Irlene is the youngest of the famous Mandrell Sisters. She was born to a musical family that set the mark for generations to strive for. Though music has always been the Mandrell Sister’s mainstay, other entertainment forums appealed to Irlene. Irlene has enjoyed an extraordinarily varied career as an actress, model and performer. She is probably, most famous for her role on the hit NBC show Barbara Mandrell and The Mandrell Sisters. Irlene captured two awards for comedy acts of the year from Music City News. Irlene sought opportunities in film, television and video. Most of her fans also recognized her talent as a star on the show Hee Haw where she had an eight year run until the close of the show. Irlene has also made several appearances on TV shows such as The Love Boat, Oprah, The Tonite show, The Mike Douglas Show, and many game shows. She also co- hosted Bright Lights & Country Nights, This Week in Country Music, televised benefits with names such as George Lindsey, Bob Hope, Sammy Davis Jr. and many more.

Irlene has had a career as a model for several companies such as Cover girl Shoes, Lanne Skin Care products and 9West shoes.

Currently, Irlene has a segment on PBS’s Tennessee’s Wildside which is titled “Irlene Mandrell Straight Shooter” . She not only stars on several outdoor shows, but host’s them as well.

Irlene is an accomplished hunter in several venues. She has hunted North America extensively as well as Mexico, South America, and Africa. She has several animals that qualify for the SCI Record Book. Irlene is proficient with a handgun, shotgun, rifle, and crossbow. She is very competitive in all sporting events, even as a race car driver. She is an active member of several outdoor groups such as Quail Unlimited, Buckmasters, and a life member of National Wild Turkey Federation, NRA, and Safari Club International. Irlene has served several years at the Sportsman Against Hunger banquet.

Irlene participates in several charities such as Special Olympics, American Heart Association, and Easter Seals but is closest to Wish upon a Star and The Boy Scouts. “The Irlene Mandrell Celebrity Shoot” raises a large amount of money for both Wish Upon A Star and the Boy Scouts. As a 501c3, she has contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars to these two causes.

Irlene is currently a celebrity spokesperson for several companies, including Smith & Wesson, DRT Ammo, and Deerassic. If she endorses a product, you can be assured she believes in the product as well as uses it. She has spoken for CZ-USA, She Safari, Wild Ride Beef Jerky and Horton.

A devoted mother of three, Irlene still finds time to pursue her career. Actress, Singer, Dancer, Comedian, Percussionist, hunter, Spokesmodel, and race car driver, Irlene does it all. Irlene Mandrell is many things including country woman, mother, glamorous star, and someone you feel comfortable with around your own kitchen table. She has one of the most recognizable faces of today.

Visit her personal page at www.irlenemandrell.com.

She was Country when Country wasn’t cool!

Born on Christmas Day in 1948, Barbara learned to read music before she could read words. At age 5 she made her stage debut at church and played Gospel Boogie on the accordion. When she was 11, legendary country guitarist Joe Maphis booked “The Princess of the Steel Guitar” on one of his Las Vegas Shows. Within weeks, she also began appearing on Los Angeles’ renowned Town Hall Party, an experience that instilled a lifelong love for television and that paved the way for Barbara Mandrell & the Mandrell Sisters.

Barbara at her peak had a star power matched by few. She had more than 50 Top 40 Country hits, spanning 20 years. She was named the Country Music Association’s Entertainer of the Year in 1980 and 1981 – the first person and the only woman to win the award twice.

Louise Mandrell’s talent, personality and boundless energy have already won her a legion of fans who were thrilled to hear that she would be the first woman to own her own theater in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee and perform full time as well. The 1400 seat Louise Mandrell Theater opened its doors in September of 1997 with a multi-million dollar production that includes over thirty costume and set changes with more than a dozen dancers and musicians. Louise’s ability to relate to and reach her audience is one of her greatest attributes. When Louise walks out on stage, she literally owns it! She plays thirteen instruments including the fiddle and drums. Her high-energy choreography continues to astound audiences. By any standards, Louise Mandrell is one of the hottest tickets in entertainment. Known for her charitable heart, Louise was the 2003 Honorary United Way Chairperson for Sevier County and remains faithful and enthusiastic in her commitment to the Boy Scouts and the American Cancer Society. By participating in and hosting events to raise money for their benefit, she has been able to give back to her much loved community. She is even in her fifth year of opening the doors to her theater for a Sunday Morning Prayer and Praise service. All the offerings to date have been dispersed to charitable area entities, such as the Smoky Mountain Children’s Home and the Boys and Girls Club.

