By CRAIG MURPHY Of the Keizertimes Next weekend, Nick Boston suspects some Keizer residents may need to put running shoes on. Why? May 11 marks the 21st annual Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive, when letter carriers around the country collect cans of food. Boston, who retired last spring after being a mail carrier for 39 [...]

  By ERIC A. HOWALD Of the Keizertimes Here are a few of the things that the McNary High School orchestra achieved during its recent trip to the Seattle Worldstrides Heritage Music Festival April 18-21: • The highest single score out of a festival adjudicator. • A gold rating, the highest possible rating for their [...]

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By HERB SWETT For the Keizertimes A shortfall of about $17.7 million is estimated for the 2013-14 budget of the Salem-Keizer School District, superintendent Sandy Husk told the budget committee Tuesday. The proposed budget totals $563,891,655, of which 65 percent is the general fund. Husk focused her presentation Tuesday on the general fund. Referring to [...]

By ERIC A, HOWALD Of the Keizertimes It’s possible for someone to not know Karissa Rush’s name, but anyone who has spent time in the McNary High School hallways likely knows her work. She’s had a hand in nearly every poster for productions of the McNary drama department, she’s created posters for choir concerts and [...]

Keizer Rotary Club held its annual Raffle Party on Saturday, April 20, at the Keizer Civic Center. Brad Fryman of Keizer won the grand prize of $10,000 in gold and silver. Jay Jamieson won second prize of $1,000 travel voucher. The raffle party is Keizer Rotary’s main fund raiser. The club has contributed more than [...]

By CRAIG MURPHY Of the Keizertimes Jon Watts was already looking forward to playing video games for 24 hours and raising money. Then things got personal. Now, Watts can’t wait for May 3 to arrive. The third annual Game-A-Thon is a Children’s Miracle Network fundraiser for Doernbecher Children’s Hospital in Portland. For the first time, [...]

By CRAIG MURPHY Of the Keizertimes A Keizer mom is asking for the community to help support her son. Misty Fragua has entered her 20-year-son Fernando – or Nando – Gallegos into a national competition for a minivan equipped to handle wheelchairs. The van is being given away by the National Mobility Equipment Dealers Association, [...]

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