Wednesday, July 17, 2019 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Serving Quilt Show for two decades
Sisters printer earns
industry recognition
XPress Printing in
Sisters was named among
the top 100 small commer-
cial printing companies in
the U.S. by Print Magazine.
XPress placed No. 94 on
the list published in the July
edition.
Company owner and
founder Tony Meyer said
that he didn9t know that man-
ager Jeff Swales was submit-
ting the data required for the
rankings.
<It9s mostly financial
benchmarks,= Meyer noted.
The ranking in the top
100 among all of the com-
panies that took the time to
assemble and submit the data
is gratifying for the Sisters
businessman.
<It means we9re one of the
most successful small print-
ing companies in the U.S.,=
he said.
That9s an accomplishment
By Jodi Schneider
Correspondent
in a rapidly and constantly
changing market.
< We 9 v e d i v e r s i f i e d
what we do,= Meyer said.
<We9re not just printers.
We9re heavily involved with
communications.=
That means direct mail
marketing and fundraising
appeals for nonprofits.
<We9re real successful,=
Meyer said.
Meyer started XPress
Printing in Sisters in the
1980s and has worked to
stay abreast of the techno-
logical tide that has revolu-
tionized printing and print9s
niche in the world of busi-
ness. He noted that his print-
ing work has moved from
predominantly lithograph
to now being 90 percent
digital.
XPress Printing employs
14 people in Sisters at its
shop at 664 W. Hood Ave.
Sisters man arrested
on assault charge
Deschutes County
Sheriff9s deputies arrested
20-year-old Noah Kirshner
of Sisters last week after a
fight on the grounds at Sisters
High School.
Sgt. William Bailey told
The Nugget that the inci-
dent on July 9 was initially
reported as a vehicle vs.
pedestrian accident.
<Investigation determined
that there had been a fight at
the high school,= Sgt. Bailey
said.
Kirshner was taken into
custody and transported to
Deschutes County Jail on
a charge of second-degree
assault two; disorderly con-
duct; and felony parole/pro-
bation violation.
Last September, Kirshner
was arrested on multiple
counts relating to a series of
thefts from vehicles.
According to the
Deschutes County Sheriff9s
Office, deputies and
Black Butte Ranch police
responded at about 3:49
p.m. on September 26, to a
report of a domestic dispute
at 576 E. Jefferson Ave. in
Sisters. When law enforce-
ment arrived, they contacted
Noah Kirshner outside the
residence. Investigators
determined that Kirshner had
caused extensive damage
to a residence and had been
throwing rocks at vehicles.
Investigating further, they
found property in Kirshner9s
possession that linked him
to multiple vehicle break-ins
in the Sisters area that had
been reported the morning of
September 25.
For quilter Donna Rice,
board member for Sisters
Outdoor Quilt Show (SOQS),
volunteering each year at
SOQS is a labor of love 4 a
commitment that9s lasted 20
years.
<Through the years I have
taken part in a number of
tasks and have been hanging
quilts every year since the
beginning,= Rice said. <I9m a
team leader with other volun-
teers, and we hang quilts in
a section of town, including
take-down at the end of the
day.=
Over the years, she has
worked in the volunteer/
information booth and as a
hostess at a section of town
(watching the quilts, answer-
ing questions, handing out
the event guide). She folds
quilts in the event office as
they come in and is on the
team that selects the quilts
to be hung and where they
will be hung around town.
Rice also designed the Quilt
for Two Rivers that hangs in
Sisters City Hall.
This year Rice took on
the challenge of reviewing
and revising <The Book= for
SOQS.
Board Chair Jeff Omodt
noted, <Many people don9t
understand how many details
need to be kept track of to
have a place for each quilt.
SOQS keeps a huge note-
book describing every pos-
sible quilt hanging location
and what size quilt could
fit there. It9s a photo inven-
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Donna Rice is the keeper of “The Book” for the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show.
our entire town. The book
is used to decide where
every quilt will go before
quilt day.=
Rice added, <The book is
the actual guide as to where
each quilt will hang. I (with
help) walked the town and
checked the wires to see if
they are broken, need to be
replaced or just added to
newly painted buildings.
Then I checked with the mer-
chants so I could be sure that
all was OK 4 OK to hang
where we did last year.=
Rice began quilting
around 1992 and has sewn
clothes and home décor most
of her life.
<Once I started quilting
I was hooked,= she told The
Nugget. <A friend and I pur-
chased a quilting machine in
1995 and we worked with
a number of quilters in the
area.=
Since there were only a
handful of long-arm quilters
in the area at that time and
three active guilds in Central
Oregon, their quilting busi-
ness thrived.
She added, <We quilted
tops for the local quilters
who were not interested in
quilting their own. I 8retired9
in 2000 from the long-arm
quilting business and now I
primarily create art quilts of
my own.=
Rice describes her quilt-
ing style as <exploration.=
<I am drawn to color 4
lots of color and small pieces
of fabric. I find it a chal-
lenge and the work quite
interesting.=