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PAGE A4, KEIZERTIMES, AUGUST 7, 2020 Public Square Public Square weclomes all points of view. Published submissions do not necessarily refl ect the views of the Keizertimes. Submit a guest opinion, column or letter to the editor to publisher@keizertimes.com. Getting their diploma at last Like the Depression-era and World COVID-19 diminish their accom- War II students before them, students plishments. They are the vanguard of in the era of COVID-19 are fi nding students who faced adversity and came through with their diplo- their worlds turned upside ma in hand. down and the things they Graduating students once took as a given, are not. want to have their fam- Some semblence of nor- editorial ilies and friends at the malcy returns Friday, Au- ceremony to share in the gust 7, as the McNary High milestone of fi nishing School Class of 2020 will be high school. The fact that able to walk across a stage McNary’s graduates are at Flesher Field and receive their diplomas, to the cheers of a lim- limited to four tickets each should not put a damper on the day. Each gradu- ited number of family and friends. Yes, this is not their parents gradua- ate will be celebrated and honored by tion ceremony. But much of life today their loved ones in their own way. Every member of the Class of 2020 is nothing like what previous genera- from across the nation will take on tions has experienced. The Class of 2020 should not let an unexpected duty: helping younger siblings and peers navigate their edu- cation in a time of a pandemic. It is probable that the classes of 2021 and 2022 will face the challenges of limit- ed extracurricular activities and athlet- ics. They can turn to members of the Class of 2020 for advice and guidance. We are confi dent that students and spectators alike will do their part to assure that the seven McNary High School graduation ceremonies run smoothly. We are confi dent that Keiz- er understands that COVID-19 has changed everything and everyone will attend the graduation with respect and tolerance towards those who work to give the Class of 2020 the event they deserve. — LAZ There has to be a pool the South in August was less than By LYNDON ZAITZ “Does it have a pool?” was the comfortable. Mom and dad in the same question us fi ve Zaitz kids front seat, three oldest boys in the backseat and the two asked everyday on our six- youngest in the way week road trip around the back, every window United States back in the zaitz rolled down. Our only early Seventies respite from the sum- A station wagon pull- writes mer swelter was when ing an Airstream trailer, dad stopped at a store to the family departed in the get a bag of ice. Each of summer (after the straw- berry picking season was done) us cooled down, greedily hoarding from our Keizer home headed off our own cup of ice. Sure that kind for a 10,000-mile trip that touched of traveling builds character but I’d just about every part of the country. rather have had air conditioning. When we pulled into a KOA, or Mom and dad used the Kamp- ground of America (KOA) guide- other campground, that had a swim- book to plan where we will settle ming pool, all we could think of was down for the night in Idaho, Mis- getting into our swim trunks and souri, Florida, Virginia or Ohio. And racing to the pool. Not so fast. The everyday the question from us kids trailer, once parked, the water and was the same: “Does it have a pool?” sewer had to be hooked up. Those If dad decided a KOA was that were the days before automatic lev- night’s stop, all we wanted to know elers so we had to assure the trailer was if it had a pool. If so, then score! was situated correctly, front to back, If not, dejection and the unspoken side to side. We didn’t care about that; we could sleep on an incline. thought of how cheated we were. To this day the Zaitz children are We wanted to get to the pool. Our family of seven spent the stilled amazed that dad (owner of the weekly Keizer News) not only night in campgrounds and trailer could take six weeks off but paid for parks of every type. Some nights those six weeks of travel for seven our site was little more than a dusty, people. Of course, these were the gravelly spot with little vegetation. days before infl ation changed ev- Others were lush, riverside sites. The worse were those trailer parks erything in the mid-1970s. A swimming pool was vital to in cities, usually in an industrial us because our Buick station wag- park; any port in a storm, I suppose. Dad was a great travel host. He on did not have air conditioning. Drving through the Midwest and had, himself, traversed the country many times. The Zaitz kids bene- fi ted from his knowledge. We mar- velled at the magnifi cent sites, both natural and man-made. National parks in the mountains, on the prai- ries. The Gulf of Mexico, the Keys of Florida. Those were matched by the biggest cities we had ever been to; Portland was the biggest city we knew, but, oh boy, to see downtown Dallas or New York was spectacular. History was usually on the menu—Civil War sites, Colonial America, Washington, DC. It wasn’t all historical and nature beauty. My brother, Leland, was fascinated