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PAGE A4, KEIZERTIMES, DECEMBER 28, 2018 REVIEW, Continued from Page A1 School district invokes eminent domain DRIVE A LITTLE – SAVE A BUNCH! 3893 COMMERCIAL ST SE • SALEM MORE INFO AT NORTHERNLIGHTSTHEATREPUB.COM UFC 232 Jones vs. Gustafson STUDENT NIGHT EVERY THURSDAY! DECEMBER 27 ———————————— 1:40 – Goosebumps 2 (PG) 3:40 – Venom(PG-13) 5:50 – Bohemian Rhapsody (PG-13) 8:25 – Robin Hood (PG-13) “We are totally open to negotiations.” Generally for the 16-20 year old crowd SATURDAY, DEC 29 —–———— 21 & OVER —————— Live Fights at 5 pm – Tickets $13 9 fi ghts in all on the HUGE screen! Reserved Seats Available Now Online Saturday, Jan 5, at 11:00 am MOVIE: T HE N UTCRACKER AND THE F OUR R EALMS [ PG ] Sensory Sensitive Show ONLY $4 Special showing for kids and adults with Autism or other sensory sensitivities. Today in History The Syracuse Athletic Club defeated the New York Philadelphians, 5–0, in the fi rst indoor professional football game, which was held at Madison Square Garden. — December 28, 1902 Food 4 Thought “The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.” — Vince Lombardi The Month Ahead Through Sunday, December 30 Enlightened Theatrics presents A Tuna Christmas. Reserved seating admission is $23-$28. Preview night only, admission is $10. Oregon Thespian Members/Cardholders are free. Festival of Lights at The Grotto in Portland. Nightly from 5 to 9:30 p.m. (Closed December 25). Tickets range from $6 to $12. thegrotto.org. Through Monday, December 31 Christmas in the Garden, located at The Oregon Garden, 879 W. Main Street, Silverton. Features ice skating, a traditional German Christmas Market, and a light display. Ice skating is available daily excluding Dec. 24 and 25. Visit oregongarden. org for general schedule information. (Closed Monday, December 24 and Tuesday December 25). Through Monday, January 21 Salem on Ice. Ice skating rink at Salem’s Riverfront Park. Tickets are $15 for adults, $12 for children. salemonice.com Monday, December 31 New Year’s Eve Dance and Potuck featuring music by the Jefferson Parks Band at the Senior Center in Keizer, 930 Plymouth Drive N.E., from 7 p.m. to 12 a.m. Wednesday, January 2 Keizer Little League Park Long Range Planing Task Force Meeting at 6 p.m. at the Keizer Civic Center, 930 Chemawa Road N.E. The task force will continue visioning plans for the future of KLL Park. Thursday, January 3 Southeast Keizer Neighborhood Association Meeting at 6:30 p.m. at the Keizer Civic Center, 930 Chemawa Road N.E. Friday, January 4 – Sunday, January 6 Pentacle Theatre Production, Disney’s The Little Mermaid will be performed at the Elsinore, 170 High Street SE, Salem, OR 97301. The doors open at 6:30 p.m. and the show starts at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $35 for adults and $30 for children 17 and under. Suitable for all audiences. Saturday, January 5 TEDx VI Salem, Tickets range from $45-$55 and can be purchased at tedxsalem.us. It will begin at 9 a.m. at the Salem Convention Center, 200 Commercial Street S.E. in Salem. Sunday, January 6 Cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach for the Feast of the Epiphany. St. Paul’s Trinity Choir, accompanied by an orchestra will perform classic pieces by Bach. Starts at 4 p.m. at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 1444 Liberty Street SE in Salem. Enrique Chagoya: Reverse Anthropology Exhibition The exhibition features Chagoya’s deceptively subversive prints that explore issues of immigration, colonialism, the economy, the government, the commodifi cation of art, and the recurring subject of cultural clash that continues to riddle contemporary life at The Hallie Ford Museum of Art, 700 State Street Salem, OR 97301. Monday, January 7 Keizer City Council Meeting at 7 p.m. at the Keizer Civic Center, 930 Chemawa Road N.E. The city’s newest city councilors, Elizabeth Smith and Dan Kohler, will be sworn in as outgoing councilors Amy Ryan and Bruce Anderson depart. Tuesday, January 8 Keizer Parks Advisory Board Meeting at 6 p.m. at the Keizer Civic Center, 930 Chemawa Road N.E. The board will be making priority recommendations for the fi ve-year parks plan. Public input is welcome and encouraged. Wednesday, January 9 Keizer Planning Commission Meeting at 6 p.m. at the Keizer Civic Center, 930 Chemawa Road N.E. The commission will be discussing