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APRIL 20, 2018, KEIZERTIMES, PAGE A3
Church’s alternative prom Road closure sign
will stay put,
seeks a higher standard incude additional
By ERIC A. HOWALD
Of the Keizertimes
Kylee Longaker had her
work cut out for her when
she was invited to an alterna-
tive Prom at the Keizer Stake
of the Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter Day Saints Saturday,
April 13.
“Finding a dress was almost
impossible. I ended up bor-
rowing a bridesmaids dress af-
ter we went to several stores,”
Longaker said.
Longaker and a group of
friends led by Rachel Larsen
attended the dance last week-
end, which is not the typical
prom gala. Attendees had to
commit to a fairly strict set
of attire guidelines when they
purchased their tickets. For the
females, that meant no plung-
ing necklines, bare midriffs,
sheer fabrics or open backs. In
an era when less is tradition-
ally viewed as more on the
retail fl oor, fi nding a look that
adhered to the rules was more
of a challenge than Longaker
expected.
Youth leaders from the
Keizer Stake and others in the
surrounding area helped dec-
orate the gym the night before
the dance and many hands
made light work of turning
the space into a night under
the stars.
The dress code might be
MAN CODE
messaging
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Attendees at the Keizer Stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints strike a pose.
stricter, but it goes hand-in-
hand with an expected code
of conduct, said Larsen, and
she was okay with that.
“I like that it’s less awk-
ward. You don’t have to worry
about someone coming up
and grinding on you. That’s
weird and it happens a lot at
our school dances,” she said.
The music selection was
also more constrained than
what some might fi nd at a
public gathering, but that was
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“I prefer the church danc-
es because there is a whole
lot more slow songs. A lot of
school dances have more pop
music and you hardly get any
slow dances with the person
you paid to go there with. I
prefer the slow dances,” he
said.
grads & grades
• The following Keizer
students were recently added
to the President’s List (for
achieving GPAs of 3.7 or
higher) at Oregon Institute of
Technology:
Thomas Bridges, elec-
trical engineering; Olivia
Burger, dental hygiene; Kate-
lyn Mitchell, business small
bus mgmt option; Kieu Van
Moisan, dental hygiene; Sally
Sutton, pre-nursing; Danielle
Wiles, dental hygiene; Devin
Sheehan, operations manage-
ment; David Harryman, busi-
ness marketing option; Mad-
elyn Kephart, dental hygiene.
• The following Keizer stu-
dents were recently added to
the Dean’s List (for achieving
GPAs of 3.30 to 3.69) at Or-
egon Institute of Technology:
Jessica Wiggins, dental hy-
giene; Christopher Love, elec-
trical engineering.
By ERIC A. HOWALD
Of the Keizertimes
The Keizer City Council
reached a decision regarding
the closure of Cherry Avenue
Northeast during KeizerFEST
in May, but it’s not one likely
to satisfy the parties raising
concern.
The council revisited the
issue, which arose at its April
2 meeting, during its April 16
meeting. On April 2, Keven
Cutter, owner of The Grass
Hut II, requested that the
council direct city staff to
move a barrier redirecting
traffi c about one block further
north on Cherry Avenue dur-
ing KeizerFEST May 17-20.
Cutter said his business lost
about $4,000 in revenue when
the road closed in 2017. The
annual Iris Festival is reverting
to an older name, KeizerFEST,
this year.
Cutter said he raised the
issue at a weekly meeting of
the KeizerFEST Committee
in March, but left the meeting
dismayed.
“I wanted the sign moved
and I was told I had no op-
tion,” Cutter said.
Cutter turned down of-
fers by the Keizer Chamber of
Commerce, the organization
behind the festival, to print
fl yers or signs for Cutter to
hang in his windows prior to
the festival.
Chief John Teague, of the
Keizer Police Department, said
moving the sign north would
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turned onto Cherry Avenue
and then turned around in the
middle of the street when they
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Councilor Marlene Parsons
asked Cutter whether includ-
ing the names of open busi-
nesses on the road closure sign
would be an amenable solu-
tion and Cutter said it was the
best one he’d been offered.
However, when it came
time to issue temporary sign
permits for the festival at the
meeting Monday, council-
ors were told that adding the
names of all the affected busi-
ness to the electronic road
closure sign was unworkable.
“We can’t put all the info
on there listing (14 affected)
businesses,” said Danielle
Bethell, executive director of
the Keizer Chamber of Com-
merce. Not all of the affected
business maintain hours dur-
ing the times of the festival.
“We have taken out an ad in
the KeizerFEST Guide stating
that businesses will be open
and we will talk about the
businesses being open on so-
cial media.”
Bethell said a banner listing
the open businesses was also
an option.
“My concern is putting up
a banner in an area that is al-
ready congested,” Bethell said.
City manager Chris Eppley
added that businesses could
also put up an A-frame sign
letting potential customers
know their locations are open.
The fi nal direction from
the council was that the elec-
tronic closure sign should al-
ternate between the message
Keizer Police Department
wanted to use indicating the
road closure and “businesses
open.”
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