Marlene Parsons didn’t really want to attend the annual First Citizen’s Banquet in Keizer.
Her granddaughter tricked her into going.
That ensured Parsons was in the audience when the announcement came that she was the new Keizer First Citizen.
“Everybody lied to me,” Parsons joked about the effort it took to get her to the Jan. 18 event put on by the Keizer Chamber of Commerce.
She was cited for more than two decades of…
