10A COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL July 22, 2015
Complete contest results
Slabtown 209,
Lemati 201
Beard (Stately):
Don Solomon.
Beard (Untamed):
Patrick Stewart.
Boomtown Carpenters:
Shelby Antoine.
Candlestick Run: Jaden
Lufkin.
Costume Contest (Men): Bob
Ehler.
Costume Contest
(Women): Renne Garner.
Costume Contest (Children):
Bryce Johnson.
Cherry Pit Spittin' for Ac-
curacy (Whippersnappers):
Bene Susec.
Cherry Pit Spittin' for Accu-
racy (Greenhorns): P. J. [last
name unknown].
Cherry Pit Spittin' for Accu-
racy (Old Coots):
Jessica Downey.
Cherry Pit Spittin' for Dis-
tance (Whippersnappers):
John Swanson (longest spit:
21').
Cherry Pit Spittin' for Dis-
tance (Greenhorns): Nathan
Boxberger (longest spit: 28').
Cherry Pit Spittin' for Dis-
tance (Old Coots): Scott Box-
berger (longest spit: 37').
Digging in the Dark: Sabrina
James and Noe Valley.
Election Day: Slabtown.
Fuse Winder: Shawna Brat-
ton.
Pie Eating: Anthony Richey.
Thread the Needle: Chance
Ralston and Rufus White.
Twenty Miles by Wheelbar-
row: Shelby Antoine and Ben
Antoine.
Two Towns Tug O' War:
Slabtown.
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Old-growth prevails at BMD beard contest
BY MATT HOLLANDER
The Cottage Grove Sentinel
included his granddad’s spurs, original
Lee Jeans and Ruger Blackhawk pistol.
Ehler’s competition, which was as di-
verse as it was formidable, included Bo-
hemia Billy, who “loves gold and running
around”; “Marshal” Rusty Hawkins and
his deputy, Josh, and Francis Koster, who
sure looked like a gambler but “pled the
Fifth” regarding his profession.
T
he annual Bohemia Mining Days’
beard competition held Saturday
was not a young man’s game, as the judges
rewarded experienced and mature whisker
growers. In the categories for Most Un-
tamed and Most Stately, Patrick Stewart
and Don Solomon were the respective
winners.
Stewart, whose ZZ-Top-esque beard
extend about six to eight inches down
from his chin, claimed to be sporting the
same beard since 1975, although he said it
has been burned down from time to time.
Stewart also said that he wouldn’t recog-
nize himself in the mirror without facial
hair.
Solomon, whose distinguished bristles
could be compared to Willie Nelson’s,
said that his current beard is two years old
but that he has been growing beards on
and off since age 14.
Stewart and Solomon triumphed over a
strong group of contestants that included
James Emery, Ken Hooter and Jesse John-
son.
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photo by Matt Hollander
The owners of Cottage Grove's
stateliest (Don Solomon, at left)
and most untamed beards (Patrick
Stewart) mug for the camera.
In the costume contest: Bryce Johnson,
who was dressed as the Sheriff of Slab-
town, took fi rst place in the kids divi-
sion; Renne Garner won in the women’s
division wearing her mother’s handy-me-
down dress that came across the country
by covered wagon; Bob Ehler was victori-
ous in the men’s division for his outfi t that
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John Swanson (left) and Finn Hebb
were honored as Mayor of Lemati
and Sheriff of Slabtown, respec-
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