SINCE 1979 • VOLUME 40, NO. 12
SECTION A
DECEMBER 21, 2018
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GOING COURTIN’
By ERIC A. HOWALD
Of the Keizertimes
Last week, the Salem City
Council rejected a proposal to
relocate Costco further south
along Interstate 5. Now the
Keizer Cham-
ber of Com-
merce
and
Keizer
City
Council will be sending letters
to Costco asking them to con-
sider a move to Keizer.
Jonathan Thompson, chair of
the Keizer Chamber of Com-
merce’s Government Affairs
Committee, told Keizer city
councilors that the chamber’s
board had voted to send a letter
to Costco asking them to con-
sider Keizer in its relocation ef-
forts. He requested that the city
do the same.
“While we probably don’t
have space within city limits,
there is space around Keizer and
maybe something we can weigh
in and help with,” Thompson
Chamber, city will seek to woo Costco
File
After the Salem City Council poured cold water over plans for the Salem Costco location to move further south, the Keizer Cham-
ber of Commerce and Keizer City Council will look to draw the retailer’s attention northward.
Please see COSTCO, Page A3
FIRST LOOK: Keizer parks 5-year plan
By ERIC A. HOWALD
Of the Keizertimes
Members of the Keizer Parks
Advisory Board got a fi rst look
at a 5-year plans for Keizer
parks – work made possible by a
$4-per-month fee instituted in
2017.
The parks board met Dec.
11 and provided some initial
feedback on the 5-year plan
for improving maintenance
and amenities in Keizer parks.
Members of the board plan to
provide additional feedback and
suggest priority changes at its
fi rst meeting of 2019 on Jan. 8.
The public is also welcome to
provide testimony during that
meeting.
The major projects for the
2019-20 fi scal year are an up-
date of Carlson Skate Park,
court replacement at Willa-
mette Manor Park, a swingset
replacement at Northview Park
and tree work system-wide. All
of those projects represent de-
ferred maintenance from the
past several years. The budget
5 YEAR PLAN FOR THE
PARKS FEE
for the next fi scal year, which
won’t begin until July 2019,
also includes replacement of an
18-year-old truck.
Replacing the Willamette
Manor sports court is a high
priority for nearby residents
and oft-requested. The city re-
paired the court a few years ago,
but it was a bandage at best. At
the time, Keizer Parks Super-
visor Robert Johnson reported
having trouble even fi nding a
contractor willing to take on
the project short of a complete
overhaul.
In the end, the court was re-
surfaced, but it didn’t take long
for cracks to begin reappearing.
The scheduled project will tear
out the playable surface com-
pletely and replace it.
Board members Donna
Bradley and Matt Lawyer want-
ed to see a Year 3 project, the
addition of pathway lighting at
Bair Park, moved up to the fi rst
or second year of the plan.
Merry
Christmas
Why you
should
volunteer at
the Keizer
museum
PAGE A2
Please see PARKS, Page A3
In-N-Out inches
closer to reality
By ERIC A. HOWALD
Of the Keizertimes
Last week, In-N-Out
Burger submitted plans to the
city for its expected Keizer lo-
cation.
The restaurant will be 3,995
square feet with a drive-th-
ru and out-
door seating.
The address
will be 6280
Keizer Sta-
tion
Blvd,
b e h i n d
Outback
Restaurant. The plans will
now go through permitting
and be assessed system devel-
opment charges.
In August, the fan-favor-
ite burger chain announced
it was investigating a spot in
Keizer Station. At the time, a
development manager for the
chain, Kori Seki, requested a
change to the city’s sign code
so the business’ trademark
palm trees could be put on
awnings.
“The Keizer location will
serve as a new benchmark and
entry into
Portland and
other met-
ropolitan
areas,” Seki
said.
Since that
time, news
of the development has been
relatively scant. There is still
no expected opening date and
nothing is set in stone as yet.
In-N-Out serves up a vari-
ety of fresh burgers, fries and
shakes with a not-so-secret as-
sortment of special orders.
Boys
basketball
starts 4-0
PAGES B1
Celtic
geometry
students
put it all
together
CONTINUED
ON PAGE A3
KEIZERTIMES/Candace Johnson
By MATT RAWLINGS
Of the Keizertimes
In most high school math
classes, all students need is
paper, pencil and a calculator.
But at McNary High
School, kids have the
opportunity to learn with
power tools and a hard hat.
This is the fi rst year that
McNary has introduced the
Geometry and Construction
class into the curriculum. On
Tuesdays and Thursdays, the
class focuses on doing math
in a more traditional way. But
on Wednesdays and Fridays,
students get the chance to
KEIZERTIMES/Matt Rawlings
Fred Hooper carries boards
for a shed project in her
geometery class.
apply the geometry that they
learned through the means of
hands-on construction.
“I love that his class
takes what we learn in the
classroom and applies in the
real world,” McNary student
Kate Peton said. “It gives you
an idea of what you want to
do with construction. But it's
Please see STUDENTS, Page A10
Celts sprint
past Titans
in pool
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