Despite a pandemic cancelling or postponing most of the milestones graduates partake in, the advisors to the McNary High School Latino Club didn’t miss a chance to mark the moment for its graduates.  Damaris SandovalJennifer RuedaBerenice GonzalesNayalli GonzalesSisters Berenice and Nayalli GonzalesJessica LopezAaron Gonzales The senior members of the club[Read More…]

Scott Mills gets help unloading a delivery of irises at a Keizer retirement community. Scott Mills wanted to find a way to keep the spirit of the postponed KeizerFEST alive.  “I live in Keizer and unfortunately our annual KeizerFEST (once known as the Keizer Iris Festival) has been postponed,” said[Read More…]

Kai-Orn Ellertson, who was left clinging to life after being struck with by an SUV as he crossed River Road North, takes off for the first time on a bike donated to his family by the Salem Bicycle Club. Watching him ride his new bike around the parking lot of[Read More…]

Bishop Langdon Smith pictured in front of the temple in Keizer. When Langdon Smith was a young man growing up in Vermont, he was the only member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in his high school. Today, Smith is bishop of the Clear Lake Ward of[Read More…]

Keizer Church of Christ’s community gardens near, Keizer Little League Park, are available to everyone, not just church members. Keizer Church of Christ created their neighborhood garden in hopes of connecting with their neighbors. “Once the Keizer Station Apartments were built, it gave us the opportunity to think about other[Read More…]

Lt. Andrew Copeland hands off a final coffee cake delivery from Sandy Olson to Sgt. Greg Barber. Sandy Olson was a stalwart supporter of the Keizer Police Department. She wasn’t a reserve officer. She didn’t volunteer in the police station. She made sure the department’s employees were well fed with[Read More…]

Town & Country Lanes In February, Valor Mentoring, a non-profit organization in Salem, took over operations at Town & Country Lanes from Don and Ann Lebold after more than 50 years of ownership. Valor Mentoring President Tim Davis was thrilled to restructure Keizer’s only bowling alley, with plans to renovate[Read More…]

Tyson Cox, club manager of Keizer’s Physique Fitness, delivers a refilled bottle of sanitizer to Annie Owen of Keizer. Physique Fitness is providing semi-regular refills of sanitizing solution, the same brand as it uses inside the clubs, at its Salem area locations. Follow the gym on Facebook to find out[Read More…]

Keizer firefighters Sean Cummings, Tyler Bullock, Taylor Russell and Victor Hess show off meals delivered to the station on Wednesday, April 22. A firefighter picks up a meal as Mike Adams, owner of Adam’s Rib Smokehouse, looks on.