MARCH 22, 2019, KEIZERTIMES, PAGE A5
School district eyes changes
to traffi c around Whiteaker
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Today in History
In an effort to raise funds to pay off debts and defend the vast
new American territories won from the French in the Seven
Years’ War (1756-1763), the British government passes the
Stamp Act on this day in 1765. The legislation levied a direct
tax on all materials printed for commercial and legal use in
the colonies, from newspapers and pamphlets to playing
cards and dice The colonists’ raised the issue of taxation
without representation, and formed societies throughout the
colonies to rally against the British government and nobles
who sought to exploit the colonies as a source of revenue and
raw materials.
— March 15, 1965
Food 4 Thought
“Don’t just learn something from every experience, learn
something positive.”
— Al Neuharth, founder of USA Today, born March 22, 1924
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 22
Enlightened Theatrics debuts the Tony-award winning
musical Avenue Q. The show plays through April 14. Visit
enlightened theatrics.org for showtimes and tickets.
Saturday, March 23
Keizer/Salem Area Seniors, Saturday Night Dance and
Potluck featuring music by The Country Gents. 7-10 p.m.,
Admission $5, 930 Plymouth Drive NE, Keizer, 97303.
Wednesday, March 27
All are welcome to Bingo from 12:30-3:30 p.m. Admission
is $5.50, there will be a chance to win monetary prizes,
free game cards and daubers. 930 Plymouth Drive NE,
Keizer 97303.
Come have a free meal at the St Edward Catholic Church
at 5303 River Road N on Wednesday March 27. Dinner
is served from 5 p.m.-7 p.m. and is hosted by a variety
of local Keizer businesses and groups. This is a great
opportunity to enjoy free food and meet new people.
Sunday, March 31
The Japanese Cultural Society will present a Spring
Teatime Concert inside Tiga Sushi Bar and Asian Bistro
260 Liberty Street SE Salem. The concert will begin at
3 p.m. and present a collaboration of the traditional
Japanese instruments, the koto and the shakuhachi.
Tickets are $25 at the door and $20 in advance. For more
information or to reserve your tickets go to oregon.jcs@
gmail.com.
Sunday, April 7
Sunday, April 7
A string quartet will perform Franz Josef Haydn’s piece
Seven Last Words of Christ for the seventh concert in the
2018-19 Evensong Concert Series. St. Paul’s Episcopal
Church in Salem.
Tuesday, April 9
A three-course high tea will be served at Deepwood
Museum and Gardens in Salem. The fi rst seating will
begin at 11 a.m. and the second seating will begin at
2 p.m. During the tea time guests will explore what
happened at Deepwood and in the world from the year
1900 through 1919. The tea is $35 per guest and $31.50
for Deepwood members. You can purchase tickets or get
more information by visiting depwoodmuseum.org or by
calling (503) 363-1825.
Friday, April 26
The Mid Valley Literacy Center presents Spotlight on
Literacy, an opportunity for supporters to come together
and recognize the past year’s accomplishments and
recognize the progress made by students. The event will
be held at Creekside Golf Club, 6250 Clubhouse Dr SE,
Salem, OR 97306. The VIP event starts at 5 p.m. and
the dinner program starts at 6 p.m. Dinner and program
tickers are $50/guest or $500/table/ VIP reception and
dinner program $100/guest or 1,000/table.
By HERB SWETT
For the Keizertimes
Easing traffi c around Whiteaker
Middle School was the purpose of a
property transaction proposal approved
by the Salem-Keizer School Board on
Tuesday, March 12.
The project would be part of the city
of Keizer’s Transportation Systems Plan
and would add a dedicated right turn
lane for westbound traffi c on Lockhaven
Drive to turn north onto 14th Avenue.
An additional right-of-way along the
front of the campus is needed for the
project, which would not reduce parking
space or access to Lockhaven Drive. The
city would pay all project costs.
Also approved for fi rst reading was the
proposed purchase of Auburn Park from
Marion County. The park area, about
4.37 acres, would support the expansion
of Auburn Elementary School. The
appraised value is $360,000 and the
district is prepared to pay up to $15,000
in additional appraisals that the county
would need to fi nd suitable replacement
park lands.
In other business, the board
accepted the overall positive evaluation
of Superintendent Christy Perry’s
performance for the 2017-18 school
year. The board also approved three-year
contracts, effective July 1, for John Beight,
executive director, human resources; and
Michael Wolfe, chief operating offi cer.
Director Paul Kyllo was the only board
member to vote against the contracts and
declined to state his reasons.
The board accepted six grants, fi ve of
them through the Oregon Department
of Education (ODE) and four of the fi ve
involved federal programs. The largest
PARKS: 6-2 vote dissent
arose over fund tracking
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then get reimbursed, youth
projects could be funded di-
rectly through the fund.
Robert Johnson, Keizer’s
parks supervisor, said the idea
had the support of staff, but
suggested not limiting the
program to $2,000 from the
outset. Instead, he suggested,
roll it into ask for the existing
matching grant program.
“Limiting yourself too
much could prevent a fantastic
project from being complet-
ROAD,
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Sangster, a committee mem-
ber.
Committee
Member
David Dempster said during
a recent trip to Munich,
Germany, he encountered
sidewalks with lanes painted
down the middle that are
used by both pedestrians and
cyclists.
“It isn’t great, but it works.
The majority of people are
able to maneuver,” Dempster
said.
The committee didn’t
propose striping the sidewalk,
but its solution would work
essentially the same way.
