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Keizer Community Library
Book Sale August 22
The Keizer Community Library will hold a one-day book sale on Sat-
urday, Aug. 22, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Jeff and Sheryl’s On the Turn
restaurant at McNary Golf Club,.
Sale items will include hardcover and paperback books, audio books,
CDs, DVDs, VHS tapes, puzzles and games. A bag sale will be featured all
day. Shoppers can fi ll a grocery bag for $5 (all bags will be provided). Also,
pre-fi lled bags of books featuring a single genre will be available for $5.
Other prices are 50 cents for paperback books, $1 for hardcover books,
$1 for CDs and puzzles, 50 cents for VHS tapes, plus special pricing on a
few items. Payment may be made with cash, debit cards and credit cards
only.
Donations of the above-mentioned items are always welcome. Informa-
tion about donating books and other media, including no-contact “Porch
Pick Up,” is available on the library’s website, keizerlibrary.org.
McNary Golf Club is located at 155 McNary Estates Drive N. Face
coverings will be required for everyone, including children age 5 and old-
er, and social distancing will be observed according to state requirements.
Book sale proceeds fund the library’s operations.
police scanner
3000 block of Cherry Avenue NE.
SUNDAY, JULY 26
Pass an inclusion resolution
The call for Keizer to declare our litigious society.
A number of Keizer citizens
itself a city of inclusion has been
spoke with passion about
on the table for several
inclusivity at the Aug.
years now—proposed by
17 city council meeting.
some city council mem-
Some of those who ap-
bers and segments of the
editorial peared described their
public.
own encounters with rac-
The twin movements
ism on the streets of the
of #MeToo and Black
city.
Lives Matter should have
You know an issue is
pushed this issue front
and center for the city council. important when citizens comes to
Passing a resolution declaring Keiz- speak before the city council, always
er a city of inclusivity is an easy task. intimidating in the best of circum-
And yet no resolution is forthcom- stances. It is heartbreaking to hear
what some people in our commu-
ing.
The City Charter task force dis- nity endure—racial slurs, derogatory
cussed adding language about in- remarks. A resolution won’t change
clusivity in its proposal to the city hearts and minds overnight. It does
council. It was decided that adding no harm for the city council to put
it the city charter could invite legal Keizer on the right side of the issue.
An inclusivity resolution is a
action. Not an improbable move in
statement declaring Keizer a safe
space for everyone regardless of
race, creed, national origin, gender
identity, sexual identity, religion, in-
come level, marital status or physical
ability.
There is no impediment to mov-
ing an inclusivity resolution across
the goal line. The city of Salem and
the Salem-Keizer School District
have adopted similar resolutions. A
modern city should be at the front
of the parade on this issue, not hold-
ing back to see which way the wind
blows.
Keizer and its citizens deserve
better than continue to wait for a
simple resolution that recognizes
their dignity and quality of life.
—LAZ
Harris: Progressive opportunist
Harris was a leader in the stampede.
By DEBRA J. SAUNDERS
When former Vice President Joe Even when it was shown that the
Biden announced that Sen. Kamala sanctuary laws protected dangerous
Harris, D-Calif., would be his running individuals, City Hall would not fi x
mate, a New York Times tweet labeled its unsafe sanctuary city policy out of
the apparent belief that people in the
Harris “a pragmatic moderate.”
As someone who covered her as a country illegally have a right to break
San Francisco prosecutor and Califor- a host of other laws.
Benefi ciaries of the policy includ-
nia attorney general, I’d say a more apt
ed Edwin Ramos, who was
description is “progressive
convicted for the 2008 fatal
opportunist.”
shooting of San Franciscan
Two controversies defi ne
Tony Bologna, 48, and his
her career.
other
two sons Michael, 20, and
First, there’s her support
voices Matthew, 16.
for San Francisco’s sanctu-
In 2003, a teenage Ra-
ary city policy, which began
mos assaulted a man on
in the 1980s as a means to
a bus—for which he was
reassure undocumented im-
migrants that they could report crimes convicted. San Francisco did not no-
to the police without fear of depor- tify immigration authorities. City law
enforcement also did not contact fed-
tation.
