SINCE 1979 • VOLUME 39, NO. 43
SECTION A
JULY 27, 2018
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Magic and machination
The Tempest
at KRP this
weekend
By DEREK WILEY
Of the Keizertimes
Keizer Homegrown The-
atre will present what Shake-
speare scholars believe to be
the last play he ever wrote on
July 26-28 at Keizer Rotary
Amphitheater at Keizer Rap-
ids Park.
“Prospero’s
monologue
right at the end of the show is
considered his (Shakespeare’s)
farewell to the theatre,” said
Linda Baker, director of The
Tempest.
The free show begins at 7
p.m.
Set on a remote island,
The Tempest tells the story of
Prospero, a sorcerer and the
rightful Duke of Milan who
plots to restore his daughter
Miranda to her rightful place
using illusion and skillful ma-
nipulation. He conjures up a
storm, the tempest, to cause
his brother Antonio and the
complicit Queen Alonsa of
Naples to believe they are
shipwrecked and marooned
on the island, where Prospe-
Youth teams
take 4th
in state
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KEIZERTIMES/Derek Wiley
Todd Logan (Prospero), acts out a scene from The Tempest with Ariels, Allison Reid and Spence Logan. The show runs at Keizer
Rotary Amphitheater at Keizer Rapids Park July 26-28.
ro’s schemes bring about the
revelation of Antonio’s lowly
nature, the redemption of the
duke and the marriage of Mi-
randa to Alonso’s son, Ferdi-
nand.
“It is a comedy,” Baker
said. “People think it’s serious
but if you read the script it’s
not serious. It’s not a tragedy.
Nobody dies. Everybody that
should be comes together.”
The play is also easier to
understand than some of
Shakespeare’s other shows.
“The language is beautiful,”
Baker said. “It’s just a pleasure
and it’s very accessible, surpris-
ing enough. It’s much more
accessible than a lot of the
shows. We’re throwing dru-
ids and thunder and lightning
and a little more comedy than
Please see TEMPEST, Page A4
Register your National
Night Out event by July 31
In partnership with the National
Association of Town Watch, the Keizer
Police Department will be co-spon-
soring the 35th annual National Night
Out event citywide on Tuesday, Aug.
7, from 6 to 9 p.m. More
than 38 million people
in 16,000 communi-
ties throughout
the country will
join forces to
promote police-
community part-
nerships, crime, drug
and violence preven-
tion, safety and neigh-
borhood unity.
Registration
for
Keizer-based gatherings
that would like police and city offi cials
to stop by needs to be submitted by
5 p.m. on Tuesday, July 31. Registra-
tion can be completed at https://bit.
ly/2LIuhQA.
National Night Out is designed
to: heighten crime awareness; gener-
ate support and participation in local
anti-crime efforts; strengthen neigh-
borhood spirit and police-community
relations; and send a message to crimi-
nals letting them know neighborhoods
are organized and fi ghting back.
Residents in neighborhoods in
Keizer and across the nation are asked
to lock their doors, turn on
lights and spend the
evening outside with
neighbors
and
police.
Many
neighborhoods
will host a va-
riety of special
events such as block
parties, cookouts, pot-
lucks, dessert socials
and youth activities.
Neighborhood Watch
block captains are highly
encouraged to organize an event as an
opportunity to contact their partici-
pants, meet new neighbors and update
their rosters. All other neighborhoods
are also encouraged to participate.
For more information, contact
Community Support Offi cer Dorothy
Diehl at 503-856-3472 or diehld@
keizer.org.
Choir camp
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Submitted
Ford Edsel owners throughout the country are making Keizer their annual
convention destination next week.
Edsel
fans
inbound
Car enthusiasts hit Keizer July 31
By ERIC A. HOWALD
Of the Keizertimes
Naomi and Art Patershall’s infatu-
ation with a castoff from the heyday
of American cars began with regular
trips past a neighbor’s house.
“We would drive by his carport
and look at his Edsel (a 1958 Pacer)
all the time. He and my husband
worked out a trade and Art got it all
fi xed up,” Naomi said.
The Hillsboro couple’s foray into
Edsel ownership grew to include
membership in the Oregon Edsel
Owners Club, of which Naomi is
now the secretary. From July 31 to
Aug. 5, the Edsel Owners Club will
be hosting its convention in Keiz-
er, bringing together owners from
Please see EDSEL, Page A6
Can’t foster a child?
Here’s how to support those that do
By CASEY CHAFFIN
Keizertimes Intern
According to data pub-
lished by the National Work-
ing Group on Foster Care and
Education in 2014, the per-
centage of 17 to 18 year old
foster youth who want to go
to college is 84 percent, but
the percentage of foster youth
who graduate high school
and actually attend college is
20 percent, and the estimated
percentage of former foster
youth who actually attain a
bachelor’s degree ranges from
two to nine percent.
The message is quite clear:
foster youth have the motiva-
tion to achieve more, but not
the support system. The take-
away for many who work in
this system is: We can do bet-
ter, and we need to do bet-
ter. But to make that happen,
there must be community
buy-in even among those
who aren’t currently foster-
ing any children.
“Foster parents provide a
community service. They are
Marion County foster homes
caring for Marion County
children,” said Gwen Slippy,
of the Marion County Child
Welfare offi ce, and as a re-
sult they need the support of
those in the community to
support that service. She add-
ed, “We want to partner with
the community to meet the
needs of children and fami-
lies.”
Slippy curates resources to
City fees
at work
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Keepers
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support foster families, be-
cause the responsibility for
fostering falls on more shoul-
ders than just those who cur-
rently open their homes to
foster youth.
There are too many fos-
Submitted
Court-appointed special advocates are sworn in at CASA of
Marion County in Keizer.
ter youth in the system and
not enough adults to support
them. This lack of engagement
extends beyond actual foster
parents, and into the support
Please see FOSTER, Page A2