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AUGUST 28, 2020
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Mike DeBlasi
By ERIC A. HOWALD
Of the Keizertimes
The last time Mike DeBlasi
ran for the Keizer City Coun-
cil, detractors used his relative-
ly short time as a Keizer resi-
dent as a straw man to oppose
his candidacy.
DeBlasi might have only
lived in Keizer since 2012, but
he joined the Keizer Planning
Commission the following
year and has remained an ac-
tive volunteer in city advisory
groups ever since. He current-
ly serves as chair of the Traffi c
Safety, Bikeways and Pedestri-
an Committee.
“Keizer is a completely dif-
ferent town than what it was
20 years ago. A lot of the peo-
ple who live in Keizer now are
not from here,” DeBlasi said.
“I’ve lived in other places and
I’ve seen cities make decisions
that put them on a good path
and others times when they’ve
made mistakes, we can learn
from both.”
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As the deadline to fi le as a candidate passed, Keizerites
stepped up to fi ll soon-to-be-vacant positions and one
candidate will attempt to unseat a sitting councilor.
Keizer non-profi t director will
face off against businessman
By ERIC A. HOWALD
Of the Keizertimes
For
Michele
Ro-
land-Schwartz, running for
the Keizer City Council is a
matter of meeting a moment.
“Everyone is being asked
to look at our policies and
their impact on our day-to-
day lives,” Roland-Schwartz
said. “I'm interested in meet-
ing those policy decisions and
having those conversations
and thinking about how deci-
sions affect our residents, how
do they impact our hardwork-
ing families or seniors, people
with disabilities, black, indige-
nous and communities of col-
or, LGBTQ communities.”
Roland-Schwartz said is-
sues such as growth affect all
residents of the city in dif-
ferent ways and city offi cials
need to keep all of them in
view as they proceed.
She is running to replace
Marlene Parsons in Position
Michele Roland-Schwartz
3 on the Keizer City Coun-
cil. Keizer businessman Kyle
Juran has also fi led to run for
the same position.
Roland-Schwartz’s atten-
tion to such issues of inclusion
is an extension of who she is
as well as her work as the cur-
rent executive director for the
Oregon Attorney General’s
Oregon Sexual Assault Task
Force, a position she’s held
since 2013. The Keizer-based
task force, a private, non-prof-
it, fosters collaboration to be-
How to go seven
rounds with your
graduation speech
tween numerous agencies and
research disciplines to create a
culture more attentive to the
needs of sexual assault victims.
Its work runs the gamut from
preventative education to
training fi rst responders.
An issue such as hous-
ing can have a direct impact
on the work she does as part
of the task force. Keizertimes
asked how she regarded coun-
cil’s pre-pandemic decisions
banning sleeping on sidewalks,
a direct response to a bur-
geoning population of home-
less residents.
“When I see ordinanc-
es like that or decisions like
that, it makes me concerned
because it is kind of directly
criminalizing
homelessness
and housing insecurity,” Ro-
land-Schwartz said.
One of the things she’s
learned as a result of a career
Please see
FACE OFF, Page A6
Juran
hopes to
bring a
younger
voice to
council
Dylan Juran
By ERIC A. HOWALD
Of the Keizertimes
Dylan Juran will be the
youngest candidate on the
ballot running for Keizer City
Council, but he’s hoping vot-
ers will see that as an asset.
“I want to see the interest
of people like me and young-
er represented because it's our
future in this town,” Juran
said. “Maybe we won’t like
what we inherit, and if we
don’t speak up that will be our
fault.”
Juran is running for the seat
being vacated by Councilor
Kim Freeman (Position 2).
Ross Day, a Keizer attorney,
is also a candidate for the seat.
His father, Kyle Juran, is run-
ning for another seat on the
council in November.
It won’t be Juran’s fi rst
foray into the sphere of city
governance, he’s served as a
volunteer on the Keizer Parks
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The new
bread line
PAGE A2
Please see JURAN, Page A8
Peace , love
and chalk
City offering
biz loans
again
KEIZERTIMES/Matt Rawlings
Joe Ramiro Alvarado delivers his commencement speech.
BY MATT RAWLINGS
Of the Keizertimes
The thought of giving
the same graduation speech
seven times in one day would
have been unheard of at the
beginning of the year.
The COVID-19 pandemic
turned that thought into a
reality.
To keep capacity below
250 people, McNary High
School hosted seven in-
person graduation ceremonies
on Friday, Aug. 7, and in each
ceremony, Erik Jespersen,
McNary’s
principal, Bill
Kirkwood, math teacher
and keynote speaker, and Joe
Ramiro Alvarado, the senior
class speaker, recited their
speeches for the Class of 2020.
“It was surreal to go
through the same speech
seven times in one day. The
intent was to be energetic and
8th graders
hit diamond
one last
time
PAGE A2
“I think my best
one was my
fourth speech,
because I knew
exactly what
to expect”
— Joe Ramiro Alvararo
in the moment. We wanted to
bring our A-game every time,”
Jespersen said.
With it being his sixth
time speaking at a McNary
graduation, Jespersen has
gotten accustomed to being
on the podium in front of
thousands of people. This year,
Keizer's most
distinguished
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KEIZERTIMES/Eric A. Howald
Supporters of a Keizer inclusivity resolution and Black Lives Matter loaded up with chalk
and took their messages to the Keizer Civic Center Thursday, Aug. 20. For more photos,
visit www.keizertimes.com
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