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Snowmen aplenty, residents enjoy the wintry weather
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Reagan and Cole Smith and their brother Christian Gillham work on a snowman Tuesday at their Gaines Mill Road residence. The family had about 30 minutes invested in “Frosty,” said father Phillip Smith. They gave him a kerchief and topped him off with a bicycle helmet. - photo by NAT GURLEY
The baseball field at City Park in Gainesville showed the scars of three hastily made barricades, bare paths of dirt in the fresh-fallen snow. Three children each wore a look of fierce determination as they filled their sleds with the snow and packed it into a low wall or into ammunition for their upcoming battle. “We’re building barricades for a snowball fight,” 11-year-old Price Embry said.