Amber Estes News Today

BAY CITY (Mich.) - Amber Estes is a proud mom and successful entrepreneur. But she said her life looked much different 14 years ago.

John A. Swanson, 75 years old, of Palo Alto, Calif., passed away after a long illness Sunday, October 29, 2023.

Cony's course deemed unsuitable for competition after flooding early in season.

The trips in and out of the freezer took their toll on the snowman who was sent from Kentucky to snow-deprived children in Florida.

Lucky the snowman now lives in the school cafeteria freezer.

Robin Hughes, 60, a special education teacher at SouthShore Charter Academy in Riverview, came up with the idea after reading her students a book about snow.

When Florida kindergarten teacher Robin Hughes realized her students had never seen snow, she had her sister ship them a snowman from Kentucky.

A teacher in Florida learned her children had never seen snow, and after asked her sister to priority-mail a snowman to town to show them.

Robin Hughes, a special education teacher in Riverview, Fla., got her sister, Amber Estes of Danville, Ky., to send her class "Lucky," a tiny snowman complete with blueberry eyes, a carrot nose and two twigs as arms, after most of her kindergarten students said they had never seen snow.

A Florida teacher discovered that most of her students had never seen snow so she did what any logical Floridian would do.