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Residents request traffi c fi x
By ERIC A. HOWALD
Of the Keizertimes
Residents of Adam Court
Northeast and Brooks Av-
enue Northeast turned out
en force at a meeting of the
Keizer Traffi c Safety, Bikeways
and Pedestrian Committee on
Thursday, Jan. 10.
The group requested that
the committee take action
to make the intersection of
Adam Court, Brooks Avenue
and Thorman/Manbrin ave-
nues safer. Residents said that
making a left turn out of ei-
ther street onto Thorman or
Manbrin represented a leap of
faith.
“I will go a mile out of my
way to avoid that intersec-
tion,” said Brooks Avenue res-
ident Deanna Gregory.
Adam Court resident Sarah
Adams said she had moved her
child’s safety seat to the left
side of her car to make certain
her kid would be on the op-
posite side of a possible impact
when making right turns out
of her neighborhood.
During the committee’s
December meeting, member
Joe Tillman put in a request
for an analysis of the intersec-
tion. The area residents turned
out in an effort to press the
matter.
Resident Roger Courser
requested that the intersection
be converted into a four-way
stop – there are already stop
signs on Adam and Brooks at
the intersection.
“The street makes a turn
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Turning off Brooks Avenue and Adam Court onto Thorman Avenue or Manbrin Drive is hazard-
ous according to area residents.
there and you cannot see the
oncoming traffi c,” Courser
said.
Mike Griffi n, the Public
Works liaison to the commit-
tee, said he’d fl oated the idea
of a four-way stop to Public
Works Director Bill Lawyer,
but it was a nonstarter.
It’s the second time in re-
cent months the committee
has been asked to address con-
cerns in the area. Previous-
ly, other residents requested
a stop to on-street parking
along Manbrin.
Committee
members
Kathy Lincoln and Tillman
agreed to meet at the site with
Keizer Public Works employ-
ees to discuss potential solu-
tions and report back at the
February meeting.
The other major news out
of the meeting was it appears
as though Keizer will not be
a recipient of state grants to
fund Safe Routes to Schools
projects in the city.
Last year, the city put in
grant requests to install curbs
and sidewalks along Delight
Street Northeast and in the
area around Kennedy Ele-
mentary School.
Committee member Pat
Fisher attended a meeting of
the group determining which
projects would receive funding
in December and said Keizer’s
projects weren’t among the
top qualifi ers.
“I found the process very
different in that they weren’t
talking about the merits of
specifi c projects. They talked
about the geographic distri-
bution,” Fisher said.
Fisher was told that all proj-
ects are still, technically, in the
running, but Keizer’s projects
were not on the high priority
lists revealed at the December
meeting.
Newly minted
detective pulls
off a 3-for-1
sient. Stainbrook admitted to
By ERIC A. HOWALD
breaking into the church of-
Of the Keizertimes
A fee to support additional fi ce on Jan. 3 and confessed to
taking additional items from
police offi cers is paying off.
With the department at the church in July 2018.
“Det. Farrens investigation
near full capacity, offi cers have
taken on new roles behind the and follow-up identifi ed the
scenes and it includes an ad- suspect, but not only did he
ditional detective dedicated to clear one crime by arrest, he
property crimes. Det. RJ Far- cleared two other crimes that
rens is already demonstrating were committed by the same
how the extra funding is bol- suspect,” said Deputy Chief
Jeff Kuhns in commending
stering police efforts.
On Jan. 3, Farrens respond- Farrens’ work.
Stainbrook
was
ed to the report of
charged with bur-
a burglary at Keizer
glary, theft and crim-
Church of Christ on
inal mischief and
Ridge Drive North-
taken to the Marion
east during his regu-
County Jail where he
lar shift and began an
was released due to
investigation imme-
overcrowding on Jan.
diately. Surveillance
10.
footage led him to
On Jan. 14, Stain-
a suspect. It didn’t M. Stainbrook
brook was again
hurt that the suspect
left behind items taken from found in Keizer in possession
a vehicle on McLeod Lane of a bicycle that had been
Northeast shortly before the reported stolen the previous
evening, methamphetamine
church break-in.
Five days later, Farrens, and a weapon he was pro-
with help from additional of- hibited from possessing as a
fi cers, arranged to purchase convicted felon. He was again
some of the stolen property. taken to Marion County Jail
One of the items purchased and later released later that
was confi rmed to have be- same day.
Sheriff Jason Myers recent-
longed to the church using
ly told local chiefs of police
serial numbers.
The suspect selling the that the jail is reviewing how
property was identifi ed as it releases inmates with plans
Matthew Stainbrook, a tran- to change the process.
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