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Newspaper Page TextPAGE A6, KEIZERTIMES, JANUARY 31, 2020 CITIZEN: Refl ecting on years of service to Keizer (Continued from Page A1) DRIVE A LITTLE – SAVE A BUNCH! 3893 COMMERCIAL ST SE • SALEM MORE INFO AT NORTHERNLIGHTSTHEATREPUB.COM LIVE STAND UP COMEDY COME SEE THE BIG GAME at The Lights! Sunday, Feb 2 3:30pm Kickoﬀ Doors open 3pm FREE ADMISSION AND DOOR PRIZES TOO! Lights, Comedy, Laughs! Saturday, Feb. 8 DJ SANDHU & BRENDAN GAY 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. Saturday, FEB 15, at 11:00 am MOVIE: S PIES I N D ISGUISE [ PG ] Sensory Sensitive Show ONLY $4 Special showing for kids and adults with Autism or other sensory sensitivities. Today in History In San Diego, Doug Williams of the Washington Redskins becomes the ﬁ rst African-American quarterback to play in a Super Bowl, throwing for four of Washington’s ﬁ ve touchdowns in an upset 42-10 victory over the Denver Broncos in Super Bowl XXII. — January 31, 1988 Food 4 Thought “As big a deal as the Super Bowl is, it’s not the most important thing going on in the planet.” — Tony Dungy, former NFL coach, football commentator The Weeks Ahead Through Saturday, February 8 Pentacle Theatre presents Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express. Visit pentacletheatre.org for show dates and tickets. Friday, January 31 – Tuesday, February 25 Keizer Art Association presents its annual McNary High School Art Show at the Enid Joy Mount Gallery. Artists’ reception 2-4 p.m. on Saturday, Feb.1. For gallery hours visit keizerarts.com. Friday, January 31 – Saturday February 1 The third annual Willamette Valley Quilt Festival will be at the Linn County Expo Center this year. There will be a raﬄ e for a free sewing machine that will also help feed those in need. Show hours are from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. admission is $7 each day and kids 12 and under have free admission. Tickets are available online at willammetevalleyquiltfestival.com/ or at the door. Sunday, February 2 The Play of Daniel, a medieval mystery play with the Boston Camerata, an ensemble of vocalists and early music instrumentalists directed by Anne Azema, 2 p.m. Tickets required. 503-362-3661. St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Salem. Monday, February 3 Keizer City Council meeting, 7 p.m., Keizer Civic Center, 930 Chemawa Road N.E. Tuesday, February 4 Free admission all day at Hallie Ford Museum of Art, 700 State Street. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Keizer City Charter Review Task Force meeting, 6 p.m., Keizer Civic Center, 930 Chemawa Road N.E. Thursday, February 6 Stories in the Stacks at Keizer Community Library, Keizer Cultural Center, 10-11 a.m. For pre-school children accompanied by an adult. Stories, crafts and music. keizerlibrary.org. Southeast Keizer Neighborhood Association meeting, 6:30 p.m., Keizer Civic Center, 930 Chemawa Road N.E. Thursday, February 6 – Saturday, February 8 Portland Winter Light Festival transforms the City of Roses into a city of lights. Designed to bring light to the wintry darkness, the free festival returns every winter with imaginative works that combine light and technology to create interactive experiences. Monday, February 10 Keizer City Council work session, 6 p.m., Keizer Civic Center, 930 Chemawa Road N.E. Tuesday, February 11 Keizer Parks Advisory Board meeting, 6 p.m., Keizer Civic Center, 930 Chemawa Road N.E. Thursday, February 13 Traﬃ c Safety Bikeways and Pedestrian Committee meeting, 6 p.m., Keizer Civic Center, 930 Chemawa Road N.E. West Keizer Neighborhood Association meeting, 7 p.m., Keizer Civic Center, 930 Chemawa Road N.E. Friday, February 14 – Sunday, February 16 Keizer Homegrown Theatre presents Love, Loss and What I Wore, by Nora Ephron and Delia Ephron. Keizer Cultural Center, 980 Chemawa Rd. N.E. Performances at 7 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. matinee on Sunday. Tickets are $15; free with an Oregon Trail Card. keizerhomegrowntheatre.org. Tuesday, February 18 Keizer City Council meeting, 6 p.m., Keizer Civic Center, 930 Chemawa Road N.E. Thursday, February 20 African-Americans in Oregon: A Unique Legacy at Chemeketa Community College’s Salem Campus, Building 2, Room 179, from 6 - 9 p.m. Professor Dr. Julius McGee, from Portland State University, will explore the policies and decisions and examine how Oregon’s history impacts Oregon today. Greater Gubser Neighborhood Association meeting, 7 p.m., Keizer Civic Center, 930 Chemawa Road N.E. Friday, February 21 – Sunday, February 23 Keizer Homegrown Theatre presents Love, Loss and What I Wore, by Nora Ephron and Delia Ephron. Keizer Cultural