Les Zaitz

3 weeks ago | keizertimes.com | Les Zaitz

For one last time, Larry Keeker took his place at the dugout, helping coach McNary’s baseball players. The home game on Wednesday, May 22, was Keeker’s final time in a coaching role. The game against Bend was his last after 37 years. Keeker has spent a lifetime in baseball from his days as a T-ball player in Salem to leading high school players, first at North Salem High School and then McNary. He roughly calculates he has coached about 1,500 games.

3 weeks ago | salemreporter.com | Les Zaitz

Keizer city councilors got plenty of advice from residents recently about expanding Keizer’s boundary to make room for more people. Among the take-aways:• They worry about already-congested streets becoming more crowded. • They worry about losing Keizer’s small-town feel. • And they are concerned about how the city – the public – will pay for a growing municipality. Residents voiced their views at two recent informal town halls put on by city officials.

3 weeks ago | keizertimes.com | Les Zaitz

Hallie Wofford, nervous, stepped into the spotlight on stage at the Keizer Distinguished Young Women event. For weeks, she had practiced her solo, a musical theater ballad called “She Used to be Mine.”She had added her own twist to the song, singing the song louder and with more emotion than typically done. Wofford, a junior at McNary High School, finished the song and walked off stage, feeling she hadn’t done as well as in rehearsals.

3 weeks ago | keizertimes.com | Les Zaitz

Keizer city councilors got plenty of advice from residents recently about expanding Keizer’s boundary to make room for more people. Among the take-aways:• They worry about already-congested streets becoming more crowded. • They worry about losing Keizer’s small-town feel. • And they are concerned about how the city – the public – will pay for a growing municipality. Residents voiced their views at two recent informal town halls put on by city officials.

1 month ago | salemreporter.com | Les Zaitz

A Keizer woman who lived in fear for years over manipulated internet images of her and her daughter has now helped establish a new crime in Oregon. Legislation making it illegal to disseminate “a digitally created, manipulated or altered depiction that is reasonably realistic” is now awaiting signature by Gov. Tina Kotek. House Bill 2299 passed the House 56-0 and cleared the Senate on May 14 by a 30-0 vote. “This is the mission I was put here to do,” said Kristi George, a retired banker from Keizer.