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Today in History
Newly elected President John F. Kennedy issues an executive
order establishing the Peace Corps. This force would be made
up of civilians who would volunteer their time and skills to
travel to underdeveloped nations to assist them in any way
they could.
— March 1, 1961
Food 4 Thought
“Being ‘at the mercy of legislative majorities’ is merely another
way of describing the basic American plan: representative
democracy.”
— Robert Bork,federal judge, born March 1,1927
The Month Ahead
Continuing through Friday, March 29
The Keizer Heritage Museum is featuring an exhibit of
Tammy Wild’s glass collection including uranium glass,
vaseline glass and canary glass among other types. Museum
hours are Tuesdays and Thursdays 2 to 4 p.m., Saturdays 10
a.m. to 4 p.m. keizerheritage.org.
Continuing through Saturday, April 20
Romance is the theme of the 9th annual Heritage Invitation
Exhibit at Willamette Heritage Center at Mission Mill.
Nine museums from around the region each have displays
including Keizer Heritage Museum’s unique Keizur family
wedding socks (on loan from the Oregon Historical Society).
To learn more visit willametteheritage.org.
Friday, March 1
Pentacle Theatre presents Mamma Mia!, the musical
scored with ABBA songs. Shows through March 23. Visit
pentacletheatre.org for show times and tickets.
Join Marion County Health and Human Services for a
discussion of alcohol and young adults. Share experiences,
thoughts and ideas about alcohol use and it’s impacts on
young adults living both on and off campus in the Salem
area. Anyone who is interested in fostering a safe and healthy
environment is welcome to come. Willamette University,
Putnam University Center, 3rd fl oor, 900 State St, Salem,
OR 97301, from 2 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Sunday, March 3
Jean-David Coen Concert. Coen performs music by Franz
Schubert and Claude Debussy for the sixth concert in the
2018-19 Evensong Concert Series. Starts at 4 p.m. at St. Paul’s
Episcopal Church, 1444 Liberty Street SE in Salem.
Monday, March 4
Keizer City Council meeting, 7 p.m., Keizer Civic Center, 930
Chemawa Road N.E.
Tuesday, March 12
Free admission all day at Hallie Ford Museum of Art, 700
State Street. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Wednesday, March 6
Claggett Creek Watershed Council meeting, Keizer Civic
Center, 5:30 to 730 p.m., 930 Chemawa Road N.E.
Pentacle Theatre presents Mamma Mia!, the musical scored
with ABBA songs. Special benefi t performance for KMUZ,
7:30 p.m.
Thursday, March 7
Southeast Keizer Neighborhood Association meeting, 6:30
p.m., Keizer Civic Center, 930 Chemawa Road N.E.
Saturday, March 9
Poetry Out Loud state fi nals, 1 to 4 p.m. at the Salem Public
Library, 585 State Street S.E. in Salem. Loucks Auditorium.
Amid dissent, school board
approves Salem urban renewal
By HERB SWETT
For the Keizertimes
The Salem-Keizer School Board on
Tuesday approved a request from the city
of Salem to support tax exemptions for a
downtown urban renewal project.
M Parkside Living, LLC, had received
unanimous approval from the Salem City
Council for The Court Yard Apartments,
which would consist of a 42,866-square-
foot apartment building with 40 units, a
2,359-square-foot commercial building,
and 40 parking spaces.
For the project to be exempt from prop-
erty taxes from other taxing districts, the
governing bodies of taxing districts repre-
senting at least 51 percent of the combined
tax rate must approve the exemption.
The matter was on the board’s February
12 agenda, but with director Chuck Lee
absent but communicating by telephone,
a technical diffi culty prevented him from
voting. The item failed by a tie vote, and
director Jim Green said he would bring the
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had told their parents said their
parents made them feel bad
for identifying at LGBTQ, 78
percent said even their parents
did not know of their identity
struggles.
I’ve worked with McNary
students in an after school
creative writing club for the
past eight years. Every one
of those years, at least one of
“my kids” has identifi ed as
a member of the LGBTQ
community. I’ve read about
their struggles, heard from
friends and family about other
trials and hardships, and, when
the stars align, they seek me
out as a confi dante.
Last year, as the result of a
story that is not mine to share,
I decided with a few students
that we would rekindle the fi re
of the McNary Gay-Straight
Alliance (GSA).
Since that time, the GSA
students spoke to the entire
McNary faculty about the
need to end the use of the
CHARTER,
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Keizertimes drew attention
to issue in September 2018.
But, changing the charter is
easier said than done.
“The state can't remove it
by a council, only the voters
can. The council does not have
the authority on our own to
make this change,” Clark said.
“We can work with the com-
munity to get this on the bal-
lot and take care of it appro-
priately.”
