SINCE 1979 • VOLUME 40, NO. 10
SECTION A
DECEMBER 7, 2018
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Parade hits River Road Saturday
By ERIC A. HOWALD
Of the Keizertimes
The Keizer Holiday Lights
Parade sponsored by Salem
Electric arrives on River
Road North Saturday, Dec. 8,
at 7 p.m.
After two years of organiz-
ing the annual Keizer Holiday
Lights
Parade,
Danielle Bethell,
executive direc-
tor of the Keiz-
er Chamber of
Commerce, feels
as though the
Chamber mem-
bers and volun-
teers are finally
getting a handle
on the process.
This time around, it started
with a theme.
“Each year, people ask us
what the theme is going to be
the next time. That helped us
realize how important it is and
it got us thinking about it ear-
lier,” Bethell said.
The theme for this year's
parade is Christmas in
Candyland and the response
has been enthusiastic to say
the least.
“We had board members
get excited about what it
would look like, so I knew we
had a winner. When we tell
people, it seems to generate a
spark of creativity quickly,” she
said.
Salem Elec-
tric has opted to
become a legacy
sponsor of the
parade into the
future, but there
is no set time
for their engage-
ment to expire.
Parade awards
will be given
for most festive, best use of
lights, best choreography and
best theme. Last year's parade
ended up with about 70 en-
tries and Bethell expected it
to be about the same this time
around.
One thing is certain, there's
River Road
closes at
6 p.m. until
the end of
the parade
Please see PARADE, Page A10
McNary
swimming
previews
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File
A truck owned by BC Towing makes its way down River Road in the 2017 Festival of Lights
Parade.
A Very McNary Holiday, features potpourri of disciplines
KEIZERTIMES/Matt Rawlings
(From right to left): Riky Galvin, Jacob Fritts, Noah Schnell, Abey Reid, Madelyn Hurst and Dylan Lopez rehearse a scene from
one of the four plays that will featured in McNary’s holiday program, which will take place December 13-15 in the theatre room at
the school.
Garbage rates
going up 20%
By ERIC A. HOWALD
Of the Keizertimes
The Keizer City Council
approved a rate increase for
garbage haulers at its meeting
Monday, Dec. 3.
The new rates, which will
take effect in February 2019,
increase costs
for a residen-
tial customer
by about 20
percent over-
all.
Councilors
had three op-
tions to choose
from and se-
lected the one
that
includes
a base increase
of $2.02 for
all
custom-
ers using
comin-
gled blue
recycling bins coupled with
an 11.5 increase for residen-
tial and multifamily custom-
ers. It means the monthly
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
will increase from $22.52 to
$27.13. Commercial services
will increase by 7.5 percent.
Garbage services are billed on
a bi-monthly cycle.
Keizer haulers Loren's San-
itation Services and Valley Re-
cycling and Disposal present-
ed the request for an increase
in November,
but the coun-
cil asked for
more time to
digest the op-
tions and seek
additional in-
put.
Three Keiz-
er
residents
turned out to
speak on the
issue during the
meeting.
Jim
Parr
said
it
was time
for
the
industry to take a giant step
backward in its efforts to reset
consumers' recycling expecta-
tions.
“Let's focus on clean card-
board in the blue bins and get
that right. Then we can start
adding more products one at
Please see RATES, Page A9
By MATT RAWLINGS
Of the Keizertimes
McNary High School the-
atre teacher Tom Cavanaugh
is used to organizing shows
around the holidays. But he's
never done one like this before.
For the first time ever, Mc-
Nary is bringing together all
of the performing arts — band,
choir, orchestra, theatre and
jazz band — for a show called
A Very McNary Holiday.
There will be three shows
from December 13th to De-
cember 15th with each perfor-
mance starting at 7 p.m. in the
auditorium at McNary. Tickers
will cost $5 apiece.
Cavanaugh, who is the
point person for putting this
show together, is excited to
show people how diverse and
talented these kids are.
“Our hope is to give the
audience a little bit of a taste of
Santa at
Volcanoes
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Pedestrian
killed in
crosswalk
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Please see SHOW, Page A7
Deter ‘porch pirates’ this
season with easy changes
It's the busiest time of
the year for the U.S. Postal
Service, and package deliv-
ery services throughout the
country. The Keizer Police
Department is urging resi-
dents to plan carefully when
placing orders that will be
delivered to their door.
It's not uncommon for
packages and envelopes to
pile up on doorsteps making
for easy theft, but minimiz-
ing exposure to so-called
“porch pirates” is not as hard
as it might seem.
KPD suggests:
•
Having
packages
KEIZERTIMES/Eric A. Howald
As packages pile up on doorsteps in the run-up to Christ-
mas and other holidays, they make easy targets for theft.
delivered to where you are,
not where you aren’t. Consid-
er having packages delivered
to your place of employment.
• If you can’t have packages
delivered to your place of em-
ployment, schedule deliveries
for times you will be home.
• Teaming up with a trust-
ed neighbor who can retrieve
and secure packages from your
porch soon after they are de-
livered.
• Sign up to receive text
messages or email notifica-
tions/alerts advising when
packages are delivered to your
residence. After receiving the
notification, work with other
family members, friends or
neighbors to identify an in-
dividual who can retrieve and
secure the packages quickly.
This keeps packages from sit-
ting on your porch unattend-
ed and vulnerable for theft for
long periods of time.
• Require a signature when
packages are delivered. This
ensures packages will not be
delivered unless someone is at
your residence who can sign
for them.
• Consider investing in
technology or security de-
vices. A variety of lockboxes,
Please see PORCH, Page A9
Lady Celts
fall to
Roosevelt
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