Eileen Paul of Roseburg, above, uses fire to make beads at the 65th Annual Sweet Home Rock and Mineral Show Saturday afternoon, March 30, at the Sweet Home High School Activities Gym. Tim Dodge of Sweet Home won first place with a petrified wood display featuring a log truck by Tim Dodge of Sweet Home. Second place winners were Larry Shipley, with a display presenting White Fir Springs jasper and McDermitt petrified wood, and a second display called “Nature’s Monet” by Todd Branson of Sweet Home. Hidemi Kira of Portland was named the “out-of-town” award winner. Show attendance was down, with 159 children and 1,009 adults on Saturday and 90 children and 476 adults on Saturday. “The weather and Easter weekend, we definitely were down on attendance,” said Cathee Bethel of the Sweet Home Rock and Mineral Society, which runs the event. At right, Ava Royer, 9, holds a thunder egg she has just cracked at a booth operated by DeWayne Lundmark of The Third Rock.
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