Category COMMUNITY

Walk/run clinic kicks off at Gallagher Fitness

For the next 12 weeks, Gallagher Fitness is hosting a beginning walking and running clinic for women.  The Women’s Beginning Walking and Running Clinic is a 12-week clinic to help participants progress to walking or running at a comfortable pace. Participants get support, motivation and…

Celtic One Acts take stage

McNary High School is holding their seventh annual One Act Festival. Performances will continue at Feb. 28-29 at Ken Collins Theatre at 7 p.m. Tickets are $5 at the door.  McNary students will be performing 10 original “one acts.” All productions are written, directed and…

Keizer Christian’s roots in city grow deep

Keizer Christian Church, a Protestant denomination, has its foundation in the Stone-Campbell movement of the early 19th Century. Keizer Christian Church congregants believe in what Rev. Erik Free called the “core elements of Christianity.”  They include tenets such as: Jesus as the Son of God,…

Calendar for March 15 – April 12

Through Sunday, March 15 Enlightened Theatrics present First Date, the Musical, about the uncomfortable and embarrassing nature of blind dating. For show times and tickets visit enlightenedtheatrics.org or call 503-585-3427, extension 1. Through Wednesday, April 1 Keizer Art Association’s Enid Joy Mount Gallery presents its…

Monday, March 2, city council agenda

City of Keizer mission statement : Keep city government costs and services to a minimum by providing city services to the community in a coordinated, efficient, and least cost fashion. Agenda: KEIZER CITY COUNCIL REGULAR SESSION Monday, March 2, 2020 7:00 p.m. Robert L. Simon…

Soaring market raises school bond investment

The school bond approved by voters in the Salem-Keizer School District in 2018 has grown from $619.7 million to $677.7 million, the Community Bond Oversight Committee (CBOC) told the Salem-Keizer School Board on Tuesday, Feb. 11 Market premiums, earnings on bond proceeds, grants and reimbursements…

KLL Park management to be outsourced

More than a year of talk about the future of Keizer Little League Park culminated at a meeting of the Keizer City Council Tuesday, Feb. 18. Keizer City councilors voted unanimously to outsource the operations, management and maintenance of the park through a long-term lease…

Giving back

Members of the West Keizer Neighborhood Association have partnered with Copper Creek Mercantile to host a new food barrel for the Keizer Community Food Bank. Donations can be dropped off during regular store hours.

KPD rolls out Citizens Academy

Lt. Andrew Copeland leads members of the KPD Citizens Academy on a tour of the police evidence room. Every Thursday night for the next few weeks, the Keizer Police Department is giving about a dozen Keizer residents an inside look into how policing works as…