Section 44 of the Keizer
city charter was approved by
voters in 1993 and would still
be in effect had the state leg-
islature not rendered it moot.
City staff will return to
council with a resolution to
form a charter review com-
Monday, March 11
Keizer City Council work session, 7 p.m., Keizer Civic Center,
930 Chemawa Road N.E.
Tuesday, March 12
Willamette Valley Women’s Military League holds it monthly
meeting today at 11 a.m. at Danny’s-on-the-Green Restaurant
at Creekside Golf Club, 6250 Club House Dr. SE. Speaker:
Stephen L. Bates, president of the Oregon Vietnam War
Memorial Fund.
Keizer Parks Advisory Board meeting, 6 p.m., Keizer Civic
Center, 930 Chemawa Road N.E.
Friday, March 15
One night only—Improvising Folk at Rogers Music Center,
Hudson Hall, on Willamette University campus. An evening
of cool jazz by the Willamette Jazz Collective and guests,
Little One. Tickets are $10. willamette.edu/arts/theatre/
Add your event by e-mailing news@keizertimes.com.
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THIS WEEK’S
MOVIE TIMES
Vice (R)
Fri 8:45, Sat 9:00, Sun 7:45
Mary Poppins Returns (PG)
Fri 1:30, 6:10,
Sat 12:00 2:30,
Sun 12:40, 2:30, 5:00
Kid Who Would Be King (PG)
Fri 3:35, Sat 2:15, 3:05,
Sun 1:55
matter up at the next meeting.
After City Manager Steve Powers of
Salem spoke to the board Tuesday, noting
that the tax impact would be on the urban
renewal district only, not the school dis-
trict, Green moved for board approval of
the tax exemptions.
The board approved his motion 5-2,
with Paul Kyllo and Jesse Lippold op-
posed. Kyllo argued against partnering
with a council that had rejected a pro-
posed third bridge in Salem. Lippold said
the move would amount to giving money
to a group that already could afford the
project.
In other business, the board voted to
acquire land owned by St. Edward Catho-
lic Church and adjacent to McNary High
School, to add various facilities to accom-
modate an anticipated enrollment of 2,200
students. After initial opposition from the
church and considerable negotiating, the
board agreed to pay $2,262,400 for the
land.
terms “fag” and “faggot” – we
prefer to call them “f-slurs” –
in McNary’s hallowed halls and
classrooms, and the importance
of not mis-gendering students
whose gender identity does
not align with their physical
traits.
Last Saturday, the GSA
hosted the fi lm festival and
invited all of Salem-Keizer’s
middle and high school
students to join us in the
creating a new segment of this
community that is desperately
needed. About 15 to 20 visitors
– teens and parents – who
weren’t already associated with
our club turned out. It’s a start.
Our next project is
sending greeting cards to
LGBTQ youth and adults in
the United Kingdom who
lack support as their make
their way in the world, part
of a larger effort named The
Rainbow Cards Project (www.
therainbowcardsproject.org).
All of this has occurred in
less than a year from the day
I talked with students about
restarting the GSA. My eyes
welled up with tears numerous
times during the fi lm festival
and it didn’t have anything to
do with onscreen images.
I thought long and hard
about what I wanted to tell
the GSA Club during our fi rst
meeting. As a member of the
cis-gendered,
heterosexual,
white, male patriarchy, there’s
only so much I can do or say
that’s relevant to what they
are going through. I settled
on telling them that the lesson
I hoped they learned from
my presence as adviser was
how they should expect to
be accepted, respected and
understood in the big, wide
world.
Still, I am concerned. I can
model what I want them to
experience, but I cannot force
others to treat them in the
same way. It’s also diffi cult for
them to accept my modeling
as truth when I was the only
adult male in the room last
Saturday. A small part of me
fears for them and all the
things I cannot protect them
from, but it doesn’t stop us
from communicating with
depth and care.
Lately, I’ve taken to telling
them that we have to prove we
care so other people know it is
okay to do the same. The looks
I get in response run the gamut
from hopeful to incredulous to
disappointed.
I get it. Why should we
burden our youth with
showing, or reminding, us how
to care? Wouldn’t it be easier to
not care? Shouldn’t caring be
the default?
In my ideal world, only the
third question matters. The
answer obvious.
Yet, here we are, in the
struggle every day to reach
a day when I don’t have to
worry about what pictures
accompany a story about
young people trying to
become the truest version of
themselves.
If you want to be an ally to
the McNary GSA, let us know
at gsamcnary@gmail.com. If you
want to be an ally to the larger
LGBTQ community in Salem-
Keizer, attend a meeting of the
recently-revitalized Salem-Keizer
PFLAG, dates and times are at
www.gaysalem.org.
mittee and the goal is to place
revised language on the ballot
in 2020.
