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Kids Catch A Break

While most of us are enjoying the warmth of this winter, after three years of atrocious blizzards, kids are a little more enduring. Many of them have been missing fun in the snow and on the ice for a while. Even when temperatures dropped last week, students had to stay indoors because it was far too cold. 

"Somedays the ice is melted, some days it's really snowy or windy, so it's hard to skate sometimes," Allison Rheault, a 5th grader at Clara-Barton, said.  

Rheault, and 200 other children, finally got their chance for a big day of fun in the snow at Clara Barton-Hawthorne Elementary. They slid right through the 29th annual ice skating classic. The PE teacher Curt Smith says it is a very memorable part of the school years for many students.

"I've had former students come back 20 years later and say, 'Hey, that was one of the best things that ever happened.'"