Center, 980 Chemawa Rd. N.E. Performances at 7 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. matinee on Sunday. Tickets are $15; free with an Oregon Trail Card. keizerhomegrowntheatre.org. Saturday, February 29 Salem Lifestyle Show at the Salem Convention Center, 200 Commercial st. S.E. on from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Local businesses will showcase what they have for the upcoming spring and summer seasons. There will be free seminars, demonstrations, samples and door prizes throughout the day. Monster Cookie Metric Cen- tury Ride, which is now the oldest group ride in Oregon. In addition, Hersch has served on a number of committees and boards that advise and make recommendations to the Keizer City Council. Hersch and Mary Ann met on a double date, but they weren’t dating each other that fateful night. Hersch grew up in Keizer, Mary Ann grew up in Salem and they had attend- ed school together for a short time at St. Vincent’s in Salem. Hersch had seen his moth- er, a nurse, get involved with the community in a variety of ways, but credited a former civics teacher, Vic Backlund, with helping infuse him with the desire to volunteer. Mary Ann had watched her father engage civically through the Lions Club. The couple found their own motivator to get in- volved when the Salem-Keizer School District sought to clas- sify their son as developmen- tally disabled. “At the time, my mom was still a nurse, Mary Ann’s father was a guidance counselor and I was a disability specialist. That was what got us going. We said, ‘No,’ and stepped up to get involved,” Hersch said. “We wanted to watch our own kids, but we also wanted to get to know their teachers one-on- one.” They started off by attend- ing and later leading, par- ent-teacher groups at elemen- tary and middle schools. By the time their oldest was grad- uating high school, the Sang- sters were leading the McNary High School Athletic Booster Club and Mary Ann was the volunteer coach of the school’s equestrian team. “We had to have a calen- dar on the wall and pencil in everything. Working with the students becomes a priority and there’s a lot of quick re- shuffl ing to make sure you can do it,” Mary Ann said. The couple were such fi x- tures of Celtic life, a former athletic director, Mike Magan, awarded the couple varsity let- ters in return for their service. Mary Ann said her time with the equestrian team was the best of all her years as a volunteer. One year, her team won a highly-coveted sports- manship trophy. “It was a good experience and I did it for about three years, but the payoff went on for a lot longer,” Mary Ann said. She jokes about it being an undertaking with hormones coming at the team from both sides of the saddle. Both said working with stu- dents in a variety of capacities gave them a renewed appreci- ation for teachers and the gar- gantuan obstacles they over- come daily. By that time, Hersch had already started getting involved in city government. The Sang- sters lived on Maine Avenue off River Road North for 38 years and their home became the epicenter of discussions when the city started planning what types of shops might be placed at the intersection with River Road. Herch and Mary Ann hosted an informational gathering at their home with then-mayor Dennis Koho, and the city manager at the time. Koho took a shine to Hersch and told him it was time to get involved on a larger scale. Koho was instrumental to getting a bikeways commit- tee established in the city and Hersch was one of the fi rst ap- pointees. Cycling had long been a way of life for Hersch. Grow- ing up when Keizer was still a rural community on the out- skirts of Salem, the primary Hersch Sangster mode of transportation was by bicycle or hopping onto a fl at- car of a passing train. (He had a technique and this story is not meant as an endorsement of such shenanigans.) Cycling around Keizer led to membership in the Cycling Club at Oregon State Univer- sity and, later, the Salem Bicy- cle Club. For Hersch it’s still his preferred mode of trans- portation. While Mary Ann’s greatest sense of accomplishment came from the equestrian team, Hersch’s, unsurprisingly, has to do with bikes and it’s rep- resented by the 2002 Alice B. Toeclips Award in a trophy case at the Keizer Civic Center. The award was given by the Bicycle Transportation Alliance in appreciation for starting a free bike helmet program in Keizer. Hersch was chair of the Bikeways Committee when the program began in 1997. “I was talking with David Dempster, who has been part of that same group for a long time, and we think we’ve given out somewhere around 6,000 helmets since the program be- gan,” Hersch said. Hersch