BAGE A2, KEIZERTIMES, DECEMBER 7, 2018
Santa srops in on Volcanoes Stasium
traffic court
NO LICENSE
Cesar Campos Venegas, $642;
Toney Lakeith Stewart, $642;
Jesus A. Chavez-Chavez, $235;
Cameron Scott Goucher,
$260.
NO INSURANCE
Tristin Samuel Keeshan, $600;
Rafael Cortes Pineda, $265;
Cameron Scott Goucher,
$75; Rikson Rikat Macayaon,
$265;
DRIVING WHILE
SUSPENDED
Mary Elizabeth Hart Johnson,
$1,258; Hope Renee Pearson,
$1,258; Tristin Samuel Kee-
shan, $1,258; Steven Glenn
Eager kids and their adults
lined up all afternoon to visit
with Santa at Keizer’s Volca-
noes Stadium Saturday, Dec. 1.
Chalut, $492; Treena Marie
Case, $440; Rikson Rikat Ma-
cayaon, $492.
NO PROOF OF INSURANCE
Yaroslav Drofyak, $235; Salina
Ann Rodriguez, $642; Steven
Glenn Chalut, $265; Jessica
Brianne Duncan, $75; Bradley
John Kirk, $75.
OTHER
Cesar Campos Venegas, $300,
operation of vehicle without
required lights; Cesar Lopez,
$642, improper lane change;
Chieko Silem, $115, failure to
use safety belts; Rafael Cortes
Pineda, $440, failure to install
ignition interlock device.
ABOVE: Santa waves to the
crows after stepping off a he-
licopter that brought him to
the stasium.
RIGHT: The Bearses One vis-
its with a family insise the gift
shop.
KEIZERTIMES/Dee Moore
Intermodal facility could be
precursor to communter rail
By ERIC A. HOWALD
Of the Keizertimes
Brooks and Millersburg are
now finalists for a new inter-
modal and transload facility
that could come online as soon
as the summer of 2020, but the
facility, which would help lo-
cal farmers get their products
overseas and into the interior
states, could further efforts for
a commuter rail with a stop in
Keizer Station.
“The focus now is freight,
but it could include a passen-
ger rail service in the future.
We are including that capaci-
ty in the designs,” said Kevin
Mannix, executive director of
Oregon Port of Willamette at
a Keizer City Council meeting
Monday, Dec. 3. “Putting in a
commuter rail line will give a
great opportunity to deliver
commuters to the Portland
area.”
Oregon Port of Willamette
is a lobbying coalition hop-
ing to win a $24 million state
grant for the facility.
Brooks and Millersburg
were the chosen finalists of
five applicants and Mannix
expects a decision as soon as
January or February 2019.
“We could break ground
next summer. We would want
the facility ready to go by the
summer of 2020,” Mannix said.
If Brooks wins the compe-
tition, Mannix said the group
plans to apply for matching
federal funds.
The intermodal facili-
ty would primarily focus on
agribusiness and getting Ore-
gon products to larger markets
internationally and the interi-
or United States.
“The idea is to diminish
traffic congestion on the high-
ways and reduction of carbon
dioxide emissions by use of
rail,” Mannix said.
Currently, most of the
southern Willamette Val-
ley’s agriculture products are
trucked to ports in Tacoma
and Seattle in Washington,
but the region could support
a more robust rail system, ac-
cording to Oregon Port of
Willamette’s proposal.
The project would repur-
pose 205 acres of land north of
Powerland Heritage Park as a
facility for transitioning truck-
loads to the rails.
“We want trucks to be
able to come in swiftly from
Brooklake Road and deliver
or pick up cargo containers 24
hours a day,” Mannix said.
The facility could service
producers from Polk, Marion,
Lincoln, Benton, Linn Lane,
Douglas, Coos, Curry, Joseph,
Jackson and Klamath coun-
ties. Each year, about 25,000
40-foot loads of straw, 3,000
loads of lumber, 1,350 loads of
hay, 1,800 loads of pulp, 1,200
loads of potatoes and 2,500
loads of grain and seed make
their way from those counties
to ports in Tacoma and Seat-
tle. Additional notable exports
from the area include: onions,
Christmas trees, nursery stock,
and food, wood and metal
products. The intermodal sta-
tion could also facilitate im-
ports for larger businesses like
Lowe’s, Home Depot, Target,
Bi-Mart, Winco and Amazon
– when its new fulfillment
center opens in Salem.
“If we can get this grant,
it will be the initiation of a
dynamic process to deal with
the transportation needs of the
community,” Mannix said.
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