Article: Conventional calendars remain solid business, despite electronic devices.

Byline: Lewis Taylor

Dec. 23--Four years ago, Melinda Hoeye and her husband Gary Garrison got into the calendar business on a lark.

Hoeye, a model, and Garrison, a photographer, were both outdoor types, so they came up with the concept for "Women in Waders," a racy wall calendar featuring rubber-boot-wearing-swimsuit models frolicking in streams and lakes with fishing rods and shotguns.

"The first year, we did it as a little side project," said Hoeye, aka Miss September 2001. "Then we started doing it full time."

Hoeye and her husband are now completely focused on calendars, 12 months a year. They own Eugene-based Reel Fish Calendar ...

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