Keizertimes., March 26, 2021, Image 1

EIZER times
Volume 42 • No. 23 • MARCH 26, 2021
How
decriminalization
is aff ecting KPD
School board
kerfl uffl e / A2
Eppley's account of
gunshot / A3
PAGE A 10
Lady Celts dominate
Corvallis / A24
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Freeman named
First Citizen
By ERIC A. HOWALD
Of the Keizertimes
Kim Freeman was having a coff ee with Marion
County Commissioner Danielle Bethell when mem-
bers of the Keizer Chamber of Commerce walked
into the shop with a surprise announcement: that
she was the 2020 Keizer First Citizen.
Freeman had only one stunned word to off er for
the next minute or so, “Wow.”
“This was just something I never expected,”
she said after the Keizer First Citizen ceremony
Saturday, March 20. “I just look at all the people that
are previous winners and I'm just in awe of everyone
to be standing beside all of them.”
The annual First Citizen Awards were a pre-re-
corded aff air due to COVID-19, presenters, win-
ners and special guests recorded everything at the
Lewis Media Group offi ce beforehand. In addition
See FREEMAN, page A15