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SINCE 1979 • VOLUME 40, NO. 43 SECTION A AUGUST 2, 2019 $1.00 Keizer’s Cascade is a different kind of dept. store By ERIC A. HOWALD Of the Keizertimes The new Keizer location of Cascade Farm and Outdoor opened its doors at 8 a.m. on Thursday, Aug. 1. Free giveaways are planned for the fi rst 500 customers on Friday and Saturday, Aug. 2 and 3. Employees were bustling through aisles, sorting nuts and bolts, assembling display items and getting trained on the cash registers Friday, July 26. Don Leber, Bi-Mart’s vice president of advertising and marketing, said a lot of things came together for the business when it chose Keizer for its third location. “We’ve been looking at lo- cations throughout the north- west, but this site came avail- able and we thought it would be a great opportunity to get a store along Interstate 5 and get into a bigger metropolitan area,” Leber said. Cascade Farm and Outdoor is a division of Bi-Mart and both are employee-owned. Unlike Bi-Mart, no member- ship is needed to shop at Cas- cade. “We know how much our customer service is key to our success and our employees are KPD raises $9K for Special Olympics PAGE B2 KEIZERTIMES/Eric A. Howald Some of the 35 employees of the new Cascade Farm and Outdoor sort through racks and drawers of nuts and bolts in prepara- tion for the store opening on Thursday, Aug. 1. the most critical aspect of that approach,” Leber said. Customers can sign up for an incentive program that au- tomatically enters them to win a Traeger Grill, DeWalt cord- less kit or a Yeti cooler. Cascade got its start fi ve years ago in Walla Walla, Wash., where an empty Bi-Mart was converted into the fi rst Cas- cade shop. Two years after that, a second location opened in Coos Bay. Please see CASCADE, Page A6 Students lend hand in Mexico PAGE A4 Trump pummels Dems in Keizer campaign giving By ERIC A. HOWALD Of the Keizertimes President Donald Trump is receiv- ing the lion’s share of presidential campaign giving among Keizer resi- dents. Trump has received $2,926.24 from Keizerites since the beginning of the year. That total derives from 37 con- tributions, small and large, made by 12 donors. Earlier this week, ProPublica shared quarterly reports from every state on campaign giving since the beginning of the year. Keizertimes culled the con- tributions from Keizer residents for this story. Trump’s biggest fi nancial supporter in Keizer made six contributions to- taling $600 since January. The largest single donation, $375, from a Keizer resident also went to Trump. For the Democrats, Sen. Bernie Sanders was the top fundraiser with $555 from 15 contributions. Pete Buttigieg was runner up with $400 spread over four contributions from a single donor. Sen. Elizabeth Warren raked in $346 from 16 contributions, Sen. Kamala Harris took in $257.84 from a single donor and Amy Klobu- char raised $190 from eight contribu- tions. Democratic contributions totaled $1,744.84 overall. Harris took in the Please see GIVING, Page A7 YOUTH HOMELESSNESS Keepin’ cool ‘I feel like no one really cares, I feel like it should be a bigger deal’ BY LAUREN MURPHY Of the Keizertimes At the end of her junior year, Kristél Thornton was stressed; unlike her peers who were worried about fi nals and summer plans, Thornton was worried about where she was going to live during her senior year of high school. Thornton was born in Colorado and lived there with her grandparents un- til she was 9 years old, at which point she and three her siblings began to live with her divorced parents. “Since the time I was like nine, I had to raise my two brothers because my parents were sep- arated,” she said. She and her siblings alternated weeks between their parents. “We grew up really poor so we had no money to do anything,” Thornton said. Betting on barbecue PAGE A9 Please see YOUTH, Page A6 Top goal for new MCFD chief: Greater awareness among residents district serves KEIZERTIMES/Eric A. Howald Andy Hageman, 5, straddles a water spout at the splash fountain behind the Keizer Civic Center. The splash fountain is open Wednesday through Sunday from noon to 7 p.m. when the temperature is forecast above 75 degrees. It might be in heavy demand with a heat wave expected through the end of next week. BY MATT RAWLINGS Of the Keizertimes Kyle McMann started work- ing for Marion County Fire Dis- trict #1 back in 2001 as an Engi- neer/Paramedic. Through the last 18 years, he has also served as En- gine Captain, Emergency Medi- cal Services-Operations Captain, Battalion Chief and Deputy Fire Chief. But he never thought he would be in the position he is now. As of January 1, McMann has been serving as the fi re chief of MCFD1, where he oversees fi re district operations as well as the fi nance division — which covers all aspects of budgeting and long range fi nancial planning. “I am very humbled and very honored to be chosen for this po- sition,” McMann said. “My career path was initially just to be an op- erations chief, to have the support of the organization and the board of directors is a dream come true. It’s the pinnacle of my career.” Even though he is still work- ing in the same building he has Please see MCFD, Page A12 Volcanoes continue dominance PAGE B1