During a Democratic primary de- eral immigration offi cials after Ramos
bate in June 2019, Harris explained was convicted for trying to rob a preg-
her opposition to President Barack nant woman and her brother, a felony.
Obama’s Secure Communities pro- Harris did not prosecute Ramos, by
gram, which required local law en- then a twice-convicted felon, after he
forcement to share fi ngerprints with was stopped by police in a car without
federal immigration authorities— plates and illegally tinted windows and
which San Francisco and Sacramento one of those fl eeing tried to ditch a
actively resisted. “I know it as a prose- gun later tied to a double murder.
Is it Harris’ fault that Ramos killed
cutor. I want a rape victim to be able
to run in the middle of the street and an innocent father and his two sons?
wave down a police offi cer and report Absolutely not, but she should be rec-
ognized as a civic leader who didn’t
the crime against her,” Harris said.
Sounds reasonable. Who doesn’t think it was her job to do something
want a rape victim to be able to report about undocumented immigrants
a rape? But over time the City by the who threatened public safety.
When it was reported that she had
Bay and California pols interpreted
and rewrote ordinances so that they an undocumented immigrant who
protected violent and repeat offenders pleaded guilty to a drug felony en-
rolled in her signature “Back on Track”
in the country illegally.
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job training program—even though it
wasn’t legal for him to work—Harris
told the San Francisco Chronicle it was
a design fl aw. But she didn’t check
to see if other undocumented immi-
grants, who could not work legally,
were enrolled in the program.
Harris did not ask for the death
penalty for Ramos, who was convict-
ed for the three murders. She also re-
fused to seek the death penalty against
the shooter, who later was found
guilty, in the shooting death of San
Francisco police offi cer Isaac Espino-
za. She explained that she had voiced
her opposition to capital punishment
as she ran to be San Francisco district
attorney—so she was keeping faith
with her beliefs.
Harris’ supporters defended the
decision as proof that the Democratic
prosecutor would not turn her back
on her principles.
Problem: She ditched that core val-
ue when she decided to run for at-
torney general in a pro-death penalty
state. With her political career at stake,
Harris assured voters that she would
uphold capital punishment because it
was the law.
Indeed, in 2014, Harris defended
the death penalty in court after a fed-
eral judge ruled that the state’s capital
punishment law was unconstitutional
because it was too arbitrary and rid-
dled with delays.
But later, when families of murder
victims went to court to make Cal-
ifornia a one-drug lethal injection
protocol that could win approval in
the U.S. Supreme Court and put San
Quentin’s death row back in business,
Harris tried to block the suit on the
grounds the families lacked “standing.”
That’s legalese for: Their beliefs didn’t
count.
It tells you something about Har-
ris’ legal skills that the aggrieved fam-
ilies, individuals so unenlightened as
to want California to impose capital
punishment, beat her in court, with
an assist from Sacramento’s Criminal
Justice Legal Foundation.
Another black mark on Harris’
career involved a cocaine-skimming
scandal in the city’s crime lab in 2010.
Superior Court Judge Anne-Chris-
tine Massullo wrote that the failure
of Harris and her offi ce “to produce
information actually in its possession
regarding” a retired technician’s unre-
liability was “a violation of the defen-
dants’ constitutional rights.” And still,
Harris ran for attorney general.
Harris wasn’t a hard-core district
attorney and she wasn’t a tough-on-
crime attorney general, but that didn’t
stop her from getting on the Demo-
cratic ticket.
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 intersection
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 Lockhav-
en Drive NE.
3:09 p.m. - Aggravated assault in the
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 infl u-
ence of intoxicants at the intersection
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 uence
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.
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Maze by Jonathan Graf of Keizer