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Frank Brown, left, discusses the size of the massive snow sculpture, "Lionslide," in relation to human beings
as he talks with sculpting partner Frank Volk.
A lion slide on ice
Sculptors thinking big for McCall Winter Carnival
By LARRY GARDNER
The Idaho Statesman
MCCALL — Shimmering
snow sculptures in all
sizes and intricate
shapes will sprout like
frost flowers throughout
downtow McCll ifew weeks.
A visitor participation sculpture that
always grows at the corner of Third
and Main Streets, will rise more than 20
feet high into the crisp mountain air of
this central Idaho town when the
McCall Winter Carnival opens Jan. 29.
Frank Brown, Frank Volk and Hal
Sager, the trio spearheading the design
and construction of the visitor -
participation Cutty Sark sculpture, will
devise a "Lionslide" designed to
swallow up carnival visitors and spit
them out on the ice of Payette Lake.
Visitors will be
gaping mouth —
dagger -like fangs of course — of the 22-
foot -high lion's head, slide through a
tunnel and land on the ice behind the
head.
Provided there's enough snow, that
is.
"Lionslide," measuring
approximately 22 feet high and 27 feet
wide from paw -to-paw at the base, will
require about 300 tons of snow to
create, Volk estimates.
"Right now we haven't got enough
snow in town to build the tongue,"
Brown quips after the first real
snowstorm of the year dropped a puny 5
inches of fresh powder on McCall.
The 24th McCall Winter Carnival will
have a sentimental, if not a direct,
linkup with the world famous Sapporo
Snow Festival this year.
The quality of the McCall snow
sculptures rival any in the world for
artistry and beauty as longtime vistors
to the annual festival can attest.
As the result of a letter written by
Jennifa Lorenzi, 1988 McCall Winter
Carnival chairwoman and executive
director of the McCall Chamber of
Commerce and Visitors Bureau, the
McCall winter festival has become
affiliated with Sapporo's.
It's not yet a sister city relationship,
but a "partner city" experiment,
encouraging a "long -term citizen -based
intercultural exhange between our
cities," as Akiko Sugioka, director of
international relations for the City of
Sapporo, responded to Lorenzi's letter.
Perhaps taking a cue from the
Sapporo tradition of massiveness,
Lorenzi says the McCall city sculpture
this year will be a "building -size, 20 -foot
high" reproduction of the state Capitol
dome that Gov. Cecil Andrus will
dedicate to the Sapporo festival at the
close of the Carnival Grand Parade on
Jan. 30.
Bob Scoles, owner of McCall Rexall
Drug, who was chairman of the first
snow sculpting competition in 1964, is
chairman of snow sculpting for 1988.
"The first sculptures were very
primitive," recalls Scoles, a five -time
grand -prize sculpture winner. "We dug
them out of snowbanks and used blocks
of snow." The third year, Shore Lodge
started using slush to build sculptures.
The method of adding layer upon layer
of slush to freeze, forming a finished
sculpture, allows for technically
advanced sculptures that employ
support armatures.
"Then they proceeded to the high
quality exhibited now which is
comparable to anywhere in the world,
including Sapporo," Scoles says. "It's
become an art form."
The Cutty Sark team of 12 to 15
people will begin work on "Lionslide"
this weekend. The massive Sphinx -like
structure must be constructed in two
parts. First the tunnels through the
head and under the paws must be
fashioned and frozen solid before the
paws and the head itself can begin to
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take shape.
The 80 to 100 sculptures scattered
around town usually don't begin to take
shape until about 10 days before the
carnival.
"Lionslide" was born during an idea
party when Volk suggested a lion with a
slide. Brown's research into lions,
finally evolved into a gaping - mouthed
roaring, stylized clay scale model that
"took almost all the modeling clay in
the state of Idaho to construct," Brown
says. "I bought all I could find in
Boise."
The Idaho Snow Sculpting
Championship, sanctioned by
Winterfun Inc., organizers of the U.S.
Snow Sculpting Competition held each
year in Milwaukee, Wis., is set for Feb.
2 to 5 during carnival week. It's a
separate competition featuring three -
person teams from throughout Idaho.
The chamber director who is a
newcomer to McCall says, "I built my
first sculpture last year and it was so
exciting. Most are not professional
sculptors, yet the quality is excellent in
terms of technique, form, size and
variety. There's something to please
everybody."
Perhaps the biggest reason McCall
residents continue to work so hard year
after year, as Lorenzi discovered for
herself last year, "It's a lot of fun.
Everyone gets excited and they have a
good time."
Idaho snow sculptors
get money for Olympics
The Associated Press
IDAHO FALLS — With the
backing of a corporate sponsor,
the national champion snow
sculpture team from Idaho Falls
is on its way to the Olympic Inter-
national Snow Sculpture Competi-
tion in Calgary, Alberta.
A $15,000 donation from Diet
Center Inc. of Rexburg will cover
expenses for the team during the
Olympic competition Feb. 9 -12,
and the International Snow Sculp-
ture Competition on Feb. 2 -5 in
Milwaukee.
Team captain Michelle Havens
accepted a check for the team,
which also includes Idaho Falls
artists Allen Haroldsen and Mari-
lyn Hansen, Thursday at a news
conference.
