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4 South Central Roller Girls keeping it on track 7 Art teacher, painter likens art to "sophisticated form of play"

9 Cover Story: Leap O' Faith Therapeutic Riding Center

11 Historical and Genealogical Society aids in journeys of discovery

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South Central Roller Girls participate in a bout against another roller derby club. Residents can see the Ada-based team at a local bout at 6 p.m. April 15 at Star Skate at 1000 E. 32nd St. PHOTO BY KEITH FLOWERS

South Central Roller Girls keeping it on track

By Sunnie Dawn Smith

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hile challenges are central to all sports, one of the most daunting – and the most accepting – is the roller derby.

Skaters speed around a track pushing and shoving other competitors, trying to win a race while constantly getting their bodies slammed. For these daring women, this is the norm. Ada is lucky to have their own roller derby league: South Central Roller Girls. All women older than 18 are welcome to join, and everyone is welcome to come to their bouts and support them.

Ada’s local roller derby team currently has 16 women. Each woman picks a nickname for herself meant to empower them while representing both their fierceness and their personality. A roller derby bout consists of two 30-minute periods. With halftime and time-outs, a bout can take anywhere from an hour and a half to two hours.

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jammer to make their way past the pack of blockers. They don’t get points the first time they get through, but after that first time, they get a point for every opposing player they pass.

Within those 30-minute periods, there are individual plays called jams that can last up to two minutes. When the whistle blows, the first jammer out is called the lead jammer. The lead jammer can call the jam off early if they want, usually to stop the other team from getting points. Each team has 30 seconds in between jams to switch out players. Some teams have players who will only jam, but the South Central Roller Girls have players who function interchangeably as jammers and blockers. The blockers must be on both offense and defense, helping their jammer get through while trying to block the other team’s jammer.

While they are trying to stop the other team, there are still rules.

They can’t throw elbows or punch. They can do shoulder hits or hip hits, though. Every hit must be in the area between the thigh and the neck. Anything below is called a low block, and anything above

is a high block. Either of these will put a player in the penalty box for 30 seconds. If they use an elbow or hit someone with their forearm, it is also a penalty. Almost every skater will get at least one penalty per game, which isn’t surprising considering the speed that these women have and the coordination it takes to try to knock their opponent out of the way in a penalty-free manner.

Team captain and coach Katie Hoff, a.k.a. Hoff the Chain, didn’t know anything about roller derby until she saw the 2009 movie, “Whip It.” After watching it at the theater, she started checking out some more information about the roller derby. She saw that a bout was coming up in Stillwater, so she went to see it in person. It looked like a lot of fun, so she started trying to find her own team to join. At first, she drove to Oklahoma City to work with a team there. Eventually, she found the South Central Roller Girls. At the time, they were based out of Ardmore, but then they moved to the Arbuckle Ballroom in Davis. After that venue shut down, they moved the practices to Ada in September 2014. Now, they are outside of Ada at the old Olney High School gym in Clarita. That school had been shut down, and the Coalgate schools now own it and let the team use it for free. They are still looking for a place to practice in Ada. “There is a place for everybody in roller derby,” Hoff said.

“Anybody can play. It doesn’t matter how big or small you are. And everybody on our team is from different backgrounds.”

Women will say that they think they are too big or too small to play roller derby, but that really isn’t the case, Hoff said. She has even played against a woman who was almost 60 years old and still going strong.

They have practices 6:30-8:30 p.m. every Monday and Wednesday at the Olney gym. Every practice is also a “fresh meat” practice for the new recruits to learn the basics. They have extra skates and gear that prospective members can borrow. Once they have mastered the basics, the recruits take a skills test to make sure they can handle it. After they pass the test and get some scrimmage time, they pick their name, get their jersey and are officially on the team.