its workload for the coming year. Thursday, January 10 Keizer Traffi c Safety, Bikeways and Pedestrian Committee Meeting at 6 p.m. at the Keizer Civic Center, 930 Chemawa Road N.E. The committee will be reviewing and fi nalizing its plans for the 2019 year. West Keizer Neighborhood Association meeting, 7 p.m., Keizer Civic Center, 930 Chemawa Road N.E. Monday, January 14 Keizer City Council work session at 6 p.m. at the Keizer Civic Center, 930 Chemawa Road N.E. Buildable Land Supply/Housing Needs Analysis Project Advisory Committee meeting at 6 p.m. at the Keizer Civic Center, 930 Chemawa Road N.E. In May, voters in the Sa- bit, the district is likely making lem-Keizer School District ap- offers based on undeveloped proved a nearly $620 million land and the church would like bond to expand and improve a price more in line with what facilities throughout the district. the property would be worth Plans included a bevy of im- if it were developed. Currently, provements to expand capac- the six acres the district wants are an over- ity at McNary grown fi eld. We High School. will likely have The problem more news is McNary is about the situa- landlocked and tion in the next needs additional week or two. space. Lillian Go- St. Ed- — Lillian Govus vus, spokes- ward Catholic SKSD spokesperson person for the Church owns school district, about six acres north of the school that the said a 40-day window for the district wants to buy. District church to respond to its latest offi cials have telegraphed the offer expires this week. “Of course, we are totally need for almost two years, but the church decided it does not open to negotiations with St. Edward,” Govus said. want to sell the property. Should the church choose It’s resulted in the district fi l- ing for eminent domain, which not to respond, the district will probably force the sale. will deliver a check to Marion The major question will be at County Courthouse. “Upon completion of the what price. Neither party has gone on record about how far transaction, [the district] will apart the two entities are, but assume possession of the prop- if you read between the lines a erty,” Govus said. McNary grad hits it big time McNary High School has graduated a number of nota- ble alumni over the year, but another one etched his name alongside theirs in 2018. In November, Celtic grad Zeek Earl (pictured above) made a triumphant return home to introduce his fi rst feature fi lm, Prospect, at Salem Cinema. Earl turned 30 while making his fi rst feature-length fi lm with co-writer and co-di- rector Chris Caldwell. Earl credits McNary teacher Jason Heimerdinger as his fi rst and only fi lm teacher. In a fi tting capstone to the opening act on what we hope is a long and varied career, Heimerdinger hosted a Q&A with Earl after the screening. Prospect is the story of Cee (played by Sophie Thatcher) and her father (Damon played by Jay Duplass) who travel to an alien moon aiming to strike it rich harvesting elusive gems. The hunt turns troublesome when the pair encounter oth- ers on the same path and Cee is forced to contend with the forest’s other ruthless inhab- itants, and her own father’s greed-addled judgment, while carving her own path. The movie is set for a March re- lease on DVD. Stray bullet leads to lawsuits On June 2, a bullet fi red from a recreational shooting range across the Willamette River penetrated a Keizer home and only came to a rest after hitting a granite backsplash near where one of the homeowners stood. The incident was the breaking point for west Keizer resi- dents along the river. For years, shots from a recreational shoot- ing range owned by Lance Davis have prompted complaints about noise then, in September 2017, a spray of bullets fl ew into the trees above Sunset Park causing visitors and residents to fl ee the area. The incidents spurred multiple meetings of neighbors that spilled into the Keizer City Council chambers and meetings of the Polk County Board of Commissioners. The victims of the June incident, Tom and Sheryl Bauer, ended up fi ling a civil lawsuit for $2.7 million and request- ed a permanent injunction to halt shooting on the property where the bullets originated from. In September, the Keizer City Council voted to join the request for an injunction as an intervenor, an act of solidarity. Thus far, a ceasefi re has held, but a hearing on a permanent