SINCE 1979 • VOLUME 40, NO. 43
SECTION A
AUGUST 2, 2019
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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
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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
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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
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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
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