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LIVE STAND UP COMEDY
Lights, Comedy, Laughs!
Saturday, August 10
SAT, AUG 10
Secret Life
of Pets 2 (PG)
11:00 AM
TICKETS ARE JUST $4
SPECIAL SHOWING FOR KIDS
AND ADULTS WITH AUTISM OR
OTHER SENSORY SENSITIVITIES.
ANDREW SLEIGHTER & JR BERARD will
perform at 7pm and 9pm. Admission is only
$10. Ages 21 & over only. Reserved seating for
this show. Purchase tickets at box offi ce or at
our website.
Student Night
EVERY THURSDAY!
All Ages Movies
in Theatre #3.
Today in History
Members of Congress affi x their signatures to an enlarged
copy of the Declaration of Independence. Fifty-six
congressional delegates in total signed the document,
including some who were not present at the vote approving
the declaration.
— August 2, 1776
Food 4 Thought
It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power,
is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
— James Baldwin, novelist, born Aug. 2, 1924
The Weeks Ahead
Through Saturday, August 17
Jest a Second! at the Pentacle Theatre. This comedy is
suitable for teenage and older audiences who can handle
its adult themes. The show is at 7:30 p.m. on Friday and
Saturday and 2 p.m. on Sunday. Visit pentacletheatre.
org for more details.
Friday, August 2
Free Summer Concert Series presents saxophonist
Patrick Lamb. Keizer Rotary Amphitheater at Keizer
Rapids Park. Concert starts at 6:30 p.m. No outside food
or beverage. No pets allowed in amphitheater.
Ribbon cutting, 11 a.m., to re-open the historic lower
terrace and arbor at Deepwood Museum and Gardens, 849
12th Street SE, Salem. Home and garden tours available.
Usual garden tour and home prices apply.
Friday, August 2 - Sunday, August 4
56th annual Woodburn Fiesta Mexicana, Legion Park,
1385 Park Ave. Food, entertainment, carnival, car show,
soccer tournament and parade. woodburn-or.gov.
Homer Davenport Community Festival, a celebration of
illustration and cartooning. Visit HomerDavenport.com
for more details.
Saturday, August 3
Artists’ reception for August exhibit, Celebrate America,
Keizer Art Association’s Enid Joy Mount Gallery, 2-4
p.m. Keizer Cultural Center, 980 Chemawa Rd NE. Show
continues throughout August. See keizerarts.com for more
details.
Free Summer Concert Series presents blues artist, Ty
Curtis. Keizer Rotary Amphitheater at Keizer Rapids Park.
Concert starts at 6:30 p.m. No outside food or beverage.
No pets allowed in amphitheater.
Cash at the Grand. Audience participation Johnny Cash
tribute band, 7 p.m. $20. theonlycashtributeband.com.
Salem’s 2019 Pride in the Park, Salem Riverfront
Park Amphitheater, 11 a.m, free admission, additional
information found at salemcapitolpride.org.
Family Building Blocks Riverfront Family Fest, 10 a.m. to
2 p.m., free to attend, family friendly activities and events,
visit familybuildingblocks.org.
Keizer/Salem Area Seniors Saturday Night Dance &
Potluck from 7 - 10 p.m. 930 Plymouth Drive N.E., Keizer.
Admission is $5. Featuring music by Charles and the
Angels.
Saturday, August 3 - Sunday, August 4
Final weekend for The Great Oregon Steam-up at
Powerland Heritage Park on Brooklake Road NE. 7 a.m.-
6 p.m. Admission is $15. Visit antiquepowerland.com.
“Our success with Cascade
Farm and Outdoor in Coos
Bay set our sights on other op-
portunities– we’ll be a great fi t
for Keizer and the greater Sa-
lem area,” said Bi-Mart Presi-
dent Rich Truett.
The new store, located in
the old Roth’s building at 5013
River Road N., will focus on
ranch and farm supplies, feed,
equine supplies, lawn and gar-
den equipment, sporting goods,
pet supplies and outdoor ap-
parel. Departments include:
automotive, sporting goods,
hardware, lawn and garden,
pet food and supplies, clothing,
farm and ranch, equine and
livestock care, footwear, out-
door power equipment, home,
and grocery.
“We have name brands that
customers won’t necessarily
fi nd in a discount store like
Bi-Mart,” Leber said. “There’s
Monday, August 5 - Friday, August 9
Enlightened Theatrics presents its 2019 Youth Summer
Camp, featuring scenes and musical numbers from Honk
Jr! Camp runs from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. every day with a
recital at 6 p.m. on Friday night. enlightenedtheatrics.org.
