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8 Wednesday, March 4, 2020 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon ‘Power Rotary Club of Sisters honors Dan Rickards of Home’ event launches in Sisters By Jodi Schneider Correspondent The 2020 focus for the Women9s Ministry of Sisters Community Church is <Girlfriends Connecting,= aimed at providing qual- ity programs for women to connect with one another and build relationships in a fun and relaxing atmo- sphere. Local author Nancie Carmichael is the keynote speaker for the inaugural brunch event, <The Power of Home,= on Saturday, March 21, 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. in the Fireside Room at Sisters Community Church. The event is free, open to all women, and will include three demonstrations: <Organizing with Nancie,= led by Nancie Carmichael, drawing on information from her recently published book <The Unexpected Power of Home=; <Decorating with Cookie,= led by Cookie Kutz, focusing on acces- sorizing one9s home; and <Cooking with Kelly & Carol,= where Carol Hodges will coach Kelly Bither through making a fool-proof pie crust. Reservations may be made by calling Carol Hodges at 480-390-3638. Nancie Carmichael has been involved in writing and publishing for many years, including Virtue Magazine, along with her husband, Bill. Nancie9s many books include <Lord, Bless My Child=; <Selah=; and <Surviving One Bad Year.= Nancie and Bill make their home in Sisters, and have five married children and 14 grandchildren. Dan Rickards was honored last Friday evening with a pre- sentation of an appreciation plaque from Rotary Club of Sisters at Clearwater Gallery during the Fourth Friday Art Walk. In 2019 Rickards cre- ated artwork that graced the front of the very first Sisters Country-themed holiday card published and sold by Rotary entitled <A Warm Welcome.= The card featured a twilight image of a wintery country cabin in the woods festooned with holiday lights and the Three Sisters as backdrop. Rotary Club of Sisters past president and manager of the rotary project Curtiss Davis said, <My wife, Ann, and I have admired Dan9s art for years and have three of his prints in our home. We used to live in Corvallis, and Ann was very active in Assistance League including serving a term as president. Corvallis Assistance League teamed with Corvallis artist Jan Roberts Dominguez, who did a winter scene around Corvallis for a Christmas card each year. It was a very suc- cessful fundraiser for their service projects. Then when we moved over to the Sisters area, we thought of doing the same thing; producing Christmas cards with art from a prominent Sisters artist to raise funds for the Rotary Scholarship Program. We immediately thought of Dan because of our love of his art and particularly the way his art evokes a feeling of Sisters Country.= When Davis approached Rickards about the fundraiser, he took on the project of paint- ing something with the holi- day theme. <He gave me some thoughts about what they would like and some loose CUSTOM FENCES AND DECKS FREE ESTIMATES COMPETITIVE PRICING 541-588-2062 CCB#288388 Locally Owned, Craftsman Built Residential & Commercial Custom Ranch & Domestic Privacy Fencing Decks • Gates Stain & Paint • Repair www.SistersFenceCompany.com PHOTO BY JODI SCHNEIDER Curtiss Davis of Rotary Club of Sisters thanked Dan Rickards for his work, which helps to raise funds for scholarship programs. thumbnail photo images that might work into the idea of what the Christmas card would look like,= Rickards said. Rickards ran with the inspi- ration and created an imagi- nary ranch with the Three Sisters Mountains in the back- ground and a Christmas tree adorned with lights out front. He added, <Growing up in Lake Tahoe the winters were a big deal. The whole idea of snow at Christmas time, and going out getting our own tree like we do here every year, has become an iconic visual part of the holiday season. <I love painting snow, but snow and a night scene can be tricky. Such as having the lights on the live tree in front illuminating the snow. But that was the ambiance I was look- ing for. You see the cabin in the background all lit up with the tracks in the snow and the mountains beyond. 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Davis said, <This was our first year for the Christmas card fundraiser and we con- sider it a good success selling out all 1,200 cards that we had printed.= All 100 boxes of 12 cards each were sold, along with a number of 11 by 14-inch color prints featuring the same design. In addition to contrib- uting card and poster rights of his original oil painting, Rickards will donate a gener- ous portion of the proceeds from the sale of the original work that is still available at Clearwater Gallery located at 303 W. Hood Ave. in the Sisters art district. One hun- dred percent of the net income is set aside for the Rotary Club9s foundation in support of scholarships to Sisters High School students.