The Idaho Falls team won the
United States Snow Sculpture
Contest in Milwaukee on Satur-
day. Winning the Idaho Snow
Sculpture Championship in
McCall last Feburary enabled
them to go on to the nationals.
King of the
carnival
Sculptors work feverishly
to finish 300 -ton Lionslide
By LARRY GARDNER
The Idaho Statesman
McCALL — Not the deep throated
moans of a lion, but the groans of sore -
muscled snow sculptors fill the frigid
air as the crew works non -stop to finish
Lionslide in time for Winter Carnival.
Wielding chain saws, hand saws,
shovels and buckets full of freshly
mixed slush, snow - sculpting veterans
swarm over the 22 -foot high, 300 -ton
behemoth, one of the largest snow
sculptures ever attempted for Winter
Carnival.
With more than two feet of snow
blanketing the ground, there's no
shortage of building materials. But
time is at a premium for the Lionslide
sculpting team.
"If we only had three more days, no
problem," Judy Brown is overheard
saying.
Opening ceremonies for the 24th
annual McCall Winter Carnival,
"Fantasies in Ice," begin at 6:30 p.m.
Friday, the snow sculptors face a
Thursday night deadline. Judging
begins Friday morning on the results of
the hundreds of hours residents invest
in sculptures. They've built everything
from Snow White and the Seven
Dwarfs to the state Capitol dome.
Lionslide's chief designer Frank
Brown seems almost overwhelmed by
his own creation as he takes a coffee
break and contemplates 21/2 weeks of
work his crew has invested in
Lionslide.
"It's just huge! It's so big ... the
eyeballs are 1 foot in diameter ... the
eyes are 21/2 feet wide.
It's so big ... the tip of its nose is 3
feet wide ... the opening of its mouth
is 5 feet high ... the tunnel from the
mouth out the back of its head is 27 -feet
long and 6 feet high.
"It's just nuts," Brown continues.
"The two front fangs are 3 feet apart."
Lionslide lolls massively on the edge
of Payette Lake just behind the yellow
caution light at the three -way
■ Winter Carnival /Schedule of
events/ Page 2D
intersection in downtown McCall. As
you drive into town you can't miss it.
It'll be more than just a pretty scary
face to look at. The mouth is the
entrance to a slide that runs through
the mountainous head and makes a
sweeping left turn toward the frozen
lake. Photo opportunities beside the
5-foot fangs will be a must on any
Winter Carnival goer's agenda.
Traditional McCall snow sculpture
employs the use of wooden supports to
hold up the massive sculpture and
allow intricate designs. Then as the
weather cools in the evening, slushing
crews dip into buckets of snow mixed
with water to add layer upon layer of
quick- freezing snow, lending shape to
the sculptures.
The weather has been perfect for
sculpting snow the McCall way —
below -zero cold at night causes the icy
figures around town to steam. During
the day, temperatures stay below 32
degrees, yet are high enough I o work
comfortably during the day.
Several members of the Lionslide
crew — which works from 10 a.m. to 7
p.m. daily —peel off layers of clothing
in the mid - afternoon sunshine. One of
the tricks to surviving long hours of
carving and shaping snow sculptures is
to stay dry. Most slushers wear
complete rain gear over pants and
coats. Rubber gloves are pulled over
wool gloves.
Because of Lionslide's size, Brown
and his colleagues had to work from
the top of a huge block of snow. They
finish the figure as they work, carving
it from top to bottom, rather than
slushing here and there as needed.
Jane Volk is the head slusher and
detailer on the crew. She works 10 feet
off the ground on scaffolding. But the
wiry, athletic Brown wouldn't let
Jane Volk slushes nose and whiskers of the Lionslide.
anyone else do the finish work. He lion's head. "You're standing on two
clung to the top of the sculpture with little grooved out holes for your feet.
only precarious footholds. You can't relax — that's why you get
"It's scary up there," Brown says
describing the work near the top of the See LIONSLIDE, Page 2D
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so sore. You're tense all the time.
"We tried to carve it from the
top down as much as possible. But
you still have to slush it to finish
it."
Even the 50-year -old former
Olympic skier complained about
aching muscles.
The land developer and de-
signer has spent at least eight
hours a day for almost three
weeks on the project, and that
came after he did a clay scale
model of the sculpture.
After a quick break for coffee
and a cigarette in the Eat Your
Heart Out Deli he climbs back on
the scaffolding to carve out igloo-
sized blocks of snow with a long -
handled spade. Another builder,
Hal Sager slashes cuts with a
chain saw. Volk, meanwhile, cuts
grooves for the lion's whiskers,
then adds slush to harden and fin-
:. ish the surface.
Others come by to help when
they can.
"Everything has to be meas-
ured from the centerline," Brown
explains. "When you build a fea-
ture on one side, you go back and
repeat it on the other side im-
mediately to keep it symmetri-
cal."
One of the most difficult tasks
was engineering the tunnel.
Brown used a parabolic arch —
the same form miners use for tun-
nels to avoid cave -ins.
First he and the crew formed
the 6 -foot high arch with soft
snow, covered it with black plas-
tic and then began to lay slush
over the top to form a shell of ice.
Next they dug out the soft snow 3
feet at a time. Finally they drilled
holes into the tunnel roof to allow
cold air to penetrate the ice and
snow, freezing it even harder until
a 2 -foot thick solid ice shell was
left, forming the tunnel.
