SINCE 1979 • VOLUME 39, NO. 41
SECTION A
JULY 13, 2018
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TEMPORARY CEASE FIRE
bange owner hauts shooting for time being
By ERIC A. HOWALD
Of the Keizertimes
The owner of a gun range has
agreed to temporarily halt fi rearms
shooting at his quarry across the Willa-
mette River that has resulted in bullets
traveling into west Keizer.
Through attorneys, Lance Davis,
owner of River Bend Sand & Grav-
el, also agreed to give 10 days notice
before resuming shooting range ac-
tivities, but that isn’t good enough for
Tom Bauer, whose wife was narrowly
missed when a bullet penetrated the
walls of his home and came to rest in
his kitchen on June 2.
“I’m sure it’s a great family, but he
or the people who have been shooting
there have been making mistake after
mistake,” Bauer told the Polk County
Board of Commissioners at its meeting
Tuesday, July 10. “I don’t want 10 days
notice to start worrying again. This
is not a question of if, it’s a matter of
when something bad happens.”
Nearly two dozen Keizer residents
made the journey to Dallas, and a
handful provided testimony to the
commissioners and requested action.
Prior to the Board of Commissioners
meeting, a group of more than 50 west
Keizer residents met in Sunset Park
INSIDE
• Pouk County issues
cease-and-desist
uetter
• Pouk County
District Attorney
sides with residents
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More than soldiers:
Living history buffs
dive deep into roues
Each year, the
Northwest Civil War
Council brings Civil
War-era history to
life. We spent time
with the non-soldiers
to fi nd out what they
had to teach.
Bart debuts
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Cook
By ERIC A. HOWALD
Of the Keizertimes
Five years ago, Doug
Odell’s wife asked him if he’d
like to take the family camp-
ing. What he didn’t know at
the time was that it would
be under white canvas tents
while wearing wool.
“At the time, my daughters
were drawn to living history
portrayals and my wife had
brought them out here while I
was on a business trip to check
out the Northwest Civil War
Council’s Fourth of July ac-
tivities. When they came out,
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Sanitary Commission
By ERIC A. HOWALD
Of the Keizertimes
When Nancy Makey took a basket-weaving
class in North Carolina three years ago, she ex-
pected it to be one of those things that she dal-
lied in a few times and then never attempted
again.
She couldn’t have been more wrong. While
talking with visitors about her roles as part of
Shop teacher
served 36
years at MHS
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the Northwest Civil War Council that hosted
its annual living history days at Powerland Her-
itage Park last week, Makey threaded rattan the
whole time.
“In January, I went on a basket retreat in
Washington where I learned to weave sweet-
grass from a sixth generation descendant of the
Gullah. She and her mother both have baskets
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Painter
By ERIC A. HOWALD
Of the Keizertimes
Regina Smith started at the
top when it came to portray-
ing living history with the
Northwest Civil War Council.
“My fi rst role was Mary
Todd Lincoln,” said Smith
who traveled from Nevada
to take part in the annual liv-
ing history days at Powerland
Heritage Park last week.
Over the past 18 years,
Smith has dabbled in several of
the trades of the time period,
but one stands out above the
rest: painting reproductions of
fashion plates that appeared in
Godey’s Lady’s Book.
“Godey’s was like the wom-
en’s magazine of the day,”
Smith said. “Each issue had
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pass gavel
Surgeon
patterns for clothes or crochet
patterns and each had a hand-
painted fashion plate bound
into them.”
The Lady’s Book, which
was published from 1830 un-
til 1878, also included poetry,
sheet music, articles, engrav-
ings, popular romance stories
and contributions from the
likes of Edgar Allan Poe and
By CASEY CHAFFIN
Keizertimes Intern
Summer 2018 is Bob Wetter’s 26th season participating in
Civil War reenactments, a hobby he began in the Midwest and
continued after moving to Oregon six years ago.
Wetter started reenactment work as a fi eld soldier. But re-
cently, “I just decided I’m too old for that,” and began working
with a reenactment hospital unit, alongside his wife, who fi lled
the role of head nurse.
“I started out as hospital steward, learned the ropes, assisted
Puease see PAINTEb, Page A6
Puease see SUbGEON, Page A6
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Trauma reverberates as foster kids enter care
The foster care system in Marion
County is strugguing to meet demand.
This is the third part of a
continuing series in the Keizertimes
investigating the state of uocau
foster care and shedding uight on
ways to get invouved.
Check back next week for
another instauument.
By CASEY CHAFFIN
Keizertimes Intern
When was the last time you felt safe?
Really, truly safe. The kind of safe
where you can trust those around you.
The kind of safe where you weren’t
worrying about where you’re going or
if your family is okay. The kind of safe
where you were completely, totally, ut-
terly relaxed.
Do you have an answer? Have you
ever had to consider the question?
“Am I safe?” is a question thousands
of kids in foster care around the coun-
try have to answer for themselves every
day.
Erma Brundidge is very familiar
with this question. After working in
the Department of Human Services for
almost 20 years—a journey which be-
gan with being in foster care herself as a
child—she’s both seen and experienced
how the lack of safety can impact one’s
life.
“Our [foster] kiddos are not able to
relax because they’re always on guard.
… I share with them, it is rare that I am
ever fully relaxed. It’s from being in the
system and on my own and not safe for
so long. It’s in here. I’m always watching
my back, are you going to trick me? It’s
locked in,” said Brundidge.
This pervasive sense of unease, of
imminent danger regardless of whether
there is any, is a result of traumatic ex-
periences children in foster care endure,
both before entering the system and af-
ter they come into DHS custody. Foster
kids are constantly asking themselves
and their guardians—am I safe?
Unfortunately, the answer is often: no.
As a signifi cant number of children
come into the system because they’ve
been abused or neglected, that’s the an-
swer they received from their biological
parents. But even after they come into
care, the negative behaviors kids de-
velop to cope with a constant answer
of “no” cause foster kids to be moved
around. A lot.
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Grizzly
Grand Slam
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