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Wednesday, August 24, 2016 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Decathlon Shootin’ ’em up in Sisters
champ
ponders
next steps
By Jodi Schneider McNamee
Correspondent
By dave Skretta
AP Sports Writer
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP)
— The world’s greatest athlete
hates being called The World’s
Greatest Athlete.
He hears it every time he
is introduced at an event, or
meets sponsors, or is paraded
in front of a TV camera. But
the reality is that Ashton Eaton
is far too humble for such a
title — he is so humble, in
fact, that he hides his gold
medal under his shirt when
nobody is looking.
“They like me to wear
it,” he says sheepishly, “but I
don’t like to.”
The two-time Olympic
decathlon champion is wrap-
ping up another round of com-
mitments, this time for his
sponsor Visa, when he sits
down at an out-of-the-way
table in an upscale hotel just
off Copacabana Beach. Three
stories down and out the front
doors, thousands of Cariocas
have begun partying the night
away after Brazil’s victory
over Germany in the Olympic
soccer tournament.
Eaton hasn’t had a chance
to party yet.
He’s hardly had a chance to
breathe.
Ever since winning his
latest gold medal Thursday
night, matching an Olympic
points record in the process,
he’s been pulled in a hundred
different directions. He man-
aged three hours of sleep after
he left Olympic Stadium that
night, then had to rise early for
another round of interviews.
Eaton takes it in stride,
though. He knows that peo-
ple are eager to hear from
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Last weekend in down-
town Sisters, Cascade Avenue
was transformed into the Wild
West with 140 feet of Western
town façade.
Folks strolling by did a
double-take and stopped for
a spell to watch The Pine
Mountain Posse players enter-
tain with skits from the Old
West for the 4th annual Sisters
Wild West Show. Spectators
got to step back into the wild
age of gunfighters, saloons
and cowboys, like a scene out
of an old classic John Wayne
Western that came alive.
The Pine Mountain Posse
Players performed three Wild
West skits and shootouts with
champion cowboy action-
shooter Mohave Mick as the
new marshal in town.
The players dress in authen-
tic or authentic replica clothing
for their skits and always go
by “Western” names. And the
firearms are pre-1900 replicas.
Richard Weatherson, aka
Sidekick Rick, and wife
Colleen Weatherson, aka
Stargazer Sal, headed up The
Pine Mountain Posse Players
this year.
“This year we have two
new skits along with the
crowd-pleaser, The James
Gang,” Colleen said.
photo by Jerry balDocK
Cowboy action shooters in action at the Sisters Wild West Show.
Most legends of the West
are about men, but there were
many women who became
famous as well. And one of the
skits, Women of our Western
Town, was written by Colleen
Weatherson.
“We’ve been doing this
for years, and there has never
been a skit that focused on
the women kicking up a bit of
dust, so I decided to change
that,” Weatherson said.
Nineteen-year-old Hayden
Kingly, aka Huckleberry
Hickcock, has been with Pine
Mountain Posse for four years.
“I’ve been involved with
cowboy action shooting and
playing the part of the cowboy
but haven’t had as much time
devoted to shooting since I
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Event organizer Richard
Esterman emceed each Wild
West skit, going over show
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“The Wild West Show
performances were a success
and stopped travelers driving
through Sisters,” Esterman
said.
In between shootouts folks
got to browse through Western
arts and crafts, and a convinc-
ing 19th-century mercantile
store with homemade goods
with a blacksmith on hand
working hard at hammering
hot iron on an anvil.
Civil War reenactment
player and co-owner of
Company Mercantile, Cindy
Hilchey from Eddyville,
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store. All the homemade goods
in the store are for sale during
all the Civil War Reenactment
shows throughout the West.
Hilchey has been a reenact-
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Civil War Council (NCWC)
for 12 years. And her entire
family are also reenactment
players.
“We are trying to expand
our business outside of the
reenactment shows,” Hilchey
told The Nugget.
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