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Frank Brown, upper left, and team members work on the massive Uong de snow sculpture for the U cCm| Winter Carn &m.
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Skatin' the day away
Since its opening at its present location, the McCall Ice Rink has continually grown in pop-
ularity. Ice skates are available at area sporting good stores. Saturday morning there will be
a free hockey exhibition for the public to enjoy.
McCall packs f u "rti'nto carnival
Ready to get out of the house
and have some fun in the sun and
snow? Head to McCall for the 1988
Winter Carnival festivities, which
begin today and run through Feb.
7.
Fireworks, dances, concerts
and a film festival are among the
activities that promise to make
the carnival a memorable one.
An admission fee is charged for
some events.
Events include:
Today:
■ Parade of lights, announce-
ment of sculpture prize winners,
crowning of carnival royalty, fire-
works — 6:30 p.m. downtown.
■ Teen dance — 8 p.m., Ma-
sonic Hall.
Saturday:
■ Arts and crafts fair —10 a.m.
to 8 p.m., Shaver's Annex.
■ Parade judging — 11 a.m.,
downtown.
■ Grand parade — noon, down-
town. Also Gov. Cecil Andrus un-
veils a plaque honoring McCall's
partner city, Sapporo, Japan.
■ Snowmobiling Snow -Cross —
9:30 to 11 a.m., registration, noon
races, across from airport.
■ Film Festival — 7 p.m.,
"Visual Journeys," multimedia
dissolve program by McCall
photographer John Baker, Shore
Lodge.
■ Old -time Music Hall Variety
concert — 7:30 p.m., McCall High
School gymnasium. Teen dance
follows.
Sunday:
■ Finlandia Slowball Snowball
—1 p.m., Ponderosa Park.
■ Junior Olympic Ski Qualifier
— all day, Brundage Mountain.
Call 6344151 for schedule.
■ Film Festival — 7 p.m.,
"Visual Journeys," multimedia
dissolve program by McCall
photographer John Baker, Shore
Lodge.
■ Arts and crafts fair —10 a.m.
to 4 p.m., Shaver's Annex.
■ Combined Nordic Race
Series — 10 a.m. registration, 11
a.m. 3- kilometer and 10- kilometer
races, Little Ski Hill.
Monday:
■ Film Festival — 7 p.m.,
Bronco Billy, a film made in
Idaho and starring Clint East-
wood. Shore Lodge.
■ "Hiking the Length of Idaho"
— 7:30 p.m., lecture /slide show
presented by Roger Williams,
Payette Forest Headquarters, 106
W. Park.
Tuesday:
■ 2nd Idaho State Snow Sculpt-
ing Competition — 1 p.m., watch
sculptors work. Lenora Street, be-
tween Idaho 55 and 2nd Street.
■ Lord and Lady Seniors Ban-
quet — noon, luncheon, Seniors
Center. Call Rose at 634 -5408 for
reservations.
■ Film Festival —7 p.m., Boise
State University professor Tom
Trusky presents Nell Shipman
films Trail of the Northwind and
Northward Ho!, Shore Lodge.
■ Mountain Man Beard Contest
and Chili Feed — 7 p.m., dancing,
prizes, Lardo's Grill.
Wednesday:
Official senior's day
■ Seniors Food Fair and Bingo
— noon, prizes, fun, Senior Cen-
ter.
■ Idaho Snow Sculpting Compe-
tition — 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.,
Lenora Street.
■ Film Festival — 7 p.m.,
Bronco Billy, Shore Lodge.
■ Grand Bingo Nite — 7 p.m.,
prizes, Shore Lodge.
Thursday:
■ Idaho Snow Sculpting Compe-
tition — 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.,
Lenora Street.
■ Seniors dinner — 5:30 p.m.,
Senior Center.
■ "How to fish for fish on a
frozen lake" — 7:30 p.m., pre-
sented by Andy Finn and Phil
Jahn, Payette Forest Headquar-
ters, 106 W. Park.
■ Film Festival — 7 p.m., BSU
professor Tom Trusky presents
recently rediscovered Nell Ship-
man film, Something New, Shore
Lodge.
■ Nordic Fondue Party — 4 to 6
p.m., Kimberland Meadows Re-
sort. Take your own skis.
Feb. 5:
■ Idaho Snow Sculpting Compe-
tition — 11 a.m., judging, Lenora
Street. 2:30 p.m., awards lunch-
eon.
■ Film Festival — 7 p.m.,
"Visual Journeys, a multimedia
dissolve show by McCall photog-
rapher John Baker, fllowed by
Bronco Billy, Shore Lodge.
■ Children's Masquerade — 7
p.m., City Legion Hall.
■ Casino Night — 7:30 p.m.,
Shore Lodge.
■ Teen Dance —8 p.m., McCall
High School multipurpose room.
Feb. 6:
■ Nez Perce arts and crafts — 9
a.m. to 4 p.m., Depot.
■ Children's snowman building
contest — 10 a.m., Payette Lakes
Lumber, across from airport.
■ Snowmobile Poker Run — 9
a.m., Idaho Power building. $20
entrance fee, 20 prizes awarded.
