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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.
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thoughts about what they
would like and some loose
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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. I was
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mindful of how that was going
to convey into a Christmas
card, but it worked.=
Three of the Rickards chil-
dren, Kyle, Evan and Jenna, all
received Rotary Scholarships
back in high school.
Rickards noted, <The pro-
ceeds from the holiday cards
goes directly to Rotary9s
scholarship fund, so in some
small way it was great to
give back, to see it come full
circle.=
Each year the Rotary Club
of Sisters gives out three
Rotary scholarships, two aca-
demic and one vocational
scholarship.
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.