Wednesday, August 21, 2019 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
WILD WEST: Performing
troupe creates and
acts out scripts
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<Taylor was in a skit last
year, and now all my kids are
getting into the act,= Barrier
told The Nugget.
Two new re-enactors from
Redmond, Naomi Marlitt,
a.k.a. Sassy Savanah, and
Lorinda Tiller, a.k.a. Amber
Rose, are members of the
Cowboy Action Shooting
Club and dressed up as the
<fancy ladies= in town.
Another new couple
in town was Sam Kovic,
a.k.a. Chance the Outlaw,
and his wife, Lee, a.k.a.
Polly Wanda Cracker, from
Medford have been mem-
bers of the Cowboy Action
Shooting Club for a year.
Kovic said, <You don9t
want to get 8Polly9 mad; she9s
a sure shot. Actually, Lee9s got
a real good aim.=
Cowboy action shooting is
a fast-growing shooting sport,
and is embraced by men,
women and youngsters from
all parts of the globe.
Besides the shootout per-
formances and skits begin-
ning at high noon, the show
also featured a beer garden
and vendors with a variety of
Native American and Western-
themed arts and crafts for
folks to meander through.
New vendor artist Jeanne
Warren from Grants Pass, a
native Oregonian, showcased
her detailed wildlife oil paint-
ings while doing a demonstra-
tion for visitors to watch.
<I started painting as a
kid,= she said. <My mom was
Sisters author’s
story to air on TV
Local author Melody
Carlson has had one of her
novels adapted for television.
<All Summer Long= pre-
mieres this Saturday night
on the Hallmark Channel
and stars Brennan Elliott
and Autumn Reeser. Peter
DeLuise, son of the late come-
dian Dom DeLuise, directed.
The story takes place
aboard a dinner yacht and is
set on the San Francisco Bay,
but the movie was filmed in
British Columbia. Carlson
visited the set in June to meet
the cast and crew and watch
the filming. Although she
was invited to participate as
an extra during a party scene,
Carlson quite literally missed
the boat. The crew sent a shut-
tle back to shore to pick her up
after filming of the scene was
complete.
Carlson is the author of
over 200 novels for women,
teens, and children. Her sto-
ries range from serious issues
like schizophrenia (<Finding
Alice=) to lighter topics. She
has accrued a number of
awards including Romantic
Times9 Career Achievement
PHOTO PROVIDED
The Yellowfin is a central part of the
story “All Summer Long.”
Award, the Rita and the Gold
Medallion. Over the years,
some of her other books have
been optioned for film or tele-
vision, and still others are cur-
rently under consideration.
<All Summer Long= is the
first to come to fruition.
<All Summer Long= pre-
miers Saturday, August 24,
at 9 p.m. on the Hallmark
Channel. To learn more about
Melody9s books and keep up
with future news, visit www.
MelodyCarlson.com.
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my inspiration. She painted in
oil, and I used to watch her.=
Her online gallery name,
<Photismos,= stems from
Warren9s passion for paint-
ing light and color. She loves
working with light and shad-
ows to create a colorful expe-
rience in nature.
Vendor Marissa Walker
from Ventura, California cre-
ates her silver jewelry master-
pieces on the road and in the
wilderness.
Walker said, <Right now,
I9m living out of my little tear-
drop trailer in the area. I hand-
craft my jewelry work while
I9m on the road and I pick up
all my stones for my silver
pieces along the way.=
Jennifer Haken, co-owner
of Garden of Eden in Sisters,
also runs a mobile LulaRoe
clothing boutique and was
open to the public as one of
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the show9s vendors.
<I bought this trailer from
a friend, and it was already
custom-made for a cloth-
ing shop,= Haken said. <My
husband Jeff and I are very
entrepreneurial. But I started
my own business to help pay
the bills, start a savings and it
helped put my child through
college. And now my daughter
has her own LulaRoe clothing
boutique in North Carolina.=