SINCE 1979 • VOLUME 39, NO. 30
SECTION A
APRIL 27, 2018
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Bond is FOOD FIGHT
for elementary students
By DEREK WILEY
Of the Keizertimes
Gubser Elementary School
principal Dave Bertholf is
looking forward to the day
when his students won't be
served lunch in a hallway.
If the $619.7 million
construction bond passes on
May 15, Bertholf will soon
get his wish, as Gubser would
use a large chunk of its $5.5
to $6.5 million on a new
cafeteria and kitchen.
Gubser, which was built in
1976 without a cafeteria or
full-sized kitchen, currently
has four different lunch
periods, beginning
with
kindergarteners at 11:10 a.m.
The last students are fed at
12:45. Each group packs into
a space that was once used as
a classroom.
Since there's not enough
room for everyone, some
students eat in pods in another
part of the building.
“It's too small,” Bertholf
said. “Half the kids that
could be in there are eating
somewhere else, which spreads
out the supervision need. Kids
aren't able to eat with their
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Students pack into a space meant to be a classroom for lunch at Gubser Elementary. If the construction bond passes on May 15,
Gubser would get a new 3,450 square foot cafeteria.
friends. There's a social impact
as well.”
Melissa Frank, a fourth
grade teacher at Gubser for
12 years, spends the early part
of one of the busiest lunch
periods telling students to
scoot over so more kids can sit
Police search for
shooter in south
Keizer incident
By ERIC A. HOWALD
Of the Keizertimes
The man being sought by
police in connection with
a shooting that occurred in
south Keizer has a history of
violent offenses.
Ryan Joel Carrera is wanted
in connection with a shooting
that left a victim with non-
life-threatening injuries and
abandoned in a car at a Salem
motel.
Carerra was charged with
possession
of
prohibited
weapons or a silencer and as-
sault in 2008, but not convict-
ed. In 2012, Carrera was found
guilty of fourth-degree assault
and sentenced to 18 months
probation. In 2016, Carrera
was sentenced to 30 days in
jail for resisting arrest. Carrera
also has a state-wide felony
warrant issued from charges
related to drug possession.
Law enforcement authori-
ties now believe Carrera has
fled the area after the shooting
in Keizer around midnight on
Sunday, April 22.
Patrol officers from the
Keizer Police Department
down.
“If we don't do that, then
there's no room for kids and
they are standing with their
food,” Frank said. “There's
a lot more behaviors. We're
putting out fires the whole
time, getting into things that
weren't ever an issue before.
It's harder when there's this
many kids and there's no
room.”
At Keizer Elementary,
which would also use part of
its $9.3 to $10.3 million on
a cafeteria and kitchen, food
is also served in hallways and
students eat in classrooms.
The busiest lunch takes
place at noon with nine classes
of first and fourth graders.
“It's a coordinated mess,”
Keizer principal Christine
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Ryan to seek 2nd term on Council
By ERIC A. HOWALD
Of the Keizertimes
City Councilor Amy Ryan has announced
she will be seeking a second term on the
Keizer City Council.
Ryan was elected to Position 5 on the
council in 2014, but said some of the goals
she set out to accomplish are still lingering.
“I really prayed about this decision for a
long time. There are reasons to do it and not
to do it, but I want to be effective and make
a difference,” Ryan said. “We've done more as
a council in four years than I ever imagined
possible, but there is still more work to do.”
Approving service fees to create stable
funding for parks and police topped the list
of accomplishments for Ryan.
“Whether they shared our view or not,
people had the information. The transpar-
ency of that process is something I'm proud
of,” she said.
Ryan was a constant supporter of both fees
and took on a leadership role in the effort
to get information about the parks fee into
residents' hands, even as it received less vocal
support than the one for police services.
The most Herculean task she undertook in
her first four years was trying to get a handle
on the municipal budget, but she said she
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Submitted
City Councilor Amy Ryan announced she will
seek a second term this week.
feels more comfortable than ever in being a
strong voice in budget discussions.
“I had to spend a lot of time with it to re-
ally understand everything that is going on.
It's such an opportunity to learn about how
everything works together, and I feel like I
have a better grasp now than I did when I
started,” Ryan said.
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Submitted
Please see SHOOTING, Page A6
Visitors from
Germany
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Ryan Joel Carrera is wanted
in connection with a shooting
in south Keizer.
were dispatched to a report of
a shooting in the 3600 block
of Brooks Avenue NE. The
caller told dispatchers that a
friend had been shot and was
being taken to the Salem Hos-
pital by private vehicle.
Responding officers later
learned the individual who
said they were transporting the
shooting victim to the Salem
Hospital actually drove to the
Roadway Inn at 3340 Astoria
Way N.E. in Salem. Officers
from the Salem Police De-
partment found the 26-year-
old male victim in a car at the
motel after being tipped off
by another call to 9-1-1. The
man was then transported to
Salem Hospital for treatment
of his injury.
Investigators
identified
Carrera as the suspect in the
shooting and are looking for
him. In the immediate after-
math, police were also search-
ing for a rental car Carrera
Zielinski
returns
to court
THE
FLASH
Track team
shines at
Dave Snook
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Matthew Curtis races through an inflatable obstacle course in Keizer Rapids Park as part
of a Soggy Day in the Park Saturday, April 21. For more photos, see Page A2.