PAGE A2, KEIZERTIMES, JUNE 12, 2020
KCL summer reading Rent, utility assistance SKEF will dissolve,
program begins Monday
YMCA will take over
available locally
some programs
Imagine Your Story is the
theme of Keizer Community
Library’s (KCL) summer read-
ing program where toddlers
through teens can participate
in the library’s program by
reading stories every day and,
in the process, earn prizes.
Imagine Your Story starts
Monday, June 15, and ends
August 14. And while the li-
brary is temporarily closed
due to COVID-19 concerns,
the Summer Reading Pro-
gram registration will take
place outside on the back pa-
tio. Packets will be available
on the following Mondays in
June: the 15, 22 and 29 from
1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Game boards
can also be presented on those
days to earn prizes.
Tracking daily reading is
easy and is done on a game
board supplied by the library.
Kids’ reading independently,
listening to an adult read, or
listening to audio books, all
count toward daily reading.
As part of the summer
program, KCL is also host-
ing a children’s book Club via
Zoom for students in third
through fi fth grader. Each
participant in the club will
receive three free books to
keep, including titles from the
2020/2021 Oregon Battle of
the Books competition. Par-
ticipation is limited, to regis-
ter, please call 503-363-4548.
Stories in the Stacks, with
Summer Reyes, has gone
virtual on YouTube and pre-
school kids can now enjoy
listening to Reyes reading her
favorite books and watching
her creating crafts on the KCL
YouTube Channel, which is
available on the library’s web
site.
More information about all
of the library’s summer pro-
grams is available on the KCL
website at www.keizerlibrary.
org. All programs are free.
The Mid-Willamette Valley Community Action Agen-
cy is making more than $2 million in rental and utility as-
sistance available for income-eligible residents of Marion
and Polk counties.
Community action is using its portion of a statewide
rental assistance program, roughly $1.5 million, to help
those having diffi culty paying their rent because of the
COVID-19 crisis.
In addition, Energy Services, Community Action’s pro-
gram providing energy asistance to income-eligible indi-
viduals and families is providing $540,000 for direct client
energy assistance for COVID-related energy and heating
bill relief. Households must have been effected by CO-
VID-19. Eligible household income must be at or below
60 percent of median income.
Those interested in applying for rental assistance should
contact the ARCHES Project directly by calling 503-399-
9080 (extension 4003). Those needing help with energy
bills should call Energy Services directly at 503-588-9016.
ARCHES, another program offered by Community
Action, continues to operate a motel program in Salem for
medically fragile and COVID positive homeless clients. To
date, this program has been in operation since mid-March,
serving 95 clients per night. So far 216 unique individuals
have been served from 128 households for a total of 4,200
bed nights over four partner motels.
MCFD1 rescues man stuck in tree
On Thursday, June 4, Marion County
Fire District #1 (MCFD1) units responded
to the report of a patient who was injured
when he became stuck in a tree.
First units arrived at the corner of
Dalke St. NE and Carmelle Ct. found a
male patient, trapped approximately 30
feet up in a tree. The patient had been
trimming to top portion of the tree and
top was secured with a rope to pull it
away from a nearby house, but when cut,
it fell opposite of the intended direction
resulting in the rope coming across the
patients shoulder and pinning him in the
tree.
The patient was conscious and alert
but unable to get free of the rope and
down the tree. Additional resources
were requested to assist with the rescue,
including an aerial ladder and technical
rescue team from Salem Fire Department.
The patient was initially accessed by
a ground ladder and was secured in the
tree and worked with fi re personnel to
free himself from the rope pinning him.
Once secured, Ladder 4 from Salem Fire
was able to get in position to access the
patient and safely remove him from the
tree into the ladder platform.
The patient was brought to the ground
and was evaluated and transported by
medics to Salem Hospital with minor
injuries. MCFD1 responded to the
incident with two engines, one medic
unit and one Battalion Chief.
MCFD1 was assisted by Salem Fire
Department, who responded with two
ladder trucks, two engines, one heavy
rescue and a battalion chief.
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The long-running Salem-
Keizer Education Founda-
tion announced it will dissolve
June 30 and the Salem Fam-
ily YMCA will be taking over
some programs.
For 38 years, SKEF
organized volunteers and
after school program-
ming supporting the stu-
dents of the Salem-Keiz-
er School District. The
most high profi le events
organized by SKEF are
the Awesome 3000 and the
annual Crystal Apple Awards
given to the top teachers in the
district. The future of those two
programs is not yet known.
The nonprofi t found itself
in “diffi cult fi nancial circum-
stances” and will no longer of-
fer programs to local students
and teachers.
The Salem Family YMCA
has been working with SKEF
on integrating its Awesome
Youth Sports, tuition-based
childcare, and summer camps
into the Y programs.
"We appreciate SKEF’s con-
fi dence in the YMCA,” says
YMCA CEO Sam Carroll.
“SKEF built some incredible
programs. I want to assure the
Salem community and SKEF
participants that we will main-
tain the same high-quality that
they have come
to expect. We
are also hoping
to work with
SKEF person-
nel to maintain
continuity.”
The
Sa-
lem Family YMCA location
on Court Street Northeast in
downtown Salem was recently
demolished to make way for a
new facility. The new space, es-
timated to cost $20.5 million, is
expected to open sometime in
2021.
YMCA Board Treasurer
Darin Silbernagel said, “The Y
is perfectly positioned to help
SKEF. We have a new, fantas-
tic building coming and have
developed solid plans for the
future. I think this is another
example of how the YMCA
steps up to meet the needs of
the community.”