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PAGE A6, KEIZERTIMES, FEBRUARY 21, 2020 Today in History Malcolm X, an African American nationalist and religious leader, is assassinated by rival Black Muslims while addressing his Organization of Afro-American Unity at the Audubon Ballroom in Washington Heights in New York City. — February 21, 1965 Food 4 Thought “The time is always right to do what is right.” — Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The Weeks Ahead Through Tuesday, February 25 Keizer Art Association presents its annual McNary High School Art Show at the Enid Joy Mount Gallery. For gallery hours visit keizerarts.com. 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. Friday, February 21 – Sunday, March 15 Enlightened Theatrics present First Date, the Musical, about the uncomfortable and embarrassing nature of blind dating. For show times and tickets visit enlightenedtheatrics.org or call 503-585-3427, extension 1. Tuesday, February 25 Free admission all day at Hallie Ford Museum of Art, 700 State Street. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday, February 26 Community dinner, 4-5:30 p.m., St. Edward Catholic Church, 5303 River Rd.N. Free. Public is invited. Facebook.com/ Keizer-Community-Dinner. Thursday, February 27 — Wednesday, April 1 Keizer Art Association’s Enid Joy Mount Gallery presents its March show: Art Found in Wood. Exhibit comprised of wood carving and burned wood art. Artists’ reception is 2-4 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 29. keizerarts.com. Saturday, February 29 Salem Lifestyle Show at the Salem Convention Center, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Local businesses showcase what they have for the upcoming spring and summer seasons. There will be free seminars, demonstrations, samples and door prizes throughout the day. Sunday, March 1 St. Paul’s Music Guild presents pianist Christopher Atzinger of Minnesota’s St. Olaf College, with an evening of Bach, Brahms, Handel and Liszt. St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 1444 Liberty St. SE. Free. stpaulsoregon.org. Friday, March 6 Confl uence Willamette Valley LGBT Chorus presents Moving Forward at 7:30 p.m., conducted by artistic director Raymond Elliott. First Congregational United Church of Christ, 700 Marion St. NE in Salem. Advance tickets are $15 ($12 for seniors and students) or $18/$15 at the door. Visit brownpapertickets.com. Tuesday, March 10 The Willamette Valley Women’s Military League holds its monthly meeting, 11:30 a.m., Red Lobster Restaurant, 521 Lancaster Dr. NE. Speaker is Anna Potter, ODVA director of Aging Veterans Services. Saturday, March 14 Keizer Community Center clean-up, 9 a.m.-noon. Sponsored by the City of Keizer and Lakepoint Community Church. Public is encouraged to volunteer to help. Dress for March weather. Contact Mark Caillier at 503-930-7481. Tuesday, March 17 St. Patrick’s Day Tea at Deepwood Estates, 2-4 p.m. Tickets are $28 per person, gluten free options are an additional $8. For tickets visit deepwoodmuseum.org or call 503-363-1825. Friday, March 20 – Saturday, March 21 Plant sale at Deeepwood from 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. There will be over four plant vendors with free admission to the sale. Wednesday, March 25 G.I. Wilson will be reading from his book, Bear Crushes Dad, at the Keizer Community Library, 980 Chemawa Rd N.E., at 6:30 p.m. Admission is free but donations are appreciated. Friday, April 10 Good Friday Saturday, April 11 Deepwood Estates annual Easter Eggstravaganza, ages toddler through 10. Pre-registration is required, $5 per child, $1 per adult. Purchase tickets deepwoodmuseum.orgor (503)-363-1825. Add your event by e-mailing reporter@keizertimes.com CITIZENS, continued from Page A1 opportunity.” Even environmental factors like the weather of the day and the season of the year can be correlated to patterns that pop up in the numbers. Data drives many of the decisions offi cers make, even when the solutions defy math. “We had a house where we got consistent calls about a runaway, along the lines of 60 calls a month,” said Copeland. “We brought together all of the stakeholders and had a meeting. It turned out that the kids involved loved police offi cers. We told them that if they could improve their behavior we would come out and visit them and arrange for some other activities. We had zero calls to that residence after the meeting.” Other times, attempts to collect data to inform decisions don’t go quite as planned. During the holidays, KPD made extra effort to deter package theft. They placed a trackable package in a neighborhood where they suspected crimes of opportunity to be high. “What we discovered was that the postal service is really good about putting packages, even the ones they don’t deliver, behind screen doors,” Steele said. KFD, continued from Page A1 at Keizer Ridge, (which opened in 2015), 135 calls to Emerald Pointe Senior Living, (which opened in 2009) and 124 calls to The Arbor at Avamere Memory Care (which opened in 2014). “When you have those high concentrations of population, you have of larger chance of getting responses to that area. Anytime you have a population increase, especially when it's a elderly population increase, you're going to have a greater need for services,” said Ann- Marie Storms, the Deputy Fire Marshal with KFD. “When you have large developments, you have one house taking up 5,000 square feet of land or more. When you have an apartment complex, you now have 20 apartments taking up the space of what would be normally be two houses.” KFD also responded to 553 calls to the original Avamere facility on River Road in 2019 — the 553 calls were more than double the next highest address. Meeting the challenge of the increasing call volume requires changing the structure of staffi ng, equipment and transportation. In 2009, KFD had Medic 35 as the one 24-hour, 7-day a week ambulance while Medic 36 was a 45-hour per week ambulance that was in service