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Local Artists Win at Art & Soul
Last week, Art & Soul of Magic Valley announced the winners of their 2017 Art Competition. Among the winner were two artists from Gooding County - Sharon Breshears and Roy Mason. In the late fall of 2016, Sharon Breshears of Gooding was traveling north of Ketchum on the Stanley Lake Inlet Road when she came upon an extraordinary moment. “While I was out exploring one early misty morning, I came upon this scene of Mt. McGowan reflecting it’s wintry beauty on the flooded road ahead of me. It literally took my breath away!” The result of that moment was 40” by 60” photograph printed on metal called “Through the Mist” which she entered in this year’s Art & Soul contest. The photo won 3rd Place in the overall contest and $2500. Award winning painter and teacher from Wendell, Roy Mason, entered a watercolor called “Pole Creek
Track & Field Championships
Last Week the District IV (2A/3A) Championship meet was held in Filer, In the 3A division, the Kimberly Mens team came out on top with a score of 141 points, followed by Filer (51), Gooding (43) and Buhl (37). The Buhl Womans team took the top place with 85 points, followed by Gooding at 73, Kimberly at 68, and Filer at 45. In the 2A division, Declo took both the mens and womens championship with 120 points for the men and 99 for the women. Wendell scored 19 for the men and 38 for the
women. The State Track & Field competition will take place this Friday and Saturday at Middleton High School (1538 Emmett Road). Field events will begin at 9:00 a.m. each morning. On Friday, the running events will start at 9:30 a.m. with the finals of the 3200 meter run. Other preliminary running events will take place at 3:30. The Parade of Athletes will take place on Saturday morning at 11:30 a.m. followed by the finals in the running events at 12:30. (top performers on page 3.)
News from the Heart of Idaho Camas • Lincoln • Gooding
May 17, 2017
Volume 41 ~ Number 20
2” in this year’s contest. Roy likes to explore the outdoors for subjects to paint. “With all of its mountains, water, skies, and deserts, Idaho is a great place to find subjects for landscapes in all seasons.” His painting of Pole Creek in the fall (upper end of Stanley Basin) took 2nd place in the watercolor category.
Real Simon Cache to be Displayed
To celebrate the return of some five replicas of the Simon Clovis Cache, the Herrett Center for Arts and Science will bring out the real Simon Cache this Saturday, May 20 for the public to see from 1 to 4 p.m. The collection generated significant local interest following the recent theft and subsequent recovery of Simon Clovis Cache replicas. The Herrett Center is grateful to the community and the Twin Falls Police Department for their help in locating the stolen replicas, which were expensive to create. This is a good chance to learn more about the cache and get a glimpse of Southern Idaho prehistory. During routine farm excavation work in 1961, Bill Simon, Jr. unearthed a collection of flaked stone tools on his family’s property northeast of Fairfield. The collection turned out to be a cache of
stone tools representing some of the oldest and finest lithic artifacts ever discovered in the state of Idaho. The cache is made up of points, blades, and bifaces from the Clovis culture, a widespread group of big-game hunters once prevalent throughout North America 11 to 12-thousand years ago. Thirty-two of the original artifacts were donated by the Simon family to the Herrett Center for Arts and Science in 1997. A smaller number of other pieces from the site are held in other museums around the country. The artifacts are kept locked in a Herrett vault and are normally examined only by CSI anthropology students and visiting anthropologists. During the May 20 viewing in the Herrett Center’s Frost/Eccles Library, the display case will be under constant guard.