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We don’t ask, we act, in a crisis
We salute all the First bad air pales in comparison
Responders, organizations, to those who lost proper-
businesses, governments and ty, which is shocking on its
individuals that jumped in to own. The loss of life of those
in the path of
help as our fellow Or-
the wildfi res is
egonians faced disaster
tragic.
with the wildfi res af-
More
than
fl icting many areas of
western Oregon.
editorial the commu-
nity’s thoughts
When disaster strikes,
are with the
our community doesn’t
victims of the
ask—it acts.
fi res. What is
While fi nancial do-
nations are key to any relief not with the victims is judge-
and recovery effort, Keiz- ment. Volunteers in times of
er donated time, food and disaster don’t ask the political
needed items for daily living or religious views of those
for hundreds of people, many they are helping. It is almost
a certainty, once the fi res ex-
who lost everything.
Residents of Keizer have tinguish and the smoke blows
been affected by the thick away, that the blame game
smoke that has blanketed the will begin. Debates will rage
Willamette Valley since the about forest management and
fi res in the Cascades began. adequate fi refi ghting resourc-
Loss of property is shock- es, but debates need to be put
ing. Breathing hazaradous off for now. Rescue, recovery
air is harmful to the vulner- and relief are the watchwords
able among us. Dealing with of the day.
Disasterous events are al-
ways bookended with stories
of loss and tragedy on one
end and stories of heroism
on the other end, such as a
man driving his vehicle (re-
ported by SalemReporter.com),
packed with belongings, who
rescued Bonnie Sullivan,
who was alone. She rode in
his trunk until safely taken to
Mehama. More tales of her-
oism, no doubt, will begin
to surface, as shock begins to
fade.
Political and cultural dis-
agreements do not exist
when people are helping
others in time of tragedy and
disaster. There will be many
stories to be told of the Great
Oregon Wildfi res of 2020.
One chapter will how people
forgot about themselves and
jumped in to help.
—LAZ
tails pinned down, they knew
their place in the world. That
knowledge empowered them
to change the world, or at least
have more control over their
small piece of it, in countless
ways.
I
hadn’t
thought about
that night in a
long time, but
there were two
instances in the
past week that
made me feel like I was trying
to draw a map of the world
without enough information.
The most obvious one was
the fi res devastating the forests
along the Cascade Mountains,
as literal a dragon as we are
likely to encounter in mod-
ern times. It started breath-
ing smoke and ash into town
Monday evening. Forty-eight
hours later, I didn’t feel as
though anyone was getting
any better information than
we had at the start. It’s im-
proved with baby steps since
then.
During the fi rst two days,
the main sources of infor-
mation everyone was told to
watch – social media outlets of
the Marion County Sheriff ’s
Offi ce – were only updated a
handful of times.
One possibility is that
things were moving more
quickly or more slowly than
I imagined and the rapidly
changing, hellish colors out-
side the door were throwing
off my senses. Another possi-
bility is that those in charge
didn’t feel there was the time
to prioritize communications
with anyone outside the blast
zones. Either situation is un-
derstandable, but neither ex-
the need is, what
resources
are
available,
and
letters
other important
To the Editor:
information. In
Just when you
a time of trag-
think 2020 couldn’t
edy, Bill fi nds a
be any worse, we
way to bring us
fi nd ourselves in another
emergency situation with the together and lead with a ser-
wildfi res destroying our lands, vant’s heart. Please join me in
homes, communities and our re-electing Bill Post to House
District 25 as he continues to
animals.
My thoughts and prayers show up for his constituents
go out to all the families af- over and over again.
fected by the evacuation. One Lauren Cook
thing I am incredibly grateful Keizer
for is state Representative Bill
Post. Not only does he keep
his constituents up to date
about the wildfi res, he reach-
To the Editor:
es out to all of Oregon.
In this year’s city coun-
Bill informs us how to
help our neighbors, where cil contests, there are very
Re-elect
Bill Post
Vote for
Dylan Juran
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EDITOR & PUBLISHER
Lyndon Zaitz
publisher@keizertimes.com
2019-2021 President
Oregon Newspaper Publishers
Association
cuses the absence of more up-
to-the-minute information.
A third possibility is avoid-
ing incitement of a panic, but
panic grows as quickly in a
void as it does in any well-ox-
ygenated environment.
At the same time that
was unfolding, I had a high
school junior at home anx-
iously awaiting the release of
their schedule for fall classes.
Salem-Keizer Public School
offi cials and principals had
told all students to expect
their schedules Tuesday, Sept.
8. McNary’s schedules weren’t
released until nearly 36 hours
after the expected drop. There
wasn’t a peep from the school
district personnel as to what
was happening or what caused
the delay.
Students throughout the
district have already been de-
prived of so much this year that
when the schools tell them
they will deliver on a certain
date, it’s going to sound like
a promise even if that word
isn’t used. Disappointment
is inevitable to some degree,
but the district could have al-
layed students’ fears with a few
well-chosen words.
One of these situations
pales in urgency to the oth-
er, but both are illustrative of
the need for better communi-
cation from our local leaders.
Without information to tell
us otherwise, human instinct is
to conjure dragons in the dark
spaces. No one wants a panic,
but a regular stream of reli-
able information, delivered in
the appropriate tone does not
provoke panic. It slays dragons.
(Eric A. Howald is the
managing editor of the
Keizertimes.)
clear choices to be made.
My choice for Position #2
is Keizer native and McNary
High School graduate, Dylan
Juran.
He is young, but no John-
ny-Come-Lately. Dylan has
a long-term commitment to
the community and to pub-
lic service. He is an indepen-
dent businessman, serving as a
technical consultant to two
non-profi ts. Not an ideolo-
gy, he is exactly the kind of
young, moderate, tech-savvy
individual the city needs.
As a 50-year Keizer resi-
dent with an eye to the future,
I am proud to support Dylan
Juran for Keizer City Coun-
cil, Postion #2.
Carol Doerfl er
Keizer
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Blood Drive at St. Ed Sept. 25
Information slays dragons
By ERIC A. HOWALD
When medieval cartogra-
phers charted the edges of the
known world, it was a frequent
practice to pencil in monsters
in the areas that had not yet
been discovered,
typically a drag-
on-like fi gure.
Our
oldest
known usage of
the phrase “here
be dragons” ap-
peared on a globe
produced in 1504, the area on
the east coast of Asia bears the
Latin phrase “hic sunt dra-
cones.” In the face of the un-
known, the early mapmakers
used dragons to urge caution
when venturing into those
spaces. Since that time, “here/
there be dragons” has been ap-
plied most uncharted areas of
human exploration, internal
and external.
Eventually our ancestors
mapped the entire world and
the dragons disappeared.
For a while, a few years
back, I volunteered as a tutor
to adults students working to-
ward their GEDs. I was tasked
with guiding students through
language arts and critical
thinking. While we had text-
books to rely on and prepare
with, the hardest part of the
job was fi nding ways to re-
mind students why they were
making the effort in the fi rst
place.
One evening, I brought up
the old maps and idea of drag-
on-infested, uncharted lands as
a way to illustrate how others
had gotten themselves through
the struggles. Seeing the entire
world took effort and time
and exploration but, once the
old mapmakers had the de-
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