Parma Snowfest well attended

Record crowds attended Parma's Snowfest Celebration on February 5 at Town Hall Park. The Hilton Sno-Flyers were well represented, as 14 of their sleds kept busy giving snowmobile rides and down at the pond Parks Director Joe Petricone and his staff set up and coordinated several ice fishing huts.

Eight kids' carnival games, complete with penny candy award treats, were run by volunteers from the Hilton Varsity Boys' Baseball squad, while Varsity Coach Ory Mee and his assistants and parents handled the food vending as a fundraising opportunity for their spring trip to Louisiana.

Families were treated to horse-drawn wagon rides and children focused on the 20-foot man-made sledding hill. Several additional highlights of this celebration were the winter egg hunt which included 500 plastic eggs filled with prizes, two six-foot fires for warming, a dog sled demonstration from Jim Phillips of Bergen and a snow sculpture of a full-size pink Cadillac driven by Yogi Bear produced by local artist James Wormsley.

The evening concluded with fireworks.