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Show Page B6 Thursday, Manh 12. 1981 The Newspaper "'- ' ( I l . ry-. - v. smow sMointage 1 y 7 I I r f ,7n mm It's not the most durable art form, but for one Bountiful family, it's certainly lucrative. lucra-tive. The Neilsen family of 841 East 2300 South in Bountiful took two of the top awards including the grand prize at the 10th annual Snow Sculpture Sculp-ture Festival held Saturday on Park City's municipal golf course. A humorous interpretation showing bears invading a campground was given the top award in the adult division, bringing the Neil-sens Neil-sens a cash prize of $500. And the Neilsen children also won recognition, taking third place in their division for a sculpture showing aliens disembarking from their spacecraft. That .was worth five cases of Coke to the Neilsen kids. A below-average accumulation accumu-lation of snow was blamed for keeping the number of contestants lower than a year ago. Nevertheless, there were 73 total entries, including 16 in the children's division. And the sculptors managed to scrape together enough snow to create some elaborate, if short-lived, masterpieces. Second place in the adult division went to Laura Dempsey and friends of 1531 Michigan Ave. in Salt Lake City. The Dempsey entry won $200 for another group scene showing a family poised around a television set. Somehow the family had been joined by a couple of well-known cartoon characters charac-ters who were sitting in the "living room" enjoying the program with everyone else. Gary Bloomquist of 7862 South Boston Circle of Salt Lake City won third place and $100 for an imposing sculpture entitled Inca Sun God which drew a lot of attention from spectators. The top prize in the children's division, a $100 gift certificate to Wolfe's went to Page and Patrick Kion of 654 Spruce Glen in Murray. Their winning masterpiece mas-terpiece showed a fierce-looking fierce-looking shark with a, pair of legs dangling from its mouth. Matt Burnett of 2952 Ara bian Drive in Park City took second place in the children's chil-dren's division for his rendition rendi-tion of a serpent. Other crowd favorites included in-cluded a larger-than-life sculpture of the cartoon character Garfield the Cat, and a dogsled scene in which the roles were reversed: a haggard-looking man was shown dragging a sled loaded load-ed down with several grinning grin-ning canines. , Saturday's balmy weather made conditions ideal for sculptors. The snow was soft and easy to pack, and several male contestants were seen working bare-chested bare-chested in the afternoon sun. Unfortunately, the sun started to take its toll on the sculptures almost as soon as the contest had ended. Features Fea-tures began to droop, and drops of water could be seen forming on the just-finished masterpieces. The contest was judged by three members of the University Uni-versity of Utah Art Department. |