SINCE 1979 • VOLUME 40, NO. 11
SECTION A
DECEMBER 14, 2018
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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
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“ 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
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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
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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
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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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in 24 points
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