with Disney. Using dad’s letterhead, he wrote to DisneyWorld in Florida weeks before our departure, requet- ing a tour of the theme park, still under construction. The request was granted and we saw what was be- hind the scene. A six-week road trip around the country offers kids, aged 9 to 15, a wonderful adventure. I am sure it was not all fun for my folks who had to contend with fi ve children, with shifting alliances, fi ghting over something as inconsequential as a road map. Regardless of how hot, boring or tense the day may have been, when we pulled into a KOA with a swimming pool, we were one happy family. (Lyndon Zaitz is publisher of the Keizertimes.) As goes the fi libuster... president from signing new anti-gun legislation. The door would be open to legis- lation putting DACA “dreamers” on a fast track to citizenship, and to grant- ing amnesty to illegal migrants, and to putting the 11 million to 22 million who are already here on the road to citizenship and the ballot box. With amnesties, open borders bills, a renewal of chain migration, an end to deportations and new restrictions on ICE and the Border Patrol, a Dem- ocratic Congress, by opening the gates to millions, could turn traditionally red states such as Arizona, Georgia and Texas as blue as New York, Illinois and California. As The Wall Street Journal also notes, one of the agenda items of the Biden- Bernie-AOC Democratic Party is the raising of payroll taxes, personal income taxes, corporate taxes, capital gains taxes and estate taxes. All of these newer and higher tax rates are included in a $3 trillion pack- age to which Joe Biden has signed on. If Democrats gain control of Con- gress and the fi libuster is killed, repara- tions for slavery, the Green New Deal, “Medicare for All” and harsh climate change laws are on the table for Dem- ocrats to decide alone, without hear- ing from the GOP. In a 2017 public letter, Democrats endorsed the retention of the fi libuster, both on principle and because of the unique character of the Senate: “We are steadfastly committed to ensuring that this great American institution continues to serve as the world’s great- est deliberative body.” If the fi libuster is thrown out, writes the Journal, “The door to radicalism is getting busted wide open, and Ameri- cans of both parties may not like what comes out the other side.” Another Ben Franklin quote comes to mind. “A republic if you can keep it,” Franklin told the lady in Phila- delphia who had asked Wheatland Publishing Corp. | 142 Chemawa Road N. • Keizer, Oregon 97303 what kind of govern- Phone: 503.390.1051 • www.keizertimes.com ment they had created. POSTMASTER If the fi libuster goes, SUBSCRIPTIONS Send address changes to: and the Democratic left EDITOR & PUBLISHER One year: runs wild in the next Lyndon Zaitz $35 in Marion County, Keizertimes Circulation publisher@keizertimes.com $43 outside Marion County, two years, will that re- 142 Chemawa Road N. 2019-2020 President $55 outside Oregon Keizer, OR 97303 public survive the dis- Oregon Newspaper fi guring surgery? Periodical postage paid at PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY Rights Act, we should keep marching.” By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN “Keep marching”? To where? “When the people fi nd that they Said Obama: “By making sure every can vote themselves money, that will American is automatically registered herald the end of the republic.” This was the nightmare of Ben to vote, including former inmates... By adding polling places, and expanding Franklin. Yet, with passage this spring of a $4 early voting, and making Election Day a national holiday... By trillion bailout of an economy guaranteeing that every facing historic losses because American citizen has equal of the COVID-19 pandem- representation ... including ic, and Nancy Pelosi’s House other the American citizens who having voted out another $3 voices live in Washington, D.C., trillion, we may have reached and in Puerto Rico. Franklin’s peril point. “If all this takes elim- Indeed, if Democrats cap- inating the fi libuster, an- ture the Senate and win the White House, as many polls now proj- other Jim Crow relic ... then that’s ect, it is not easy to see who or what what we should do.” By calling the fi libuster “another prevents an uncontrolled explosion of fresh spending and a concomitant ex- Jim Crow relic” the ex-president was putting progressives on notice that pansion of federal power. Consider. In his eulogy to John failure to get rid of it would be to col- Lewis at Ebenezer Baptist Church, laborate with racists. After abolishing the fi libuster, Barack Obama called on Democrats, if victorious in November, to kill the says Obama, Democrats should ram Senate fi libuster, all but calling the fi l- through statehood for Puerto Rico ibuster an instrument of systemic rac- and D.C., thereby expanding the Sen- ate to 104 members, and adding four ism. Yet, the fi libuster has been and re- new Democratic senators. That new Senate, says Obama, mains one of the distinguishing fea- tures of the United States Senate. It should enact every law possible to allows for extended deliberation by enlarge and expand the electorate, requiring, not 