SPORTING GOODS 2019 RICKREALL GUN SHOW, Sat., June 8, 9-5. Sun., June 9, 9-3. Adults $7 (Kids under 12 FREE) FREE PARKING Polk County Fairgrounds, Rickreall, OR 503-623-3048. ONAC LAWN SERVICES Jim’s Lawn Service – Complete lawn and garden care. Yard cleanups, mowing, pruning, bark dusting. Serving Keizer since 1984.[Read More…]
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Booster club raises more than $40,000 at auction
Attendees scan items at the McNary Athletic Booster Club Auction on Saturday, June 1 (KEIZERTIMES/Lyndon Zaitz). The McNary Athletics Booster Club held their eighth annual auction fundraiser and dinner on Saturday, June 1 at Log House Gardens at Willow Lake, raising more than $40,000. All proceeds from this event go[Read More…]
McNary offense comes alive in win
Josh Grossman comes into first base after a sharp single (KEIZERTIMES/Matt Rawlings). The McNary Youth Baseball 12U Junior Federal squad was in need of a confidence boost. The team had lost three straight and didn’t score more than three runs in any of those contests. Luckily for the Celtics, the[Read More…]
PUBLIC MONEY, PRIVATE EMPIRE: Greg Smith serves many public masters – for a price
Greg Smith appears before the Oregon Transportation Commission in February, representing two different clients of his economic development business. (Mark Ylen/Mid-Valley Media) Greg Smith is a juggler. In La Grande, he holds a full-time job directing Eastern Oregon University’s Small Business Development Center. A hundred miles away in Boardman, he[Read More…]
Three dead in collision, alcohol suspected cause
Juan Carlos Rodriguez Palacios A man whose blood alcohol content tested nearly three times the legal limit is being held at the Marion County Jail on suspicion of causing the deaths of three Salem-Keizer teenagers as the result of a motor vehicle collision Sunday, June 2. Salem Police Department and[Read More…]
Construction at McNary set to start ahead of schedule
From Salem-Keizer Public Schools Improvements funded by the 2018 bond are ahead of schedule at McNary High School. Salem-Keizer’s construction firm on the McNary project, Pence Construction, is ready to move forward with work on the south part of the campus starting Monday, June 3. Earth movers will start preparing[Read More…]
Celebrate a flower or a community?
We refuse to believe that KeizerFEST (born as the Keizer Iris Festival) has run its course. But we do think that its current home at Keizer Lions Club and Cherry Avenue is the best place for an event of this size. When the festival moved from Keizer Station to the[Read More…]
The politics of the legislature
As I begin to write each monthly column, I try to write something with the perspective of “I’ve never been to the Capitol and I don’t understand what those people do down there.” Until I was elected, I wondered the same thing. For instance, the matter of the recent walkout[Read More…]
No winners in infrastructure spat
Here’s a scary thought about last week’s skirmishes between President Donald Trump and the Democratic leaders formerly known to him as “Chuck and Nancy”: Both sides think they won. When both parties think they’ve won, dear reader, that probably means you lost. Because there always has to be a big[Read More…]
The very air that we breathe
Hi kids! How about an opinion piece for people your age? Since you will inherit our planet and hopefully help to preserve it for the generations to come, it’s important to keep you informed and thinking about some vitals, such as the oxygen we breathe. I want to share with you a[Read More…]