Author: Lyndon Zaitz

We can still be thankful regardless of 2020

There may be fewer people around our collective Thanksgiving tables this year. The holiday may be less than celebatory in the time of a pandemic yet we have to find the resolve to be thankful.Take away politics, financial hardships, COVID and what have we got?  We have the beauty of family[Read More…]

Surviving new COVID restrictions

Governor Kate Brown’s ordered a state-wide two-week freeze that went into effect on Wednesday, Nov. 18. The freeze implemented new measures to limit gatherings and stop the spread of COVID-19, which has been surging throughout the state in the past two weeks. The pandemic will alter Thanksgiving plans for hundreds[Read More…]

Welcome to city council

COVID-19 changed the way political candidates campaigned in 2020. In Keizer, where grassroots, door-to-door canvassing has been the norm, candidates relied on social media, lawn signs and advertising to promote themselves. In January 2021 the council will seat an incumbent and two new members. Laura Reid won election to her[Read More…]

Keizer values

Voters overwhelmingly approved changes to the Keizer city charter in Tueday’s election. The Charter Review Task Force, led by City Councilor Elizabeth Smith, worked for more than year, combing over every line of the original document, first approved by voters in 1983, to bring it up to date. The biggest[Read More…]

Thank you for service

In the United States there are approximately 17.4 million veterans of all the armed forces. Next week, America marks Veterans Day, when we honor and celebrate those who served and sacrificed for their country. Regardless of their rank or position, every military veteran should be proud of their service. Since the[Read More…]

It is almost over

Hopefully we will know by next Wednesday morning, Nov. 4, who won the presidential election. For many the end of the campaign can’t come soon enough. We say ‘hopefully,’ because with the surge of mail-in and absentee ballots in states around the country, results may not be fully known until days[Read More…]

Vote yes on MCFD#1 levy

Keizer voters who live within Marion County Fire District #1 (Clear Lake neighborhood) have a decision to make on Measure 24-452 on the general election ballot. The measure is a renewal of the local option levy to fund fire and emergency medical service in the district, which stretches from north[Read More…]

Regarding the bare minimums

In the Keizertimes editorial endorsements, (October 9), we wrote: . . . sitting councilors have raised the ire of residents by refusing to adopt an inclusion resolution, but that’s only one symptom of a council that seems to have forgotten how to strive to do more than the bare minimum. [Read More…]

Vote yes on Measure 24-452

Voters in Keizer that live within Marion County Fire District #1 (Clear Lake neighborhood) have a decision to make on Measure 24-452 on the general election ballot. The measure is a renewal of the local option levy to fund fire and emergency medical service in the district, which stretches from[Read More…]

Danielle Bethell for Marion County commisoner

Danielle Bethell of Keizer is the best choice for election to an open seat on the Marion County Board of Commissioners. Her opponent in the partisan race is Democrat Ashley Carson Cottingham. Cottingham has a strong background in government, in both Oregon and Washington, DC. She has led large groups[Read More…]