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4__________ Feature WedNEsdAy, O ctoòer 18, 2000 T ñe CI ac I camas P rínt Small horses worth their weight MAGGIE JIRASEK Feature Co-Editor Summer Sayles, recipient of the American Miniature Horse Asso ciation (AMHA) Youth Scholar ship, and AMHA National Cham pion, is one of Clackamas’ most accomplished students. Born in Portland and raised in Sandy, Sayles lives on a 20-acre farm in Estacada, where she and her family own about 40 miniature horses. “I bought my first mini when I was about 12 years old. It was a good and expensive horse; so my family and I thought we might as well show it. That’s how we came up with the idea to show horses,” Sayles explained. Since then, Sayles has bought several more horses and her col lection became more numerous as she began breeding them. “I was 13 when I started show ing my horses. Right now I go to about seven shows a year. Each time, I take up to six horses with me,” Sayles stated. For the past seven years, Sayles has attended shows in Oregon, Washington and California. She has been quite successful in the ring and the year-end high point awards. She is also co-chair of the North West Miniature Horse Club (NWMHC), and is in charge of the publicity for one of the shows. “I have won several scholar ships, including the $3000 AMHA Youth Scholarship, and I have won the Super Amateur Award in Reno as well as the National Champion ship,” Sayles reported. Being a student and showing horses is not easy, and it requires good time management. “It is very stressful from time to time. I miss a lot of school. I try to make sure that all my classes are on Tuesdays and Thursdays so I can show on the weekends. I also take a lot of on-line classes and PHOTO COURTESY OF WWW.AMHA.COM make sure it’s O.K. with my teach Summer Sayles wins AMHA National Championship earlier this year In Ft. Worth, Texas. ers if I miss class,” Sayles re marked. then this’; that was pretty funny.” Receiving scholarships as well receive enough scholarships,” cause I have never done some thing like this before,” Sayles Sayles, who is majoring in edu as selling some'of her horses Sayles explained. cation, has already made plans for helps Sayles pay for school and One of Sayles' most memo remarked. “It was really funny, because neither one of us-knew her future. She wants to become equipment. rable moments was when she and an elementary school teacher and, “It’s very hard for me to sell her mom delivered one of her how to do it. My mom was sitting there and reading a book on how in her free time, continue to show my horses, especially if I’ve had foals. to deliver horses. She was giving her horses. them for a long time, but the “When my mare had her baby, Next year, she wants to try the Na money helps me out a lot, that’s I was the one who delivered it. It me directions and telling me all the time ‘now you have to do this and tionals again. how I pay my tuition if I don’t was really exciting for me, be Adventure writers on campus TAM OLIVER Feature Co-Editor BARBARA GUNDLE / Contributor Molly Gloss will read from "Wild Life," set in the Pacific Northwest. MARION ETTLINGER/ Contributor Tucker Malarkey will read from "An Obvious Enchantment," Inspired by two years in Africa. Two writers of adventure fiction will read from their recently pub lished novels at Authors’ Night, Oct. 25 at 7 p.m. in Gregory Forum. Molly Gloss' previous novels, “Dazzle of Day” and “The Jump- Off Creek,” both won the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award and the Oregon Book Award. She was also the recipient of the 1996 Whit ing Award. She will be reading from “Wild Life,” described by Library Jour nal as a book that “.. .without mor alizing, explores the deeper mean ing of what it really is to be hu man.” Set in the Pacific Northwest in 1905, its main character, Char lotte Bridger Drummond, is a ci gar-smoking, widowed mother of five children who writes dime-store adventure novels to support her family. When her housekeeper’s daughter turns up missing, she joins the search. There are specu lations that the girl has been car ried off by ape-like creatures spot ted in the wilderness. During the search, Charlotte is separated from her search partner and subse quently becomes lost also. Told from her journal entries, thejiook has been described as “...gor geous (the writing), the characters real and vivid, and the story trans forming” by Publisher’s Weekly. Tucker Malarkey was co-author of “Sleepwalking Through His tory,” a bestseller about the Lyndon Johnson era. Educated at Georgetown University, Malarkey wrote for The Washington Post for four years. She is a recipient of the Michener Award from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her recently published novel, “An Obvious Enchantment,” has been described by Peter Matthiesson, author of numerous books including ‘The Snow Leop ard” and “Tigers in the Snow,” as “An exciting, intelligently imag ined story, well written and well paced, with a very skillful use of place and atmosphere.” Inspired by a two-year stay on an island off the coast of Africa, Malarkey has created the story of Ingrid Holtz, a woman who comes to a remote island off the coast of Kenya in search of her professor, Nick Templeton. Templeton has vanished while researching his theory that Islam was brought to the Swahili coast by a legendary king. According to Publisher’s Weekly, the novel is “An uncom mon romance charting the restless intellect of an obsessive aca demic.” Gloss and Malarkey will be reading from their novels Oct. 25, 7 p.m. in the Gregory Forum. $2 suggested donation for Friends of the Library. By Jim Spickelmier Red and white striped blue shoes, with stars, like tattered flags adorned the feet of a woebegone old woman laboring a cluttered shopping cart up the cold snow covered windswept street, past my seat behind a window which proclaimed across three frames Pacific Wine Company, Delicatessen, Espresso. As I sipped a latte, my attention strayed through a side'windowpane I viewed, a little ragamuffin girl awkwardly determined to figure skate on hard packed, dirty white, ice like snow. .. .And I wondered... Would she claim Olympic fame or would her fate be the same as a woebegone old woman, with red and white striped blue shoes, with stars, like tattered flags around the feet - laboring a cluttered shopping cart up the cold snow covered windswept street.
