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SINCE 1979 • VOLUME 40, NO. 11 SECTION A DECEMBER 14, 2018 $1.00 Life saver Keizebite Dwayne Nowlin is being called a hebo fob locating and assisting a stbanded woman. Keizer man rescues woman trapped in crashed car By MATT RAWLINGS Of the Keizertimes Tuesday, Nov. 27 started out as a typical day for Keizer resident Dwayne Nowlin. It ended with him being hailed as a hero. Nowlin, 52, who has been retired since 2012, has spent the last two years coaching football, basketball and baseball at Saint Paul High School. With his investment in multiple athletic programs at the high school, Nowlin makes the trek out to St. Paul almost daily. “I make that drive all the time,” Nowlin said. “It's rare to have something out of the ordinary happen.” But on Nowlin's trip home from a St. Paul basketball practice, something bizarre did occur. And he was prepared to answer the call to action. Salem resident Faye Martin, 77, was heading back to Salem suffering from a fi bromyalgia attack by the time the car stopped, the combination meant she couldn’t get out of the vehicle on her own. And since the windshield Martin did not see the stop sign as she blew right through the intersection and went off the road. Martin completely lost control of the vehicle as she “I just prayed that someone would fi nd me because I could barely breathe.” For nearly three hours, Martin helplessly sat in her car, trying to get anyone's attention by pressing on her horn. That action likely saved her life. Nowlin was driving back to Keizer with his daughter, Rianna — who is a freshman at St. Paul High School — around 6 p.m. when he heard the faint sound of a car horn. “I could just hear something in the distance,” Nowlin said. “I rolled down the window and told my daughter to turn down the music and I could just barely hear the sound of a horn.” “I didn't think anything of Lady Celts fall to Westview PAGE B1 “ I just pbayed that someone would fi nd me because I could babely bbeathe.” — Faye Mabtin from Cornelius when she came to a one-way stop at a T-intersection where River Road becomes French Prairie Road. Because it was raining so hard on this particular day, was broken, cold rainwater continued to pour on Martin and she began to fear for her safety. “I couldn't believe that I had gotten myself into this predicament,” Martin said. ran into a large street sign that punctured the side of her window. The car continued wildly into a fi eld before ramming into a tree. Martin’s vehicle was pinned against a tree and she was Please see RESCUE, Page A8 PAGE A4 Bringing it all together Wobk session focuses on gbowth By ERIC A. HOWALD Of the Keizertimes The current members of the Keizer City Council sitting alongside two incoming councilors got a briefi ng on recent developments in efforts to expand the Urban Growth Boundary (UGB) at a work session Monday, Dec. 10. The main focus of the night was growth planning. The city is in the process of or recently completed a number of studies aimed at giving councilors the A Photos from the parade The oldest home in Keizeb was becently tobn down to make way fob apabtments, a sign of the type of gbowth expected in the city. best information when making a decisions regarding growth. “It is hard to read the tea leaves, but we are trying to give you good advice regarding what you can expect,” said Nate Brown, community development director. The completed Education Outreach Grant funded a cost- of-growth study that examined the ways Keizer can make inroads in meeting expected housing needs in addition to looking at how other Weddle students learn the joy of giving PAGES A9 & A12 File Photo municipalities have expanded their UGBs. Keizer shares its UGB with Salem – the only two cities in the state in that situation – and expanding Keizer’s UGB will likely mean divorcing the two. “When Keizer was incorporated, we kept the shared UGB. It was not divided or re-described in any way. Until now, we've had developable land, but we are running out,” Brown said. The report presents a grim picture of UGB expansion with Two crazy nights make for happier holidays Members of the Keizer Network of Women (KNOW), along with friends, family and supporters, turned out in droves to sort food, wrap pres- ents and deliver it all to local families in need last week. It could only be Giving Basket time. a high price tag in terms of cash and staff time with unforeseeable outcomes. Of the three cities used for comparisons, one succeeded with relative ease, but development came at Please see GROWTH, Page A8 B delivered – to families with about 250 kids – the morn- ing of Saturday, Dec. 8. On Wednesday, Dec. 5, volunteers packed into a storage room and formed a “bucket brigade” to load up boxes with food for holiday meals. Many returned Thurs- day, Dec. 6, to wrap gifts pur- chased for local families in need. Finally, everything was D A: Mandi Stephens of Willamette Valley Bank and daughteb Ellie, cabby a toiletby box dubing the deliv- eby loading pbocess. B: Glenna Flesch and Tammy Ready wbap gifts. C. Alicia Self guides volunteebs dubing food sobting. D. Kbisstine Jacobsen delivebs donated food, gifts, and hugs to the Romebo family. 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