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ATA offers karate experience for all ages
LIFE
Carson Clews, owner of ATA Martial Arts in Keizer, has been teaching classes at the facility
for more than five years.
Photo by BEE FLINTof Keizertimes
By BEE FLINT
Of the Keizertimes
Despite popular belief, martial arts
is a lot more than just punching wood
boards and learning to do cool kicks.
For some it provides discipline, patience
and self defense.
ATA Martial Arts provides all of that,
while also allowing students to punch
boards and learn to do cool kicks like a
ninja.
Carson Clews, one of the instructors
and owner of ATA Martial Arts, has been
working there for fi ve-and-half years
after he bought the studio from a friend.
Before then, he worked for another
instructor at a diff erent studio.
“The opportunity came up and I
knew I wanted to have my own school.
There’s a big diff erence between teach-
ing in someone else’s school and having
your own school to decide what direc-
tion your program takes people,” Clews
said.
One thing Clews believes sets ATA
apart from other martial art studios is
their focus on goal setting.
“Instead of telling the students what
direction they need to go, as far as goals,
we want the students to discover what
goals get them pumped,” he said.
Although Clews and his team want
students to succeed, they also encour-
age the idea of treating failure as a good
thing and a way for students to chal-
lenge themselves.
“We want them to push themselves to
a level until they experience failure. And
when they experience failure, we want it
to be guided,” Clews said.
Guided means providing a safe envi-
ronment with padded equipment and
instructors there to help students. Clews
wants his students to view failure as a
positive learning opportunity instead of
a negative experience, he said.
ATA Martial Arts off ers classes for
all ages and even classes for families to
take as well. The programs will focus on
the basics of Taekwondo and some of
the fundamentals of self defense as well.
Those interested can sign up for
classes at https://keizerata.com/
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A look ahead in city events KHT show debuts this month
The Keizer Community Library Book
Sale will take place from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
on Friday, Nov. 5 and Saturday, Nov. 6.
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Community Center and will feature dis-
counted books, CDs, games, movies and
more.
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at 6 p.m. in the City Council Chambers.
The Parks Advisory Board will meet
on Tuesday, Nov. 9 at 6 p.m. in the City
Council Chambers. The meeting’s
agenda will be posted on the city website
beforehand.
A ribbon cutting ceremony for the new
7-Eleven at Keizer Station will take place
at 3 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 9. It will be
the third 7-Eleven in Keizer. The location
of the new store is known as “the jug han-
dle” between Ulali Drive Northeast and
Chemawa.
A Greater Gubser Neighborhood
Association meeting will take place
Tuesday, Nov. 9 at 7 p.m. in the McNary
Room C of Keizer City Hall.
West Keizer Neighborhood Association
meeting will take place Thursday, Nov. 11
in the lobby of City Hall at 7 p.m.
Keizer Homegrown Theatre’s last
live show of the 2021 season will be
performed live Nov. 19 and 20 at the
theater at the Keizer Cultural Center.
Together, Alone is an evening of
three monologues performed by three
of the region’s best known actors.
Pamela Abernethy will perform
Miss Havisham’s Wedding Cake, by
Don Nigro. The gothic character from
Dickens’ Great Expectations, Miss
Havisham, steps outside herself to
examine her motives and the conse-
quences of devoting her life to getting
revenge upon men after being left at
the altar. A sad and funny meditation
on the nature of love and the satisfac-
tions of revenge.
In Palimpsest, Tom Hewitt plays
Ben, a writer in his sixties, driving
through a blizzard in the middle of the
night on New Year’s Eve, trying to come
to terms with his life, the women he has
lost and the nature of love. A moving
and intricate little labyrinth. The show
is also written by Nigro.
The fi nal monologue of the evening
will be performed by Robynn Hayek
in Woman Caught Unaware by Annie
Fox. Hayek plays an art history profes-
sor who must decide what action to
take when an unfl attering naked pho-
tograph of her appears online.
Performances of Together, Alone
are on Friday, Nov. 19 and on Saturday,
Nov. 20 with a 2 p.m. matinee and a 7
p.m. evening performance. Tickets are
$15 (free with an Oregon Trail Card)
and can be purchased at keizerhome-
growntheatre.org.
Masks and proof of COVID vaccina-
tion is required for admittance to the
theater.