Tom Bartiss News Today

To the editor: Over the past 17 years, I have had the great honor of organizing the building of the centerpiece of the Winter Carnival, the Ice Palace. Over t

To the editor: This year I was again privileged to be able to supervise the building of our Ice Palace. As usual, there are many people and organizations to thank for making it possible. To start at the beginning, this year the weather was not with us when we needed it. Prior to building, we cleared the ice field, then got several inches of wet, heavy snow. This prevented us from plowing as the snow created slush on top of the ice. Up to this point, Dan Trim and I had been plowing using his ...