Right now the team includes team captain and coach Hoff the Chain (Katie Hoff), Sugar Bullet (Meggie Kelsey), Darth Tater (Taylor Owen), Marshall Law (Brandy Marshall) , Dashing Diva (Michelle Baker), Wrekah (Beka Kallberg), TeacHer A. Lesson (Melissa Blubaugh), Krys of Death (Krysten Mills), Manic Mama (Annie Zachry), Cass Kickin' (Cassie Arnold), Justeen Beat-Her (Keshia McMahon), Backroad Barbie (Whitney Hatley), Dress T. Kill (Kasie Burns), Jack'd Up (Jackie Horton), Jenocide (Jen West) and Megasoris (Meghan Bunyard). South Central Roller Girl referees are Ragin' Geisha (Tara Conner) and Austin Parker, who hasn’t picked a derby name yet.

Any woman older than 18 is welcome to stop by on a practice and see what she thinks – even if she can’t skate. South Central Roller Derby members are always willing to help new recruits learn, Hoff said. They will work with recruits on their skating but also on a fierce hip check.

Those interested in supporting the team but not joining can also watch one of their bouts at 6 p.m. on April 15 at Star Skate at 1000 E 32nd St. There is another planned for the afternoon of June 10.

Those willing to travel can also catch them on May 5 playing in Wichita Falls, Texas.

For more information, email southcentralrollergirls@yahoo.com, like them on Facebook or visit their website at southcentralrollergirls.com.

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Art teacher, painter likens art to ‘sophisticated form of play’

By Sunnie Dawn Smith

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aul Walsh isn’t an artist.

In his youth, he would have described himself as such, but not anymore. Walsh is a painter.

It’s easy to call oneself “an artist” without actually doing the work of creating. For Walsh, it isn’t as much about the idea of being an artist, but the physical reality of putting paint on canvas.

“There is some kind of strange mystique surrounding the word artist,” Walsh said. “But painter is a more descriptive term for what I actually do.”

Walsh has been painting since childhood. He was raised around the arts. His mother played the piano, and his father was a painter and budding illustrator. However, his father’s career as an illustrator was cut short by World War II. He went to war and afterwards decided to stay in the military. Even though Walsh’s father was in the military, he still had a calling as an artist. They were stationed in Florida, and his father would paint murals on the walls of churches. Walsh would go with him and play around on the piano while he watched his father paint. His days were spent immersed in art and creativity, and this directed the course of his life. It isn’t even something he chose.

“You are born an artist,” he said, “It isn’t something you really choose. You just are.”

He doesn’t really remember a time when he wasn’t doing art, but he does remember when he decided he wanted to be an art teacher. Walsh said he never really had any aspirations of being a full-time painter and making a living creating art. He just wanted to teach other people and inspire kids the way he was inspired.

When he was in seventh grade, he had one of his most influential teachers, Mrs. Hargess. She taught art at Ada Junior High School and would always give her students unique and creative assignments. When she told them to draw and paint the front of their houses from memory, Walsh was amazed that other kids didn’t seem to know where their doors or windows were. For him, the visual elements of the world were something he intuitively understood. Walsh said his teacher was a very patient and calm woman who never raised her voice and would encourage the students by having them hang their art in the halls as their first “art shows.” Throughout that year, his art class was the only reason Walsh had for going to school. He wasn’t motivated by any other classes, but art kept him going.

When he graduated high school, he went to East Central University at a time when the art department was doing groundbreaking work under the direction of three art professors: D.J. LaFon, Robert Sieg and Bob D. Barker. At that point, ECU was one of the premier art schools in the state.

“It was a godsend for me,” Walsh said. “I thought it was a mar-

Former art teacher and painter Paul Walsh grew up watching his father create murals on church walls and cannot remember a time when art was not a part of his life.

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velous school, and I had wonderful professors. I’m not even sure I had a class I didn’t like.”

Walsh went from attending school just for art class to going to college for art and loving every subject he studied. This broad education informed his process of creation, and it helped him figure out how to teach his students by making art accessible and understandable for people of all backgrounds and interests.

After two years in the military, Walsh taught art in public schools for 40 years, the first five split between Byng and Konawa and the last 35 at Sulphur where he retired 10 years ago.

As a teacher, it was supremely important to him that his students express their own creativity and have a space where they could be themselves and create freely without the restrictions of the traditional classroom. He would also go to other classes as part of an interdisciplinary initiative to explain how art could be related to every other subject. For English classes he spoke about symbolism; for chemistry he talked about how the paint itself; and for math he talked about proportion and angles. Walsh’s education and interest in the world equipped him well to make art relevant to every aspect of life.

