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Grad earns full ride to UCLA
from Gates Foundation
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Summer Award
Program
See 5 movies and get a Small Popcorn
and Reg Soda. Pick up a punch card at the
box offi ce starting June 15th. See a movie,
get a punch. Collect 5 and Redeem.
Today in History
During the Six-Day War, Israeli aircraft and torpedo boats
attack the USS Liberty in international waters off Egypt’s
Gaza Strip. The intelligence ship, well-marked as an American
vessel and only lightly armed, was attacked fi rst by Israeli
aircraft that fi red napalm and rockets at the ship. The ship
was able to make contact with the U.S. carrier Saratoga,and
12 fi ghter jets and four tanker planes were dispatched
to defend the Liberty. When word of their deployment
reached Washington, however, Secretary of Defense Robert
McNamara ordered them recalled to the carrier, and they
never reached the Liberty. The reason for the recall remains
unclear.
— June 8, 1967
Food 4 Thought
“Every skill you acquire doubles your odds of success. ”
— Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert, born June 8, 19578
The Month Ahead
Continuing through Sunday, June 10
Shout! The Mod Musical presented by Enlightened
Theatrics. Set in London during the swingin’ 60s, this
show chronicles the liberation of fi ve women who redefi ne
themselves in the face of changing attitudes toward gender
roles. Visit enlightenedtheatrics.org for showtimes and
tickets.
Continuing through Sunday, June 16
Pentacle Theatre’s production of Cabaret.
pentacletheatre.org for show times and tickets.
Visit
Friday, June 8
McNary High School Class of 2018 graduation, 2 p.m.,
Oregon State Fairgrounds Pavilion.
Saturday, June 9
Salem-Keizer Community Uke Party. 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. at
Willamette Valley Music Company in Salem and Uptown
Music in Keizer.
Red Cross Blood Drive. 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., American
Red Cross Bus 5065 River Road N. To schedule an
appointment, call or text 503-586-4977. (Sponsor code is
KamikazeSportsNutrition).
Willamette Valley Genealogical Society meets at 12 noon
in Anderson Room A of Salem Public Library (585 Liberty
St SE). Emily Aulicino will speak about a “Follow-Up to a
DNA Match.” For more indformation, call (503) 363-0880.
World-wide Knit Day at Salem Public Library, 10 a.m. to 4
p.m. 585 Liberty Street S.E. in Salem
Sunday, June 10
Keizer Elks Lodge’s Flag Day Ceremony, 1 p.m. 4250
Cherry Avenue N.E.
Monday, June 11
Keizer City Council work session, 6 p.m. Keizer Civic
Center.
Tuesday, June 12
Keizer Parks Board meeting, 6 p.m. Keizer Civic Center.
Wednesday, June 13
Keizer Planning Commission meeting, 6 p.m. Keizer Civic
Center.
Thursday, June 14
Traffi c Safety, Bikeways and Pedestrian Committee
meeting, 6 p.m. Keizer Civic Center.
Monday, June 18
Keizer City Council meeting, 7 p.m. Keizer Civic Center.
Tuesday, July 12 – Sunday, July 15
Marion County Fair. Oregon State Fairgrounds. Tons of
fun for everybody including entertainment, rides, animals
and a rodeo. Visit marioncountyfair.net for fair times and
admission prices.
Saturday, July 14
Race To Save The Harvest. The run benefi ts Salem Harvest
which connects farmers and backyard growers with
volunteer pickers to harvest fruits and vegetables that
would otherwise go to waste. The 5k begins at 10 a.m. and
the 3k begins at 10:05 a.m. at Riverfront Park. Participants
who register before June 21 get reduced prices; visit
salemharvest.org/events.php for more info.
Add your event by e-mailing news@keizertimes.com.
sudoku
By DEREK WILEY
Of the Keizertimes
After watching her older
brother use the Gates Schol-
arship to earn a bachelor’s
degree at the University of
Washington and a master’s
at Stanford, McNary senior
Megan Schneider didn’t need
much convincing to apply for
the scholarship herself.
And that decision paid off.
The scholarships, from
Bill and Melinda Gates, are
awarded each year to 300
Pell-eligible, minority, high
school seniors across the na-
tion.
Winners receive a full
scholarship to the school of
their choosing.
Schneider will enroll at
UCLA, which she ultimate-
ly chose over Vanderbilt in
Nashville, Tenn.
“They have really good
academic programs and they
are not too far from home,”
Schneider said. “The weather
is great and I have some fam-
ily down there.”
In order to receive the
scholarship, Schneider, who is
one of McNary’s 16 valedic-
torians, FBLA president and
community service chair for
the Associated Student Body,
not only had to fi ll out an ap-
plication but also write four
essays about her life goals and
struggles of being a minority.
“We didn’t have a lot of
time to write them, the phas-
es between the deadline and
when you learn you have to
write them is a pretty short
turnaround, so they were
KEIZERTIMES/Derek Wiley
Megan Schneider is the second person in her family to earn a full-ride scholarship from the Bill
and Melinda Gates Foundation.
tough,” Schneider said. “It
was stressful. That was defi -
nitely a more diffi cult part.
