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SINCE 1979 • VOLUME 40, NO. 41 SECTION A JULY 12, 2019 Keizer’s citizenship question $1.00 KFD battles brush fi re Council re-examines who should, shouldn’t serve on committees By ERIC A. HOWALD Of the Keizertimes Members of the Keizer City Council faced the city’s own version of a citizenship question at a work session Monday, July 8. Councilors decided to clarify who can serve in volunteer capacities on city committees after tensions rose over the word “elector” at a Volunteer Coordinating Committee (VCC) in June. In the end, the council leaned toward casting a wide net for volunteers and open up most city committees to residents rather than electors. TROUBLE STIRRED AT JUNE MEETING In May, the council voted to form a Charter Review Committee with seven members, fi ve electors in Keizer and two councilors appointed by Mayor Cathy Clark. Electors are defi ned as residents of the city who have registered to vote and therefore must be Please see CITIZEN, Page A5 Submitted Crews from the Keizer Fire District extinguish a blaze that began on a log jam in Wallace House Park. BY MATT RAWLINGS Of the Keizertimes On Monday, July 1, at 8:21 a.m., Keizer Fire District responded to a brush fi re at Wallace House Park near the edge of the river. Marion County Fire District, Salem Fire Department and City of Keizer Public Works Department also were on the scene. When KFD arrived at the park at 8:29 a.m., fi refi ghters found large piles of trees and limbs burning that had been washed up by fl ood waters over time. Access was extremely diffi cult due to overgrown trails and there was no way to drive brush trucks down to the fi re, according to KFD Fire Marshal Ann-Marie Storms. “The fi re could initially only be accessed on foot. “ It’s so honest about how stupid we can be for love.” ‘As You Like It’ PAGE A14 Please see BRUSH, Page A8 stupid we can be for love. BY MATT RAWLINGS Every character in this show Of the Keizertimes For the eighth straight is in love with something summer, Keizer Homegrown and that’s what drives their Theater continues their decisions.” “It so encompasses the per- tradition of Shakespeare in the fect summer Park with their love story.” rendition of Mansur is the romantic the technical comedy As You theater assis- Like It. tant at West The play Salem High is free to the School and public and directed the will take place at the Keizer — Kayla Mansur, Director school’s pro- duction of As Rotary Am- You Like It just phitheater in Keizer Rapids Park July 17-20 two months ago. She was also with each performance start- able to convince two of her graduating seniors to play key ing at 7 p.m. Director Kayla Mansur — roles in the performance. Jaiden Holder plays the role who is doing her fi rst ever show with Keizer Homegrown of Rosalind, a good-natured Theater — has always been a heroine who is independent strong-willed, who fan of Shakespeare, but this and particular play has a special cleverly disguises herself as a man in order to take control place in her heart. “As You Like It was the fi rst of her own fate. “It portrays how love is Shakespeare show I ever saw live, so I have always gravitated ridiculous and makes you do towards it and it has become ridiculous things,” Holder said my favorite comedy,” Mansur Please see PLAY, Page A2 said. “It’s so honest about how Hunt for love in Keizer All-American Youth city councilor’s term ends PAGE A3 KEIZERTIMES/Matt Rawlings Isaiah Lane (left) and Emma Salisbury act out a scene from As You Like It. The show will take place at Keizer Rapids Park July 17–20 at 7 p.m. Not so civil TUG OF WAR City employee hailed as hero By ERIC A. HOWALD Of the Keizertimes Not all stories about heroes have a happy ending, but that does nothing to diminish the actions of Brad Beverly in the eyes of Korina Navarro. In late April, Navarro was hosting her friend, Pam, at her home in southeast Keizer. Navarro had invited Pam over to hang out after learning she wasn’t feeling well. Navarro’s concern grew as she saw Pam get off the bus near her home. “I noticed she was very winded. It sounded like she had been drinking, she was mumbling,” Navarro said. Navarro asked if she had been drinking, but Pam assured her she hadn’t. “She asked if I could get her a cup of coffee, so I went in to make that while she was out on the porch,” Navarro said. “While I was working on that, Pam was talking with someone on the phone. Then I looked out through the “ I got in my truck and drove around the corner, that’s when I could hear Korina screaming for help.” — Brad Beverly window to the porch and saw her slumped over.” Navarro raced out of her house and grabbed Pam’s phone expecting to call 9-1- 1, but it had returned to it’s locked state. Navarro went back in grabbed her phone and started dialing. The 9-1- 1 dispatcher asked if Navarro Scoot Salem PAGE A9 Members of the Northwest Civil War Council canceled their morning battle on Friday, July 5 at Powerland Heritage Park. Instead, the Union and Confederate troops engaged in a tug-of-war to settle their disputes. TOP: Union troops and offi cers bear down and heave against the Confederate army. Bulldogs crush Celtics PAGE A11 RIGHT: The Southern Army, led by their youngest participants, took a win in the fi rst “battle.” KEIZERTIMES/Eric A. 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