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COLLEGE,
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Saturday, April 20
SATURDAY,
APRIL 6
THE LEGO MOVIE 2
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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,
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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’
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.