Mike Hartzler, Corn Belt Carving Club president congratulates Richard Bryne on his awards during the third annual "Sculptures in Wood"  woodcarving show and contest.  Richard cleaned up with the first place peoples choice and carvers choice awards with a carving of a large replica of a special delivery 10 cent stamp.  Richard does museum quality work and never carves a stamp until he collects it first.  Richard is a retired postal supervisor and an expert stamp collector as well as avid carver.  Pictured below is a close up of the winning entry.

Mike congratulates George Ginger on his winning entry of a

The show was a great success.  Participants in our show included many carvers who traveled from far and wide as well as a great number of our own club members.

We raffled these ornaments hand carved by various club members and hand painted by Vicki Shroyer...

We had a silent auction for these ornaments hand carved by club members and hand painted by Cheryl Adam...

We raffled off several other items including:

Mallard by Greg Owens

Bufflehead by Greg Owens

Merganser by Pat Gregory

American Theme Plate by John Bare

The raffle brought us several hundred dollars we can apply to next years show expense.