Sean C. Morgan
Bill Baitinger’s first impression of Sweet Home came in 2003 as he drove west from Bend and passed two carved wooden statues of loggers standing at Shea Point, beside Foster Lake.
“We were looking for a house,” Baitinger said. “The first thing I saw was the two statues up there at Shea Point.”
Several years later, the statues were gone – victims of decay.
Baitinger, a retired landscape contractor who had joined…