injunction is scheduled for April 2019. Police, parks fees yield fi rst benefi ts In late 2017, the Keizer City Council enacted $4-per- month fees to bolster Keizer Police Department staffi ng and improve maintenance and amenities throughout Keizer’s parks systems. By the end of the fi rst quar- ter of 2018, the Keizer police department had hired four new offi cers and a fi fth was in the works. By the end of the year, four offi cers were on solo patrol and the fi fth was about to start the academy. KPD will still have to fi ll spots vacated as a result of recent retirements, but the city is in a better fi - nancial position to sustain the beefed-up department. On the parks side of things, improvements have included a large new play structure at Meadows Park and improved pathways in several others. Two new employees have helped lighten the load on the two existing staff members and seasonal hires. The Keizer Parks Advisory is expected to dig into plans for the next fi ve years at its Jan. 8 meeting. Students walk out after Parkland massacre In the wake of yet another mass shooting in an American high school, students in Keizer and throughout the country walked out of their classes in March supporting Parkland survivors and seeking answers from adults who have refused to act. At McNary High School and Whiteaker Middle School, students stood in silence for 17 minutes, one for each of the students and staff members who lost their lives. At Whiteaker Middle School, a small contingent of leaders read from obituaries and encouraged fellow students to act when they see someone being alienated. Students, parents and supporters from all three schools later attended marches in Salem seeking action to stop school shootings. While some states have taken action to curb gun sales to those under 21 years old and other measures, relatively little has been done on the national level almost a year after the Parkland shooting. The Donald Trump Administration recently banned the sale of bump stocks, an accessory used to make semiautomatic weapons fi re more rapidly, but that was in response to another mass killing during a Las Vegas concert. A sad anniversary Friends and family of Cyn- thia Martinez Perez gathered in Chalmers Jones Park on July 16 to mark the one-year anniversa- ry of her disappearance. Martinez Perez was last seen leaving Tequila Nights on Riv- er Road North in 2017. The mother of four spent the eve- ning out with friends and left the night club in the compa- ny of two men. One was later contacted and dismissed as a suspect. Law enforcement offi cials are still looking for 31-year old Jaime Alvarez-Olivera as a person of interest in the disap- pearance. Identifying his resi- dence or individuals he lived or worked with, or who may have known or associated with him could be important to the on- Cynthia Martinez Perez going investigation. Anyone who believes they may have information about where Alvarez-Olivera lived, whom he lived or associat- ed with, whom he may have worked with, or where he might have gone is asked to contact the Keizer Police Department at 503-856-3529. A reward of more than $10,000 is being of- fered for information leading to a resolution in the case. sudoku looking back in the KT 5 YEARS AGO Boys b-ball makes energized debut McNary High School’s varsity basketball team had an electrifying game against Glencoe High, beating the Crimson Tide 60-48. Enter digits from 1-9 into the blank spac- es. Every row must contain one of each digit. So must every column, as must every 3x3 square. 10 YEARS AGO Keizer on ice Snowy weather covered Keizer in a thick layer of ice last weekend. Roadways were blocked, allowing the Gale family to iceskate along Keizer roads. maze 15 YEARS AGO City buys nursery land The city closed a deal last Friday to buy a over two acres of prime land for Chemawa Road improvements at the freeway. 20 YEARS AGO Tuesday, January 15 Keizer Fire Board of Directors meeting, 7 p.m., 661 Chemawa Road N.E. The board will hold a public hearing on potentially adding new fees to construction permits within its coverage area. Add your event by e-mailing news@keizertimes.com. School bond projects will begin in spring Construction at existing Keizer schools could begin as early as the spring on projects approved by votes last month in the $177 million Salem-Keizer construction bond. Maze by Jonathan Graf of Keizer
