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Mother’s Day sale at
Mudmusic May 12
COURTESY PHOTO
Mike Schwartz’s pit fired ceramics will be on
sale Mother’s Day weekend at his Heceta
Beach Road studio.
PHOTOS BY CHANTELLE MEYER/SIUSLAW NEWS
VFW Post 3232 sponsored Officer of the Year recipients clockwise from top left: (VFW members Gerald Hernandez, left,
and Post Commander Paul Gargis, in all photos), recipient City of Florence Police Commander John Pitcher and presen-
ter, Chief Tom Turner; OSP Trooper Darrell Sheets and presenter, OSP Sergeant Michael Berland; WLAD CPR and first
aid coordinator George Lydick and presenter WLAD Operations Manager Matt House and SVFR volunteer firefighter Jerry
Ward and presenter SVFR Operations Manager Jim Dickerson.
Officers
from 1A
Oregon State Police, the demands are
very dynamic. He is by far the most depend-
able asset we have.”
WLAD Operations Manager Matt House
presented the award to George Lydick.
House said, “George has been with our
agency for 28 years and is a phenomenal
team player. There is nothing he wouldn’t do
for anybody. It couldn’t go to a more deserv-
ing individual.”
SVFR
Operations
Manager
Jim
Dickerson presented the award to Jerry
Ward.
“Our department is built on volunteers.
Jerry Ward exemplifies volunteer firefight-
ers. Whether it be emergency response or
whatever needs to be volunteered, Jerry is
always there,” Dickerson said.
The award ceremony is an annual event
sponsored by Florence VFW Post 3232.
Each year, ceramics
artist Mike Schwartz
hosts a Mother’s Day
sale at his Mudmusic
Studio.
This year, the date for
the sale is the weekend
of Mother’s Day, Friday
May 12 through Sunday
May 14, from 10 a.m. to
4 p.m.
You are invited to see
Mike’s pit fired ceram-
ics, which over the years
have won numerous
awards.
Pit firing is an ancient
form of firing clay that
predates the advent of
the kiln. As he describes
his pieces,
“No glazes are used,
the colors you see are
due to the interaction of
fire and smoke working
on the salts and metals
that I treat my pots with.
Each piece is thrown
on my potter’s wheel and
after firing, is a one of a
kind creation never to be
r e d u p l i c a t e d . Wo r d s
aren’t good enough, you
have to see these pieces
for yourselves,” he says.
Schwartz loves to talk
about and show his work
to visitors and clients.
His art is on year round
display at the River
Gallery in Old Town and
so he hosts this studio
sale once a year. “I thor-
oughly enjoy to meet
people and shmooze
about my work, and I
may as well admit it,
selling a piece is a defi-
nite bonus.”
The address of
Mudmusic Studio is
04899 Heceta Beach
Road, which is located
1.3 miles from Highway
101 on the north side of
the street.
Signs are positioned to
point the way to the stu-
dio.
For more information,
call 541-997-1012.
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