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Around Oregon
Duncan
honored
On March 18, Rich Duncan, owner of
Rich Duncan Construction and a former
Keizerite, was recognized at the Salem
Leadership Impact Hour. The virtual
event was hosted by the Santiam River
District (representing the Salem area of
Cascade Pacifi c Council, Boy Scouts of
America).
In 2020, Oregon suff ered several dev-
astating wildfi res including the Santiam
Canyon. Duncan, along with a coalition
of leaders formed the Santiam Rebuild
Coalition. Over 90 contractors pledged
to provide labor and materials. Duncan
accepted the award on behalf of the
entire team of volunteers and contractors
who are helping rebuild Detroit.
New
pastor at
Westminster
Westminster Presbyterian Church’s
new pastor, Rev. Dr. Kelly Wadsworth,
preached her fi rst sermon on Sunday,
March 14.
The Salem-based church maintains
a close relationship with Keizer's John
Knox Presbyterian Church.
Westminster’s 10-member Pastor
Nominating Committee, who ranged
in age from 16 to seniors, considered
97 potential candidates from 30 U.S.
states and three continents. That search
committee nominated Wadsworth with
unanimous consensus. At a meeting
conducted over Zoom, church members
then voted unanimously to call her as
Westminster’s new pastor.
“After a decade of service in the
Seattle area, I am thrilled to join the
Salem community and the great state of
Oregon,” Wadsworth said. “Westminster
Presbyterian Church is an energetic
congregation engaged with the ques-
tions of our day and I am honored to
serve as their next pastor. As a faith com-
munity, Westminster is committed to the
ongoing well-being of local families, our
neighbors and the city of Salem.”
The traditional and contemporary
worship services on Sunday mornings
are being conducted on Youtube, but
the church leadership is working toward
resuming in-person worship soon.
SNAP benefi ts
expanded
Oregon has been approved to issue
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance
Program (SNAP) emergency allotments
for the month of March 2021. These
emergency allotments were available on
March 11 for current SNAP recipients
and March 31 for new recipients after
March 11.
Emergency allotments raise each
household’s regularly monthly SNAP
allotment to the maximum allowable
amount based on household size. Per the
US Department of Agriculture Food and
Nutrition Service (FNS), SNAP house-
holds already receiving the maximum
allowable allotment based on household
size are not eligible to receive the emer-
gency allotment.
More information about emergency
allotments is available at: tinyurl.com/
rhut884k
Keizer man churns out
desks for distance learning
By LYNDON ZAITZ
Of the Keizertimes
When
COVID-19
closed
schools in 2020 students switched
to distance learning. Last fall, the
Keizer Community Foundation
saw the need to help make
at-home instruction easier, espe-
cially for those students who had
no place of their own to do their
studies.
Audrey Butler, president of
the foundation, read a news arti-
cle about Woodworking With a
Purpose in several other states,
which saw a need and began to
make desks to donate. Butler knew
this was a project that was needed
for local students.
Butler recruited Fernando
Lopez, a community volunteer
who serves on the board of the
foundation, to help with the desk Dymond Sullivan with a desk for distance learning
project. He more than helped, he provided by Fernando Lopez and the Keizer
Submitted photo
built the desks, getting permis- Community Foundation.
sion from Woodworking With a
Purpose to use their design. So far,
25 desks have been constructed and deliv- done,” Butler said.
Each desk is made from 2-by-4s and
ered to Claggett Creek Middle School,
Cummings Elementary and McNary plywood in an hour and half; it costs $30
High School. Counselors and teachers at to make one desk.
Donations were solicited from busi-
each school made the decision on which
nesses and the community to initially
students would receive a desk.
Though school is re-opening, Butler fund the project. Donations are still
said kids still need a place to do home- accepted for the project and can be made
work. “We expect students will still need at keizercommunityfoundation.com or its
a designated area at home to get work Facebook page.
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