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SINCE 1979 • VOLUME 40, NO. 38 SECTION A JUNE 21, 2019 $1.00 Volcanoes win opener PAGE A11 BY ERIC A. HOWALD/OF THE KEIZERTIMES Photo courtesy of Gia Goodrich Anthony Hudson, a 2004 graduate of McNary High School, created a one-person show, Looking for Tiger Lily, to investigate and interrogate what any of us consider identity. Hudson, with mic, is pictured here in a scene from the show. McNary alum straddles multiple identities with Looking for Tiger Lily The fi rst time Anthony Hudson saw a performer in drag an idea took root, but it took another 15 years for it to blossom. “I was transfi xed by the creation and my mom being uncomfortable. She saw a man and I saw the most glamorous women I’d ever seen in my life,” Hudson said. “It was a realization that none of the gender roles we believe in are real and they could be torn apart.” Hudson’s one-person show, Looking for Tiger Lily, was recently featured in Australia’s YIRRAMBOI Festival, a celebration of art by First Peoples where Hudson was one of only two international artists invited. The show is a semi-autobiographical retelling of Hudson’s life growing up in Keizer as multicultural – Native American and German – overweight and queer. Hudson’s alter-ego in the show is a drag clown named Carla Rossi, an immortal trickster who has become Hudson’s vehicle for commentary of all sorts. Carla is – at times – a friend, a rival, a humorous foil and, above all, way to express Hudson’s own ideas of gender and identity. The 2004 McNary High School graduate recently returned to Keizer to speak with members of the school’s Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) and shared how “coming into consciousness” in small-town Oregon still informs the malleable identity Hudson inhabits today. “I still don’t know where I fall on the spectrum. There are times when I feel male or assistant superintendents are Linda Myers of Keizer, who remains the district’s director of strategic development, and Kraig Sproles of Corvallis, who keeps his position of director of academic achievement. Only four board members were in attendance, but chair- person Kathy Goss and director Chuck Lee communicated by telephone. Director Jim Green was unavailable. Director Paul Kyllo cast the only vote against fi nal budget passage, saying there had not been enough communication with board members. He also cast the only negative vote on approving the assistant super- intendent appointments, saying he had nothing against Myers or Sproles but complaining of lack of transparency there as well. Please see BUDGET, Page A5 KIA Iraq soldier will be honored on highway By ERIC A. HOWALD Of the Keizertimes Friends and family of a Keizer soldier killed in Iraq in 2007 will hold a dedication ceremony and unveiling of a highway sign to be posted in his honor on Saturday, June 22. Pfc. Ryan J. Hill will have a stretch of Oregon highway dedicated in his honor after the Oregon Legislature ap- proved the action earlier this Hill was driving a year. Keizer Humvee on Jan. 20, Mayor Cathy 2007, when an impro- Clark and vised explosive device Rep. Bill Post detonated (IED) near will be deliv- the vehicle. He was ering speech- serving his fi rst tour in es during the Iraq when he was killed ceremony slat- at age 20. The vehicle’s ed for 11:30 Pfc. Ryan Hill gunner was also critical- a.m. the park ly injured. named after Post co-sponsored the res- him in Keizer Station. Ryan J. Hill Memorial Park is located olution with Rep. Julie Fahey next to Panera Bread. Please see KIA, Page A5 PAGE A8 female and times when I feel like something else all together,” Hudson said. As a teenager, Hudson’s fi rst encounters with queer culture came through online interactions with other LGBTQ+ students and young adults. At the time, students who fell outside gender norms were feeling the heat of a country and world that closed ranks in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. In response, Hudson and some friends started the fi rst GSA Club on the Celtic campus. The community was less than receptive. “I got death threats, my house was egged on multiple nights and there were parents calling the school and threatening to picket the club,” Hudson said. Please see DRAG, Page A2 SKPS board approves Pantsless man stops traffic $1.2 billion budget BY HERB SWETT For the Keizertimes Final budget approval and the promotions of two ad- ministrators to assistant super- intendent were the highlights of one of the more eventful Salem-Keizer School Board meetings on Tuesday night. The total budget of $1,205,712,966 calls for a prop- erty tax at the rate of $4.521 per $1,000 assessed value. The Rotary exchange student bids farewell um-sized cross and threw that By ERIC A. HOWALD at the offi cer. Of the Keizertimes The suspect then be- A homeless man’s erratic behavior, included stripping gan stripping off his clothes, off his clothes, brought traffi c walked to the center turn lane on River to a near stand- Road, and un- still on River successfully tried Road North to gain entry to Tuesday, June 11. two separate ve- 9-1-1 dis- hicles with peo- patchers received ple inside. He six separate re- began pacing ports of a man aggressively in walking in and the road and still out of traffi c refused offi cers lanes at the in- commands. He tersection of M. Chappell then removed his Sunset Avenue pants and began North and River Road North. The fi rst offi cer running a short distance. He to arrive on the scene, about tripped and fell, skidding to a 12:45 p.m., said multiple con- stop on his torso and ending struction signs and other de- the pursuit. Once on the ground, of- bris were already scattered across the road and impeding fi cers approached and aimed a Taser at the suspect and he the fl ow of cars. The offi cer located the began complying with com- suspect, later identifi ed as mands to put his hands behind Matthew Edward Chappell, his back. No force was used 46, and began telling him to during the incident although move out of the roadway. the suspect was treated by The man refused, picked up medics from the Keizer Fire a large glass vase and heaved District before being trans- it into the road at the offi cer. ported to a mental health fa- The vase broke across several cility. Criminal charges may be lanes of travel and then the man then uprooted a medi- forthcoming. A book club with staying power PAGE A9 Cepeda, Ebbs get all-state honors PAGE A11
