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Today in History
The fi rst modern instance of a meteorite striking a human
being occurs at Sylacauga, Ala., when a meteorite crashes
through the roof of a house and into a living room, bounces
off a radio, and strikes Elizabeth Hodges on the hip.
— November 30, 1954
Food 4 Thought
“Never, never, never give up.”
— Winston Churchill,
wartime Prime Minister of England, born Nov. 30, 1874
The Month Ahead
Saturday, December 1
Santa arrives via helicopter at the Volcanoes Stadium. Free
photos and a visit with Santa. Noon to 3 p.m.
All-You-Can-Eat Pancake Breakfast for $4.50 (Children 5 and
under are free) at the Senior Center in Keizer, 930 Plymouth
Drive N.E. from 8 a.m to 10 a.m.
Saturday Night Dance and Potluck featuring music by The
Jefferson Parks Band, admission is $5 at the Senior Center in
Keizer, 930 Plymouth Drive N.E., from 7 p.m to 10 p.m.
Saturday, December 1 – Sunday, December 2
The Mt. Angel Chamber of Commerce presents the Mt. Angel
Hazelnut Fest and Kriskindl Market featuring regional arts and
crafts, Oregon wineries and breweries, and foods that feature
hazelnuts. Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday 10 a.m. -
4p.m. For more information call 503-845-9440.
Sunday, December 2
May Dudley Memorial Organ Concert. Organist Bill Crane
comes to Salem and performs for the season of Advent. Starts
at 4 p.m. at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 1444 Liberty Street SE
in Salem.
Deepwood Museum and Gardens Free Holiday Open House 1
p.m. to 4 p.m. Located at 1116 Mission Street S.E. Admission
is free.
Tuesday, December 4
Chamber Tree Lighting Ceremony at Walery Plaza at the corner
of River Road and Cherry Avenue. A free community event put
on by the Keizer Chamber in partnership with the Keizer Fire
District and the City of Keizer. The Grand Jazz Band will be
preforming Christmas Carols.
Whiteaker Middle School Band Concert at Dayspring
Fellowship, 1755 Lockhaven Dr NE, at 6 p.m.
Oregon Spirit Chorus presents Holiday Harmony, 7 p.m.,
Chemeketa Community College Auditorium. Tickets, $15
general admission, $10 seniors, students, veterans, available at
oregonspirit.org or at the door. Children under 5 admitted free.
Wednesday, December 5
Cummings Elementary Winter Music Program, at Cummings,
613 Cummings Lane N, at 6:30 p.m.
Thursday, December 6
Beginning Band/Jazz Band Concert, at Claggett Creek Middle
School, 1810 Alder Drive NE, at 7 p.m. in the commons.
Friday, December 7 – Saturday, December 8
2018 Jason Lee Manor Holiday Craft Fair. Enhance your
holidays by shopping at teh fair for Homemade goodies, soaps,
jewelry, journals, photo albums and gifts. Quilted, tatting,
crochet, knit, garments, accessories, blankets and decor. Free
prize drawings and snacks through out the day. Friday from 9
a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday from 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. at 1625 Center
Street N.E.
Friday, December 7 – Wednesday, December 26
Gubser neighborhood - Miracle of Christmas Lighting Display.
The event is a tradition for many families. It is free to drive
or walk through the neighborhood, but donations of non-
perishable food and funds for Marion-Polk Food Share are
highly encouraged.
Saturday, December 8
Jingle Dash Fun Run, 6 p.m., at the new Keizer Chamber offi ce,
4118 River Rd N. Run, walk or stroll down River Road. Dress
up for the best costume awards by wearing your best Santa suit,
reindeer horns, or twinkle lights. There will be hot cocoa and
coffee awaiting at the fi nish. Paid event.
Holiday Lights Parade, River Road from Lockhaven to
Glynbrook, come see businesses and members of the
community share the holiday spirit, at 7 p.m.
Breakfast with Santa at Salem’s Riverfront Carousel. Come
enjoy a catered breakfast, a visit and photo with Santa, a
special gift from Santa, and carousel rides. It’s $20/person by
reservation only. Limited seating available. Call 503-540-0374
to make your reservation. Reservations open starting Nov 2nd.
dedicated
youth
shelter,
Taylor's House, was just
recently brought into the fold
and can only accommodate 12
residents.
The reality on the ground
for most homeless youth is
one of isolation, invisibility
and even victimization, said
Ratliff. One-in-three youths
who leave home will be ap-
proached or lured into sex
traffi cking within 48 hours
and those statistics hold true
even in Marion County.
“Survival sex is a big thing
and that's trading your body as
currency for the other things
needed to get by while you
are homeless,” Ratliff said.
“Shelter, security, some of it
is substance related, but their
body is the one thing they
have that can't be taken away
from them.”
If a homeless youth tries to
stay enrolled in school, they
tend to isolate themselves and
try to become invisible, Rat-
liff said. Some have learned to
work the system, too. As long
as a student attends class one
out of every nine days, the dis-
trict won't drop them from the
rolls. But, even shorter absenc-
es add up over time, and can
result in poor performance
when the student is present.