Nashville singer/songwriter and 19-year Hohner Harmonica Artist, TJ Klay was an original member of the country band “Western Flyer.” His harmonica, mandolin, guitar & harmony vocals graced the group’s two CD’s & helped garner four hit singles and three CMT videos. They performed for the Kansas City Royals, the Martin Luther King Foundation and President Clinton.

TJ performs solo and with a trio at venues and shooting events across the country. He is currently a member of the Pro-Staff for HIViz sight systems. With his publishing company, Sporting Klay’s Music, he has released four solo CD’s, wrote and produced “The Grand American” CD for the ATA’s Grand American Trapshooting Championship, the “San Antonio in September” CD for the NSCA’s Sporting Clays Nationals and the “Shoot for the Moon” CD for the USA Shooting. The song was featured in their video promotion for the 2004 Olympics in Athens, Greece.

Ray Kelly is a multi-talented artist born and raised in South Dakota. Self-taught, he works mostly in graphite and colored pencils, but is also an accomplished sculptor working with bronze casting. His topics vary from western to wildlife, and rodeo scenes. He also does much commission work.

Ray has done several movies and made for television shows.

Ray has received many recent awards such as being named the artist for the PBR [Professional Bullriders] for 2003, 2004 and 2005. He is also the artist of the year in 2003 and 2004 for the Jackson County Minnesota Pheasants Forever. He was the recipient of the “Point of Light Award” for 2004. Rays artwork has won awards ranging from “Best of Show” to “Peoples Choice Awards”. He was the Dodge National Circuit Finals Artist from 1998-2001. He has done artwork for Ducks Unlimited, Justin Cowboy Crisis Fund, Quail Unlimited, Casey Tibbs Museum and many other organizations.

Rays artwork is in high demand among celebrities, having sold for as high as $18,000 with collectors such as Don Johnson, Marshall and Lindy Teague, Tom Green , The Mandrell Sisters, Craig Morgan, Ted Nugent , and Jim Ed Brown, and the list goes on and on.

You can catch Ray on television throughout the year on the Outdoor Life Network and other shows which feature his talents.

You may remember Leslie as Callahan in Police Academy. If you missed her in the original movie, you may have seen her later on, as she punched her way from Sergeant to Captain in 5 sequels — and counting!

Leslie created long-running character’s Devlin Kowalsky, on Ryan’s Hope, and Rhonda Lee, on Laverne and Shirley. She also guest starred on over 60 TV shows, including such classics as Matlock, Murder She Wrote and Baywatch.

She is Mother Firefly in Rob Zombie’s The Devil’s Rejects, and Patty Frost in Zombie’s 2007 box office hit, Halloween. Leslie is Bunny in Murder at the Presidio, a USA Network movie that’s now available on DVD and, in the original Broadway production of Neil Simon’s California Suite, she created the role of Bunny. The character’s names are no coincidence. Since grade school Leslie’s nickname has been Bunny. Both characters were actually named after her.

Murder at the Presidio was directed by John Fasano, a fellow shooting enthusiast. She was fortunate to work with him again as Carol Kinsey in A Family Lost, which still plays on Lifetime Network.

Leslie plays Betty in House, a horror/thriller feature, which was filmed in Poland and premiered Nov.7, 2008. She is also featured in The Heartbreak Kid starring Ben Stiller, Soon to be released are Black Water Transit in which she stars with Lawrence Fishburne, Carl Urban and Brittany Snow, Daze with Jackson Rathbone and Gary Busey and Hollywood and Wine, with David Spade, Chris Kattan and Norm McDonald.

