SINCE 1979 • VOLUME 39, NO. 51
SECTION A
SEPTEMBER 21, 2018
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City will join lawsuit to
stop shooting across river
By ERIC A. HOWALD
Of the Keizertimes
In its meeting Monday,
Sept. 17, the Keizer City
Council took its most bold
steps to date toward stopping
bullets traveling from a shoot-
ing range across the Willa-
mette River into west Keizer
neighborhoods.
During the meeting, the
council opted to join, as in-
tervenors, a $2.7 million civil
lawsuit and request for an in-
junction against the D. Lance
Davis and his business, North-
west Rock, Inc. Davis owns
the quarry being used as a
recreational shooting range
from which bullets have trav-
eled into a city park and into
the home of a Keizer couple
in the past year.
As an intervenor in the in-
junction portion of the law-
suit, the city will not be en-
titled to monetary awards, but
it is an act of solidarity with
the plaintiffs, Tom and Sheryl
Bauer, seeking a permanent
stoppage to the property be-
ing used as a shooting range.
In June, a bullet from the
range passed through the out-
er wall of the Bauers' home
and stopped only after hitting
a granite backsplash.
“The goal of the injunc-
tion is a common one. It's the
same thing the city council
wants and that's to have [the
shooting] stop,” said Keizer
City Attorney Shannon John-
son prior to the council ap-
proving the action. “I want to
warn you that there are down-
sides, but this is a situation that
we've never run into. We have
concerns for the safety of our
citizens.”
Johnson said the primary
risk for the city will come in
the possibility of needing to
enlist outside counsel on the
matter.
Councilor Amy Ryan
asked where funds would
come from if additional legal
help was needed. Johnson
said that determination would
likely be made at the time, but
contingency funds were the
most probable source.
“When you talk about ad-
ditional funds, nothing can re-
place lives and I am complete-
ly behind this,” said Councilor
Roland Herrera.
Johnson chuckled when
asked if the time dedicated
to the lawsuit would detract
from other priorities, “It has
and it will continue, but those
issues are, frankly, not as im-
portant as this.”
The council unanimously
approved moving forward as
intervenors.
In addition, the council
Music moves
at MHS
one harvest
at a time
Fuhrman's
amazement,
however, is
tempered by
sadness and remorse.
“There have been times
when we've picked 20,000
pounds of pears from a single
orchard, but we drove away
from another 100,000. We can
do truckloads and truckloads
and truckloads of squash, but
so much of it gets left behind.
I want to rescue all the food
because we know we're going
to be dealing with hungry
people this winter,” she said.
To be fair, it's not as
though the organization is
slacking. In eight years, Salem
Harvest has rescued more
than 2 million pounds food.
In the month since passing
that milestone, it's recovered
another 100,000 pounds of
fruit, vegetables and nuts.
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Elise Bauman, executive director of Salem Harvest, dumps a load of pears into a truck headed
to the Marion-Polk Food Share.
Lapof vies to replace Ryan Alleged burglars
By ERIC A. HOWALD
Of the Keizertimes
Shawn Lapof is taking the
next step in public service
with a campaign for the
Keizer City Council.
“A
friend
actually
suggested it, and the more
I thought about the more
it seemed like a natural
progression,” said Lapof.
Lapof, a 2007 McNary
High School grad and current
commercial accounts and sales
manager with SERVPRO
of Salem, is running to
replace
Councilor Amy
Ryan, who has decided not
to seek re-election. He faces
Elizabeth Smith in one of two
contested city council races
this November.
Shawn Lapof
Lapof said the growth and
development
conversation
happening in city hall and
throughout Keizer is one he
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FEEDING THE COMMUNITY
By ERIC A. HOWALD
Of the Keizertimes
There's a rumble as the fi rst
oversized bags of pears get
dumped into the four large
crates on the back of a Salem
Harvest fl atbed truck. Fruit by
the dozen, ranging from small
to XXXL, roll around before
coming to rest.
Over the next two hours,
the rumble is quieted as
the fruit piles up creating
additional layers to muffl e the
sound. By the time volunteer
havesters call it a day, more
than 3,400 pounds of pears are
on their way from a private
orchard a few miles north of
Keizer to the Marion-Polk
Food Share (MPFS).
“The organization is great,
but the richness of the crops
blows my mind,” said Jaime
Fuhrman, a harvest leader.
“If you look anywhere else,
there are few places that have
the variety of food crops that
we do in Marion County. An
organization like this in the
Midwest might have wheat
and soy beans and corn. In
Idaho, you'd have potatoes.”
Boys soccer
on fire
wants to be a part of, “It's
something that needs to be
addressed for businesses and
the community. I want to help
small business and improve
opportunities available for all
Keizerites.”
One aspect of the
discussion he would like to
see the city pay particular
attention to is transportation.
“We need to improve the
transportation in a way that
draws more people into the
city from Interstate 5 and
gets residents to and from the
things that they need to do.
That includes everything from
the number of lanes traveling
in different directions to a
third bridge,” Lapof said.
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join forces, still fail
By ERIC A. HOWALD
Of the Keizertimes
A Keizer man was arrested,
and then re-released from jail
due to over-
c row d i n g ,
for the sec-
ond time in
six weeks on
charges of
burglarizing
two
addi-
R. Berlin
tional Keizer
businesses.
Richard Wayne Barkley
Berlin, 30, was arrested on Sept.
13 after Keizer Police executed
a search warrant at his home
and found evidence allegedly
connecting him to two new
business burglaries. Berlin was
previously arrested on Aug. 2
in connection with three oth-
er business
burglaries in
Keizer.
Ironically,
after being
put
back
out on the
street under
J. Herriges
a forced re-
lease agree-
ment in the wake of the Aug.
2 arrest, Berlin commented
on Keizertimes' Facebook posts
about his arrests stating that
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Football
player
recovering
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