MARCH 15, 2019, KEIZERTIMES, PAGE B7
Salem area
employment
holds steady
Keizer
cook-off
Fourth and fi fth grade students from
around the Salem-Keizer School District
duked it out in the kitchen at McNary High
School Friday, March 8.
More than 50 students submitted recipes
to the competition. Sixteen were selected and
15 competed in the competition assisted by
McNary High School students in the school’s
culinary program.
Winners were: Grand prize – Sierra Hill,
Keizer Elementary School; Originality –
Gavin Harris – Salem Heights Elementary
School; Easy preparation – Eaton Cortes So-
lis, Washington Elementary School; Healthy
Attributes – Luis Perales III, Kennedy Ele-
mentary School.; Kid Friendly – Lilli Neria,
Lee Elementary School; Taste – Josie Wampler,
Forest Ridge Elementary School; Plate Pre-
sentation – Asa Scott, Myers Elementary
School.
A: Brennea Atchley sautes onions.
B: Eaton Cortes Solis chops caulifl ower.
C: Colleen Skelton browns meat.
D: Aaron Ramos reaches for more ingredients
as Josie Wampler checks her recipe.
E: Grand prize winner Sierra Hill hollows out
zucchini.
F: Lilly Libke-Wadkins assists Lillian Neria in
preparation.
KEIZERTIMES/Eric A. Howald
The Salem metropoli-
tan statistical area’s (MSA)
unemployment rate was
4.6 percent in January, es-
sentially unchanged from
its revised December rate
of 4.5 percent. Oregon’s
statewide unemployment
rate was 4.3 percent in
January, matching its re-
vised rate in December of
4.3 percent.
Salem’s January em-
ployment declines were
smaller than normal.
Salem shed an estimat-
ed 2,800 jobs in Janu-
ary when a decrease of
roughly 3,000 would be
expected, meaning sea-
sonally adjusted non-farm
employment increased by
200. Salem’s employment
was 15,500, or 10.1 per-
cent, above its pre-reces-
sion employment peak,
which occurred in April
2008.
Employment in the Sa-
lem MSA grew 1,300 over
the past year, a 0.8 percent
increase. Salem’s growth
was outpaced by the state
and the nation. Oregon’s
employment grew 1.5
percent over the past year.
Nationally, employment
was up 1.9 percent over
the past 12 months.
Salem’s private sector
added 1,200 jobs over
the past year, growing 1.0
percent. The public sector
added 600 jobs, growing
1.5 percent.
The
fastest-growing
major private-sector in-
dustries over the past year
included:
construction
(+800 jobs, or 7.8 per-
cent) and information
(+100 jobs, or 8.3 per-
cent).
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