Keizer Christian Church Bible Adventure Week (VBS)
‘To Mars and Beyond.” 6945 Wheatland Rd. N. 503-393-
6843.
Tuesday, August 6
National Night Out. Block parties throughout Keizer to
foster neighborhood security. 6 to 9 p.m.
Wednesday, August 7
Bingo at Keizer/Salem Area Seniors, 12:30-3:30 p.m.
Admission is $5.50. Chance to win monetary prizes, free
game cards, and daubers.
Friday, August 9
Jesus Our Jubilee Church presents Friday Night Flicks
on the 2nd and the last Friday each month. The family-
friendly movies are open to the community. Popcorn
(free refi lls) and drinks are for sale. 7 - 9 p.m. at Jesus Our
Jubilee Church, Baker Plaza, 128 Chemawa Road N.
Saturday, August 10
Free Summer Concert Series presents rock band JFK.
Keizer Rotary Amphitheatre at Keizer Rapids Park.
Concert starts at 6:30 p.m. No outside food or beverage.
No pets allowed in amphitheatre.
Community BBQ at John Knox Presbyterian Church, 452
Cummings Lane N, Keizer, at 5 p.m.
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also a larger selection. We have
a sporting goods section in Bi-
Mart locations, but the one
customers fi nd at Cascade is
much more extensive.”
On the whole, the compa-
ny tries to avoid overlap in the
items the two stores offer.
“About 85 percent of the
products we have in Cascade
YOUTH: ‘I had 48 hours to
fi gure out my entire life’
(Continued from Page A1)
Thornton said they barely
saw their dad, so, in addition to
contributing to the household
income, she also played mom
for her younger brothers,
“I’d have to wake up at six
in the morning to make sure
the house was clean and my
brothers went to school.”
Things weren’t much bet-
ter the other weeks either. For
the past fi ve years, Thornton’s
mom struggled with addiction
to opioids and alcohol. “Me
and my older sister basical-
ly had to raise our siblings,”
Thornton said.
In the eighth grade, her
mom moved the family.
“We moved to Texas be-
cause my mom got a divorce
and she met a new guy and his
family lived in Texas,” Thorn-
ton said.
Shortly after the move,
Thornton dropped out of
school, “I dropped out my
freshman year to raise my
siblings. Before that we had
to stay at a friend’s house to
another friend’s house to an-
other friend’s house,” she said.
Teen homelessness typical-
ly takes on the form of couch
surfi ng at friend’s houses since
the streets are not safe.
Because of her mom’s
struggles with addiction,
Thornton learned to not get
too comfortable.
“Nothing really worked
out,” she said.
The summer between her
freshmen and sophomore year
her mom moved the fami-
ly to Oregon. Her mom had
another baby, a girl, who lived
in Texas with her dad after her
mother and siblings moved.
“We moved out here with
my grandparents while she
went to rehab,” Thornton said.
Her mom began to do bet-
ter and decided to move the
family to Oregon permanent-
Hoopla XXI 3x3 Basketball Tournament, State Capitol
State Park. Hoopla is the premier 3x3 basketball event in
Oregon. For information visit oregonhoopla.com.
Sunday, August 4 – Thursday, August 8
Countryside Christian Church, 5775 McLeod Lane
NE, Vacation Bible School, singing, Bible education,
interactive learning, recreational activities, free to register
(countrysidechristianchurch.org).
KEIZERTIMES/Eric A. Howald
Cascade employees apply price tags to a selection of boots inside the new store.
Only one person in her
“Things were good for family has graduated high
a while, she was saving up a school, Thornton wants to
bunch of money, she was go- be the second – a goal that
ing to get a house, everything proved to be harder than she
was good,” Thornton said. For expected when her grandpar-
about a year they lived here ents moved to Colorado.
“Basical-
peacefully, slow-
ly, I had 48
ly building their
hours to fi g-
lives back up.
ure out my
After
the
entire life. I
death of Thorn-
was only 17,
ton’s uncle, the
I had no idea
family
found
what to do,”
themselves in an
she said.
all too familiar
She had to
spot, motherless.
fi nd a place
“She would
to live, a job,
come
home
and a plan for
for maybe two
school or fi n-
days and then
ish her senior
disappear
for
year in Colo-
weeks at a time,”
Thornton said.
— Kristél Thornton rado.
“I
was
“We would get
lucky to fi nd
calls randomly
‘oh she’s in jail,’ so we’d have my friend whose family is let-
ting me stay there,” she said.
to come pick her up.”
“We were only supposed The family agreed to let her
to be here for two months but live with them until gradua-
I’ve almost been here for three tion.
