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APRIL 5, 2019, KEIZERTIMES, PAGE A5 COLLEGE, continued from Page A1 DRIVE A LITTLE – SAVE A BUNCH! 3893 COMMERCIAL ST SE • SALEM MORE INFO AT NORTHERNLIGHTSTHEATREPUB.COM OPEN CAPTION SHOWING Green Book (PG-13) Saturday, April 20 SATURDAY, APRIL 6 THE LEGO MOVIE 2 (PG) 11:00 AM TICKETS ARE JUST $4 SPECIAL SHOWING FOR KIDS AND ADULTS WITH AUTISM OR OTHER SENSORY SENSITIVITIES. 11:30 AM, TICKETS ARE $4/EACH. Special showing with captioning shown on screen with the movie. Student Night EVERY THURSDAY! All Ages Movies in Theatre #3. Today in History Kareem Abdul-Jabbar scores the 31,420th point of his career, breaking the NBA’s all-time scoring record, which had been held by Wilt Chamberlain. — April 5, 1984 Food 4 Thought “If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.” — Colin Powell, former Secretary of State, born April 5, 1937 The Month Ahead 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. Saturday, April 6 The Salem Saturday Market will be open for its 21st season.It is located steps away from the Oregon State Capitol building, and will host over 150 vendors showcasing the bounty and art in Salem and the Mid-Willamette Valley. 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. The tea is $35 per guest and $31.50 for Deepwood members. You can purchase tickets or get more information by visiting deepwoodmuseum.org or by calling (503) 363-1825. Wednesday, April 10 Boy Scout Troop 105 will be having a fundraiser from 11 a.m. to close on Wednesday, April 10 at the Keizer Papa Murphy’s off of River Road. Ten percent of the sales for the day and proceeds will go towards hiking and camping trips, as well as important gear. Sunday, April 14 The Willamette Lutheran Retirement Community will have a Palm Sunday Brunch at 10 a.m. at their retirement community. Admission is $12 for ages 11 and up, $6 for ages four and up, and free for children three and under. All proceeds will be donated to support local community and worldwide projects. Participants can pay at the door, and parties of fi ve or more should RSVP at the business offi ce and register by Monday, April 8. Keizer/Salem Area Senior Center will host a Hawaiian Luau in their ballroom. Doors open at noon and dinner is served from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Cost is only $15, and guests will be able to enjoy a meal and a Fun Raffl e. Music will also be performed by the band Lee Nicholas and Diane starting at 2 p.m. Tickets are available at the front desk or at the door of the Keizer/Salem Area Senior Center. Tuesday, April 16 McNary High School will host Capital College Night from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. More than 25 Oregon colleges and universities will be at the event to answer questions and provide information. It is open to any high school student and families. Students and parents will also have the option of attending Educational Breakout sessions. 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. The VIP event starts at 5 p.m. and the dinner program starts at 6 p.m. Dinner and program tickets are $50 or $500 per table. VIP reception and dinner program $100 per person or $1,000 per table. Thursday, May 2 The 21st Annual Mayor’s Prayer Breakfast will begin at 7:30 a.m. at the Keizer Civic Center to celebrate National Day of Prayer. The event is non-denominational and all are welcome to participate. You can register at keizerchamber.com. Sunday, May 5 St. Paul’s Music Guild Presents: Extraordinary Young Musicians. Sadie Byler, a cellist from South Salem High School, will perform. Starts at 4 p.m. at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 1444 Liberty Street SE in Salem. sudoku had the potential to go to Stanford.” Going from Keizer to the Bay Area was a bit of a adjustment for Llanos, but she has adapted quite nicely. “So far, my year has been amazing. College can be a really amazing experience when you fi nd community and people you identify with,” Llanos said. “Stanford is a very diffi cult academic school, but I feel like the skills that I learned in high school have transferred over.” Those skills, however, didn’t just come from McNary. As the fi rst members of their respective families to attend college, Llanos and Hernandez both acknowledged how infl uential the Willamette Academy was for them. Willamette Academy was founded in 2001 by members of Willamette University with the goal of educating, inspiring and empowering students from historically underrepresented communities who have the desire to advance to and achieve higher education. With a fi ve-year cohort that allows students to enter the program in seventh grade, the Willamette Academy hopes to bring the benefi ts of higher education to communities who may never have considered it possible. “The Willamette program demonstrated to me that I could attend college, despite my obstacles. Not just a community college or a local college, but any college I set my mind to,” Hernandez said. “The work I did there was important to me