■ Drachenmarsh Volks -Ski —
11 a.m., non- competitive health
sport, POnderosa State Park.
■ Native American Powwow —
2 to 5 p.m., presented by Nez
Perce tribe, McCall High School
gymnasium.
■ Film Festival — 7 p.m.,
"Visual Journeys," multimedia
dissolve program with McCall
photographer John Baker, Shore
Lodge.
■ Snowflake Ball — 6:30 p.m.,
dinner and dance, Shore Lodge.
Call 634 -7361 for reservations.
Feb. 7:
■ 4th annual McCall ATV
Grand Priz — 9 a.m. registration,
11 a.m. race, downtown.
■ Winter Carnival closing cere-
monies — follows ATV race,
downtown.
For additional information, call
the McCall Chamber of Com-
merce and Visitor's Bureau at
634 -7631.
The fun begins;
Winter'Carnival
opens in McCall
By LARRY GARDNER
The Idaho Statesman
MCCALL — Children carrying torches, fol-
lowed by a fireworks display and softly falling
snow over Payette Lake, opened 10 days of fren-
zied winter fun called the McCall Winter Carni-
val on Friday night.
McCall's 88- year -old mayor, John J. Allen Jr.,
braved the snowstorm to
say it this way:
"We're going to have ■ List/The
our best yet. I hope you all prizes/ Page 8A
have a good time, and it
ought to start now." ■ McCall /The
A steady drizzle of rain spirit/ Page 1 D
during the day turned to
snow ust before dusk.
Weat #r was on the minds of everyone as the
snowflakes grew bigger.
Snow sculpture Chairman Bob Scoles just
shook his head, lamenting that it was the third
year in a row for the January chinook during car-
nival.
"Funny.... It's the warmest it's been in a cou-
See CARNIVAL, Back Page Spectators view Lionslide snow sculpture.
Dave Brookman /Statesman
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ple of months," said Gene Bene-
dict, who was cooking chorizos in
the Rotary Club food booth. "But
that's McCall."
The 1,500 or so people lining the
streets to watch the children's
torchlight parade didn't seem to
mind. Nor did the Mountain Home
High School Marching Band,
which led the parade.
Spectators just crowded closer
around the carnival royalty at the
Chamber of Commerce sculpture
on Lake Street to hear the names
of the sculpture competition win-
ners.
There were some surprises —
none of the three massive sculp-
tures won. But Sesame Street
Park, the latest edition of a peren-
nial favorite, the miniature golf
course sculpture, scored a hole in
one.,M
er Den, in partner-
ship with Sprouse - Reitz, captured
the grand prize with Sesame
Street Park.
"It's great. This is the best
ever," said Bryan Hill, owner of
the Burger Den.
Hill's partner Bob Welch,
Sprouse -Reitz manager, said:
"We had a lot of good workers;
there was a team effort. Every-
body pulled through. They de-
served it."
Hill's wife, Roxanne, stood in
the falling snow with tears in her
eyes, saying, "I'm speechless. It's
so exciting."
The massive 22 -foot -high Lion -
slide sculpture at the corner of
Lake and 3rd streets shared the
viewer participation prize with
Big Bird and the other Sesame
Street characters. The sculpture,
containing 300 tons of snow, took
second overall.
McCall rolls out white carpet
The grand parade gets the Win-
ter Carnival off to a festive start
at noon in McCall.When the pa-
rade ends, Gov. Cecil Andrus will
dedicate the city sculpture, the
Idaho Capitol dome, to McCall's
partner city, Sapporo, Japan.
McCall pioneers John and Vir-
ginia Boydstun are grand mar-
shals of the 24th annual carnival.
John's family settled in McCall in
1888 and the couple has been in-
volved in development of the Lit-
tle Ski Hill and Brundage Moun-
tain ski resorts.
The Boydstun's daughter,
Patty, competed in the Winter
Olympics in 1972 in Sapporo,
Japan, as a member of the U.S.
Ski Team.
Other carnival events sched-
uled for this weekend are:
Today:
■ Arts and crafts fair —10 a.m.
to 8 p.m., Shaver's Annex.
■ Parade judging — 11 a.m.,
downtown.
■ Carnival Grand Parade —
noon, downtown. Gov. Cecil An-
drus unveils a plaque honoring
McCall's partner city, Sapporo,
Japan.
■ Snowmobiling Snow -Cross —
9:30 to 11 a.m. registration, noon
races, across from the airport.
■ Film Festival — 7 p.m.,
"Visual Journeys," multimedia
program by McCall photographer
John Baker, Shore Lodge.
■ Old -time Music Hall Variety
Concert — 7 :30 p.m., McCall -Don-
nelly High School gym.
■ Teen dance — High school
gym after variety concert.
Sunday:
■ Finlandia Slowball Snowball
—1 p.m., Ponderosa Park.
■ Junior Olympic Sky Qualifier
— all day, Brundage Mountain.
Call 634 -4151 for schedule.
■ Film Festival — 7 p.m.,
"Visual Journeys," multimedia
dissolve program by McCall
photographer John Baker, Shore
Lodge.
■ Arts and crafts fair —10 a.m.
to 4 p.m., Shaver's Annex.
■ Combined Nordic Race
Series — 10 a.m. registration, 11
a.m. 3- kilometer and 10- kilometer
races, Little Ski Hill.