from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday- Friday. KFD still runs Medic 35 at all hours of the day, but they changed the Medic 36 ambulance to be in service seven days a week from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. “That was very signifi cant at the time to meet the demand of our call volume,” Cowan said. KEIZERTIMES/Eric A. Howald Members of the Citizens Academy’s latest class check out holding cells in the Keizer police station. Despite having their attempts to nab a package thief thwarted in that neighborhood, KPD learned something else equally as useful. “We found out that there are a lot of natural guardians there,” Copeland said. “Not only were mail carriers looking out for residents, there were lots of kids walking through the neighborhood on the way to and from school. We still got useful information.” During the coming weeks, members of the academy will examine how offi cers interact with homeless people and support agencies offering other services, how and when offi cers use force, develop a deeper understanding of how security systems fi t into the picture, how to design systems and buildings to deter criminal activity and even what it’s like to take a fi eld sobriety test. KPD is hoping to create more informed community partners who can help educate others about how their procedures and tactics work. “At the end of the day, putting on the uniform and the badge doesn’t make us Superman and Wonder KFD currently has 35 full- we're helping to reimburse time employees, but in recent them,” Storms said. years, they have changed the As far as funding is way they handle their additional concerned, KFD successfully fi refi ghters. lobbied voters to increase their Ten years ago, the district levy from 35 cents in 2009 to heavily relied on part-time 59 cents in 2013 — the levy volunteers to fi ll in gaps during was renewed at 59 cents in certain shifts. But as time went 2018. on, that became more and more Along with the levy, KFD diffi cult to maintain. also passed an equipment bond “As a district group, we were in 2015 that allowed them to pay wearing our volunteers out. We for new emergency equipment. were asking them to, on a part- The district replaced three time basis, maintain engines, fi ve the certifi cations medical units, one 2019 TOTAL CALL VOLUME that our full-time command vehicle, career fi refi ghters one rescue unit and were doing, which one brush rig. 74.3% — Other is a very diffi cult At the time, the feat. Then you newest vehicle that 25.7% — add in all the KFD had was 10 7 senior facilities community service years old, while and Christmas their oldest was events we do. It's very nearly 25 years old. labor intensive,” Storms said. Both Cowan and Butler To combat the issue of acknowledged how important dwindling volunteer numbers, the support of the Keizer KFD now uses the services of community has been in helping students in the fi re program KFD get where there are today. at Chemeketa Community “If we didn't have the College that are looking to support of the community, I become career fi refi ghters. would be sending in equipment While they're still considered that would die on scene,” Butler volunteers, KFD provides said. them with scholarship money “Our ties to the community in exchange for their service, are vital to our funding,” but they are given more Cowan added. responsibility than the average Next week, Keizertimes will volunteer. examine how the fi re district “We help with their college expects it will need to change tuition, but they are now and grow to serve the city for accountable for more because the next 10 to 20 years. maze Woman,” Copeland said. “What we want to do is provide enforcement in fair and lawful ways.” BULLISH, continued from Page A1 Here’s how giving broke down for each candidate. Andrew Yang Yang received the largest single donation from a Keizer resident, $1,000. It pushed him over the top with a contribu- tion total of $1,208.18 from two donors. Sen. Bernie Sanders Eight Keizer donors con- tributed a total of $1,069.50 to the Sanders campaign. His largest single contributor gave $349 over the course of three months. Sen Elizabeth Warren The Warren campaign re- ceived a total of $816 from six donors. The largest single dona- tion was $250. Despite the dip in giving, Warren’s third quarter haul of $11,485 keeps her well ahead of the pack as far as sup- port from Keizer residents. Pete Buttigieg Buttigeig’s campaign re- ceived a total of $664.53 from Keizerites. He had a total of 56 individual contributions from three donors. The top con- tributor gave a little more than $400 during the three-month period. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard Gabbard’s campaign received $142 from two donors in the third quarter. Others Sen. Kamala Harris, who ended her campaign for the nation’s highest offi ce in De- cember, received $40 from one donor. The Donald Trump and Joe Biden campaigns each received a single $25 donation in the third quarter. looking back 5 YEARS AGO Abbas a merit fi nalist Of all the high school students in the country, McNary High School senior Zach Abbas has an honor few others can claim: National Merit Finalist. 10 YEARS AGO Home prices fell 11 percent in ‘09 When it came to home prices, Keizer was no longer the exception to the rule in 2009. After being the only area in Salem-Keizer to see an increase in home prices in 2008, 2009 home prices in Keizer fell 11.7 percent – the largest drop of any area. Maze by Jonathan Graf of Keizer sudoku 15 YEARS AGO Wittenbergs sell Keizer Retirement to Wilsonville health care company Residents living at the Keizer Retirement and Health Care Village will soon have a new landlord. SEE PAGE 8 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. 20 YEARS AGO River Road – more fun than ever Keizer motorists should be prepared for construction delays along the busiest stretch of River Road over the next three months. River Road North from Cummings Lane to Chemawa Road will be under construction for up to 90 days.
