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Wednesday, January 27, 2021 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
QUILT GARDEN:
Proposals being
sought for new bed
LIEDBLAD: Sisters
veterinarian is easing
into retirement
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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.=
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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.