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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.
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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