was humbled to be honored as Keizer’s fi rst citi- zen, but he’s not planning on halting his involvement any- time soon. He’s got plans to install a bike repair station at Kennedy Elementary School and he’s still chasing his own great white whale of a project: getting new bike racks installed at McNary High School. “The racks that are there are the same ones we had when I was a student in 1972. It’s go- ing to happen,” Hersch said. If the fi rst citizen moniker gets him a bit more traction to reel the beast in, so be it. MCFD1 will seek levy increase The Board of Directors for Marion County Fire District #1 unanimously approved a resolution asking voters to consider additional funding for emergency personnel, ap- paratus and equipment. The proposal will be on the May 19 primary election ballot for the communities of looking back 5 YEARS AGO Hurdles still to clear for Area C proposal Four Corners, Middle Grove, Pratum, Macleay, Brooklake, Clearlake, Labish Center, and Chemeketa College Station. Call volumes have in- creased an average of 5.2 per- cent per year for the district and overlapping calls account for 55 percent of all calls. In many cases, the district must rely on mutual aid from neighboring agencies, which takes longer to reach people in an emergency. “The fact is that we need more fi refi ghters to respond to calls,” said Fire Chief Kyle McMann. “More calls also mean added costs for appa- ratus and equipment. Fortu- nately, we’re ahead of these issues before they become a Approval at the Keizer City Council level does not mean apartments and a retirement community in Keizer Station Area C are a done deal. Previous decisions were appealed to the Land Use Board of Appeals (LUBA), which forced changes to plans that at one point included a 116,000 square foot commercial space. real problem.” The district developed a strategic plan last year to respond to increasing emer- gency response times. The plan identifi ed how the fi re district would address chal- lenges to service while re- ducing impacts to taxpayers. Short-term, the fi re district would hire two fi refi ghter/ paramedics to improve staff- ing, which would expand hours of service for a unit in service to the public. A portion of the levy funds also would be set aside to pay cash for replacement apparatus and equipment. Paying upfront for the capital items saves taxpayers money compared to fi nancing them maze 10 YEARS AGO Girls win ﬁ fth straight game The Lady Celts varsity basketball team continued its winning ways with a 47-33 win over Redmond on Tuesday. With the win, McNary (5-0, 10-5 overall) maintained its one game advantage over the Lady Titans in the standings. 15 YEARS AGO Expert on board for River park The quest for a regional riverside park in Keizer gained a new ally last week. Dan Miller, a community planner with the National Parks Service’s Rivers and Trails and Conservation Assistance Program, visited Keizer last week to meet with advocates of the proposed River Rapids Regional Park. 20 YEARS AGO Boys win a pair With the league season almost half way complete the McNary boys basketball team is right where it needs to be, tied for a playoff spot. The Celtics moved up in the standings and would make the playoffs if play stopped today in the Valley League. Maze by Jonathan Graf of Keizer sudoku Enter digits from 1-9 into the blank spaces. Every row must contain one of each digit. So must every column, as must every 3x3 square. and paying interest. Chief McMann says that the district will require addi- tional personnel in the long- term. The board of directors wants to pay off a bond be- fore asking taxpayers to con- sider another levy. “We’re being very stra- tegic in how we do this to minimize any tax increase for property owners,” said Chief McMann. The resolution asks vot- ers to consider increasing the district’s operating levy from 71 to 99 cents per $1,000 of assessed property value. The 28-cent increase equates to $4.67 per month ($56 per year) for the owner of a home assessed at $200,000. ARREST, continued from Page A1 incident shows Ebbs’ husband, Jason Ebbs, stepping in and pushing the father back into his seat while other customers at the Ebbs’ table rush in. After exchanging words with the man, Jason appears to attempt to separate all the parties involved. Jason is a math teacher at McNary and the head coach of the wrestling team. Trisha was arrested for disorderly conduct and was processed at the Marion County Jail, she was then released. An investigation is ongoing. She was placed on administrative leave from her job at North Salem High School Monday, Jan. 29. Jason Ebbs was placed on administrative leave at McNary on Tuesday, Jan. 30.