Waiting until next year will
keep the cost of engaging vot-
ers on the matter to a mini-
mum.
Section 44, which was ap-
proved by Keizer voters in
1993, prohibited the city from:
extending minority status to
individuals based on sexual
orientation and expending
funds that “promote homo-
sexuality or express approval
of homosexual behavior.”
The effort to pass the mea-
sure in Keizer was a last-ditch
attempt by members of the
No Special Rights Committee
and Oregon Citizens Alliance
to put in place such language
wherever they could. After
several attempts to have simi-
lar measures passed statewide,
the groups targeted a more
limited number of individual
cities and counties where they
thought the ideas might gain
traction. Keizer was on the
short list and didn't disappoint
the idea's supporters when it
hit the ballot box. Voters ap-
proved the measure with a 55
percent majority.
Councilor Roland Herre-
ra remembered the era with
some disdain.
“This always disturbed me.
This was wrong back then, I
was personally involved in
fi ghting it and I was disap-
pointed in Keizer at the time,”
Herrera said.
The Oregon Legislature
had already passed a measure
making all such local provi-
sions unenforceable. Legisla-
tors returned to the issue in
2017 with a statute putting any
local government that tried to
enforce on the hook for court
challenges. Despite the neu-
tering, the language has re-
mained in the city's founding
document for 25 years.
Councilor Dan Kohler de-
livered one of the strongest re-
bukes of Section 44 calling it a
“blemish on the quality of the
city. Keizer is a place where
anyone ... should be able to
thrive. [Section 44] is inconsis-
tent with the Keizer way.”
Chemeketa hosts
state robotics fi nale
Chemeketa Community
College will host the VEX
Robotics State Finale on Fri-
day, March 8, and Saturday,
March 9. The event will be
at the Salem campus in the
Building 7 Gym starting at 5
p.m. on Friday and 8 a.m. on
Saturday.
The public is invited to see
middle and high school teams
from across Oregon compete
to qualify for the VEX Ro-
botics World Championship
in April. Students compete
by demonstrating their robot
construction, technical skills,
and teamwork abilities.
The event encourages
schools and students to be-
come a part of the solution for
the growing need for robotic
technicians.
maze
Bumblebee (PG-13)
Fri 4:10, 6:30,
Sat 6:10,
Sun 6:25
looking
back in
the KT
5 YEARS AGO
Worth the wait, Keizer
man honored
In a special ceremony at the
governor’s office Feb. 21, an
emotional Robert Robison
was presented with two Purple
Hearts. He survived two separate
injuries during the Korean War.
10 YEARS AGO
Stimulus may bring
new cop, sidewalks
Street upgrades and a new
police officer could be
coming to town as a result
of the recently-passed federal
stimulus plan.
15 YEARS AGO
A Star is Born (R)
Fri 8:35,
Sat 8:20,
Sun 7:30
We’re No. 1!
The McNary High School
Lady Celts basketball team won
the Valley League championship.
It is the fi rst women’s basketball
team in school history to win
the title.
Fantastic Beasts 2 (PG-13)
Sun 3:10
Enter digits
from 1-9 into
the blank
spaces. Every
row must
contain one
of each digit.
So must every
column, as
must every
3x3 square.
The board also approved six grants,
the largest $907,108 in federal programs
through the Oregon Department of Ed-
ucation, for various programs. Also from
ODE are $237,814 for behavioral learn-
ing, $82,107 for excess costs of services to
students who have disabilities, $34,300 for
a teacher mentor program, and $13,187
to support statewide training for students
with disabilities.
The remaining grant, $2,800 from the
Siletz Tribal Charitable Contribution
Fund, will fund a three-week summer
program, called People of the Light, for
American Indian and Alaska native stu-
dents.
Four of the personnel actions approved
by the board involve the McNary atten-
dance area. The board approved temporary
full-time status for Bullington Stort at Mc-
Nary and accepted the resignations of Erin
Ellison and Jesse Ellison from Claggett
Creek Middle School and Christopher
Roach from Weddle Elementary School.
Instant Family (PG-13)
Fri 5:50, Sat 4:30
20 YEARS AGO
Dogs Way Home (PG)
Fri 1:45, Sat 12:20
Sun 12:00, 5:45
FEMA threatens to
pull $375,000 fl ood
grant
Mule (R)
Fri 8:10, Sat 6:45, Sun 8:35
Keizer could lose $375,000 in
federal money to help with
flooding if it doesn’t find
a project soon that appeals
to the Federal Emergency
Management Agency.
Ralph Breaks the Internet (PG)
Fri 1:45, 4:00,
Sat 11:40 1:50, 4:00
Sun 12:20, 4:15
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