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SINCE 1979 • VOLUME 39, NO. 40
SECTION A
JULY 6, 2018
$1.00
Fire sparks GoFundMe
By DEREK WILEY
Of the Keizertimes
Linda Thomas, secretary
of the McNary Band Booster
Club, was feeling grateful
Monday as she rung up a
customer at the program's
fi rework stand.
The band's tent, located in
the parking lot of Countryside
Christian Church, had caught
fi re late Friday evening. All four
sides had to be replaced with
new panels at a cost of roughly
$1,500 as well as plastic tables
and other equipment. The
fi reworks were safely locked
away in a semi-truck.
Thomas created a Go-
FundMe page and set a goal of
$3,000 to pay for the damage
as well as added security to
man the hours when the stand
isn't open. The band matched
its goal in less than 24 hours
and had raised $5,420 as of
Tuesday afternoon.
Please see SPARKS, Page A7
Swimmers hit
neighborhood
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KEIZERTIMES/Andrew Jackson
Flames eat away at the side panels of a fi reworks stand run by the McNary High School band as a fundraiser.
As essential as water & roads?
Cinema plans unspool
over construction costs
One Idaho town said 'yes' when
it comes to internet connectivity
when the sewer system was
By ERIC A. HOWALD
put in, when electric lines
Of the Keizertimes
More than 2,300 years were installed. At some point,
before the common era, the someone had to decide that
people of the Indus Valley it was essential infrastructure,”
said
Jeff
Civilization
Chr istensen,
(now modern-
president
of
day
eastern
on
E n t r y Po i n t
portion
of
Networks and
Pakistan)
a
consultant
constructed
to the city
the fi rst public
of
Ammon,
water,
sewer
Keizertimes Managing Editor
Idaho, where
and
road
Eric Howald will be interviewing
a
grassroots
systems.
some of the local advocates for
effort has paved
Later civili-
public utility internet service
on KMUZ Community Radio
the way for
zations perfect-
ed techniques, live on-air beginning about 8:10 the city taking
a.m. on Friday, July 13. Tune in
on
internet
but the resi-
to hear the discussion.
connectivity as
dents and lead-
ers of that area had to answer an infrastructure project.
Christensen visited Keizer
a fundamental question: what
is essential to modern civiliza- two weeks ago to sit down
with a handful of residents
tion?
“None of us were here Please see INTERNET, Page A7
Vigil planned
for missing
woman
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By ERIC A. HOWALD
Of the Keizertimes
A planned movie theater for Keizer Station
isn't happening.
On Wednesday, June 27, Chuck Nakvasil,
the owner of Keizer Cinema LLC, terminated
a ground lease for property near the
intersection of Chemawa Road Northeast
and Keizer Station Boulevard effectively
ending the bid to put a theater in on city-
owned property.
Nakvasil cited “substantially higher” bids
for construction of the nine-screen complex
as the reason for pulling out of the lease. The
termination is permitted under the terms
of a lease agreement with the city that was
contingent on successful fi nancing of the
project. Nakvasil had to have a signed lease
to apply for fi nancing and confi rmed bids to
fi nalize the fi nancing of the project.
“We appreciated the opportunity to work
Please see CINEMA, Page A2
Former foster kids seek change after struggles
REASONS CHILDREN ARE REMOVED FROM HOME
NEGLECT - 67%
PARENTAL DRUG ABUSE - 49%
PHYSICAL ABUSE - 24%
DOM. VIOLENCE / ABANDON - 16%
BEHAVIORAL ISSUES - 12%
PARENTS' INABILITY TO COPE - 9%
PARENTAL ALCOHOL ABUSE - 5%
By CASEY CHAFFIN
Keizertimes Intern
Lupe Rankin was 17 years
old when she was placed into
foster care. In her fi rst week
of care, Rankin moved foster
homes eight times.
“I wasn’t
in a home
long enough
to unpack my
stuff,” she said.
Rankin was
— Royce Markley
in an unstable
place in her
life and she knew the homes
she was placed in wouldn’t
help—people with kids of
their own and other, younger
foster kids didn’t have time to
give her the care she needed.
Her condition spiraled. She
threatened to kill herself.
“It was really hard for me
to grasp the concept that my
mother was unwilling and
unable to have custody of me
anymore,” she said.
Then, she was moved to a
residential mental health care
center, where she received
treatment
and
learned
healthier ways to cope with
her feelings and circumstances.
After
two
months
in
treatment,
Rankin’s
caseworker, working with
Catholic Community Services,
found a therapeutic foster
home with the Rankins. The
Rotary
exchange
student heads
home
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“Until I was 18 years old
I didn’t feel 100 percent part of
someone’s family.”
Movement within Marion County foster care placements
33% of foster kids stay
in the original home
they are assigned to
16% will move six
38% will move two
or more times
or three times before fi nding stability
KEIZERTIMES/Andrew Jackson
Please see FOSTER, Page A6
Volcanoes'
weekly
round-up
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