Chemeketa Students attending Chemeketa Community College in the fall have until March 31 to apply for scholarships from the college’s foundation. Applications are now open. Completing one application allows students to be considered for more than 140 scholarships and assistance funds the college foundation offers.…
Sunny, who lives shelterless in the Keizer community, rides down River Road Santa as Santa in the 2019 holiday light parade. Sunny thinks you’re beautiful. The same way Keanu Reeves thinks you’re breathtaking. “Keizer is a beautiful place, the people who live here are beautiful.…
Oregon Department of Veterans’ Affairs (ODVA) Director Kelly Fitzpatrick will host a live virtual town hall for Vietnam veterans on March 25 at noon via Zoom. The event will cover earned benefits and other resources available to Vietnam veterans and their families, including disability compensation,…
For Keizer Homegrown Theatre, the show must always go on. This month, the troupe will conduct a live reading and hopes to debut a filmed production in the near future. KHT’s next participatory reading will be March 16, at 6:30 p.m. Viewers can log on to…
Dinosaurs Revealed, the latest exhibit at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI), will open on March 20 and will be on view through Sep. 6. The exhibit includes lifelike and life-size animatronic dinosaurs with real fossils and full dinosaur skeletons. The exhibit provides…
After presenting the findings of a parks survey to members of the Parks Advisory Board on Thursday, Feb. 25, members of the committees offered their own feedback. (Keizertimes covered the results of the survey in its March 3 edition, it can be found at keizertimes.com)…
“Air” high-fives are the new greeting. There are going to be a lot of first days of school in 2021. The second cohort of Forest Ridge Elementary School got their start on Wednesday, March 3. A first step back toward normal. A dapper young fellow…
Technical difficulties sidelined a planned conversation about changing the election of school district directors Tuesday, March 9. Connection errors interrupted the meeting and, once the virtual meeting was re-established, members of the Salem-Keizer Public School Board of Directors tabled the issue until a special session…
Small businesses and commercial landlords impacted by the pandemic can apply next week to a program to cover outstanding lease payments. The $100 million program will be administered by Business Oregon, the state’s economic development agency. The program is now open for applicants. The tenant…