From Obsession to Success: A Saskatchewan Man’s Journey of Bird Carving

From Obsession to Success: A Saskatchewan Man’s Journey of Bird Carving

MARTENSVILLE, Sask.—Cam Merkle doesn’t quite know what compels him to carve. But he does know where it began—in the summer of 1982, when he walked into the Wascana Centre in Regina, Sask., and saw three carvings of birds. “As soon as I saw those carvings, some kind of a switch just flipped in me,” Merkle told The Epoch Times. “One minute, I didn’t know this stuff existed. The next minute, this is what I was meant to do.” At the time, he worked i…