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Elementary students show off artistic creativity at Spearfish Community Carve event [Video]

SPEARFISH, S.D. (KOTA) – There were plenty of unique snow sculptures on full display on Main Street in downtown Spearfish. The area was occupied by second-graders showing off their artistic creativity.

The Community Carve event is part of Spearfish’s 6th Annual Chinook Day Festivities, celebrating the world record temperature change in 1943. On Jan. 22 of that year, in only two minutes, the temperature rose 49 degrees.

The executive director of Visit Spearfish, Mistie Caldwell, said an elementary school teacher selects students from the Spearfish School District each year to study the art of carving.

“Studying the art and examples of what a carving might look like. They design a particular sculpture they like to make, and then we meet up with them, they come down annually and shows us all they’ve learned about sculpting,” Caldwell said.

The sculpted snow was harvested from the Crow Peak Trail Head. Caldwell said …

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