Leslie has had a busy year and that’s great, except she hasn’t had time to shoot much. She is deeply grateful to Irlene, her excellent staff and her VERY GENEROUS SPONSORS for providing us with so many good targets, such great fun, and this unique opportunity to help children live their dreams. Leslie calls it a win-win (dead-dead in Sporting Clay lingo) weekend for everyone!

As rugged as he is genteel, the six-foot two-inch 220-lb Patrick Kilpatrick has been one of the finest screen/television character actors and villains of his generation, playing against a spectrum of Hollywood’s leading action heroes, while occasionally delivering the redemptive, even sensitively challenged, hard-edged heroic role.

After nearly dying in a car crash as a teenager, he instead rehabilitated to largely do his own stunts in 100+ films and TV projects. His action film appearances span a multitude of genres and embrace an international Who’s Who of leading men: Replacement Killers against Chow Yun Fat; Arnold Schwarzenegger and James Caan in Eraser, Last Man Standing opposite Bruce Willis, Under Siege II opposite Segal, Presidio opposite Sean Connery and Mark Harmon, two award-winning and highly rated original cable westerns opposite Tom Selleck — Last Stand at Saber River and Crossfire trail, one western opposite Sam Elliot and Kate Capshaw — HBO’s Premiere Films adaptation of Louis L’ Amour’s The Quick and the Dead, and the ever-popular action mainstay Death Warrant opposite Jean Claude Van Damme, as The Sandman. He has even done battle with the largest mammal on earth in Free Willy III. The versatile Kilpatrick has played leads in everything from “American Playhouse” to a film debut in Nick Roeg’s masterwork “Insignificance”, to Shakespeare’s “Anthony and Cleopatra” at Los Angeles Theater Center in the hands of Academy Award-winning director Tony Richardson. His resume embraces reoccurring roles on such hit television shows as “Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman” and “Tour of Duty”, “Dark Angel”, Stephen King’s popular miniseries “The Stand”, HBO’s “ARLI$$” and many, many more. It was his work on James Cameron’s “Dark Angel” that led Spielberg to seek him out for “Minority Report”.

In one year and half whirlwind period, he did five major studio films, two independents and 27 television guest star spots on 18 different shows. The pace continues to the present with appearances on “Boomtown”, “Las Vegas”, “Blind Justice,” “CSI-Las Vegas”, “24″ as Secret Service Agent Dale Spaulding — “the man who ‘killed’ Jack Bauer”, and hit shows “Criminal Minds” and James Wood’s “Shark”.

Kilpatrick, president and CEO of Uncommon Dialogue Films, Inc. (UDF), is the writer/producer/director of the upcoming film “Vain Attempt.” In addition to “Vain Attempt” UDF has a dynamic slate of arresting movies including “Naked Warriors” set in the Pacific in 1943, “Lady Pirates”, “The End of the Onslaught” set in WWII Germany and “Nine Heroes in the Rape of Nanking” set in 1937 China, plus two documentaries and a television series “Natural Laws” concerning US Fish and Wildlife Special Agents amidst global threat of illegal wildlife traffic and ecological calamity. He travels the world organizing film, ecological business development and acting.

UDF recently hosted the Entertainment Conservation Summit in northern California – first time assemblage of Hollywood heavyweights and representatives of global outdoor sports and ecological groups. The UDF series “Natural Laws” was presented there. Currently single, he is the father of two sons, Ben and Sam. His interests range from politics to fashion, veteran’s affairs to solar/wind energy application, gun ownership to Gandhi. He recently traveled to Afghanistan, the United Arab Emirates and Kyrgyzstan with the USO entertaining troops as part of the Henry Rollins/Patrick Kilpatrick South West Asia Tour and is active with the Coalition to Salute Americas’ Heroes, Brookes Army Medical Center (San Antonio, Tx.) and California Paralyzed Veterans. Patrick, trained as an actor by Navy Seals and the LAPD, is a member of the Sons of The American Revolution with ancestors dating from 1640’s colonies. His father received the Silver Star at Okinawa as an Underwater Demolition Team member, the World War II precursor to the Navy Seals — the inspiration for “Naked Warriors”. He has a strong appreciation of linguistics and global ecological development, has been known to utilize dialects while acting and has been a gastronome of organic, elegant food and beverage for 35 years. Films coming up — “Already Dead” with Christopher Plummer and Ron Elldard, and “Parasomnia” directed by House On Haunted Hill and Fear.com director Bill Malone.

