-FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE-
NEW BOOK DETAILS LIFE AND CAREER
OF AN AMERICAN ORIGINAL-ARNIE DECKWA,
"THE SINGIN' SALMON MAN from CORNET BAY"
Release date: January 13, 2011
232 pgs., softcover - $16 plus S/H
Cornet Bay Publishing, Oak Harbor, WA 98277
For information Contact: Cornet Bay Company
Arnie and Joanne Deckwa / 360-675-6331
arnie@cornetbay.com or joanne@cornetbay.com
The life and times of one of the business world's most fascinating characters have been captured in his new book, "The Singin' Salmon Man from Cornet Bay". It tells 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.
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, Saar's and many other fine stores in the northwest. His Kroger labeled seafood dips are sold 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 some of 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."
Meet the Singin' Salmon Man-Arnie Deckwa.
"A wonderful read-it's great, it's entertaining, it's funny." - Tom Long, president/owner, That-A-Fly Music, Nashville, TN
"Arnie is a true American original." - Allen Shamblin, writer of "He Walked On Water," "Don't Laugh At Me" and "The House That Built Me"
"Arnie...is an inspiration to us all." - David Long, Seafood Coordinator, The Kroger Company
Foreward - From the Book
Once in a lifetime someone comes along who doesn't fit any kind of mold. They are true self-starters who go against the grain and are relentless when the impossible needs to be done. One such person is a salt-water cowboy I've known for twenty-plus years named Arnie Deckwa.
"The first and only cowboy ever to ride into the history of Nashville's Country Music on Smoked Salmon."
About Cornet Bay Food Company
It all started on the back stage of the Grand Ole Opry in January of 1987. I brought a gift of hot smoked salmon to give to a friend, Brent Burkett, original member of the quartet named "the Four Guy's". With excitement Brent tasted the smoked salmon in the hallway between the green room and Roy Acuff's dressing room. After that taste he looked at me very seriously and said, "I know you want to sing, cowboy, but you need to do something with this!". Being caught off guard I said "do what with it?" he said "SELL IT!!", "Sell it to who?", "Sell it to KROGER!", I pondered for a bit then said ... "who's Kroger?".
I'm from the North West, a place called Cornet Bay located on Whidbey Island just 75 miles north of Seattle.
About Arnie Deckwa and Cornet Bay Food Company
Went to the Grand Ole Opry to become a singer, instead found my destiny as an entrepreneur, and started the Cornet Bay Food Company.
Singin' Salmon Man from Cornet Bay - the book.