Or maybe you would rather see
the sights from the top of Brund-
age Mountain, check out the snow
sculptures or dip in some hot
springs.
Events going on throughout the
carnival include:
■ Scenic chairlift rides —
Starting Sunday, non - skiers can
for carnival
hop on a free shuttle bus at 11:30
a.m. at the McCall Chamber of
Commerce and head to Brund-
age. Ride the chairlift for $2. Then
grab some lunch at the lodge. Call
6344151 for reservations.
■ Old- fashioned sleigh rides —
Tours around McCall and Kim -
berland Meadows resort in Mead-
ows Valley.
■ Alpine skiing — Brundage
Mountain or the Little Ski Hill.
■ Nordic skiing — Groomed
trails at Ponderosa Park and Lit-
tle Ski Hill, or Kimberland Mead-
ows resort for deluxe nordic ex-
perience with lighted trails in
Meadows Valley.
■ Hot springs — Zims Plunge
hot springs on U.S. 95 in Meadows
Valley, or snowmobile into Burg -
dorf Hot Spri -qs.
Charter buses will be parked
behind City Hall, but there is no
special parking or shuttle bus
service this year, says Jennifa
Lorenzi, chairwoman of the 1988
carnival. Visitors can park on
streets around town.
For additional information, call
the McCall Chamber of Com-
merce and Visitors Bureau at 634 -
7631,.
Sculptures put McCall
By LARRY GARDNER
The Idaho Statesman
McCALL — Anyone for golf on an ice
course?
It's no joke. The players, however, are
anything but serious — except for their
desire to win. There's a pot of gold in the
snow at the end of Sesame Street Park
for the winning team.
Golf in the middle of winter in the
middle of the McCall Winter Carnival is
becoming a tradition on the snow
sculpture layout at Bryan's Burger Den.
And it's all part of the fun at the
Winter Carnival, which continues
through Feb. 7.
Burger Den owner Bryan Hill and
cohorts spent eight hours a day for 21/2
weeks creating the sculpture course. Big
Bird stands by the entry arch and
various Sesame Street characters
sprout out of the winding ice fairways
and greens.
Hill even harbors dreams that his
snowbound golf tournament might
attract a few pros to putt on the slippery
course located on Idaho 55 between the
Burger Den and Sprouse- Reitz.
"Last year we had 20 teams, and we
hope it'll be even bigger this year. We
have a lot of fun. Players wear cutoffs,
Hawaiian shirts, shorts .... We tee off at
2 p.m. on Tuesday."
"There's a $20 entry fee, but the
winning team — Ron Goodman and his
crew from Toll House Pizza — took
home almost $150 last year. And the
worst you can do is 100 percent
payback," Hill promised.
Tourists can get in a free round on the
miniature golf course and the sledding
set will enjoy the adjacent slide, under
the supervision of Big Bird and his
■ Carnival schedule /Parade
gets in step /Page 213
Sesame Street pals. The Burger Den
miniature golf sculpture is always one of
the top attractions at the Winter
Carnival.
After putting in more than 168 hours
on the sculpture, Hill and his wife,
Roxanne, and helpers Bob and Kathy
Welch and Mike and John Leedom had a
setback last week. While Bryan Hill was
moving a tractor equipped with a front
loader, he knocked down the archway
over the entrance to the golf course.
"It looks like it'll be a long night," Hill
mused, standing beside Bert and Ernie,
as he assessed the damage. The arch,
weighing a couple of tons, lay crumpled
at his feet.
"We started Jan. 13 and we've worked
every day for eight hours ... for a shot
at winning a $100 prize ?" Hill says
laughing and shaking his head.
"Why do we do it? To have a good
time and break the winter blahs," Bryan
continues on a more serious note. "The
real reward is coming out here and
there's 500 people looking at the
sculpture."
Hill and his crew weren't the only
snow sculptors picking up the pieces
only hours before the opening of
McCall's traditional winter festivities.
McCall - Donnelly High School art
teacher Darrell Evans and his art
students started over this week on their
sculpture — Snow White and the Seven
Dwarfs.
Evans said someone absconded with
their preliminary work sometime during
the weekend. Students were in good
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Roxanne Hill spruces up Big Bird's beak in preparation for the
McCall Winter Carnival snowbound golf tournament.
spirits, however, as they started
rebuilding in the parking lot beside the
main entrance to the high school.
"All my art students work on it,"
Evans said. "I also use it as a learning
tool for my sculpture class."
Each of the seven students in Evans'
sculpture class is taking one of the seven
dwarfs as an individual project.
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p e r i a l M a m m o t h , I d a h o F i r s t
N a t i o n a l B a n k .
" I d a h o C e n t e n n i a l A w a r d :
I d a h o S t a t e C a p i t a l , M c C a l l
A r e a C h a m b e r o f C o m m e r c e .
" H u m o r : M a a n d t h e P o r k -
e r s , V i l l a g e S q u a r e .
" A c t i o n : H u n k y D o r y ,
H o m e T o w n S p o r t s .
" H i s t o r i c a l : P r o m i s e s ,
P r o m i s e s , T h e C e n t r a l I d a h o
S t a r - N e w s .
