Eha, a member of the Sycamore Senior Center Wood Carvers Group, did that last month along with hundreds of others at the Cincinnati Carvers Guild's 33rd annual Wood Carving Exhibition and Sale at the Holiday Inn North.

She won two third-place awards for her handiwork.

"This was only my second time entering the contest," said Eha of Finneytown. "I was pretty pleased with winning. I have been carving for seven years, but I still consider myself a novice."

She said one of her winning entries was a sculpture of half a woman's face, mounted on a walnut stand.

"My other entry was a sculpture of a ballerina," she said.

Other local winners were: Bill Clifton, Mount Healthy, a first-place award for best table carving; Norm Hartman, Fairfield, a first place in relief carving and a third place in the human category carving; Nelson Farmer, Winton Place, a third place in the relief carving category; and Catherine Cress, of Evendale, also from the Sycamore Senior Center, a third place in the miscellaneous category.

The show included more than a hundred carvers from across the country and vendors who sold a variety of woods, tools, books and related supplies.

There was also chain-saw carving and a demonstration by the Wood Mizer Saw Mill Co.

Other members from the Sycamore Senior Center Wood Carvers Group, which range from beginners to advanced carvers, were: Bob Doud, J. O'Neal Johnston, Carl Pruiss, Jeanette Pruiss and Lee Walters, Sycamore's secretary/treasurer.

The Cincinnati Carvers Guild was started in 1965 by John Wilbur, a youth program director, and Charlie Ehlers, a pharmacist.

The guild meets at 7:30 p.m. on the last Wednesday of the month at the Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, Mount Healthy.

The Sycamore Senior Center Wood Carvers Group meets at the Sycamore Senior Center in Blue Ash at 9 a.m. Tuesdays.

For more information on the guild, write Mike Boback, president, at P.O. Box 24113, Cincinnati, OH 45224.

For information on the Sycamore group, call Bob Hawkins, instructor, at 984-1234.

Texas Hold 'em

If you know how to hold them and when to play them, sign up for the Texas Hold 'em Poker Tournament, a fund-raiser to help fund programs at the Anderson Senior Center, in Anderson Township

The event is 5-11 p.m. Oct 16 at the center.

Jim Dunphy, tournament director, said the tournament will be limited to the first 200 people who sign up.

"We hope to raise at least $5,000 for the center," Dunphy said.

"The center runs the Meals on Wheels program for seniors."

For more information, call 474-3100

State trooper promoted

BATAVIA - A veteran Ohio State Highway Patrol trooper at the Lebanon post has been promoted to sergeant and transferred to the neighboring Batavia post.

Paul E. Lezotte will serve as assistant post commander in Batavia. He received the promotion from Col. Paul D. McClellan, superintendent of the Ohio State Highway Patrol.

Lezotte joined the patrol in February 1997 as a member of the patrol's 128th academy class and was assigned to the Lebanon post that July.

A Springboro native, Lezotte graduated from Ridgeville Christian High School in 1989 and earned a bachelor's degree in business administration from Malone College in 1993.

He lives in Lebanon with his wife, Susan, and their four children.