All throughout Walsh’s teaching career and into retirement, he painted and still paints. His work can be found in galleries all over the state and out of state as well. His chosen subject is the Oklahoma landscape, which fits his style between realism and impressionism.

“My style … lends itself well to Oklahoma imagery,” Walsh said.

He was drawn to landscape since childhood, driving all over the country with his parents as they would move between military bases. He would stare out the car window and notice the differences in Oklahoma, Iowa, Virginia and Texas. These differences fascinated him as a child and continue to bring him a sense of peace and reflection.

“There is something melancholy and introspective in a landscape,” Walsh said.

For Walsh, art is about feeding the spiritual soul. Walsh said people have a practical side and an emotional side; they tend to feed their practical side more, but their emotional side is just as important.

“Painting is a very sophisticated form of play,” Walsh said.

“Play is important to both children and adults. Art entertains that emotional side of us in a way that is emotionally and spiritually fulfilling.” www.adahub.com • 7

Former teacher finds new life as disaster relief coordinator

By Sunnie Dawn Smith

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teve Huston thought he was probably going to teach sixth grade forever.

He was happy teaching English language arts and math at Williard Elementary School. He loved his students, he loved his work and he loved the unique challenges that came with both. During spring break and for a week during the summer, he would travel with his church to Mexico for mission trips, working hard and helping people in need. But then Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast in August 2005, and everything changed.

His church, the Christian Church Disciples of Christ, already had a homeland mission as one of their ministries. However, they realized after Hurricane Katrina that they could be doing more. They formed a group called Disciples Volunteering and reached out to churches all around the nation to come together to respond to Katrina. Some of the volunteers went through specialized disaster response and leadership training and were given the title “Long Term Volunteers.”

This is when Huston’s path changed. He retired from teaching in 2006 after 24 years at Williard and became a Long Term Volunteer, traveling around the country to help spearhead disaster response teams.

Nearly half the year, Huston lives out of churches with whatever accommodations they can provide, organizing and supervising disaster relief. Hurricane Katrina was his first, but since then he has also worked Hurricane Ike, Hurricane Rita, the tornadoes in Joplin, Missouri, Greensburg, Kansas, and Rowlett, Texas. He helped after the Iowa floods and is currently helping rebuild after Hurricane Harvey.

Even though he must spend half his time away from his home and family, it is worth it to him to follow his new path and help other people.

“Somewhere in the Bible it is very plain that we are supposed to help our fellow man,” Huston said. “If people need food, you give them food. If people need clothes, you give them clothes. If people need shelter, you give them shelter.”

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Steve Huston retired after 24 years in elementary education to become a long-term volunteer working to restore communities in the wake of disasters like last year’ Hurricane Harvey.

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ence helped prepare him for this new journey. Teaching brought him patience, which was necessary when dealing with students and even more necessary when dealing with volunteers coming from all over the country with a heart to help but no experience and little skill.

This is Huston’s biggest challenge as a disaster relief coordination for his mission.

Sometimes he will have volunteers have skills like plumbing, electric or carpentry, but usually they do not. So he will have a group of eager volunteers ready to work and must figure out how to best use their talents.

In some cases, the volunteers can learn how to do new things and get out of their comfort zone. In other cases, he must make sure he has very specific assignments for certain groups. He must manage their skill sets as well as their personalities. One example is a group of ladies from California who come every year to volunteer. They might not be skilled in construction, but they can gut a house and get it ready for repairs. They might not be able to repair a roof, but they can repair a fence. Every job is necessary for a community to rebuild, and Huston’s job is to

figure out how to use the resources of his volunteers in the most effective manner.

No matter how hard the work or how long the hours, it is worth every minute to Huston, he said. The best thing about his new life is getting to see the look on people’s faces when they can move back into their own home again. Sometimes people have been out of their homes for a couple years, and they are overjoyed to be back in their own little sanctuary that was ripped from them by disaster. Often, Huston will be asked to help them move back in, and that is the best part of his new calling.

