'Snow' for village comes in from Indio
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Lionel Castro (from left), Braulio Perez, and Jesus “Carlos” Regalado chisel out the slides with shovels.
Photo by Chris McDaniel/Yuma Sun
'Snow' for village comes in from Indio.
What does it take to build a slide made of snow at the Centennial Christmas Village and maintain it for a week? One hundred and sixty tons of ice.The ice is hauled to Yuma from an ice plant in Indio, California by the CV Ice Company. The ice comes in 300 pound blocks which are placed .
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