because I didn’t want to repeat the cycle of poverty.” “It defi nitely defi ned my path.” RANGE, continued from Page A1 The incident followed a similar one that occurred in September 2017. On Sept. 10, a hail of bullets drove visitors out of Sunset Park and residents out of their homes. Police offi cers confronted a group using the shooting range and led offi cers to a car with an AR-15 inside it but Because of his past experience with college access programs, Hernandez wanted to fi nd ways to get involved in that arena once he got to the Pomona campus. It didn’t take him long to do so. In February, Pomona sent Hernandez to Harvard University to attend a leadership conference for fi rst-generation low-income students. Whether it was talking about uplifting intersectional identities, or meeting people from across the country with similar backgrounds, it was a trip that Hernandez won’t soon forget. “It was one of the best weekends of my life,” Hernandez said. While he was at Harvard, one of the fi rst people wanted to share the information with was his former high school English teacher, Heather Woodward. “I was very surprised when I picked up the call and Samuel wanted to talk to me. I could hear how happy he was in his voice right away,” Woodward said. “I was shocked he was thanking me. I mean, I’m just one small part of these students’ lives. It’s so amazing to get the chance to hear from them as successful adults.” Woodward, who is now a language arts instructor at Claggett Creek Middle School, taught Hernandez and Llanos at McNary during their junior years. Hernandez struggled with depression in the latter part of his high school life. As a coping mechanism, he would write poetry, and he trusted his teacher enough to let her read and critique it. Through these interactions, Woodward encouraged Hernandez in a way that stuck with him for his remaining days as a high schooler. “I found solace through poetry and (Woodward) helped me process my emotions in a productive manner,” no one confessed to using it. Offi cers could not prove the AR-15 had been fi red or who had done so, but they suspect someone was using it to shoot at clay targets tossed into the air. Davis agreed to cease using his quarry as a shooting range until some sort of legal conclusion was reached, but there is nothing binding to prevent him from starting up again at will. ACTIVIST: ‘Many things to many people’ (Continued from Page A1) the history of the country that such corrective action had been taken. “You never quit being an Indian just because your tribe has been terminated,” Pigsley said of the feat in 1991. Pigsley has never stopped fi ghting for the rights of the Siletz. As chief negotiator for the Siletz Tribe, Pigsley passed agree- ments with Congress, negotiated compacts, and testifi ed on Capi- tol Hill before Congress. She has worked with the Bureau of Indi- an Affairs and Indian Health Services on behalf of tribal members. The Confederated Tribe of the Siletz Indians, which was once on the verge of ceasing to exist, now owns and manages a reserva- tion of over 3,500 acres, with a casino, resorts, hotels, a school and health clinics. Pigsley has served as tribal chairman for 32 years. “Delores is many things to many people: a chairman, a leader, a role model, a wife, a mother and a grandmother. In spite of all her accomplishments, she remains humble, attributing much of her success to other Tribal council leaders and to many national Tribal leaders who have served as mentors to her,” Merkley wrote. Junk Hunt planned in Salem The Great Junk Hunt will be at the Oregon State Fair Grounds on Friday, April 12 and Saturday, April 13. 3893 COMMERCIAL ST SE THIS WEEK’S MOVIE TIMES What Men Want (R) Fri 8:45, Sat 6:30, Sun 7:25 Fighting with My Family (PG-13) Fri 4:30, 9:05. Sat 4:25, Sun 2:15 Mary Poppins Returns (PG) Fri 2:00, 6:25, Sat 1:55, 3:25, Sun 11:45, 4:20 With over 45,000 square feet fi lled with the best ven- dors in the Northwest, par- ticipants will be able to fi nd hand-picked vendors selling farmhouse, industrial, vintage, vintage-inspired, re-purposed, and handmade goods. Early bird tickets to shop on Friday night from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. will be available for $15 at the door. These tickets will provide for Friday and Satur- day admission. General admission tickets for Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. can be purchased at the door for $7. Tickets can also be pur- chased in advance at thegreat- junkhunt.com. GROWTH: Greater density, dev. incentives possible (Continued from Page A1) to the use of private vehicles, but aside from the space every two-car household requires there are other costs in terms of environmental impacts and livability. By reducing or eliminating off-street parking requirements, the city could slight uptick in available space. Keizer has also taken steps to reduce street width, another step in deterring car travel. ALLOWING MORE ATTACHED MULTIFAMILY HOUSING While there are a number of duplexes mixed in with residential