Huston wears many hats as a long-term volunteer. He does whatever needs to be done, whether it is putting new signage on school busses, taking people to the doctor or even substitute teaching like he did in Joplin.

He is supposed to get a break every six weeks, but that doesn’t necessarily happen. Just like he can’t control when a disaster hits, he can’t control when they need his services. In the end, Huston said it is all about helping other people through their darkest days, helping them recover a little peace and have a home and functioning community once again.

Leap O’ Faith Therapeutic Riding Center

By Sunnie Dawn Smith

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he Leap O’ Faith Therapeutic Riding Center began as an idea in 2014 and opened its doors in 2016.

However, the real origins can be found in the life of owner and operator Kathy Scroggins going back to her childhood. It was all her experiences, both personal and occupational, that led her and her husband Shan to open this unique and innovative center for people of all ages.

When Scroggins was younger, she took riding lessons and loved the freedom that horse riding provided. There was freedom, but there was also a strong bond and connection to another living being. She and the horse would be one as they would move together and communicate, sometimes non-verbally, Scroggins said. When she got older, she taught riding lessons in California and Arizona for 37 years to both adults and children. When she and her family moved to Ada, she began working at McCall’s Chapel and acquired skills working with people with disabilities. It was all her experiences that made her realize she wanted to take a new path.

“I married these two loves together, and the Therapeutic Riding Center was born,” Scroggins said.

There are many benefits to therapeutic riding, and it can be integrated into most forms of therapy, she said. If someone is working with a physical therapist, this can be a good way to work certain muscles and build strength. It can also help with behavioral issues or social skills. It works well with other forms of therapy and treatment plans, especially because Scroggins sits down with her clients and develops a personalized and individual plan of action. Each case is different, with different goals and needs. She understands this and plans accordingly. But the benefit can be tremendous.

“It is different than traditional therapy because it is fun,” Scroggins said. “It isn’t like therapy; it is riding a horse, but they do things that help them strengthen the things they need to strengthen. It can be anything – mental, physical, emotional or social. Really it can help with anything.”

One of her favorite success stories was a little boy who came to them when he was three years old. He had difficulty speaking and subsequent behavioral issues stemming from the fact that he couldn’t communicate, Scroggins said. He was seeing a traditional speech pathologist and a speech therapist, who referred him to the therapeutic riding center. They would play games with him like I Spy while he rode horseback. They would try to get him to name the objects and make the sounds, but he kept encountering difficulty. Whenever it was time to tell the horse to go, they would say “walk on” and to stop they would say “whoa.” The little boy couldn’t say those commands, so they taught him a sign to use instead, which he eventually used. About four months after starting therapy – along with his other treatments – he clearly said the word “walk” and about a month later said the phrase “walk on.”

After that it was like a waterfall of words as his mouth and tongue learned how to make the appropriate movements for speech. Now two years later, his vocabulary has expanded, and he is even able to attend public school.

Anyone interested in using Leap O’ Faith’s services can call 580-272-0498, 580-453-0009. or visit their website, leapofaithtrc.org, where there is the option to send an email.

Once the initial contact has been made, Scroggins likes to meet with the client to discuss their needs and give them the appropri-

Kathy Scroggins brought almost four decades of horseback instruction with her when she started Leap O’ Faith Therapeutic Riding Center, which integrates into people’s therapy regimens by providing them with physical, emotional and social activities and challenges.

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ate paperwork for doctor permissions. She is willing to help her clients with the process to get their therapy started in a timely manner. This form of therapy can be good for both children and adults, and for everything from more severe issues to minor depression and anxiety. Even if someone doesn’t need therapy, they can still come and get riding lessons. Scroggins said she has done mother/daughter, father/daughter and brother/sister sessions in the past. If one sibling is struggling with a disability, this can be a good way for them to bond and be able to do the same type of activity together.

Leap O’ Faith will also be hosting a summer camp in June. More information can be found on the website or Facebook page, Leap O’Faith Therapeutic Riding Center.

Because most of her clients also have other forms of therapy and doctor’s appointments, Scroggins said she understands that expense can be prohibitive. This is one reason why they keep the price at $10 per session. However, the only way they can continue to do that is through community support. Leap O’ Faith is a nonprofit organization that accepts donations to help keep this unique and innovative center running and accessible for all families and individuals.

