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Freeman, Parsons head for the door
With a combined 16 years on the formed well. Her level-headed in-
Keizer City Council, Kim Freeman put will be missed on the council.
Marlene Parsons has been a
and Marlene Parsons attended that
last session on Monday, Dec. 21, be- straight-shooter during her time on
fore they turn their seats over to thei the council. Her experience in the
military and in business did her well
successors on January 4.
Freeman was appointed to the on the issues that faced the council
during her two terms.
council in June 2013 to
The public was
succeed Ken LeDuc, who
well-served by Parson’s
resigned. Her selection by
unapologetic need to
councilors transformed the
all the data on
body into a female ma-
editorial know
whatever issue that
jority, the fi rst time in the
came up, be it parks,
city’s history.
policing, infrastructure
A long-time commu-
and especially the re-
nity volunteer, Freeman
cently approved State-
brought her common sense
approach to the council. Once she ment of Values.
Every councilor receives some
found her footing Freeman was not
only a cheerleader for the city but pushback from the public, depend-
an advocate for those who needed ing on the issue. Parsons listened
a voice in government. She always intently to the opinions of her con-
strived for fairness in any policy stituents and made the decison she
the council discussed. Businesses, knew was right for Keizer.
The Keizer city council has al-
schools and families knew they had
ways been comprised of our friends
a champion in Freeman.
Kim Freeman ends her tenure as and neighbors; very few have been
president of the city council, a po- politicans in the traditional sense.
sition she took seriously and per- Many politicians think about the
next rung, most Keizer city coun-
cilors do not—they serve their city
and their fellow residents out of a
desire to make their home bet-
ter. Self-aggrandizement is not the
name of the game.
Neither Freeman nor Parsons
sought a seat on the council to
round our their resumes, to see their
names in the newspaper or have a
street named after them. Like doz-
ens of people who preceded them
on the council, they saw a way to
serve and they did.
After they step down at the fi rst
council meeting of 2021 in January,
Kim Freeman and Marlene Parsons
can be proud of their accomplish-
ments and their leadership for the
citizens of Keizer. There will be
projects throughout the communi-
ty in the coming years that can use
their expertise. They may be step-
ping down but we encourage them
not to step away.
Thank you for your service Kim
Freeman and Marlene Parsons.
—LAZ
Can democracy hold us together?
By mid-November, according to
By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN
If America were a company and not a Reuters/Ipsos poll, 52% of Repub-
a country, we would have long ago dis- licans thought Donald Trump had
solved the corporation, split the blan- “rightfully won.” Sixty-eight percent
of Republicans thought the election
ket, and gone our separate ways.
What still holds this disputatious was “rigged.” A third of independents,
and even 10% of Democrats, agreed.
and divided people together?
This month, a Fox poll found that
Consider. In announcing the $900
billion stimulus bill to deal with the a third of all registered voters believe
pandemic, Speaker Nancy Pelosi did the 2020 election was stolen from
not mention that the gifts for her dis- Trump, with 78% of those who voted
tressed countrymen and women at for Trump expressing that view.
Moreover, the issues that divide us
Christmas would have been twice as
large had she taken President Trump’s now go increasingly to the faith of
what defi nes us as a nation and a peo-
offer of $1.8 trillion in October.
ple.
Why did the speaker slap
A slice of our intel-
that offer away?
lectual elite emphatical-
“The President only
ly agrees with the New
wants his name on a check
other
York Times’ Project 1619,
to go out before Election
voices
which decrees that the
Day and for the market
real birth date of this
to go up,” she told House
nation was neither 1776
Democrats.
nor 1789, but the year
Rather than let Donald
Trump take credit, Pelosi stiffed mil- that the fi rst slave ship arrived in Vir-
ginia.
lions of Americans.
To this infl uential cohort, enslave-
Sunday, however, the speaker took
time for a statement to hail the removal ment of Black people brought from
of Robert E. Lee’s statue from Statuary Africa and dispossession and destruc-
Hall. “Welcome news,” said the speaker. tion of the indigenous tribes that Eu-
“Congress will continue our work to ropean settlers found here are the de-
fi ning events of our history.
rid the Capitol of homages to hate.”
