DECEMBER 23, 2016, KEIZERTIMES, PAGE A9
RODEO,
continued from Page A1
“It meant picking up our
lives and hitting the road, but
that thought is always at the
back of your mind when you
have a horse like Paige. When
you have a chance like this
that only 15 other people get
each year, you have to take it,”
Moore said.
Moore and Paige led the
aggregate score heading into
the seventh round, but tipped
a barrel in the penultimate
race. They spent some time
working together in the early
morning hours before the fi nal
race and came back to win the
eighth lap with a time of 13.37
seconds – tying the Thomas &
to make sure you have a horse
that's ready for that when you
head out the door,” Moore said.
In the years since, Paige has
become a beast of the barrel
racing circuit. Starting this past
spring, Moore and Paige have
won or placed in nearly every
competition they set their
sights on.
“Through her career, she
has broken records and done
everything I could ask her
to do. This year, I wanted to
position her for all the things I
wanted her to do next year, like
going to the NFR. They say the
fi rst year is the learning curve,
and you learn what is going to
be needed for the second year.
Paige skipped that and went
right to the top,” Moore said.
All of it led up to being on
the bubble when Labor Day
rolled around earlier this year.
After learning how close she
was to making it to the NFR,
Moore and Paige set out on a
journey that took them to 19
rodeos in 23 days and covered
more than 6,000 miles, mostly
through the midwest and
southwest.
Mack Center record set in 2013
– and winning the whole thing.
In addition to a $26,000 purse
and a Super Bowl-like ring
for winning the NFR, Moore
racked up nearly $160,000 in
other winnings just to make it
to the NFR.
The
reality
of
her
accomplishment is still setting
in, but Moore said she's never
felt anything like it.
“This is the hardest rodeo to
make it into. It's the big stage in
Las Vegas and there is nothing
more thrilling than running
down that track. Now we get
to compete against the biggest
and best there is,” she said.
KAA taps Fire and Ice winners
The following participants won awards in the December Fire
and Ice show.
Kathryn Fox’s Mother Sun Empowers Earth won best of show.
In the 2D category, Mike Dora’s Black Ice on a Gray Honda
won fi rst place. Jerry Ward’s Early Snow won second place. John
Mohney’s Shoveling Snow won third place. Renee Rushton’s Fire
won a juror’s award. John Mohney’s Winter Calm won a juror’s
award. Nancy Ericksen-Ward’s Winter Soft won an honorable
mention. In the photography category, Janet Reese’s Temple
Burn won fi rst place. Gary Olsen-Hasek’s Japanese Garden House
won second place. Frances Stark’s Fire and Ice won third place. In
the 3D category, Anita Zahniser’s Elysia’s Stocking won fi rst place.
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Colleen Mae Bartlett
October 4, 1928 – December 12, 2016
Colleen Mae Bartlett, aged
88, passed away on December
12, 2016 at her home in
Keizer, Oregon.
Colleen was born on
October 4, 1928 in Yakima,
Washington to Ivan and Leona
Smith. The family moved to
Ellensburg, Washington where
she graduated high school and
attended Central Washington
College. While in college, she
met Edward (Ed) Dale Bartlett
Sr. The two married on July
5, 1947 and were longtime
residents of Keizer Oregon.
Colleen was a dedicated
mother, grandmother and wife.
She enjoyed reading, golf and
following her grandchildren’s
sporting events.
Colleen was preceded
in death by her husband of
62 years, Ed Bartlett, and
her sister, Jo Brown. She is
survived by her children,
daughter Connie Pitts and
husband Barry, son Edward Jr.,
son John and wife Katherine,
son David and wife Micki; her
grandchildren, Brendan Pitts,
Sarah, Garrett,
Drew
and
Jesiah; brother
Ivan Smith and
wife Elizabeth,
sister Beverly
Engel
and
husband Bob,
C. Bartlett
sister-in-law
Mary
Alice
Hale, and many nieces and
nephews.
The family would like to
give special thanks to Lenora
Johnson, who kindly cared
for and assisted Colleen with
household tasks over the past
few years at Emerald Pointe
Senior Living Community.
A graveside service will be
held at Restlawn Memory
Gardens on December 29,
2016 at 11:00 a.m.
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and become self disciplined.”
After taking her fi rst martial
arts class at age 19, Rhodes was
working out six days a week in
between Corvallis and Salem
by the time she graduated.
Rhodes moved to Boston in
2004, joined a boxing gym and
then began teaching lessons.
