg State Heritage Area will be hosting Founders’ Day to honor the 175th anniversary of the creation of Oregon’s fi rst provisional government. The event will feature living- history actors, speakers, and activities in a replica historic townsite. Runs from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Champoeg State Heritage Area. Parking is free, for more information, visit: oregonstateparks.org Sunday, May 6 59th Semi-Annual BBQ Chicken Dinner hosted by the Sacred Heart Parish. Dinner includes barbecue chicken, baked potatoes, green beans, coleslaw, pie or cake, and a beverage. Dine in and take out options available. A Spring Plant & Flower Sale will be there as well to benefi t the Youth Faith Formation Program. Adults eat for $11, children under 12 for $7. 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at St. Louis Parish, 485 Seventh Street in Gervais. Monday, May 14 Keizer Fire District 70 Years of Service, 6 to 8 p.m. Reception featuring old and new equipment and former volunteer and career staff. Add your event by e-mailing news@keizertimes.com. at 11 p.m. or midnight. Hours may fl ex with the season. “It will depend on busi- ness,” he said. “I think we’ll do okay because there’s a lot of neighborhoods in this area.” District talks bond at McNary By HERB SWETT Of the Keizertimes “This is an exciting time for this community.” That was the opening state- ment of Erik Jespersen, prin- cipal of McNary High School, to a crowd that assembled in the school library for a pre- sentation on the $619.7 mil- lion bond proposal to improve and expand buildings in the Salem-Keizer School District. Improvements in the build- ings would include making them seismically fi t to be used after the anticipated 9.0 mag- nitude Cascadia Zone earth- quake, which geologists say has a 30 percent chance of oc- curring in the next 50 years. The district is holding ses- sions on the bond proposal in its high schools, and district personnel said the one at Mc- Nary was better attended than the previous two. If passed in the May 15 election, the bond measure would increase property tax- es by an estimated $1.24 per $1,000 of assessed property tax value. Mike Wolfe, chief operating offi cer for the district, said 70 percent of the bond, or $442.2 million, would address crowd- ing. Incremental growth, he noted, is addressed by portable buildings, and some of the current buildings have been used longer than the time for which they were intended. Toward the end of the meeting, Wolfe held a ques- tion-and-answer session. Q: How do we keep up with numbers of teachers? A: Staffi ng is an annual process handled separately from a bond issue. Q: Will the district apply for the seismic grant pro- gram? A: There are several possi- bilities we can look into. Q: What happens if the bond proposal is voted down? A: Larger classes are com- ing in any case. If the measure is rejected in May, the district will go to work for the No- vember election. Other issues addressed by the budget proposal are secu- rity future maintenance, tech- nology, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and expanded wireless capacity. Here are some of the projects that bond passage is anticipated to provide for schools in the McNary atten- dance area. McNary High School: Fourteen new general class- rooms, a new science labora- tory, more fl exible learning space, two career technical education program spaces, replacement of demolished classrooms, expanded admin- istrative and support areas, parking expansion, and relo- cated softball fi elds and tennis courts. Claggett Creek Middle School: Cafeteria expansion, repurposing existing general classrooms into two science labs, library improvements. Whiteaker Middle School: Exterior seal, gym- nasium fl ooring and curtain replacement, repurposing a general classroom space into a science lab. Clear Lake Elementary School: Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC); music room improvements; security improvements; re- moval or replacement of end- of-life portable classrooms. Cummings Elementary School: Cafeteria expansion, removal or replacement of portable classrooms, sidewalk