And all who participated in these
Lee had stood in a place of honor in
the Capitol for decades. When exactly crimes against humanity or refused to
did the statue of the general become a condemn them are undeserving of ex-
altation.
homage to hate?
Not only Lee, but Columbus and
Both episodes point up an unpleas-
Presidents Washington, Jefferson, Mad-
ant truth.
Our dysfunctional American family ison, Jackson, TR and Wilson are all
racist white men whose disgraceful
agrees upon less and less.
and even criminal conduct disquali-
fi es them from a place of honor in the
American pantheon of 2020. All statues
of such men need to come down to
cleanse us of the stain of having hon-
ored them.
Pelosi says that such statues are
“homages to hate.”
Yet, there is another America that
still cherishes the nation these men
created. And, as did their fathers, grand-
fathers and ancestors, these Americans
have shown a willingness to fi ght and
die in her defense.
Thus do we Americans disagree on
the most fundamental of issues.
Was America, is America, with all
its sins and virtues and all its achieve-
ments, a country to be cherished, loved
and defended? Or is America a coun-
try of whose history we should all be
ashamed?
Part of America also believes that
discovery in the Constitution of a
woman’s right to an abortion and a
right of homosexuals to marry were
major milestones of progress toward a
more moral America.
Others see these as long strides away
from the Christian country we used to
be, a social and moral decline toward
the same quiet death that has come
to other civilizations and nations that
went before us.
In short, we Americans disagree on
whether our country is a good and
great nation worth defending, or a
place that needs a deep cultural cleans-
ing of its sins.
And we have no common code of
morality. One side is rooted in mod-
ernism and secularism and the other in
the teachings of the Old and New Tes-
tament, Christian tradition and a nat-
ural law written on the human heart
that is superior to man-made law.
People who disagree upon such ba-
sic beliefs naturally drift apart, as we
Americans are doing today.
Political questions arise out of these
fundamental differences, and they are
not insignifi cant.
Can a republic as fractured and
splintered as ours is—racially, ethnical-
ly, politically, culturally, morally—with
a population who do not share the
same belief about whether their nation
is good and great or failed and evil, en-
dure? And for how long?
What successful models from histo-
ry do we see of nations that took the
kind of risks we are taking with our
republic?
( Creators Syndicate)
deed, but if you pledge al-
legiance to the lame duck
loser and his bamboozled
To the Editor:
base, “Ya gotta do what ya
letters
Representative
Bill
gotta do.”
Post is a constant source
Another
example:
of amusement. Every now
Post promoted the Ange-
and then he makes sense.
la (7.9%) Roman/Three
Like f ’rinstance when he suggest- Percent “Maskless Santa” gathering
ed to the head case adolescents (aka at the gazebo at the (Keizer) Civ-
Proud Boys) that intimidating state ic Center. An irresponsible (some
employee—in front of their homes would say stupid) holiday nod to the
—was bad form.
reality-challenged. Looks like Post is
Ah, but then, Post (and state Sen. pretty chummy with “entertainer”
Kim Thatcher) signed on to a formal Roman and her laugh-a-minute mi-
request to Oregon Attorney General litia. Funny guy, Post. He should be
Ellen Roseblum to support Texas’ ri- on the radio.
diculous and baseless challenge to the Martin Doerfl er
November election. Fool’s errand in- Keizer
A constant source
of amusement
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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF
THE STATE OF OREGON
FOR MARION COUNTY
Juvenile Department
Case No. 20JU04603
PUBLISHED SUMMONS
In the Matter of
ELIZABETH RAY PYATT
A Child.
TO: Jeremy Eldon Pyatt
IN THE NAME OF THE STATE
OF OREGON:
A petition has been fi led
asking the court to terminate
your parental rights to the
above-named child for the
purpose of placing the child
for adoption. YOU ARE
REQUIRED TO PERSONALLY
APPEAR BEFORE the Marion
County Juvenile Court at 2970
Center Street NE, Salem,
OR 97301, on the following
hearings: Prelim / Initial
Appearance Hearing, on the
25th day of January, 2021, at
9:45 a.m. to admit or deny the
allegations of the petition and
to personally appear at any
subsequent
court-ordered
hearing. YOU MUST APPEAR
PERSONALLY
IN
THE
COURTROOM ON THE DATE
AND AT THE TIME LISTED
ABOVE.
