On December 5, 2013, Cook County Highway Department Maintenance Supervisor Russell Klegstad called the Cook County News-Herald to express a serious concern for the safety of the children in Grand Marais.
The county has an agreement with the city of Grand Marais to plow and clear snow from the city streets above Highway 61.
With the recent storm that dumped a lot of snow and gave schoolchildren three days off school, Klegstad said, county graders had been piling snow into snow banks along the streets. One driver piling snow spotted some children coming out of a snow fort alongside the street. When they saw the grader, they ducked behind the snow bank.
Klegstad said his department is very concerned about the safety of the children. They are urging the community to keep children from making snow forts in the banks alongside city streets to avoid being buried or crushed by them.
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