Rags to Riches to Rags
As you can well imagine it did not take long for Don's popularity to overflow the border of his hometown, and indeed the Province of Saskatchewan. What with the nicely displayed cuts of meat in the "Crappie" and the wedding photos it did not take long before others sat up and took notice of this young upstart from Stoughton. Pretty soon Don was being flown to exotic locations like Outlook, Lucky Lake, Success and even Cadillac to photograph the meat of wealthy German butchers. Things came to a head though on one of his weekends in Climax. Don would later claim the rock and roll lifestyle he adopted as a popular "Meat Stylist" (as he preferred to be called at the time) led to his dependancy on caffeine pills and jolt cola which in turn confused his sense of right and wrong. When the RCMP knocked on his motel room door and asked to see the contents of his fridge, Don knew the gig was up. 57 pounds of bratwurst were found crammed in the fridge, on ice in the hotel sink and the bathtub. Don himself was covered in the greasy aftermath of a bratwurst binge, thus making the feathers applied by the townsfolk stick all the better before he was run out of town on a rail. Don is not a quitter though and would battle back. ...next