SINCE 1979 • VOLUME 40, NO. 38
SECTION A
JUNE 21, 2019
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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
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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
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Cepeda, Ebbs
get all-state
honors
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