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Wednesday, March 21, 2018 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
ROUNDABOUT: Project
should be completed
in September
BLACK BELTS: Martial
arts offers many
benefits to students
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member of the Roundabout
Art Selection Committee
as well as a member of the
selection team that chose the
landscape architect for the
project.
Other members of the
Roundabout Art Selection
Committee were: local Sisters
artists Paul Alan Bennett,
Kathy Deggendorfer, and
Gary Cooley, as well as
Bob Burgess and Dennis
Schmidling of the Sisters Arts
Association.
Bennett told the Council
that serving as a member of
the committee was “a joy-
ful experience.” He was
impressed by the way the
“members shared equally
in the discussions and were
considerate of one another”
throughout the process.
Deggendorfer thanked the
Council for “allowing us to
do this.” She also gave credit
to the Art in Public Places
group in Bend who provided
“incredible structure” for the
process. She was proud of
the citizens for the quality
and quantity of their input to
the process and said Sisters
“should be proud of the fact
that the Forest Service con-
siders Sisters a gateway.”
Schmidling said that
going into this process, there
were “no codes or standards
for art on public highways.”
He believes the Sisters pro-
cess will probably become
the standard. He said he was
proud of the City and the way
it worked with the Oregon
Department of Transportation
on the project.
Burgess said he thought
the roundabout art sends a
real “WOW message that this
is a real WOW place to be.”
Cooley said he enjoyed
working with a “very knowl-
edgeable committee.” He
thinks the proposed sculpture
definitely “says Sisters and
Central Oregon.”
Contract negotiations on
the sculpture began this week
and installation is scheduled
to be completed by the end of
September 2018.
life.
“You’d be amazed how
many areas martial arts
applies to,” he said.
Self-confidence, disci-
pline, decision-making, fol-
low-through: all are required
in the dojo and all are benefi-
cial in other areas of life.
Ferwalt feels that the prac-
tice — and earning his belt in
what he acknowledges was a
very challenging test — are a
gift to him.
“I have the confidence —
that I’ve pursued martial arts,
that I’ve become good at it;
I’m a leader in the commu-
nity,” he said. “I can always
take solace in that.”
Ferwalt found the hour of
meditation the most difficult
part of his seven-hour test,
where, he says, “I was being
pushed to my limit many,
many times. It was tough.”
Ferwalt, too, wants to
teach martial arts, and he’s
looking at colleges with an
eye partly on what martial arts
opportunities will be available
to him.
Jayme Kaczmerek earned
her third-degree black belt
in the most recent round of
testing.
She identifies one key trait
to success in Taekwondo —
a trait that the practice itself
inculcates:
“To persevere is prob-
ably the biggest thing,” she
said. “Not giving up; to keep
going when it gets tough
or beyond tough. I strongly
stand by that in my per-
sonal and my martial arts
life.”
Kaczmerek is also training
in Brazilian jiu-jitsu and some
judo.
Like the other black belts,
Kaczmerek sees benefits that
go way beyond the dojo.
For adults, she says, suc-
ceeding in learning martial
arts is a big shot of self-
esteem, because so many start
never thinking they can do it.
With perseverance, they do.
The supportive, demand-
ing community of marital art-
ists helps people face ALL of
the challenges in life.
“It goes hand-in-hand,”
she said. “It parallels beau-
tifully. You get a dose of us
for an hour and you go out in
the real world and use it; you
practice it.”
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