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MAY 29, 2020
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KEIZERTIMES/Eric A. Howald
ABOVE: Kai-Orn Ellertson takes his new bike for a spin around
the Keizer Civic Center parking lot. LEFT: Hersch Sangster
adjusts a donated helmet.
Boy who was struck by
SUV gets new bike after
miraculous recovery
By ERIC A. HOWALD
Of the Keizertimes
Watching him ride his new
bike around the parking lot
of the Keizer Civic Center,
one would never know that
Kai-Orn Ellertson escaped
death seven months ago.
On Oct. 29, Kai was
crossing River Road on his
last bike when he was struck
by an SUV making a turn off
Sam Orcutt Way Northeast.
The accident caused a
traumatic brain injury and
left Kai clinging to life at
Portland’s Legacy Emanuel
Medical Center.
These days, the quiet,
“7-and-a-half ” year old is
still riding bikes with friends
whenever he can.
“Even as he walked out of
the hospital, the doctors said
they had never seen anything
like it,” said Sophal Hong,
Kai’s mother.
On Thursday, May 22, Kai
got a special gift, a replace-
ment for his bike that was de-
stroyed in the accident. It was
given by the Salem Bicycle
$1.00
Club and it was paired with a Trump of the Keizer Police
new helmet care of the Keiz- Department and asked if
er Transportation, Bikeways there was anything that could
be done.
and Pedestrian Committee.
Hong contacted Kai’s
Trump called Hersch
school, Cummings Elemen- Sangster, Keizer’s First Cit-
tary School,
izen and a
when Kai re-
longtime
sumed riding “I let Hersch know
member of
an older bike
the Trans-
I had my grand-
that he had
portation
long
out- son’s old bike in
Committee
grown.
and Bicycle
“He was the garage and
Club.
falling down we could fi x it up
“I
put
again
and
out a call on
again, scrap- and give it to him”
Facebook to
ing up his
see what we
arms. I just
do,”
— Larry Miles could
c o u l d n ’t
Sangster said.
watch it any-
“We thought
more,” Hong said.
we could raise money for a
Salem-Keizer
Public new bike.”
School administrators got
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in touch with Lt. Bob
By ERIC A. HOWALD
Of the Keizertimes
Two Enchanted Child Care
locations were permitted to
reopen days after accusations
of child mistreatment were
brought to light.
Under
an
agreement
reached with state offi cials,
Enchanted Child Care on
Dietz Avenue in Keizer and
a second location in Salem
are both being permitted
to resume care. The owner,
Michelle Long, had to agree
to step aside as operator and
director of the centers before
state offi cials agreed to allow
the reopening. Long is not
allowed to be present at the
facilities when children in care
are present and cannot take
part in direct caregiving.
A new operator and
director of services has been
appointed.
As part of the agreement:
• Children will be allowed
to leave nap mats and provided
a quiet activity when they
are unable to fall asleep. They
will also be permitted to use
restrooms during nap times.
This action is in response to
allegations that children were
being kept from using the
restroom during nap times
even if they were not asleep. At
least one child reported pain
as a result of being kept from
relieving themselves. At least
two children were kept on nap
mats in urine-soaked clothing
after
wetting
themselves
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Schools: Detail on how fall semester might take shape
BY MATT RAWLINGS
Of the Keizertimes
While it is still uncertain what
school will look like in the fall due
to the COVID-19 pandemic, Salem-
Keizer Public Schools (SKPS) is
in discussions with the Oregon
Department of Education about how
classes could take place in September.
“We wanted to go through
different scenarios to fi gure out all the
different possibilities on how school
could work,” said SKPS assistant
superintendent Kraig Sproles.
Over the last few weeks, SKPS
teams have come up with four
different models of what school might
look like in the fall.
• Model one: Face-to-face model.
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School resumes in the fall with direct
contact with students and teachers.
(May not be “traditional” school
model)
• Model two: Hybrid model.
School resumes as a combination of
some face-to-face contact and some
digital learning.
• Model three: Distance learning
model. School resumes as a totally
distant platform with a primary focus
on digital learning.
• Model four: Flexible learning
model. Schools become extremely
fl exible. Students and families have the
ability to move from digital delivery
to a face-to-face delivery without
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KEIZERTIMES/Submitted
It’s still uncertain if school will look more like the video interactions above.
Pastoring through a pandemic:
Local pastors lead a virtual fl ock
Submitted
Rev. Gary Zerr leads a virtual mass at St. Edward Church.
BY LAUREN MURPHY
Of the Keizertimes
The Bible commands be-
lievers not to neglect meeting
together in corporate worship,
but stay at home orders and
social distancing guidelines
have made that challenging
for local churches.
Prior to the pandemic La
Luz Del Valle, a Keizer church
located off Dearborn Avenue,
was having regular services
three times a week, visiting
homes and hospitals, hosting
leadership meetings, offering
personal counseling and serv-
ing in men and women’s pris-
on ministries. Now they have
services on Facebook live and
host meetings over Zoom and
the phone.
Rev. Jose Dominguez, lead
pastor at Luz Del Valle, is lead-
ing his congregation through
the new and uncharted times.
Not knowing the spiritual
condition of the church com-
munity is the one most diffi -
cult parts of leading a church
through these times accord-
ing to Dominguez. He said
one of the other signifi cant
challenges that the church
has faced was fi nding up-to-
date pandemic information in
Spanish.
Dominguez said it has been
hard to do ministry at a dis-
tance. Not being able to reach
out to the community because
of social distancing has put a
damper on their service ef-
forts.
“We are united and togeth-
er, but at a distance,” he said.
As a pastor, personally con-
tacting, meeting and visiting
members has been a struggle
for Dominguez. Though he
said he’s been connecting with
the congregation through text
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