Mural brings ‘Greetings’ to Festival Street

Within one hour of its start, heads were already turning to eye what was clearly shaping up to become a beautiful new mural in Sweet Home’s downtown.

Wearing a pair of virtual reality visual design glasses, painter Karen Eland traced out the three-dimensional outline of the mid-century postcard-inspired phrase, “Greetings from Sweet Home, Oregon.”

Katie Daisy adds the first touches of color to a new mural on the east side of the former Santiam Feed…