neighborhoods, Keizer could do more in this regard by encouraging development of triplexes, quadplexes, townhouses and row houses. Implementing zoning or development codes to encourage this type of development would check two boxes for Keizer: increasing density with more affordable rents. ENTICING DEVELOPERS One of the largest obstacles to new development of any sort right now is derived from city’s inability to entice investment through monetary means. The city already has some of the cheapest building costs around in terms building and permit fees and system development charges (SDCs), but the report suggests even these might be waived. While that might get developers salivating, any roads and infrastructure built to sustain new neighborhoods and homes are eventually turned over to the city and money to maintain them “has to come from somewhere” according to a comment on this particular suggestion. Alternately, the city could allow developers to pay SDCs over a longer time period and reduce upfront costs. The city could also establish Urban Renewal Districts that would allow tax increases for a maze Dogs Way Home (PG) Sun 3:05 predetermined amount of time to go back into improving the areas within the district. While these are often enticing to those who live within a proposed district, it can create strains for other taxing agencies, like Marion County, the Salem- Keizer School District or Keizer Fire District. Keizer Fire fought hard to end a previous urban renewal district in the city when it began throttling revenues for fi re protection. The city could also make use of a Construction Excise Tax. The Oregon Legislature granted authority to levy such taxes – a percentage of the overall valuation of a new development – to generate funds for affordable housing. There are several restrictions on how such money can be used, but the amount raised would probably be minimal at best given how few spaces are left for large developments within Keizer. looking back in the KT 5 YEARS AGO Chemawa project restarting Just a bit later than expected the fi nal phase of the Chemawa Road North construction project should be restarted next week. 10 YEARS AGO Brooks fi rm endeavoring to take oil from plastic BROOKS -- a fi rm here is teaming up with a Washington based company that says they’ve found a better use for non- recyclable plastics. 15 YEARS AGO Sharing the road: City councilors mulling fi xes for Chemawa Road Sunny spring weather on Monday brought Keizer kids out in twos, threes and more, headed to neighborhood parks and ballfi elds. Along Chemawa Road, east of River Road that put them elbow-to-bumper, as they walked the narrow bike path next to a stream of cars and trucks. Aquaman (PG-13) Fri 6:00, Sat 4:10, 8:20 Sun 6:05, 8:45 Cold Pursuit (R) Sun 8:30 Green Book (PG-13) Fri 4:00, Sat 1:00, Sun 12:40 Isn’t it Romantic (PG-13) Fri 8:50, Sat 8:45, Sun 6:45 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. Hernandez said. “It helped me get through some really diffi cult times, so when I was at Harvard, I just felt like I needed to share that excitement with her.” Llanos also expressed her appreciation for Woodward as a teacher. “She was not only a good person, but she really cared about helping us develop skills that we could apply later in life,” Llanos said. “She cared enough to be honest with her students and that builds a really strong relationship with students.” “She also helped me a lot with my college essay and I think that was one of the things that helped me get into Stanford.” As the school year is wrapping up, both Llanos and Hernandez are getting their plans set for the summer. Hernandez is planning on interning for Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden while Llanos will either do community service work in Ecuador or work for a nonprofi t in California. But whatever Llanos and Hernandez end up doing, their former teacher has all the confi dence in the world that they are going to excel. “They are survivors. They’re tremendously strong. When they want something, it’s best to just step aside, because they will dig in their heels and get it,” Woodward said. “Crystal and Samuel personify that strength, that resilience. They also have great love for the people around them and an overarching need to see justice for all people.” “I fi nd that people who have experienced injustice fi rst hand tend to make it their business to bring justice to others. As an English teacher, there is nothing more gratifying than to see students use their words to improve our community.” Lego Movie 2 (PG) Fri 2:00, 4:00, Sat 11:00, 12:00, 2:05 Sun 12:00, 2:05, 4:05 20 YEARS AGO Spring fever hits Keizer— lower lower lower Into the Spider Verse (PG) Fri 1:45 Sat 11:40 The Upside (PG-13) Fri 6:45, Sat 5:55, Sun 5:00 FOR ALL SHOWTIMES GO TO NORTHERNLIGHTSTHEATREPUB.COM Maze by Jonathan Graf of Keizer Maria Ramos, 9, test her fl exibility and balance while playing limbo. She was one of dozens of youngsters who joined the fun at the Keizer Boys and Girls Club during Spring Break last week.
