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by Arnie Deckwa
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The life and times of one of the business world’s most fascinating characters have been captured in his new book telling of his adventures growing up on Whidbey Island in a commercial fishing family, the lessons of a cool teen in the 1950’s, love, marriage, careers, rodeo experiences, musical pursuits and putting together a food business. The book brings it all together and shows how determination can make it all happen.
Arnie Deckwa, a true American original, is the subject of “The Singin’ Salmon Man from Cornet Bay.” Founder and president of Cornet Bay Company, Arnie heads his food business that began with smoked salmon dips and now features more than 80 products. Many of these products are sold in QFC, Haggen, Top Foods, Sarr’s and several other fine stores in the northwest along with Kroger labeled seafood dips in Kroger stores throughout the south and southeast. “The Singin’ Salmon Man from Cornet Bay” is the fascinating and sometimes hair-raising inside story of how it all happened, told by one of the world’s great story-tellers, Arnie himself.
Born to a fishing family on Whidbey Island in Washington State, Arnie was a commercial fisherman, a rodeo contestant, a deputy sheriff, a building contractor, a land developer, and a world-traveling country and country-gospel singer before he found his true calling as the head of a booming business based on the best smoked salmon and crab dips that ever tempted a palate.
Readers will accompany Arnie as he fishes the waters of the Pacific, rides bulls and races horse-drawn chariots, plays music on stages from Nashville to the Orient, and finally sees all his dreams come together backstage at the Grand Ole Opry, where legends like Roy Acuff, Charlie Walker and Little Jimmy Dickens help set the stage for him to become known as “the first and only cowboy ever to ride into the history of Nashville’s country music on smoked salmon.”
Paperback: 232 ages
Publisher: Cornet Bay Publishing
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780964299146
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