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Smoke, ash fi ll the air as canyon residents fl ee
BY MATT RAWLINGS
Of the Keizertimes
On the morning of Tuesday,
Sept. 8, Marion County
residents awoke to a bright
orange sky that was caused
by the fast-spreading wildfi re
that burned into the Santiam
Canyon on Monday evening.
Just hours later, Marion
County issued a state of
emergency as the wildfi res tore
through the eastern part of the
county.
The emergency declaration
allows the county to request
additional resources from the
state. On Tuesday afternoon,
Gov. Kate Brown declared the
fi re previously known as the
Beachie Creek and Lionshead
fi res as a confl agration named
the Santiam Fire.
Initial evacuation orders
included the communities
of Mehama, Gates, Mill City,
Detroit and Idanha. As of
Tuesday afternoon, Scotts
Mill and the Drakes Crossing
areas, east of Salem and north
of Oregon Highway 22,
were ordered to evacuate on
Tuesday morning. Aumsville
residents, along with residents
from Stayton, Silverton and
Sublimity, were still on a “be
ready” notice Wednesday
morning.
Highway 22 eastbound
was closed from Stayton to
the Santiam Junction to allow
residents from the affected
communities to evacuate.
The sheriff's offi ce said in a
statement at 3:20 a.m. Tuesday,
"Conditions in the Santiam
Canyon east of Mehama have
become extremely dangerous
and all residents who have not
yet evacuated need to do so
immediately."
“We care deeply about the
safety of all of our community
Explorers
harassed
while
hanging
fl ags
By ERIC A. HOWALD
Of the Keizertimes
A team of Keizer Fire
District Explorers set to
placing fl ags along River Road
in celebration of Labor Day
and were met with unfriendly
receptions as they went about
their work Wednesday, Sept. 2.
Firefi ghter Nathan Farrand
was chaperoning the groups
as they made their way down
River Road and said multiple
drivers shouted obscenities or
made obscene gestures as they
put fl ags in place.
“These people also felt the
need to threaten to pull over
and ‘kick our asses.’ While on
our way to place up another
fl ag, someone also threw an
heavy object at myself and
the other explorers that were
present,” Farrand alleged in an
incident report regarding the
encounters.
Farrand said another man,
described as a Black male
about six feet tall, approached
the group as they placed the
fi nal fl ag at the intersection of
the Glynbrook Street North.
“This individual decided to
Please see HARASS, Page A8
Please see BURN, Page A2
Details on
elementary
distance
learning
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KEIZERTIMES/Lauren Murphy
TOP: An aerial view of Keizer Station as smoke fi lls the air around Keizer, courtesy of Ian Koenig of
Made of Ian Videography and Photography. ABOVE: Fire crews from as far away as Gig Harbor, Wash.,
and the Rogue Valley assembled in Keizer Station before moving to Chemeketa Community College.
KEIZERTIMES/Andrew Jackson
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to
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State defunds a lifeline
for college students
By LAUREN MURPHY
Of the Keizertimes
In the 2019-20 academic
year, more than 275 McNary
High
School
students
applied for the Oregon
Promise
Grant, which
supplies graduating seniors
with up to two years of
community college tuition.
Now,
an
unknown
number of those students are
on their own.
“We can only tell how
many students apply for
the grants, we can’t disclose
how many are awarded
for privacy reasons,” said
Rochelle Farris, college and
career specialist at McNary
High School.
Each year, the Oregon
Legislature approves grant
money for the Oregon
Promise
Grant, which
pays community college
tuition for high school
graduates with at 2.5 grade
point average or higher. As
a result of the economic
devastation brought on by
the COVID-19 pandemic,
legislators approved moving
the funding elsewhere at
a special session held in
August.
Not every grant recipient
lost their scholarship, but
the budget for the grant was
reduced by $3.6 million and
more than 1,000 scholarships
were revoked. The students
who lost their scholarship
have an Expected Family
Council
approves
$
1.1 Million
in COVID-
related
spending
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the Zoom
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Contribution (EFC) of
$22,000 or more. The EFC
is determined by the Free
Application for Federal
Student Aid (FAFSA).
“Students who qualifi ed
for the Oregon Promise
and then had their award
recently revoked will still
have fi nancial aid available
through their FAFSA,” said
Farris. “Unfortunately, for
most of these students, it
will mean Federal Student
Loans.”
According to the Higher
Education
Coordinating
Commission’s
(HECC)
website, the $3.6 million is
being relocated to the 2020
Rebalance Plan– an initiative
By ERIC A. HOWALD
Of the Keizertimes
The Keizer City Council
approved more than $1 million
in spending related to impacts
of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Councilors asked few
questions regarding details
of how the money would
be spent or how transactions
to reimburse community
organizations for up to
$500,000 would work. Keizer
city offi cials plan to spend the
money with the expectation
it will be reimbursed through
federal funding made available
in the Coronavirus Relief
Fund established by the
Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and
Economic Security (CARES)
Act passed by Congress in
March.
“We reached out to partner
organizations, like Salvation
Army and St. Vincent DePaul,
and they said they could
use all the money to assist
efforts in the community.
Please see PROMISE, Page A6
Please see SPEND, Page A6
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