Celebration of words, writers at McNary HS McNary High School’s Write Club will be hosting its third annual word slam Friday, April 27. The public is invited to come and listen and Keizer students are encouraged to come and read their original works in front of a friendly audience in the Celtic choir room at 7 p.m. Poetry, short stories, essays as well as songs and rap are all fair game in this celebration of words and their authors. The event is run open mic- Tabletop gaming night at Keizer Christian Church, 6945 Wheatland Road N. 7 to 9 p.m. Play your favorite board games or learn a new one. Ages 0-100. Free. Every person who attends will have the chance to win a free board game. Keizer/Salem Area Seniors Saturday Night Dance and Potluck. Featuring music from Crossfi re. 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Admission is $5, 930 Plymouth Drive NE. KEIZERTIMES/Eric A. Howald A new convenience store will open in the space formerly occupied by Classic Tap dance studio. style with a sign-up sheet at the door. The club will also be an- nouncing the winners of the second annual McNary Area Writing Contest at the slam. sudoku Enter digits from 1-9 into the blank spaces. Every row must contain one of each digit. So must every column, as must every 3x3 square. Shape of Water (R) Fri 6:55; Sat 6:25; Sun 12:20 Fifty Shades Freed (R) Sat 9:00; Sun 7:00 Red Sparrow (R) Fri 8:00; Sat 9:10; Sun 7:30 Three Billbaords… (R) Sun 4:45 Peter Rabbit (PG) Fri 1:00, 4:00 & 5:00; Sat 12:00, 3:15 & 5:10; Sun 12:00 & 4:00 Ferdinand (PG) Sat 2:35; Sun 2:40 FOR ALL SHOWTIMES GO TO NORTHERNLIGHTSTHEATREPUB.COM Tina Karo-Grunberg, a nurse at Salem Hospital, was competing in the Boston marathon on the day of the bombing. “While waiting for my gear is when I heard the explosion. I saw plumes of smoke… People were panicked and crying,” Karo-Grunberg said. “We didn’t know really what was happening.” She has decided not to return to the marathon in future years. Approximately 65 Canadian cackling geese have been found dead near the lake. A similar outbreak last fall affected about two dozen geese and seagulls, with the cause attributed to a fungal disease called aspergillosis. 15 YEARS AGO KEIZERTIMES.COM Web Poll Results 1517 To Paris (PG-13) Fri 8:50; Sat 8:50 Love, Simon (PG-13) Fri 4:15 & 9:15; Sat 6:45; Sun 5:20 5 YEARS AGO Keizerite recalls Boston blasts 10 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK’S MOVIE TIMES Jumanji (PG-13) Fri 2:00 & 6:30; Sat 1:50 & 4:05; Sun 12:40, 3:00 & 8:00 looking back in the KT Dead geese at Staats Lake cause alarm 3893 COMMERCIAL ST SE Greatest Showman (PG) Fri 1:45, 2:55 & 6:00; Sat 12:30 & 7:10; Sun 1:55 & 5:55 additions, increased visibility of main entry from offi ce. Forest Ridge Elemen- tary School: HVAC, music room improvements, card ac- cess system upgrades. Gubser Elementary School: New cafeteria and kitchen, three new classrooms, relocated covered play area, removal of portable classroom, HVAC. Keizer Elementary School: New cafeteria and kitchen, four new classrooms, multipurpose fi tness room, additional parking, increased visibility of main entry from offi ce. Kennedy Elementary School: Heating and venti- lation, music room improve- ments, roofi ng replacement, security improvements to in- crease visibility of main entry from offi ce. Weddle Elementary School: Roofi ng replace- ment, music room improve- ments, card access system up- grades. Would you pay for an ad-free Facebook? Brother, sister serve country Keizer siblings Aleah and Brandon MacDonald, both McNary graduates, have entered the Navy to fi ght in the war against Iraq. No’el MacDonald, their mother, said “I know it’s the Lord’s leading that both are in the Navy and serving our country.” 20 YEARS AGO 86% – No 14% – Yes Vote in a new poll every Thursday! GO TO KEIZERTIMES.COM Keizerite wants more to walk for MS Rain or shine, Audrey Butler is going for a walk this Saturday -- and she’s hoping lots of her Keizer neighbors will, too. Butler is one of the organizers of the Salem area’s MS Walk & Roll, a 10-kilometer walk to benefi t the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.
