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Wednesday, October 28, 2015 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
KENNEDY: Athlete
learned discipline
and focus in sport
Continued from page 3
toward peak performance
— his diet, meditation,
stretching.
“My senior year, I didn’t
miss a workout the entire
year,” he said.
Kennedy acknowledges
that it wasn’t always a smooth
path to outstanding athletic
achievement.
“I actually got kicked off
the team because I was on
and off academic probation,”
he recalled.
Adrift in a major that
didn’t fit him, his perfor-
mance in the classroom was
less than stellar. His coach,
Monty Cartwright, kicked
him off the team and pulled
his scholarship and told him
to drop out of college because
he was wasting everybody’s
time. That might have been a
slap in the face, but Ross used
it to fuel his fire. He switched
majors from biology to exer-
cise science, which kick-
started him academically. The
next term he pulled a 3.75
GPA and finished school with
a cumulative 3.3 GPA.
“I’m so thankful for that
wakeup call,” he said. “It
showed me I was going to
have to work, how important
school was scholastically.”
Cartwright drove down
to Ashland from Portland
to be part of the induction
ceremonies.
“It was awesome to
shake his hand, give him a
hug and just thank him and
let him know that he was a
huge influence on my life,”
Kennedy said.
The five inductees mingled
at an event on Friday evening,
then gathered for the induc-
tion ceremony and breakfast
on Saturday morning. All
the new inductees were rec-
ognized at halftime during
Saturday’s Southern Oregon
University football game.
...don’t be afraid to
set the bar high and
work to go after it.
— Ross Kennedy
“Being associated with the
other hall-of-famers is a huge
honor,” Kennedy said.
He was also delighted to
get to see old teammates and
coaches who turned out for
the event.
Kennedy’s mother, his
children, and his father-in-
law John Keenan were also in
attendance.
“It was really cool that my
kids got to be there, for them to
see what I did,” Kennedy said.
The discipline and direc-
tion he learned in his hall-
of-fame athletic career is an
example of what sports can
do for a young person in set-
ting them up for success in
life. Kennedy reflected on
those lessons learned.
“I’d say to young people,
don’t be afraid to set the bar
high and work to go after it.”
New boutique has mix of old and new
By Jodi Schneider mcNamee
Correspondent
Gone Wishin’, the newest
boutique on Hood Avenue,
may be modest in size, but
has big possibilities for its
patrons.
Owner Sandy Hinshaw has
wanted a shop filled with an
eclectic mix of this and that
from yesterday and today, for
a very long time. Hinshaw
remembers the boutique
that her sister Linda had in
California.
“My younger sister Linda,
who is very artistic, had a
really cute shop years ago, and
I thought how fun it would be
if I opened my own boutique.
And that was 20 years ago.”
But life got in the way for
Hinshaw, who’s been a busy
registered nurse since 1971.
Hinshaw and her husband,
Rod, moved from California
to Sisters 10 years ago after
Rod retired from being a
trauma surgeon.
“My husband’s son lived
in Bend for years, so Rod
bought some land just outside
of Sisters, and we decided
to move here. He may have
retired, but I wasn’t ready to,”
Hinshaw said.
Hinshaw works full-time at
St. Charles Medical Center in
Bend.
“I’m like the house-mom,
and I represent administration
after business hours. I’m kind
of like the ombudsman for the
hospital,” said Hinshaw.
“But, I still had that wish of
photo by Jodi Schneider mcnamee
Sandy Hinshaw has gone Wishin’ in Sisters.
opening a shop on my bucket
list and figured I better get it
marked off soon,” Hinshaw
said. “So both my sisters,
Linda and Annette, came up
from California to help me
decorate Gone Wishin’ last
April. Linda painted the ceil-
ings, walls and the quote
by Francis Clark: ‘There
wouldn’t be a sky full of stars
if we were all meant to wish
on the same one.’
“Many of the items in my
shop are vintage things that I
have collected over the years
that are in great shape, and all
the rest of the pieces I picked
up at different places here and
there. I want other people to
have the opportunity to take
these things that have been
special to my heart home with
them. I also travel back and
forth to California, and stop at
little out-of-the-way places to
find things.”
So where does Hinshaw
find the time to run Gone
Wishin’?
“Right now I am able to be
in the shop most weekends,”
she said.
Hinshaw’s granddaughter,
Erynn Ricker, a sophomore
at Sisters High School, is in a
student work program and has
been working with Hinshaw
to gain experience in a busi-
ness setting.
“I made her the manager,
and Erynn does what she can
for me at the shop when she’s
not tied up with school and
athletics. She’s learning the
responsibility of running a
business,” Hinshaw said.
“Right now with the help
of Erynn, I’m striving to have
Gone Wishin’ open Friday
through Sunday.”
On November 19, Gone
Wishin’ — along with the two
shops on either side, Grizzly
Ridge Upcycle and Dandelion
Ranch — will be hosting
“Holiday Happening” to kick
off the holidays.