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CITIZEN: Refl ecting on
years of service to Keizer
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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.