51 but 60 votes, a su- including extending the ballot to permajority, to shut off debate and pass ex-convicts. His eyes open to the potential of a major bills. If Democrats capture the Senate Senate where 51 Democrats can enact and abolish the fi libuster, the Re- a socialist agenda, Sen. Bernie Sanders publican minority in 2021 would be hastily endorsed Obama’s call: “President Obama is absolutely stripped of virtually the only effective weapon in its arsenal to halt, slow, or right. ... Getting rid of the fi libuster would enable Democrats to pass a shape U.S. law. That is exactly what Obama was comprehensive agenda to guarantee the rights and dignity of everyone in urging in his eulogy to Lewis. “If politicians want to honor John,” this country.” This is but the beginning. If Dem- said a surprisingly militant Obama, “Let’s honor him by revitalizing the ocrats deprive a Republican minority law he was willing to die for ... (And) of the fi libuster, there would be no one once we pass the John Lewis Voting stopping Congress from passing or the police scanner SUNDAY, JULY 26 6:16 a.m. - Vandalism in the 1000 block of Candlewood Drive NE. 6:20 p.m. - Theft from motor vehicle in the 5000 block of Ridge Drive NE. 7:21 p.m. - Fleeing or attempting to elude a police offi cer at the intersec- tion of Alder Drive NE and Pleasant View Drive NE. 8:30 p.m. - Unlawful entry to vehicle in the 700 block of Faymar Drive NE. MONDAY, JULY 27 1:42 a.m. - Fleeing or attempting to elude a police offi cer in the 2000 block of Cherry Avenue NE. 2:31 a.m. - Possession of heroin in the 2000 block of Broadway Street NE. 7:56 a.m. - Theft from motor vehicle in the 5000 block of Ridge Drive NE. 8:30 a.m. - Arrest for physical harass- ment in the 3000 block of Partridge Lane NE. 10 a.m. - Bicycle theft at the intersec- tion of McNary Estates Drive N and River Road N. 10:58 a.m. - Theft from motor vehicle in the 2000 block of Latona Drive NE. 12:59 p.m. - Theft from building in the 6000 block of Keizer Station Blvd. 2:49 p.m. - Motor vehicle theft in the 4000 block of Four Winds Drive N. 3:15 p.m. - Shoplifting in the 6000 block of Keizer Station Blvd. 3:45 p.m. - Theft from motor vehicle in the 1000 block of Moneda Avenue N. 4:33 p.m. - Unlawful entry to vehicle at the intersection of 10th Place and Moneda Avenue N. 11:08 p.m. - Driving under the infl u- ence of intoxicants in the 6000 block of Keizer Station Blvd. TUESDAY, JULY 28 4:27 a.m. - Shoplifting in the 1000 block of Alder Drive NE. WEDNESDAY, JULY 29 8 a.m. - Fraudulent use of credit card in the 4000 block of Elizabeth Street N. 12:42 p.m. - Arrest for restraining order violation in the 600 block of Lockhaven Drive NE. 3:09 p.m. - Aggravated assault in the 3000 block of Cherry Avenue NE. THURSDAY, JULY 30 8:02 p.m. - Arrest for criminal threats in the 6000 block of Shepherd Court N. 8:56 p.m. - Violation of release agree- ment in the 4000 block of 5th Place NE. FRIDAY, JULY 31 7:20 a.m. - Theft from motor vehicle in the 1000 block of Angie Way NE. 4:47 p.m. - Theft by deception in the 7000 block of Kayla Shae Circle NE. 7:57 p.m. - Criminal trespassing in the 4000 block of River Road N. 9:59 p.m. - Reckless driving at the in- tersection of Manzanita Street NE and 13th Avenue NE. 10:18 p.m. - Driving under the in- fl uence of intoxicants at the intersec- tion of Chemawa Road NE and Ulali Drive NE. SATURDAY, AUGUST 1 10:10 a.m. - Theft in the 5000 block of Ridge Drive NE. 12:56 p.m. - Theft from motor vehicle in the 2000 block of Heather Stone Court NE. 1:26 p.m. - Shoplifting in the 6000 block of Keizer Station Blvd. 9:55 p.m. - Driving under the infl u- ence of intoxicants on Sir Lancelot Court NE. SUNDAY, AUGUST 2 2:56 a.m. - Physical harassment in the 1000 block of Troy Street NE. 4 a.m. - Motor vehicle theft in the 1000 block of Susan Court NE. 4:01 a.m. - Theft of bicycle in the 900 block of Chemawa Road N. 9:10 a.m. - Driving under the infl u- ence of intoxicants at the intersection of River Road N and Apple Blossom Avenue N. 11:01 a.m. - Motor vehicle theft in the 600 block of Wayne Drive N. 1:04 a.m. - Motor vehicle theft in the 1000 block of Trent Avenue N. 3:59 p.m. - Violation of release agree- ment in the 3000 block of River Road N. Capitol’s multicultural festival goes virtual Aug. 15 Participants of cultural and heritage events, usually hosted at the Capi- tol as part of the award-winning Capitol History Gateway programming, have joined together to create Multicultural Day Reimagined. This Face- book event, sponsored by the Oregon State Capitol Foundation, will be celebrated Saturday, Aug. 15, starting at 10 a.m. at tinyurl.com/cap- mc2020. Join online for family-friendly activities such as musical enter- tainment, dancing and storytelling. This virtual event will feature specially recorded performances by the capitol’s CHG partners and contain recordings of some past performanc- es and video tours of heritage sites in Oregon. In addition, many groups will be sharing information about their communities and provide links to learn more about them. In all, approximately 45 partners contributed information to making the virtual festival happen. 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