I’m not necessarily a big fan
of writing. It takes me a while
to put together a good essay.”
Schneider had to wait
months to fi nd out if she
would be one of 600 cho-
sen for the fi nal stage of the
scholarship process—in-per-
son interviews.
“After the essays, I felt pret-
ty good about them,” Schnei-
der said. “They were probably
some of my better essays but I
Inspired by her teachers at
McNary, Schneider plans to
major in education at UCLA,
but is keeping her options
open.
“Mr. (Frank) Hanson and
Mr. (Jim) Litchfi eld, specifi -
cally, have really helped me
out throughout my high
school career,” Schneider said.
“I’ve been interested in teach-
ing for a while but UCLA
also has a bunch of other real-
ly great programs just in case
I decide to try something else
or explore my options.”
City mulls weed law merger
By ERIC A. HOWALD
Of the Keizertimes
A question at the Keizer
City Council meeting Mon-
day, June 4, about whether to
combine the city’s ordinances
governing medical marijuana
dispensaries and recreational
sales sparked a larger conversa-
tion about how to tackle the
potential harms of marijuana
with a generation growing up
under new laws regarding the
drug.
Based on anecdotal evi-
dence gathered by Councilor
Laura Reid at McNary High
School where she is a teacher,
the number of incidences of
students found in possession of
marijuana is on the rise.
While Reid supported the
streamlining of the processes
that the merger of ordinances
would entail – such as reduced
duplication of effort in back-
ground checks on state and city
levels – her greater concern is
the prevalence of marijuana in
the school community.
“Both (Vice Principal Dan
Borresen and Offi cer David
Zavala, McNary’s resource of-
fi cer) have said, repeatedly, that
when kids are found in posses-
sion of marijuana it is in pack-
aging from the dispensaries,
not little baggies,” Reid said.
Because possession of mari-
juana is no longer a criminal
offense, the schools are limited
in the types of consequences
that would naturally follow
such incidences, Reid said.
“Students found with mari-
juana have told our staff that
they can get it in less than an
hour with a few texts,” Reid
said. “(Legalization) was passed
with the idea that it was for
adults, but it is trickling down.
The education piece is not as
prevalent as it is with alcohol
and tobacco.”
She said she would be in fa-
vor of tighter local ordinances
to reduce the presence in the
community.
Mayor Cathy Clark agreed
with Reid’s take on the issue,
but didn’t go as far as calling for
increased restrictions.
“The idea that marijuana
is legal so it must be safe is (a
mindset) in adults as well as
teens,” Clark said.
Despite those hesitations,
councilors directed city staff
to bring back a proposed or-
dinance combining the regu-
lations of medical and recre-
ational marijuana sales.
The combined regulations
will keep the same hours of
operation and setbacks regard-
ing schools and public property,
but will likely include changes
to wording in reference to sign
codes and eliminate the re-
quirements for employees to
undergo background checks
by city employees.
The background checks
were becoming an increasingly
onerous task for the Keizer’s
city staff.
“We had one facility that
was sending three or four
background checks to us every
other day because, by the time
they got through the process,
the applicants had been hired
elsewhere,” said Nate Brown,
Keizer community develop-
ment director.
Brown said the time was ripe
for combining the ordinances
because changes to state regu-
lations are beginning to wane.
In the early days of legalization,
Keizer and other cities strug-
gled to keep pace with rapid
changes. Keizer could choose
to allow the state to oversee
retailers located in Keizer, but
doing so would mean giving
up the city’s ability to license
them. The licensing process
also grants city employees the
ability to inspect the businesses.
Keizer currently has four
marijuana dispensaries, but
there are other spaces where
new ones could be slotted.
maze
looking
back in
the KT
5 YEARS AGO
Cigarette ignites
bark dust, scorches
apartment building
Keizer fi refi ghters were called
to an apartment building at
Hidden Creek Loop when a
resident discovered a small fi re
outside. Firefi ghters were able
to quickly extinguish the fl ames
and evacuate residents.
10 YEARS AGO
Heated primary gives
Marion Dems a boost
A slew of registrations in the
midst of the heated 2008
Democratic
presidential
primary has fl ipped Marion
County from a solidly red
county into what could be
called a deep purple.
15 YEARS AGO
Fire scorches gym
roof, walls
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.
know there’s some really great
writers out there so I wasn’t
100 percent sure I’d be able to
make it to the next round but
I’m glad I did. It was a long
stressful couple of months
where you just wait and wait
so that wasn’t fun.”
Schneider did her inter-
view at Chemeketa Commu-
nity College.
“She was really nice and
asked some similar questions
to the essays and really just
wanted to get to know me
better,” Schneider said.
A construction mishap triggered
a fi re at Gold’s Gym, causing an
unknown amount of damage to
the roof and walls of the facility.
20 YEARS AGO
Urban renewal board
falters
Since the beginning of the year,
the Keizer Urban Renewal
Board has had to scrub four of
its fi ve meetings -- not because
of a lack of business, but largely
because of poor attendance.
Maze by Jonathan Graf of Keizer
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