“If a student misses two
days a month, they've missed
a month of school by the end
of the school year. If that hap-
pens every year, they've missed
a full year of school by the
time they reach ninth grade,”
Conn-Johnson said.
Ratliff credited Keizer for
efforts like the clothing clos-
ets available in local schools
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markets to pick up slack created
by China’s exodus is a challenge.
For Loren's Sanitation and
Valley Recycling, the changes
have come at substantial cost.
John Sullivan, general manager
at Loren's Sanitation, said the
businesses are expecting a 1
percent profi t margin in 2018,
down from 10 percent in 2017.
Before China's crackdown
on contamination, haulers
were paid about $20 per ton
for recyclables that could be
reclaimed for other purposes.
As space to store the refuse
tightened,
disposing
of
recyclables went from being
a revenue generator to a
devastating expense. At its peak,
haulers were charged up to
$100 per ton, but it has settled
into charges between $60 and
$70 per ton since. In Keizer
alone, haulers expect to pay
more than $234,000 by the end
of the year.
“We didn't expect it to be
that much, but we wanted to
wait until the market evened
out before asking for a rate
increase,” Sullivan said.
In addition, haulers' fueling
costs are up 38 percent in the
past year.
The rate increase options
under consideration areas are as
follows:
• Option 1– Increasing the
costs of residential pick-up by
NLw form of homLlLss youth
support may bL on horizon
By ERIC . HOWALD
Of the Keizertimes
The philosophies about giving to one’s
community are likely only outnumbered by
those in need, but Tricia Ratliff, program di-
rector of HOME Youth & Resource Center
in Salem, is hoping to move the needle in a
particular direction.
“We are in the habit of pointing people
toward resources, but these homeless youth
need someone to see them through. In the
bigger picture, we don’t need a basket of
stuff as much as we need to help the youth
fi nd the way to stability,” said Ratliff. “We
will get a lot closer to ending homelessness
if we see it through.”
The area’s local youth homelessness ad-
vocates, like Ratliff, are looking to start a pi-
lot program offering host homes to the ar-
ea’s homeless youth. And they plan to look
in the county’s smaller community – maybe
one like Keizer – to launch the effort.
“I would love to see Keizer adopt a pilot
program like this,” said Ratliff, a Keizer res-
ident herself.
Host Home programs are a relatively
new efforts, but the idea is something sim-
ilar to foster care. Host families open up
their homes to a local youth in exchange
for attending school and working on other
life goals as part of the deal.
Depending on specifi cs, the family might
receive a stipend that helps cover increased
food costs and utilities, but it would only
cover additional costs and the rate would
intentionally veer away from encouraging
hosting for the sole purpose of receiving
compensation.
A recently released toolkit for establish-
ing such a program places an emphasis on
host families maintaining open minds.
While the causes for youth homelessness
are myriad, many of the youth cite abuse or
abandonment by their own family – partic-
ularly for reasons of gender or sexual identi-
ty or pregnancy – as their reason for leaving.
So far, the idea is still in its nascent stages,
but Ratliff said she would like to work on
two separate tracks.
“The fi rst is a family environment where
one of these youths could become fully in-
tegrated into a family. The other way would
be a roommate model with kids that are 16
or 17 and need some oversight but can take
care of themselves,” Ratliff said.
Whereas goals for the family model
might include attending school, the room-
mate model might be more focused on
helping the youth build a rental history be-
fore launching out on their own.
“What we want to do is create a basic
safety net and one that is the same through-
out the region, in Marion, Polk, Linn and
Benton [counties],” Ratliff said.
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page).
She and Conn-Johnson are
also doing what they can to
encourage conversation.
“Don't be silent. The more
we get the word out the closer
we get to removing the stig-
mas and working on real solu-
tions,” Conn-Johnson said.
and program's like the Keizer
Chamber of Commerce Giv-
ing Baskets, but she's more re-
cently become an advocate for
longer-term involvement to
actually end the problem.
“We are in the habit of
pointing people toward re-
sources, but these homeless
youth need someone to see
them through. For our part,
we've been working on softer
hand-offs where we take the
kids to the place they need to
go rather than giving them a
bus ticket. In the bigger pic-
ture, we don't need a basket
of stuff as much as we need to
help the youth fi nd the way to
stability,” Ratliff said. (For one
example of how this is being
done in other communities,
23 percent. Under this option,
the bill for a residential family
using a 35-gallon gray, solid
waste container as well as a blue
mixed recyclables, green yard
debris and red glass bin would
increase from $22.52 to 27.70.
• Option 2 – Increasing the
cost of residential and multi-
family service by 19.75 percent
and commercial service by
7.5 percent. For a residential
customers, the monthly bill
would increase from $22.52 to
$26.97.
• Option 3 – A base $2.02
fee increase for accounts using
commingled recycling along
with a generalized 11.5 percent
increase for residential, multi-
family users. The commercial
rate would increase by 7.5
percent.
