Wednesday, October 5, 2016 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
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Drummer teaches rhythms at SES
By erin Borla
Correspondent
photo by steve kadel
Sisters high School boys and girls track Coach Jeff larson, left, and
project manager Brett hudson inspect the running track’s new surface.
SHS track and
tennis courts ready
By Steve Kadel
Correspondent
Last week’s sunny, warm
weather gave workers the
opportunity to wrap up reno-
vation of the Sisters High
School track and tennis
courts.
“We just finished paint-
ing the track today,” Brett
Hudson, project engineer,
said on Thursday, September
29. “The tennis courts were
finished yesterday.”
The two projects are the
first to be funded with money
from the $10.7 million bond
measure voters approved in
May. Hudson will oversee all
aspects of bond construction,
with his salary paid by bond
money.
He was happy with the
track surfacing work done
by Beynon Sports Surfaces,
the company that installed
the University of Oregon’s
Hayward Field track.
“It’s great,” Hudson
said. “We hired a really
good company with a lot of
experience.”
“It’s beautiful,” agreed
Tim Roth, the District’s ath-
letic director.
A new running surface
was needed because frost
heaves and tree-root upheav-
als made the track unusable
for competition. Now, the
Outlaw track and field teams
will be able to host meets in
Sisters again.
Tri County Paving of
Redmond did paving work
for the track and tennis
courts while Robinson &
Owen Heavy Construction of
Sisters did the construction.
Response to Nature of Sisters
installed new sod around the
football field’s perimeter.
Other construction autho-
rized by the bond passage
will start in earnest after an
architectural firm is hired.
Sisters School District
Superintendent Curt Scholl
has said he hopes that deci-
sion will be made during
the November school board
meeting.
Meanwhile, members of a
citizens’ oversight committee
to monitor spending and con-
struction related to the bond
are expected to be announced
during the Wednesday,
October 5 school board meet-
ing. It begins at 5 p.m. at the
District administration office.
Students at Sisters
Elementary School learned
new rhythms over the
past two weeks with their
African Drumming Artist in
Residency.
Dale Largent from Bend
spent the better part of the
last two weeks working
with music classes from
Pre-K (through the SPRD
Community Preschool), and
kindergarten through 4th
grade, all within the Sisters
Elementary School and
funded through the Studio
to School grant from Sisters
Folk Festival.
All kids received four les-
sons and participated in the
all-school assembly (the pre-
school had two lessons).
Students learn hand-
drumming on djembes. More
importantly they learned
ensemble skills and how to
work in a team. They also
each had the opportunity to
explore several parts of music
like dynamics and rests.
“It’s a chance to be a little
loud,” said Largent. “And an
entirely different experience
for most of these kids — get-
ting applause when you hit
something.”
Working in a group, even
if you struggle with the
rhythm, there are so many
people around you that can
support your sound and help
get you on track.
The Studio to School grant
was awarded to and managed
by Sisters Folk Festival. It is
funded through the Oregon
Community Foundation, Fred
Fields Fund. This five-year
grant, now in it’s third year in
Sisters, is in play in 18 sites
across the state of Oregon.
The first three years of the
grant awarded the Sisters
Folk Festival organization
$70,000 each. If they meet
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