Zilliah Baker, 11, who is joined by her step-father Lonestar Handy (right), friend Katrina Fernandez and Baker's brother, Jaden, as she pours a bag of sediment into a rock box before using the mechanism to reveal what rocks, crystals and even shark teeth are hidden inside during Saturday's Gold Dust Day in Gold Hill. Crater Rock Museum and Roxy Ann Gem and Mineral Society provided demonstrations on how they used the device during Oregon's Gold Rush.
By Chrissy Ewaldof the Daily Courier
GOLD HILL — At a sluice box set up on the lawn of the Gold Hill public library on Saturday, Zilliah Baker ran a pan through gravel to separate minerals.
"Look! Fool's gold!" she said. "I just know this is fool's gold."
The 11-year-old from Medford went through her findings, identifying most of them with confidence — rose quartz, possible tiger's eye, jasper, obsidian. And pyrite, commonly known as fool's gold.
Grants Pass' Evan Valenzuela pulls his hands in for a hit against North Medford this season. Valenzuela was a first-team all-conference pick as a utility player.
By Danny Penza of the Daily Courier
Whether it was in the batters’ box or on the mound, North Medford junior Cade Pettersen was a driving force for the Black Tornado this season.
Pettersen’s all-around efforts were recognized, as he was voted as the Southwest Conference’s Player of the Year in a recent vote by the league’s baseball coaches.
At authorized but unmanaged homeless camps by City Hall, two tents with drug paraphernalia were removed for disposal Friday. A man was arrested on a Medford warrant and cited for scattering rubbish and using more space than allowed. Another man was cited for using too much space.
At a camp by the police station on Friday, a man was cited for staying longer than allowed.
A cook looks at the camera while sautéing vegetables at a restaurant in Florence, Italy. This image, taken with an iPhone, earned monochrome image of the year honors for photographer John Peterson.
Daily Courier
The Jackson County-based Southern Oregon Photographic Association named “Osteria Chef Florence Italy” by John Peterson the winning electronic image of the year and “Adobe” by Judy Lanier the print of the year.
The year-end awards were presented at a June 2 banquet in Medford.
Peterson took his image with an iPhone, at a restaurant in Florence, Italy where he had stopped for lunch.
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