When Iola school kids faced three days without classes this week, parents had to get creative to fill the hours.
Bitterly cold temperatures precluded all-day outdoor play, but that didn’t stop Madison and Haley Carlin from taking advantage of snow piles formed when driveways and streets were plowed.
“Yesterday we helped the neighbors build a couple of forts,” said nine-year-old Haley. “They just shoveled the snow into piles and we dug out tunnels.”
The girls, along with neighbors Chloe and Carter Wilson, Chase and Cole Regehr and Ben Cooper,…
