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Unfortunately, some have
taken advantage of the less
traffi cked hours and chosen to
dump large amounts of debris
and other household items in
spaces of Keizer Rapids Park.
Other projects that were be-
ing planned ahead of the pan-
demic outbreak are moving
ahead as contractors themselves
take more precautions.
An asphalt pathway for pe-
destrians and riders is under-
way on Delight Street North.
The long-desired project will
connect Cummings Elementa-
“We’ve seen the usage of
open spaces in parks go up and
we want people to be outside
and enjoy the parks as much
as they can during this time,”
Lawyer said.
It means staff members are
spending as much time as they
can making sure parks look
nice and hauling away all the
extra garbage that comes with
the increased usage.
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ry School to the south and Mc-
Nary High School to the north.
Lawyer was just waiting on
some fi nal paperwork to con-
tinue ADA ramp upgrades on
River Road north of Chemawa
Road North. A reconstruction
of tennis courts at Willamette
Manor Park is waiting for an
extended break in the weather
as is a planned replacement of
a swing set in Northview Park.
“We’re doing out best to
keep things as normal as possi-
ble and these unusually abnor-
mal times,” Lawyer said.
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Rotary raffl e winners drawn
The Rotary Club of Keiz-
er’s Go for the Gold Raffl e
drawing went on as scheduled
on Saturday, April 3, though
the raffl e party had been can-
celled.
Les Zaitz was the grand
prize winner, the recipient
of gold and silver valued at
$10,000. The second place
winners of $1,200 in cash
were Janelle and Brian Lidtke.
The raffl e drawing was
livestreamed at 9 p.m. on
Saturday, April 3, led by club
president Jeff Davis and for-
mer club president Nathan
Bauer. The 1,150 sold tick-
ets were in a rotating drum.
At the appointed hour Bauer
drew the fi rst ticket for the
gold and silver. He placed it
ceremoniously face down on
the table. Bauer then drew a
second ticket for the $1,200 in
cash. That ticket was also laid
face down.
Zaitz was announced as
the winner fi rst, followed by
the Lidtke’s win. Zaitz was
surprised; his winning ticket
had been gifted to him by his
brother, Lyndon.
“I was at home on my
ranch in eastern Oregon,
practicing dramatic social dis-
tancing,” said Les Zaitz. “The
phone rang—at night, which
doesn’t happen often. At fi rst,
I didn’t quite grasp the news.
This was a total surprise - and
a delight at a time life has a lot
of challenges right now.”
The grand prize winner
said rather than gold and silver
he will opt for the equivalent
in cash, though he has no im-
mediate plans for the windfall.
He said he would look for op-
portunities to help his family
and the Keizer community.
Janelle and Brian Lidtke
have buying tickets for the
Rotary Club of Keizer’s an-
nual raffl e for 17 years. They
usually buy two tickets from
Janelle’s brother, Jeff Kuhns,
but this year the Lidtkes
bought three tickets.
Janelle was watching the
livestream of the drawing
while her husband was nap-
ping in another room. “I was
very excited,” she said. “My
screams woke my husband; I
scared him.”
The couple will use their
raffl e winnings for small proj-
ects around the house and also
make donations to their favor-
ite causes including Fences for
Fido.
Oregon students will not be
returning to the classroom this
academic year.
In light of the necessity to
continue social distancing mea-
sures during the ongoing coro-
navirus pandemic, particularly
her Stay Home, Save Lives or-
der, Gov. Kate Brown today an-
nounced she is extending Or-
egon’s physical closures for the
K-12 and post-secondary edu-
cation systems through the end
of the current academic term
and school year.
She directed school districts,
community colleges, and uni-
versities to complete the fi nal
weeks of the regular academ-
ic year by continuing distance
learning and support to stu-
dents.
“We have Oregon’s students
at the forefront of every deci-
sion we make about education,”
said Governor Brown. “Their
health, happiness, and safety is
our priority. The best thing we
can do for the health of our
children, and for the thousands
of educators across the state, is
to give everyone certainty by
announcing the decision today
to close in-person classes for the
remainder of the school year.”
There is no change to the
number of credits required to
graduate. Salem-Keizer Public
Schools now consider March
13 as the fi nal day of course-
work for students in the class of
2020 and will issue a .5 credit as
“Pass,” or “Incomplete” for the
work completed to that date.
This guidance applies to stu-
dents set to graduate in June of
2020. For those seniors who
don’t have enough credits as of
March 13, individualized dis-
tance learning schedules will
be created to help them earn
credits through the end of the
school year to stay on track with
the Class of 2020.
“Like you, we are hurting,
but we know this latest guid-
ance comes as another measure
to keep us as safe and healthy as
we can be,” said Superintendent
Christy Perry. “We will contin-
ue to honor distance learning
for all of our students in grades
K-8, and we will follow a plan
to report on progress toward
focused standards for Distance
Learning. Distance learning be-
gins on Monday, April 13, but
we do not expect it to look like
the school days we had only a
handful of weeks ago.”
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