AN
ATTORNEY
MAY NOT ATTEND THE
HEARING IN YOUR PLACE.
THEREFORE, YOU MUST
APPEAR EVEN IF YOUR
ATTORNEY ALSO APPEARS.
This summons is published
pursuant to the order of the
circuit court judge of the
above-entitled court, dated
December 21, 2020. The order
directs that this summons be
published once each week
for three consecutive weeks,
making three publications in
all, in a published newspaper
of general circulation in
Marion County, Oregon and
Deschutes County, Oregon.
Date of fi rst publication:
December 25, 2020
Date of last publication:
January 8, 2021
NOTICE
READ THESE PAPERS
CAREFULLY
IF YOU DO NOT APPEAR
PERSONALLY
BEFORE
THE
COURT
OR
DO
NOT APPEAR AT ANY
SUBSEQUENT
COURT-
ORDERED HEARING, the
court may proceed in your
absence
without
further
notice
and
TERMINATE
YOUR PARENTAL RIGHTS to
the above-named child either
ON THE DATE SPECIFIED
IN THIS SUMMONS OR ON
A FUTURE DATE, and may
make such orders and take
such action as authorized by
law.
RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS
(1) YOU HAVE A RIGHT
TO BE REPRESENTED BY
AN ATTORNEY IN THIS
MATTER. If you are currently
represented by an attorney,
CONTACT YOUR ATTORNEY
IMMEDIATELY
UPON
RECEIVING THIS NOTICE.
Your previous attorney may
not be representing you in
this matter.
IF YOU CANNOT AFFORD
TO HIRE AN ATTORNEY and
you meet the state’s fi nancial
guidelines, you are entitled to
have an attorney appointed
for you at state expense. TO
REQUEST
APPOINTMENT
OF AN ATTORNEY TO
REPRESENT YOU AT STATE
EXPENSE,
YOU
MUST
IMMEDIATELY CONTACT the
Marion Juvenile Department
at 2970 Center Street NE,
Salem, OR 97301, phone
number
(503)
588-5291,
between the hours of 8:00
a.m. and 5:00 p.m. for further
information.
IF YOU WISH TO HIRE AN
ATTORNEY, please retain one
as soon as possible and have
the attorney present at the
above hearing. If you need
help fi nding an attorney, you
may call the Oregon State
Bar’s Lawyer Referral Service
at (503) 684-3763 or toll free
in Oregon at (800) 452-7636.
IF
YOU
ARE
REPRESENTED
BY
AN
ATTORNEY, IT IS YOUR
RESPONSIBILITY
TO
MAINTAIN CONTACT WITH
YOUR ATTORNEY AND TO
KEEP YOUR ATTORNEY
ADVISED
OF
YOUR
WHEREABOUTS.
(2) If you contest the
petition, the court will
schedule a hearing on the
allegations of the petition
and order you to appear
personally and may schedule
other hearings related to the
petition and order you to
appear personally. IF YOU
ARE ORDERED TO APPEAR,
YOU
MUST
APPEAR
PERSONALLY
IN
THE
COURTROOM, UNLESS THE
COURT HAS GRANTED YOU
AN EXCEPTION IN ADVANCE
UNDER ORS 419B.918 TO
APPEAR BY OTHER MEANS
INCLUDING,
BUT
NOT
LIMITED TO, TELEPHONIC
OR OTHER ELECTRONIC
MEANS. AN ATTORNEY
MAY NOT ATTEND THE
HEARING(S)
IN
YOUR
PLACE.
PETITIONER’S ATTORNEY
Alisa Larson-Xu, #165935
Assistant Attorney General
Department of Justice
1162 Court Street NE
Salem, OR 97301-4096
Phone: (503) 934-4400
ISSUED this 22nd day of
December, 2020.
s/ Alisa Larson-Xu
Alisa Larson-Xu, #165935
Assistant Attorney General
Of Attorneys for Petitioner
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