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Jerry Howard (right)
of the Salem-Keizer
Volcanoes accepts a
$1L200 donation from
The Confederated
Tribe of the Siletz
Indians of Oregon.
Yumm-y
Submitted
Volcanoes’ salute to vets
earns tribal support
KEIZERTIMES/Lyndon A. Zaitz
The Keizer Chamber of Commerce held a ribbon cutting for Cafe Yumm! in Keizer Station TuesdayL May 8. The restaurant is now
open daily.
By ERIC A. HOWALD
Of the Keizertimes
The Salem-Keizer Volca-
noes were on the receiving end
of a donation supporting veter-
ans last week.
The Confederated Tribe
of the Siletz Indians of Or-
egon awarded the baseball
club $1,200 out of more than
$200,000 in donations to the
ball club to purchase tickets for
its annual Veterans Apprecia-
tion game on July 4.
“We look at applications
that focus on a number of areas
like education, housing, health
and veterans,” said Dee Pigsley,
chairperson of the Confeder-
ated Tribes of the Siletz.
Teachers ask for better communicationL refocused curriculum
By HERB SWETT
For the Keizertimes
The budget proposal for
the Salem-Keizer School Dis-
trict took up most of the time
of the school board as well as
the budget committee meet-
ing Tuesday.
Mindy Merritt, president
of the Salem-Keizer Edu-
cation Association, told the
board a “breakdown of com-
munication” was causing
good teachers to resign. She
said there was too much stress
on reading and mathematics
at the expense of science and
social studies and called for
more balance.
Other teachers, speaking
from the audience, said that
administration decisions had
created work for teachers that
cut into their focus on teach-
ing and that academic coach-
ing positions should be re-
stored to their previous level.
The board approved a
policy of property tax ex-
emption concurrence with
local governments for certain
low-income family housing
providers.
Also approved by the board
were six grants, the largest of
which was $194,435 from the
Oregon Department of Edu-
cation for strategic initiatives.
Also from ODE were grants
of $108,499 for dyslexia
training and $17,600 to con-
tinue the mentor program for
teachers and administrators.
The remaining grants were
$4,637 from Oregon State
University to cover Head
Start costs, $8,000 from Early
Learning Hub for parenting
education and curriculum,
and $1,500 from the North-
west Health Foundation to
encourage students to partici-
pate in physical activity.
Of the personnel actions
approved by the board, the
following involved the Mc-
Nary High School atten-
dance area:
• Temporary full-time sta-
tus for Corie McPursifull at
McNary.
• First-year probation sta-
tus for Connor Astley, Eliza-
beth Gibson, and Heather
Zehr at McNary; and Kyle
Moeller at Whiteaker Middle
School.
• Retirement of Melanie
Austria from Clear Lake El-
ementary School.
• Resignations of Kristen
Dysinger from Cummings
Elementary School and Brit-
tany Reuther and Shannon
Wellbaum from Keizer El-
ementary School.
The budget committee
meeting followed that of the
board and included a hearing.
Several people, some speak-
ing through an interpreter,
Pucker up!
Yaira Canchola of Keizer, said
the budget should have more
room for Latino children to
qualify for the bilingual pro-
gram. Others said that school
nurses were spread too thin to
provide enough service and
that more attention should be
given to behavioral issues.
Also at the budget com-
mittee meeting, Kelly Carlisle,
assistant superintendent, dis-
cussed the involvement of the
district with AVID (Advance-
ment Via Individual Determi-
nation). He said that 90 per-
The donation will be used
to purchase tickets for veteran’s
family members who want to
attend the game and cannot
afford the admission, Pigsley
said. Veterans taking part in the
ceremonial aspects of the game
will be admitted for free.
“We have several veterans in
our tribe and more that I can
think of who have passed away
in recent years,” Pigsley said.
The request form the Vol-
canoes was one of 48 to make
the cut this year. More than
80 applications were received.
The charitable arm of the tribe
is funded through casino rev-
enues at Chinook Winds in
Lincoln City.
Since 2000, the organiza-
tion has distributed more than
$11.3 million.
cent of AVID students have
economically disadvantaged
backgrounds and that AVID
has helped their performance.
Linda Myers, director of
strategic initiatives, spoke on
the progress of the Offi ce of
Student Equity, Access, and
Advancement. She noted that
equity committees were fo-
cusing on students who were
disadvantaged in specifi c
ways.
The committee will hold
another hearing at 5:30 p.m.
Tuesday.
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Keizer, OR 97303
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