“Even though I’m not their
years,” she added with a laugh.
When her mom fell off actual child they’ve treated me
the wagon, Thornton and her a lot better than my mom has,
siblings moved in with her ever,” she said.
Still, uncertainty is one of
grandparents.
“That wasn’t the best ei- the few constants in her life.
“After [graduation], I’m
ther,” she said. Though she
quickly
added, “Things not sure where to go,” she ad-
mitted, even though that ob-
could’ve been a lot worse.”
At the end of this past stacle is still too far off to re-
school
year, Thornton’s quire her immediate attention.
For now, her focus is on
grandparents insisted that her
mom take responsibility for grades and scholarships. Be-
her children despite her con- cause of her lack of familial
tinued drinking. She moved support and fi nancial means,
Thornton doesn’t think col-
the family back to Texas.
lege is in her future.
Most of the family that is.
“College, I don’t real-
“I decided to stay out here
because I knew if I went I
wouldn’t be able to graduate,”
she said.
ly
“Even though
I’m not their
actual child
they’ve
treated me
a lot better
than my mom
has, ever.”
are unique to these stores,”
Leber said.
Store hours will be 8 a.m. to
8 p.m. Monday through Satur-
day and Sunday 9 to 6 p.m.
ly think is an option for me
anymore because I don’t
have money to go,” she said.
“School is the only thing I’m
relying on, to get good grades
and get scholarships.” She
didn’t sound hopeful.
That said, if she could go to
college, she would want to be
social worker or a nurse. She’s
determined to use her experi-
ence for good.
“Even when the school
found out about my situation,
I know people who are in a
similar situation, they don’t
care,” she said.
Repeatedly she said she
doesn’t think the community
cares enough about people in
her situation.
“I feel like no one really
cares, I feel like it should be a
bigger deal, even though my
situation isn’t as bad as other
peoples, there’s other people
who’s situation is a lot worse
and no one seems to acknowl-
edge it.”
I know I’m lucky because
I have a family who took me
in, there’s so many people, es-
pecially at our school, who go
through this all the time,” she
said.
Several times she men-
tioned her situation isn’t as
bad as some others.
“There are people that live
literally under bridges so I feel
like it’s not that bad,” she joked
while reiterating her gratitude
for the family that took her in.
Though Thornton is grate-
ful for the people who sup-
ported her, she strongly feels
that there should be more
support for people in similar,
or worse, situations.
“It should be a bigger deal,
there should be more help, and
I’m not talking about just me,”
she said. “You have to fi gure
out everything on your own
and I feel like it shouldn’t be
that way.”
maze
looking
back in
the KT
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MOVIE TIMES
Late Night (R)
Fri 9:00, Sat 8:15, Sun 4:30
Avengers: End Game (PG-13)
Fri 12:45, 5:45, 8:15
Sat 2:00, 5:45, 8:05
Sun 1:40, 5:10
John Wick: Chapter 3 (R)
Fri 5:50, 9:15 Sat 9:10
Sun 6:30, 8:35
5 YEARS AGO
Oregon native ready
to rock RIVERfair
Brady Goss knows a thing or
two about preforming outdoors
dur ing the summer. The
24-year-old Oregon native will
do so again form 6 to 8 p.m.
Saturday, Aug. 9 as headline
musical act during the seventh
annual RiverFAIR at Keizer
Rapids Park.
10 YEARS AGO
Godzilla (PG-13)
Fri 4:10, Sat 11:50, 5:30
Local fi rms fi nd it
pays to be EarthWISE
Secret Life of Pets 2 (PG)
Fri 12:30, 2:15, 4:00
Sat 12:20, 2:10, 4:00
Sun 12:00, 2:30
A handful of area businesses are
wising up to sustainability and
environmental stewardship.
Men in Black: Intn’l (PG-13)
Fri 6:45
Sat 2:15, 6:00
Sun 5:20, 8:55
X-Men: Dark Phoenix (PG-13)
Sun 7:45
Detective Pikachu (PG)
Fri 1:20, Sat 12:00, Sun 12:40
Shazam (PG-13)
Fri 3:20, Sun 2:45
Breakthrough (PG)
Sun 12:15
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Maze by Jonathan Graf of Keizer
sudoku
15 YEARS AGO
Probes study
conditions in
two city wells
A Tualatin company began
monitoring two city wells this
week for potential sources of
contaminants.
20 YEARS AGO
Blockbuster
coming to town
Blockbuster Video the nation’s
largest video chain, is coming
to Keizer with plans to open
in November.
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