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8 Wednesday, January 27, 2021 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon QUILT GARDEN: Proposals being sought for new bed LIEDBLAD: Sisters veterinarian is easing into retirement Continued from page 3 Continued from page 3 While the Garden Bed Quilt program will be a per- manent asset at PMRCAA, the plantings within the bed will be changed annu- ally for new artists. Every year signage with the title and designer9s name will be placed near the bed 4 along with other celebratory and programming activities planned. Garden Bed Quilt press will highlight the cho- sen designer every year. A stipend of $250 will also be awarded to the finalist. Pine Meadow Ranch Center for Arts and Agriculture is located on the historic Pine Meadow Ranch, a 260-acre working ranch in Sisters. The vision of PMRCAA is to connect sustainable agriculture, con- servation arts and sciences, with traditional and contem- porary crafts and skills inte- gral to ranching life includ- ing: metal, glass, wood and leather work, ceramics, fibers and textiles, writing, painting and drawing, pho- tography and music. In addition to provid- ing grant services to rural communities and tribal regions throughout the state of Oregon, the Roundhouse Foundation operates Pine Meadow Ranch Center for Arts and Agriculture in Sisters. For more informa- tion about the Foundation or PMRCAA visit www. RoundhouseFoundation.org. ago, before I decided to own a veterinary clinic, I was friends with women who really loved dragons. It was not uncommon for them to spend hours during the week- end talking about the mythi- cal creatures.= It wasn9t a surprise when Liedblad received a congratu- latory card for being accepted to veterinary school in 1980 from one of her friends. It had a dragon on it. <It had been modified from a get-well card and was the perfect card for a student of veterinary medicine,= she said. <It9s a picture of a wait- ing room for a veterinary clinic and in it were several animals which included a per- son with a birdcage, a person with a dog, a person with a cat, and then all you see are the feet underneath a very large body of a dragon that appears very under Scorch was born. the weather. Liedblad said that <I felt it was having Melvin as a important to secure mascot over the years that card into a was loads of fun. nice frame and <I have a collec- I have carried it tion of dragon-type with me forever. stuffed animals and It hung up on figurines. So many every apartment wonderful clients that and dorm room came along gave those all along the way to me as presents through veteri- and I treasure them. nary school. It Melvin B. Scorch is stayed in boxes PHOTO PROVIDED very dear to my heart while I had my Melvin B. Scorch has been the mascot for Broken Top and it is a fact that first several Veterinary Clinic from the beginning. He’s now flown off as all of the community jobs and was Dr. Little Liedblad transitions into retirement. of Sisters and Bend there whenever helped to make my names,= Liedblad recalled. practice thrive and grow. I had a wall to hang it on.= When the clinic first <The name Scorch was on Keeping our wonderful cli- opened, Liedblad put an ad the top of my list until one of ent-patient relationships was in The Nugget announcing a my friends said that I should very important to me, and <name the dragon mascot= name my mascot Melvin and it9s a sad time to have to say contest. West of Broken Top reminded me that I named goodbye to that relationship Veterinary Clinic, toward my veterinary clinic after a situation.= the mountains, you can see mountain so why not name Liedblad said, <I may be Melvin Butte. That became the mascot after the butte.= working part-time (one day So, Melvin became the a week) at the clinic for a important in the naming best name for the dragon while, but Melvin B. Scorch process. <Several p e o p l e with his middle initial as was set free and has flown responded to the name the B., which stood for Butte away with his big, beautiful mascot game and there or Broken Top. Either way wings carrying his little body were quite a few really cute it worked, and Melvin B. up and away.= Bring in this coupon for $2 OFF $1 OFF or any 16-20 lb. bag of Cat Food any 30-35-40 lb. bag of Dog Food 102 E. Main Ave. 541-549-4151 Offer good through 2-28-21. Coupon not valid with any other promotion. Limit one coupon per customer per month. Portraits OF SISTERS PHOTO AND STORY BY Cody Rheault THIS MONTH’S “PORTRAITS OF SISTERS” PRESENTED BY: 382 E Hood Ave | Suite A East | Sisters OR 97759 541.419.5577 Licensed In The State of Oregon From the yoke of the fighter jet to the stroke of a brush, Jim Horsley’s hands have taken him from great heights to great art. He served in the United States Navy as a combat pilot in Vietnam flying the A6 Intruder on daily recon and bomb- ing runs. His aviation career didn’t stop there, however. With an extensive backlog of flying experience — over 200 combat missions in Vietnam — the Blue Angels Flight Demonstration Squadron selected him as the new replacement for the 1980 and 1981 seasons. Somewhere between retiring from aviation and providing humanitarian aid with World Vision around the globe, Jim took to teaching himself how to paint — a skill he says has vast parallels to flying. Although Jim is proud of his background, he finds his value in who he is and residing in his Christian faith. Those fancy titles of his past he humbly denies. “I’m just Jim,” he says.