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Lane wins NBA contest
By DEREK WILEY
Of the Keizertimes
Bo Lane, Keizer, grew up
listening to Portland Trailblaz-
er games on the radio while
shooting hoops with his uncle,
pretending like he was on the
team.
His interest in graphic de-
sign has stretched nearly as
long.
With the Trail Blazers Fan
Appreciation Poster Contest,
those two passions collided.
Lane designed his poster
of a generic Portland player,
palming the basketball while
fl ying through the sky on his
way to the hoop for a dunk,
using Adobe Illustrator.
Lane estimates the poster
took him about six hours to
complete, working three to
four nights at home after his
kids went to bed. He started
with the background, using
the red and yellow colors of
the Utah Jazz’s City Edition
jersey, the Blazer’s opponent
on Fan Appreciation Night.
“That was the fi rst thing
that popped in my head,” Lane
said. “I knew I wanted to do
something with that. I’ve got
to use that to incorporate the
Portland versus Utah aspect of
it. That was the starting point.
It’s just a cool color scheme
anyway. It was easy to go from
there.”
Lane was pleased with the
fi nal result. Although, he’s his
toughest critic.
“I’m pretty hard on my-
self,” Lane said. “Every time I
do something I wish I would
have done something different.
After being selected as one
of four fi nalists, Lane then won
an online fan vote.
To garner support, he post-
ed the contest to Facebook.
“I had a lot of people share
it,” Lane said. “I was surprised.”
He was awarded two
200-level tickets to the Blazers
fi nal home game on Wednes-
day, April 11 and during the
fi rst timeout presented his
framed poster, signed by all of
the players, to a season ticket
holder.
“I’m a behind the scenes
kind of person so I wasn’t
looking forward to being in
KEIZERTIMES/Derek Wiley
Bo Lane, Keizer, won the Portland Trail Blazers Fan Apprecia-
tion Poster Contest.
front of the camera but it was
fi ne,” Lane said.
Eight posters were present-
ed to Blazers president Chris
McGowan and upper man-
agement. Another 100 copies
were sold at the game, with the
money going to the Trail Blaz-
ers Foundation, which gives
grants to nonprofi ts, schools
and underserved youth.
Lane attended about a doz-
en Blazer games this season
and had tickets for Game 2 of
Portland’s fi rst round playoff
series against the New Orleans
Pelicans on Tuesday, April 17.
Lane, a former youth pas-
tor, has done graphic design
work for the past 16 years,
mostly freelance for churches
and other ministries. He also
designed the McNary Youth
Baseball logo.
Lane currently serves as the
marketing director for Mission
Increase Foundation, helping
Christian ministries imple-
ment a biblical approach to
fundraising.
Drive 4 UR School
at McNary April 28
By DEREK WILEY
Of the Keizertimes
More money will be up
for grabs at the annual Drive
4 UR School fundraiser this
year and McNary wants to
take full advantage.
Ford
has
increased the
amount
it
will donate to
schools from
$6,000
to
$9,000.
During the
event, which
is scheduled
for Saturday,
April 28 from
9 a.m. to 4
p.m., Ford will
donate $20 to
a club, sport,
or activity at
McNary for
every
test-
drive taken, one per house-
hold. Drivers must be 18 years
of age.
For those that drive the
new 2018 Ford EcoSport, $30
will be given to the school.
While baseball has received
the most money in past years,
more groups are participating
this time around—gardening
club, AVID, choir, JROTC,
National Honor Society, Sci-
ence Club, Band, German
club, boys soccer, leadership
and baseball.
While the fundraiser has
previously taken place at Sky-
line Ford in Keizer, this year
the event will be held in the
McNary High School parking
lot. No salesmen will be there.
Drivers are just required to fi ll
out a quick survey at the end.
“It’s really an easy opportu-
nity to fundraise for programs
and we almost feel like we’ve
been waisting and throwing
away free money, just not hav-
ing people come out,” Derick
Handley, activities director,
said. “There’s zero pressure on
the drivers. You can opt to not
have any information sent to
you afterwards. It’s really just a
great program that we’ve just
never taken advantage of.”