Donations can be made on their website or by sending a check to 21348 CR 1495 Ada, OK 74820.

More information and updates can be found on the website or their Facebook page. Volunteers are also appreciated and might find the experience to be incredibly rewarding. www.adahub.com • 9

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Historical and Genealogical Society aids in journeys of discovery

By Sunnie Dawn Smith

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n 1967, a group of citizens in Ada saw a need and acted. Their action led to the formation of the Pontotoc County Historical and Genealogical Society.

They found a house at 221 W. 16th St and began their journey through the history of Ada. In the beginning, there was one bookshelf. More than 50 years later, the library and museum has outgrown its space with bookshelves lining every wall, including every closet and crevice. They don’t even have room for their collections and are looking for a larger space at some point in the future.

JaNell Fleming, president of the Pontotoc County Historical and Genealogical Society, is passionate about the past and the discoveries that it holds. She started searching for her ancestry after her parents died. She was the oldest of her generation. Her parents had passed, and so had her aunts and uncles. She wanted to know where her family originated. With the help of Kathy Howry, her journey took off, and she even found her great-grandfather in the 1900 census. Since then, she has discovered much about her own ancestry, even sending off for Civil War records.

“For me it is the excitement of the search and fitting all the puzzle pieces together,” Fleming said. “I loved when I would find one new piece of information. It would lead to something else, and then that would lead to something else. The more you search, the more you find and the more you learn about your family.”

The volunteers at the historical society love digging into their own pasts but also helping people make their own discoveries. Their resources are abundant, including census data from every state, some going back as far as 1790.

In 1790, the records would just list head of household, but starting in 1850, they started listing everyone in the family. While these can be found in online databases, it isn’t the same as digging into an old book. Not only is there a different feel to seeing the data in print but just looking at the records can give a person more information.

For instance, households are listed alphabetically in the index, but in the actual census book it is by location. If someone locates their great-grandfather in a census book, the surrounding entries would be their neighbors. In many cases, people would live in proximity to family or marry their neighbors, so that visual data just gives someone more information and more avenues of exploration.

In addition to census data, they also have original birth and death certificates, handwritten and bound together in chronological order. However, these are only recorded if the birth or death was in a hospital, so not all births and deaths are recorded. A birth certificate can give mountains of information, though. Not only does it list the date and time of birth, but it also lists a home address, mother and father’s names, mother’s maiden name and their occupations. This could be the clue someone needs to move further in their quest for ancestral knowledge.

The historical society also has wills. One of the interesting things about these is that they would list every possession that the person owned. These days, most people just concern themselves with bequeathing their money, property and other items that are either a luxury or an heirloom. In the past, they might list every bed they owned, every farm animal, every dress because they might not have

Volunteers with the Pontotoc County Historical and Genealogical Society can help novice and veteran researchers alike make use of the organization’s wide variety of resources to help trace family histories and more.

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had as many possessions, and what they did have was truly valuable to them.

Old newspaper articles are another good source of information.

Fleming said in the past journalism was quite different than it is today. In a wedding announcement, they might also go into detail about how the bride’s father disapproved and went out with her brother to find the groom and fight him when the happy couple ran off together to be married. This happened in the case of Fleming’s grandmother and grandfather.

These resources only scratch the surface of the historical society’s holdings. The organization also has old photographs, school pictures, examination records and school records, some of which are from schools that don’t exist anymore. Whether people are wanting to find out information for family medical history because they were adopted or just visit out of curiosity, the volunteers at the historical society can help them on their road to discovery.

The office is open 12:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. Monday-Wednesday and 10 a.m.-2 p.m. on the first Saturday of every month. A yearly membership costs $20, and research fees are 50 cents per visit for members and $2 for non-members.

The historical society also accepts donations and is open to providing lifetime memberships. Its Facebook page is one method of contacting the group in addition to stopping by during operating hours.

“We have able bodied researchers, and they can help you get started, continue your research or help you double check what you have found to make sure it is correct,” Fleming said. “We are here, and we want you to come.” www.adahub.com • 11

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