" F i r s t T i m e : A n A p p l e f o r
T o d a y , M c C a l l - D o n n e l l y
P T A a n d T h e C o m p u t e r
S t o r e , B o i s e .
" P r e c i s e D e t a i l : F u n o n t h e
L a k e , S h o r e L o d g e .
" C o r p o r a t e : T r i b u t e t o t h e
O l y m p i c s .
" M y t h i c a l : A l l a d i n ' s L a m p ,
T h e C h i c k e n R o o s t .
" W i l d l i f e : G o i n g S q u i r r e l y . ,
T h e V i l l a g e I n n .
" C h i l d A p p e a l : J a c k - I n -
T h e - B o x , K r a h n ' s H o m e F u r -
n i s h i n g s .
" C h i l d r e n 6 - 1 2 : T h e R i g ,
R a n d y G r e e n .
" F a m i l y : S t r e a m T r a i n i n g ,
T h e G e e n F a m i l y .
" S p e c i a l A w a r d : T r e s A m i -
g o s , M a r i a ' s .
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Lady of the Lake, Paul's Market
Samauri Warrior, Shaver's
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Snow White & 7 Dwarfs, McCall - Donnelly High School
Hunky Dory, Home Town Sports
Alladins Lamp, Chicken Roost
An Apple for Today, McCall - Donnelly PTA/The Computer Store.
Dragon, May Hardware
Cow Jumped Over Moon, Carl Whitaker
Mr. Moller, Dr. Brian Charles
The Big John!, Long Valley Plumbing
Mother and Child, McCall Memorial Hospital
The Road to Calgary 88, McCall Drug
Going Squirrely, Village Imi
Cat Juice Special, Yacht Club
Fun on the Lake, Shore Lodge
Jack in the Box, Krahn's Home Furnishings
Tribute to Olympics, Contel
Penguin Playtime, F -Stop Film & Camera & The Danish Bakery
Promises, Promises, The Star -News
Swan Lake, Crystal Visions & The Huckleberry
Mountain Llama, Mountain Monkey Business
Harry, Aspen Market
Snow White, Treasure Valley Bank
Humpty Dumpty, Lakeview Chevron
Home Cookin', Mom's Cafe
Lionslide, Brown, Volk & Sager
Tronasaurus Rex, K & L Jewelry
Funny Faces, New Generation
Mayan Mask, Si Bueno
"Ma" and The Porkers, Village Square
Triceratops, Bill's Gas & Grocery
Buddha, Toll Station
Tres Amigos, Maria's
What America Once Was, The Woodsman
Mice -stro, Old Town Market
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Sesame St. Park, Bryan's Burger Den & Sprouse Reitz
Murphy, Stoves N' Stuff
Couch Potato, Lardo Grill & Saloon
Stream Training, Green Family
Jack Pine Savage, Ken's Circle -R Market
Castle, Stagecoach Inn (sculpture built in Boise)
The Imperial Mammoth, Idaho 1st National Bank
Hakata Doll- Japan, Ashley Lorenzi
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Nancy Dreher, Riggins, uses an antique tool to sculpt "A Tail of Whoa" at the McCall Winter Carnival.
Spirits
in the
Jerry Snodgrass of Boise, uses a cement finishing trowel on
the Idaho panhandle of his snow sculpture.
Sculptors turn slush
into fanciful beasts
By LARRY GARDNER
The Idaho Statesman
MC CALL — If snow sculptures have
a spirit, then perhaps McCall residents
should throw up a fence around Lenora
Street and its 17 snow sculptures to
keep the wild animals and mythical
creatures at bay.
Emerging from 9 -foot blocks of snow
are such beasts as pumas, eagles,
horses, fish and gargoyles.
The 1988 Idaho Snow Sculpting
Championship — part of the McCall
Winter Carnival festivities — winds up
today. They'll be on display through
the weekend.
Sculpting began Tuesday when 17
teams started chiseling away at blocks
of compacted snow.
"It's remarkable how snow
sculptures take place," says LuAnne
Post of Bois D'Arc, Mo. "The
sculptures do have a spirit. ",
"We're also hopeless romantics,"
LuAnne Post adds. "That's why we
chose a fairy tale —'The Princess and
the Frog Prince.'"
Jenni and LuAnne Post and Susan
Burden are one of three teams
competing from Sandpoint.
"It looks extremely promising to
me," says Frank Volk, chairman of the
competition. "We have very strong
talent showing here, and the weather is
just perfect.
"You take a precarious sculpture
like the horses. (A Boise team of
Bernie Jestrabeck -Hart, Debbie Pech
and Elizabeth MacMillan carved a
`Mare and Foal.') It would only work in
this weather, but they may be pushing
it too far."
Teams from Eagle and Meridian
found out on Wednesday what it's like
to push snow past its limits as their
sculptures crumbled suddenly. Since
the use of supports and braces aren't
permitted, a wrong move can bring
disaster.
A ring of two fish carved quickly out
of the rectangular block on Tuesday by
Fred Choate and Sandra Dahl of Eagle
toppled as they began work Wednesday
morning. Another crash involved a
sculpture with an Idaho centennial
theme. The figure included replicas of
the state of Idaho, a miner and delicate
eagles. Carved by the Meridian team
of Jerry and Lynda Snodgrass and
Kathleen Smith - Martin, the sculpture
lost its feathered appendages Tuesday
evening.
