The Mid-Willamette Valley Community Action Agency is making more than $2 million in rental and utility assistance available for income-eligible residents of Marion and Polk counties. Community action is using its portion of a statewide rental assistance program, roughly $1.5 million, to help those having…
Rev. Gary Zerr leads a virtual mass at St. Edward Church. The Bible commands believers not to neglect meeting together in corporate worship, but stay at home orders and social distancing guidelines have made that challenging for local churches. Prior to the pandemic La Luz…
“Becoming Bulletproof” by Evy Poumpouras c.2020, Atria $27.00 / $36.00 Canada 323 pages Every schedule, every plan you made in February was shot. March began and in about three weeks’ time, life changed in big ways and small, calendars were tossed, and things got scary. Maybe they still are. So how did…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…