Local "celeb" spotting ;)

[Gina Stevenson]

Came here for an oil/lube and who do I see waiting for her vehicle, too? Terri, local meteorologist. She is as pleasant IRL as she seems when seeing the weather forecast. {she & another gal also do a variety-type show, Eight West, re things in/around W Michigan}:

One on the left is who I ran into:

http://www.woodtv.com/dpp/eightwest/...ches_eightWest

[Marian Schwaller Carney]

That is fun Gina! So tell us -- does she use original or synthetic?

[Gina Stevenson]

That is fun Gina! So tell us -- does she use original or synthetic?

Huh?

O or S what? Do know that she looks the same IRL, so they must not be big on/in the "make-up" dept.

[Jim Franklin]

Back when I was serving as a "wardrobe consultant" at JCPENNEY in mens' suits, I often had newscasteres, weather casters and sportscaster come in to buy clothes from me. There was even a feature article in the Idaho Statesman about how TV personalities were advised what clothes they should wear on camera. A large picture of a weather forecaster in the outfit I had put together for him was included. Boise used to have what was called a River Night Parade in which rafts were decorated and lighted and float along our middle of the city Boise River. One of the newscasters came in the afternoon of the day it was to take place and said "Quick, Jim, I need to replace this blazer for tonight.: I knew the lady reporter who was to report with him and so i asked, "What's Dee (who goes to Boise First) wearing?" He said "black and white. So I put him in a gray blaser. He asked why the gray rather that a black or a navy blue. I told him that if he had worn a black blazer during a night shot he would look like a floating head. He saw my point and I watched him that evening wearing what I had sold him.

Another gentleman who became a local celebrity, not by choice was Jon Jesse Turner who was one of the captive hostages held in Beirut, Lebanon for over 4 years back in the 80s. I told my manager that I knew when and if he was released he would be requested to make public appearances and that I thought he should make them in a PENNEYS suit and he agreed. So upon his release and return to Boise we outfitted him from inside out in PENNEYS clothing and I had the privilege of seeing he and his family on the TODAY program and the lighting of the National Christmas Tree to which Pres. GWH Bush invited he and his family to. I have many other such stories icluding Jerry Kramer the Football Hall of Fame lineman for the Green Bay Packers, Senator, later Governor and then Secretary of the Interior, Dirk Kempthorne etc.

[Gina Stevenson]

Well, add that ~~ wardrobe consultant ~~ to your resume', Jim!

If anyone then wants to know what that is about, you can relate these stories. Without currently working their sales floor, you could still be a consultant (along with your maps job), perhaps. Let us know here on NN if your resume' sent to various such entities as you have mentioned here secures you any consulting gigs.

[Jim Franklin]

My experience as a "wardrobe consultant" really was far more to the more formal and business dress than the current casual dress that seems to prevail these days. It is now 12 years since I left that gig so my consultant days are long passed.

As far as Geography consultant work, when BNC could not reew my contract to teach there, a college friend of mine Rich Gammill who was one of the chief assistants in the Missions department suggested that I offer my expertise to that Department which I did but would have been an entirely new position and deemed not needed.