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’
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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
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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. Howald
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