Her combined experiences
have made her an ideal Mixed
Martial Arts (MMA) judge
for the Oregon State Athletic
Commission. But she's never
competed in the octagon
herself.
“By the time that was a
popular mainstream thing
for women to do, I was mid
to upper 30s and had already
had two reconstructive knee
surgeries,” Rhodes said. “It's
something that if it would have
been popular when I was 20,
I would've loved to compete.
By the time it was popularized,
judging was probably a better
fi t for me.”
Rhodes returned to Oregon
in 2007 and in 2010 decided
to give back. With two friends,
a physician at Salem Hospital
and a software engineer, they
opened Zanshin Arts, a non-
profi t dojo in Salem.
When designing the dojo,
they thought if we could do
whatever we wanted, what
would we do?
“What's
probably
the
coolest part of it, when you
open up your own space and
you have your own class, you
can kind of do whatever you
want,” Rhodes said. “Our
children's class, we found out a
couple of our kids had never
been to the beach so we just
took them all.”
Being a non-profi t was
essential and unique.
“It's kind of unheard of,”
Rhodes said. “We decided
to go that route because in
different places we've seen
money do bad things to the
martial arts so we're kind of
idealist. In Boston, there was
a person training in the class
and I thought he's dangerous.
I don't want him touching
my other students. I don't
want him here. He needs to
go and the other instructor
who was running that club
said we need his dues. We've
actually had great people walk
through our door and I haven't
had a situation where I think
someone is dangerous but if
I did, they just wouldn't be
there.”
While Zanshin does have
monthly memberships for
those who can afford it,
scholarships are also available
and they don't charge exam or
belt fees.
“The belt they earn taking
their exam is their gift from
the dojo,” Rhodes said. “When
I was going up through the
ranks, I've paid my exam
fees and then if you pass the
exam, some of that fee goes
toward the belt. I didn't have
this experience personally
with my own schools that I
trained in but I've seen schools
where if they are low on funds,
then they'll hold a bunch of
exams. It just compromises the
integrity and the idealism of
what you're trying to do and
your rankings and things like
that. We want you to feel like
you took the exam because we
believe in you and knew you
were ready. When you've been
working hard and we think
you're at that level and you're
ready, we give that exam and
then the belt. You've earned it
so the dojo provides that to
you. It just helps us keep the
idealism and integrity intact.”
When a child passes an
exam, the entire class celebrates
together, usually at the Subway
next door.
“No one gets better by
themselves. It's impossible,”
Rhodes said. “You have
teachers and training partners.
We started with the children.
We wanted them to be happy
for each other and not jealous
of each other so when there
is a promotion, we take the
kids next door to Subway
and they all go through the
line and they get treats and
drinks and things there. It's
also our chance to talk to them
about the way they conduct
themselves in public. They're
wearing their uniforms so they
represent us and they always
show impeccable manners.
That's a way for them to have
self control outside of our
environment even though it's
crossword
right next door. But it's fun
and they enjoy it.”
Zanshin also encourages
its kids to be charitable. One
year, they sponsored a family at
McNary, raised $1,000, bought
them all presents and delivered
them.
Rhodes and her colleagues
spent about a year and half
looking for, designing and then
building a space. Contractors
did most of the work but the
educator, doctor and software
engineer built the 1,600 square
football mat with spring fl oor
underneath themselves.
“I had bleeding fi ngers
from building it,” Rhodes said.
“When we bought our space,
the exterior of the building
was done but the fl oor was
just gravel so we got to design
it. It's the most fun place. It's
a playground for us. All of the
different bags and equipment
we have for striking, any strike
you might want to practice,
whether it's a fl ying knee or
a dropping elbow, we've got
a striking station for that. We
thought what do you want
to do and what would be the
perfect way to practice that and
we bought it. It was kind of
our labor of love. We have the
coolest bags that you can weave
under. We have uppercuts and
knees and elbows. We have all
this great equipment.”
Zanshin, which translates
to “focus” in Japanese, offers
classes for both children
and adults, emphasizing self
discipline, control, confi dence
and behavior.
“Sometimes I look at our
kids and we'll get a kid that
maybe an outsider will think
is a total spaz and I know that
was me,” Rhodes said. “So
when we work with that kid
over time and they learn how
to control themselves, I know
that's going to affect every
part of their lives because I
know it did for me. We'll get
kids with bad attitudes. I was
certainly capable of having an
attitude. Saying whatever you
feel like doesn't get you very
far and learning the right times
to say the right things does so
as we teach that to our kids. I
feel like I can give them what
someone else volunteered and
gave their time to me. That
keeps us going.”