Steve Scott is a reformed sports & entertainment attorney, part-time college professor, and a full time outdoor communicator who is an advocate for the cause of sportsmen.

Having produced outdoor television on six continents, Scott is the producer and host of award-winning television series seen on the VERSUS Network, including the first all-African hunting program in the U.S., Safari Hunter’s Journal, as well as the international big game hunting series, Steve Scott’s Outdoor Guide. He is also producer of a new series for the Wild Sheep Foundation, Western Hunting Television, hosted by Wade Boggs. An accomplished hunter, Scott has harvested more than seventy species of big game, including the “African Seven” of dangerous game. He has written for numerous magazines and periodicals in both North America and Africa, including Petersen’s Hunting and the African Sporting Gazette. He served on Safari Club International’s Humanitarian Services steering committee as national director of the Sportsmen Against Hunger project, and is currently chairman of the board of directors of the Professional Outdoor Media Association and is founder and chairman of the Outdoor Speakers Bureau.

Scott taught in the Price College of Business at the University of Oklahoma for twenty years, receiving the OU Athletic Department’s Most Inspiring Faculty Award. Recognized as an advocate for hunter’s rights, Scott speaks regularly to outdoor and civic groups on conservation and sportsmen’s matters. He recently negotiated outdoor-related issues with the US Department of Transportation, and testified before the US House of Representative’s Natural Resources Committee concerning public land issues and the media.

Jeff is also an award winning nature/wildlife photographer and has a sincere appreciation for the awesome beauty of nature.

2007 marks the beginning of the 110th Congress and Congressman Bill Shuster’s fourth term in the House of Representatives. Throughout his career in the House, Congressman Shuster has proven himself to be a leader on local and national issues, and an outspoken advocate for the people of the 9th district in Washington, DC.

Congressman Shuster is committed to bringing greater opportunity and a better standard of living to the people of the 9th district through his focus on economic development and transportation infrastructure. As a member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, Shuster was able to secure important funding for roadway projects in the 9th district as well as infrastructure improvements throughout Western Pennsylvania.

In Congress, Shuster’s commitment to representing his constituents has provided him with a unique opportunity to serve in leadership positions in the House and the Republican Party. For the 110th Congress, Congressman Shuster has been elevated to the post of Deputy Republican Whip. In this capacity, Shuster will assist the Republican leadership in crafting its legislative agenda on the House floor.

Additionally, Congressman Shuster has been named as the Ranking Member on the Transportation and Infrastructure’s Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines and Hazardous Material making him the highest ranking Republican on that subcommittee. This subcommittee is one of the most important transportation subcommittees due to its jurisdiction over everything involving rail transportation, from Amtrak to cargo, employee contracts, and rail security. This new position will allow Shuster to promote and expand the 9th district’s already historic involvement in railroading.

Congressman Shuster has also been named to the House Committee on Natural Resources, where he will serve on the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources. Shuster’s participation on this committee will enable him to bring greater attention and investment into Western Pennsylvania’s rich coal and timber resources.

Congressman Shuster continues to be an active voice in national security matters. His position on the House Armed Services Committee provides him valuable insight into the Global War on Terror and how our military should transform to meet emerging threats, especially the threat of Islamic fundamentalism.
In addition to gaining experience in agriculture by working on his family’s farm in Bedford County, Shuster earned valuable marketing and management experience with the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Corporation as well as with Bandag Incorporated where he served as District Manager. He is also an experienced small business owner. Prior to his arrival in the House of Representatives, Shuster owned and operated his own small business, an automobile dealership, in East Freedom, Pennsylvania.

Bill Shuster was born in McKeesport, Pennsylvania on January 10, 1961. After graduating from Everett High School he attended Dickinson College in Carlisle, where he received a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and History. Shortly thereafter he went on to earn a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) from American University in Washington, D.C.

Congressman Shuster resides in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania with his wife and two children.