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You were crowned the king and queen of the metaphorical ice castle, the stand-in this week for the Winter Festival
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Tell us what that means to you guys and your family. It's really nice to be included in this and recognize and we love our community and being a part of Mayville
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Yeah, no, it's an honor. It's a privilege. You know, we've been to the ice castle since I was a little kid and now to be a part of it this way is quite an honor
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and, you know, this is a great modified ice castle. It won't melt
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And, you know, it's western New York, so you never know what's going to happen. And the weather that we wanted just came a little bit late
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That's all. But it's here now. And that's the funny part about it
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It's like you look at last week and you think it was April, not February
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And then tonight it's back to winter again and tomorrow back to spring
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as members of the Mayville community and seeing this tradition be able to bring life to the area
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in a hard time for businesses, right? You don't have the summer tourism
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You have the snowmobiles and things like that. How important is it to have a festival like this
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Well, you know, especially this time of year when you've been through that season of darkness and cold
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and everyone's, you gotta kinda find a way to kick that cabin fever and this is a good opportunity to get out and do something different be with community members and you know a lot of years it draws a lot of people from outside of Mayville and gives us some good exposure but at any rate it a good good
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opportunity for the weekend to come on out and and and have some fun with the
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winter. Do either of you have a favorite aspect of the Winter Festival
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Typically going out on the ice is what I like. I like the food. And the kids activities are always fun
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I like the toy store part from last year. That was really good. And one year I got
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a bunch of balloon animals. I had like a whole mouse family
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When I was like five or something. That sense of bringing the community, bringing kids together, creating
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a safe place for families to enjoy. I'm sure that's a big attribute of this
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Yep, we like the sleigh rides too. We got to do that last year
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I just like the whole thing. That's awesome. As king and queen, do either of you have a message for the goers of the festival
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Well, I guess come on out. It was spring-like earlier in the week, but winter's back
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and there's vendors here and our Chamber of Commerce worked really hard to put this together
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So, again, it's a good time to come on out and be together