For
residential
customers, their bill would
increase from $22.52 to $27.13.
Other special services could
also increase by roughly 11.5
percent under this plan.
The $2.02 rate was
determined by averaging the
costs of commingled recycling
services across all residential
customers.
At the last city council
meeting, Sullivan said the
haulers would prefer the second
or third options over the fi rst.
Councilors requested more
time to digest the information
and solicit additional public
input at the December meeting.
FEE: ‘There is a heightened
awareness right now’
(ContinuLd from A1)
downstream usage of recyclable
material can cause a major
disruption.
At a processing plant, a single
plastic shopping bag can halt the
entire line when it gets wound
up in the machinery and needs
to be cut out. On a more local
level, putting something like
motor oil in the blue bin can
have a rippling effect.
If a driver doesn't notice
the container with the oil and
it ruptures inside the truck,
an entire load of recyclable
material has to be taken to a
landfi ll. If drivers notice the
oil leaking out of the truck,
they have call out co-workers
to clean up whatever oil hit
the road to standards set by the
Department of Environmental
Quality. That single jug or tin
of oil causes delays in routes,
added expense for haulers
and eliminates the possibility
of recycling anything it
contaminated.
How do driver's know when
you've tried skirting the rules?
Cameras.
Each truck is equipped with
a live-feed camera (no still
shots) and drivers can add a
contamination fee to someone's
account the minute they spot a
problem.
“Anyone who is paying the
fee at this point has had the
one-on-one with someone
from our offi ce, and we tried to
get a commitment for them not
to contaminate the blue bins,”
Dittman said.
Moreover, the fees are only
being assessed when someone
tries to dispose of something
that was never allowed in the
blue bins to begin with, said
John Sullivan, general manager
of Loren's Sanitation.
“There is a heightened
awareness right now because
of all the recycling changes and
that's why we're fi elding daily
calls on the issue,” Sullivan said.
looking
back in
thL KT
5 YEARS AGO
StudLnts sprLad
holiday chLLr
Keizer youth performed all
over the Salem-Keizer area
singing holiday songs.
10 YEARS AGO
Local dLntists makL
a diffLrLncL in
GuatLmala
Two Keizer dentists and
their staff spent 10 days in
Guatemala to provide dental
care
to
underprivileged
communities in rural areas of
the country.
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THIS WEEK’S
MOVIE TIMES
15 YEARS AGO
A Simple Favor (R)
Fri 6:45, Sat 7:50
Christopher Robin (PG)
Fri 2:00, Sat 1:00
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A KLizLr family’s wish
comLs truL
Peyton Donaldson was only a
few months old when it was
discovered she had restrictive
cardiomyopathy and would
need a heart transplant. After
a month of worrying and
waiting, Peyton has received
her new heart and is on the
way to recovery.
Crazy Rich Asians (PG-13)
Sun 6:20
First Man (PG-13)
Fri 6:00, Sat 5:10, Sun 5:30
Saturday Night Dance and Potluck featuring music by Charles
and The Angels, admission is $5 at the Senior Center in Keizer,
930 Plymouth Drive N.E., from 7 p.m to 10 p.m.
Night School (PG-13)
Fri 9:00, Sat 8:05, Sun 8:05
Saturday, December 8 – Sunday, December 9
American Ballet Academy invites the Salem Community to
enjoy watching their 250 plus students dance the full length
The Nutcracker. All profi ts will be donated to the Marion-Polk
County Food Share. On Dec. 9, doors open at 6 p.m. and the
performance starts at 7 p.m. On Dec. 10, doors open at 1:30
p.m. and the performance starts at 2:30 p.m. Tickets may be
purchased through the Elsinore Theatre’s box offi ce or at www.
ticketswest.com.
Incredibles 2 (PG) Sun 12:45
20 YEARS AGO
The House with a Clock
(PG-13) Fri 2:00, 4:00, Sat 11:00,
11:30, 3:20, Sun 12:20, 2:25
WhitLakLr adding
nLw phonL systLm
Sunday, December 9
Keizer Fire District Santa Pancake Breakfast, at Keizer Fire
Department 661 Chemawa Rd NE, all-you-can-eat pancakes,
sausage, eggs, milk and coffee, $6 for adults, $3 for children
ages 3-12 and free for 2-and-under. 7:30 to 11a.m.
Venom (PG-13)
Fri 6:25, 8:35, Sat 3:00, 6:00,
8:20, Sun 3:15, 5:55, 8:05
Goosebumps 2 (PG)
Sat 1:30, Sun 4:30
Whiteaker Middle School
is getting a new automated
system to notify parents when
their students are absent or
tardy. Teachers are looking
forward to the high-tech
upgrade.
Smallfoot (PG)
Fri 2:30, 4:25, Sat 12:00, 1:55,
3:55, Sun 12:00, 1:55, 3:55
The Hate You Give (PG-13)
Fri 4:10, 8:45, Sat 5:35, Sun 8:35
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