Without additional right-
of-way, the space to expand the
sidewalks would be recouped
by narrowing the existing
lanes of River Road from 12
feet to 10 feet. Narrowing
the lanes of vehicle travel
might also accomplish a long-
standing goal of reducing
crash related injuries and
fatalities in Keizer. Narrower
lanes of traffi c, prevailing
studies suggest, would reduce
the tendency to speed.
“We’re used to giving
people more [space] than
they need for cars. This might
get them to slow down,”
Dempster said.
ed,” Johnson said. “You still
want to encourage a match-
ing effort, but it’s sometimes
the reimbursement that holds
some people up if an Eagle
Scout’s family doesn’t have
funds to get a project started.”
While the underlying idea
was one board members sup-
ported, the mechanics of how
it would work became more
heated.
“I like what we’re doing
here, but not the way we’re
doing it,” said Clint Holland,
grant of the four, which is $2,675,572,
aims at helping students in schools
with high percentages of poverty meet
challenging state academic standards.
The other three grants are $27,005,
$459,076 and $54,009 respectively
for the three phases of the District
Engagement involving studies for
improving education.
Also from ODE is $2,218 for support
of students with disabilities. The grant
not involving ODE is $152,000 from
the Community Resource Trust for
innovations and practices to improve
student achievement at McKay and
North Salem high schools.
The board designated April as Child
Abuse Prevention Month.
It approved contracts for hundreds
of teachers and administrators in the
district.
a board member. “If we’re not
matching [money], we’ll use
the [fund] twice as fast.”
It should be noted that dis-
cussions such as these are rare
for the municipal commit-
tees and boards in Keizer. The
Parks Advisory Board is the
only such entity with author-
ity over how a portion of city
budget (the $10,000 matching
grant fund) is spent.
“If we start pulling items
from one line item in differ-
ent directions there are going
to be a lot of questions about
where the money is, where it’s
coming from and where it’s
going,” said Donna Bradley, a
board member.
The board is also on a
deadline. To get any increase
in the existing matching grant
program or establish a youth
fund, it needs approval of the
city’s budget committee that
begins meeting in April.
In the end, the board passed
a recommendation to request
a $5,000 increase to the over-
all matching grant program to
meet the budget deadline and
plan to return to the issue at
a future meeting to determine
how youth funding will fi t
into the picture.
The
recommendation
passed with a 6-2 vote, Brad-
ley and Holland voted against
the motion.
What is that purple truck?
By HUNTER BOMAR
Of the Keizertimes
Oishi Express is a food
truck at 392 Chemawa Road
N that serves Japanese-Amer-
ican style food.
The truck arrived in Keizer
in February and began serving
their large-portion food com-
bos which can include beef,
chicken, or shrimp.
They are open everyday
from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. ex-
cept on Fridays when they are
open from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
“Most people see food
trucks as cheap, selling burg-
ers and fries, but we are selling
high-level restaurant quality
food,” said Edward Zant, the
owner.
KEIZERTIMES/Hunter Bomar
Oishi Express is serving up Japanese-American fusion cuisine
at a food truck on Chemawa Road N.
Zant
Japanese
opening
he hopes
worked in many
restaurants before
Oishi Express and
to one day open his
CITY: ‘We are good
at stretching a buck’
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“We are working with Rep. Bill Post and Sen. Kim Thatcher to
establish recourse for people when they are irresponsible,” Clark
said.
Clark cited numerous new shops that have opened over the
course of the past year, but reserved special attention for In-N-Out,
the burger joint planned for Keizer Station. Clark said she had nev-
er handled as many media requests as the day after a representative
from the company spoke with the city council in 2018. While the
process is moving slowly, Clark said the city wanted other local
businesses to see it as a chance to promote their services and wares.
“We all know that there is going to be a lot of activity and we
want to make sure it is an opportunity for everyone,” she said.
She also heralded the staff at the city – ranging from police offi -
cers to parks employees – for making good use of fees put in place
to bolster both services.
“We are good at stretching a buck, but it takes more to get peo-
ple out there … and bring the city up to a level where you feel
safe,” Clark said.
The mayor started her speech highlighting the work that’s being
done to alleviate the issue of homelessness in the area. She said
better data on the population in most dire need and a map of ex-
isting services are being put to use to develop better collaboration
throughout Marion County.
“It’s the strong collaboration with service providers that are
making change. We’re in a better place with services but we still
have a long way to go,” she said.
maze
own restaurant. He wants to
share his food with the Keiz-
er community and let them
know that the food is made
with fresh ingredients, is high
quality and is made to order.
If you are short on time,
you can also place an order in
advance by calling 971-621-
1352.
looking
back in
the KT
5 YEARS AGO
The bard goes
steampunk
Of all the things that could
possibly create challenges for the
McNary High School students
working behind the scene to
put on a steampunk-themed
production of The Tempest, the
biggest was on they weren’t
expecting: brown pants.
10 YEARS AGO
Ex-chief will run
for fi re board
The ballot is set for local
school, fi re board and transits
elections with a former Keizer
fi re chief deciding to seek a
board position.
15 YEARS AGO
World of science
opens doors —
windows, too — for
McNary students
sudoku
Windows and ter restr ial
arthropods aren’t they typical
passions for high school students
today. Yet for two McNary
High School sophomores, an
obsession for such unusual
topics brought accolades at a
recent research competition.
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.
20 YEARS AGO
First Lady fi nds home
at capitol
Maze by Jonathan Graf of Keizer
Keizer’s First Lady doesn’t have
much time to bke cookies.
Marion Newton - wife of
Keizer’s new mayor Bob
Newton - had her hands full
with her job at the Legislature.