"We crashed and burned," laughs
Dahl, examining the wreckage of the
fish ring she and Choate had tried to
construct.
"But we remain undaunted," Choate
retorts. "It's like rising from the
ashes."
"The whole street gasped and went
silent when it happened — then
everybody came over to offer help. We
can't put it back up. It's too heavy, but
we can use the same fish," Choate
says. �. _ ...
Carnival
schedule
MC CALL — A fresh set of
snow sculptures — creations of
teams from across the state
competing in the Idaho Snow
Sculpting Championship — will
be judged at 11 a.m. today.
A schedule of events follows:
Today:
■ Idaho Snow Sculpting
Championship —Judging, 11 a.m.
on Lenora Street, Awards
Luncheon 2:30 p.m., Shore
Lodge.
■ McCall Film Festival —
Bronco Billy, 7 p.m. Shore Lodge.
■ Teen dance —8 p.m. multi-
purpose room at McCall -
Donnelly High School.
■ Children's masquerade — 7
p.m., City Legion Hall.
■ Casino night —7 :30 p.m.,
Shore Lodge.
Saturday
■ Children's Snowman
Building contest —10 a.m.
Payette Lakes Lumber Co.
across from the airport.
■ Sixth annual McCall
snowmobile poker run — Starts 9
a.m. at the Idaho Power building
■ Drachenmarch Volks -Ski —
Non- competitive cross - country
event, 11 a.m., McCall Golf
Course.
■ Native American Pow Wow
performance by the Nez Perce
Tribe —2 to 5 p.m., McCall -
Donnelly High School gym.
■ Film Festival multi -media
finale, 7 p.m., Shore Lodge.
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wins championship at carnival
By LARRY GARDNER
The Idaho Statesman
MC CALL — A fallen eagle
early in the week failed to ground
the snow - sculpting trio of Jerry
and Lynda Snodgrass and Kath-
leen Smith Martin.
The Meridian team reworked
the snowy eagle and captured the
Idaho snow sculpting champion-
ship Friday at the McCall Winter
Carnival.
Martin, whose specialty is
creating delicate figures in snow
teamed up with professional
sculptor Jerry Snodgrass and Jer-
ry's wife, Lynda, who is a potter,
to construct a sculpture with a
Centennial theme.
Jerry Snodgrass, working in
snow for the first time, built a
replica of the state and a relief of
a gold miner and his donkey on
the other side. Martin created a
pair of eagles fighting on one side.
Rick Mauthe, Nancy McCaslin
and Mary Crane of Mackay cap-
tured second place with their
sculpture of three intertwined
sumo wrestlers.
A team of sculptors represent -
ing the Salmon River Arts Council
won third. Team members are
Nancy and Bruce Dreher and Kay
Fiske.
The three judges awarded
seven honorable mentions in the
second annual event. Seventeen
teams entered the competition.
The schedule for the final two
days of Winter Carnival is:
Today:
■ Children's Snowman Building
contest — 10 a.m. Payette Lakes
Lumber across from the airport.
■ Sixth annual McCall snowmo-
bile poker run — Starts 9 a.m. at
the Idaho Power building
■ Drachenmarsh Volks -Ski —
Non- competitive country- skiing,
11 a.m., McCall Golf Course.
■ Native American Pow Wow
— Nez Perce Tribe, 2 to 5 p.m.,
high school gym.
■ McCall Film Festival —
multi -media show, 7 p.m., Shore
Lodge.
Sunday:
■ Fourth annual ATV Grand
Prix — Registration 9 a.m. Race
starts 11 a.m. downtown McCall.
Races wrap up carnival
Racers, above, run to their all- terrain vehicles Sunday at the start
of the 4th annual ATV Grand Prix in downtown McCall. Eighty -
eight riders, competing in nine classes of events, participated in
the AN races on the last day of the McCall Winter Carnival. A
makeshift track, eight- tenths of a mile long, wound from the
downtown area onto Payette Lake and back for the races. In the
photo at the left, Brian Clancy of Meridian sails over a bump
while competing in the men's race for four - stroke 230 cc ATVs.
Clancy won the race in his classification.
Statesman photos by Stuart Wong
Photo by Tom Grote
ATV action
Brian Clancy of Meridian soars over a filled downtown McCall to watch
,dump built in the middle of Lake Street Clancy and 87 other racers speed over a
in McCall on Sunday as he raced in the slick, winding course. Clancy cleared
ATV Grand Prix, the annual finale to the jump safely, but some racers
the McCall Winter Carnival. Crowds weren't so lucky and tumbled to the
soft snow floor. No serious injuries
were reported from the races, however.
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Photo by Tom drm
ATV action
Brian Clancy of Meridian soars over a filled downtown McCall to watch
,dump built in the middle of Lake Street Clancy and 87 other racers speed over a
in McCall on Sunday as he raced in the slick, winding course. Clancy cleared
ATV Grand Prix, the annual finale to the jump safely, but some racers
the McCall Winter Carnival. Crowds weren't so lucky and tumbled to the
soft snow floor. No serious injuries
were reported from the races, however.
Sculpture contest
A three - person team from
Meridian carved out a tribute to the
Idaho Centennial from a block of
snow and won the first prize last
week in the second annual Idaho
Snow Sculpting Championships.
The team of Kathleen Smith -
Martin and Jerry and Lynda Snod-
grass took the top honor from
among 17 teams from all around
Idaho who traveled to McCall for
the contest.
Lenora Street in downtown Mc-
Call was crowded with curious on-
lookers throughout the week as
sculpture builders hacked, sawed and
slushed their way through the three -
day contest. When it was over, a
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gleaming sculpture garden and 50
weary sculptors were left behind.
The Meridian team won with its
rendition of two eagles locked in
battle before an image of the state
of Idaho, with a miner peering out
from the reverse of the state.
The team will now be eligible to
travel to Milwaukee, Wisc., in
1989 to compete in the National
Snow Sculpting Competition.
They will hope to equal the feat of
the 1987 winners from Idaho Falls
who went on to win this year's
championships.
Finishing in second place was a
team from Mackay that built three
,huge Japanese sumo wrestlers in a
clutch. The work was accomplished
by the team of Rick Mauthe, Nancy
Crane and Mary McCaslin.
} Third place went to a team from
Riggins for "A Tail of Whoa!" de-
picting a hunting dog in pursuit of
a cougar up a tree with the dog's
master being dragged by the dog's
leash. s
Warren Brown Sled Dog Association Races won't fall
on Winter Carnival weekend this year
70 -mile long distance race
added to schedule
That yip, yip, yipping you hear is the sound of sled dogs lung-
ing in their harnesses and getting ready to hit the trail.
And, the number of sled dogs in Valley County will increase
again this winter as the Warren Brown Sled Dog Association races,
have added another race to the schedule, this one a 70 -mile long
i' distance race to go with the sprints and 30 -mile middle distance
j race that have been held in each of the previous races. Only once
during the past half -dozen years have the races been cancelled
because of rain.
But, because of the competing schedules this year, the sled
dogs won't be running during the second weekend of McCall's
annual Winter Carnival, as they have since sled dog racing reap-
peared on the local scene.
Race organizer Diana Healy, who has shepherded the event's
growth since sled dog racing came back to Valley County a half- y -
dozen or so years ago, said that the races are locked into the second
full weekend in February because of the regional sled dog racing
schedule of other events. ,Y
With Winter Carnival beginning Jan. 29 this year, and the
second weekend of the Carnival, Feb. 6 -7, being the first full week-
end of the month, the races will miss the Carnival this year.
Instead, they'll take be held Feb. 13 -14, which this year coin-
cides with President's Day weekend and with the Cascade Winter
Jamboree.
The racing association was started when the sled dog racing
was brought back to Valley County, and it was named to honor
Warren Brown, a lifelong McCall resident who as a youth was
involved in big -time sled dog racing.
As in recent years, the racing will take place in two locations,
with the sprint races, sponsored by Advantage Sabala/Kal -Kan, to
again be held at a location just off of Mission Street south of the
McCall Smokejumpers Base at the McCall Airport.
Healy said details are still being worked out regarding sponsor- -
ship and location for the middle- and long- distance races. The mid-
Sled dog racing harkens back to Valley County's early history.
dle distance races have traditionally been held at a start finish area on the Davis Ranch, just
north of Cascade. She said that may or may not be feasible depending on how the course is set
up for the long- distance race.
She did say that the tentative plan is for a race course that would wind through the forest
from Cascade to Smiths Ferry and back.
The sprint races, which generally .-naller teams of dogs, will cover distances of I-
1/2, 4, 6 and 8 miles. While those may seem like long distances to us human runners, they're
short sprints for sled dogs. There, racers will compete for $2,000 in prize money. At the sprint
races, there are also some demonstrations and other events to involve spectators. Racing will be
at all distances both days, with the action set to begin at 9 a.m.
The middle- and long- distance races will involve teams of up to 14 dogs. Healy said the 70-
mile race will also include a mandatory 1/2 -hour layover at the mid -point of the race. The purse
for those races had yet to be determined as this publication went to press, but pick up The Long
Valley Advocate for updated information as it becomes available. Distance races will start both
days at 8 a.m.
"It just keeps getting more popular with spectators and competitors alike," Healy said of the
event.
Winter nCarnival
McCall Idaho
Organized by the McCall Area Chamber of Commerce & Visitor's Bureau
March 21, 1988
The Honorable Lydia J. Edwards
State Treasurer
Statehouse, Room 102
Boise, ID 83720
Dear Mrs. Edwards:
I should like to take this opportunity to thank you most sincerely
for the wonderful State of Idaho flag which was used in our
Sapporo, Japan "Partner City" Dedication during the 1988 Winter
Carnival. It was very kind of your to allow us to receive the
flag for the Carnival and we will keep it within the Chamber as
we feel it is appropriate to fly one for our organization.
I regret that you were unable to join us for the dedication
ceremony, however, it was lovely to see you at the Snowflake
Ball which turned out to be a very special evening.
I had the pleasure of meeting your daughter, Alexandra. I spoke
with her briefly about her interest in modeling. She seems
a charming and intelligent person.
May I take this opportunity of extending the best wishes of our
organization to you in the 1988 business year.
With kindest regards.
Yours sincerely,
JENn7YA G. LOWZI
E tive Di ctor
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