“When you see what has been done many, many years ago, it’s so wonderful to see how we’ve gone further and further. “It’s so wonderful to see the dif- ferent drawings that young people make, and to see what they can do,” Russell said. Russell bent over to get a closer look at her masterpiece and gave her positive feedback while she held it closer for his view. She pointed out a colorful drawing of a tree with many leaves. “Which one is yours?” Ron Rus- sell asked Kennedy Elementary School kindergartener Layla Pick- erign. While most of the art show visi- tors browsed the aisles for draw- ings, paintings, sculptures or crafts by their children or grandchildren, one couple simply wanted to see all they could see, even though they weren’t related to any of the artists. “Independent salt, where we get our salt from, is pretty good about we don’t want to have to roll it up a couple of times downtown.” Schrader said the city spent the last several weeks while it was dry re- stocking salt and sand. “If we get a fair amount and depend- ing on how long that duration is. Tuesday night,” Schrader said Monday evening. “If it quits by late tomorrow eve- ning we would like to go right from that and shift over here to the down- town, roll everything up and haul off what we can during.
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“We’ll respond to everything,” Kyle said “If our resources would become overwhelmed then we would declare that.” Buckeye Avenue and Third Street were largely free of snow ea rly Tues- day morning, but other downtown streets were tougher to navigate. We have not seen many.” He said the police department has not declared a state of emergency. “I think a lot of people are staying off the roads. “It has not been overwhelming,” said Abilene Police Lt. The Abilene Police Department responded to a few accidents early Tuesday, but trafc was light. City crews will be clearing the emergency routes and some of the secondary routes off and on all day Tuesday, Schrader said. Abilene City Manager David Dill- ner declared a snow emergency Mon- day afternoon and vehicles should be removed from the emergency route streets as soon as possible. Schrader said the crews would be- gin clearing emergency snow routes in the city as soon as the snow starts to accumulate. “We’ll start putting people out on it and stay on it until it quits,” he said Monday. A key piece of e quip- ment, a spreader/plow truck that had been in the shop for repair, is back ready for action. The salt and sand supplies have been relled. The city has had some practice recently as several inches of snow fell shortly before Christmas. City crews are ready, Schrader said Monday night. Snow is forecast to accumulate throughout the day. “Hopefully it won’t be quite as much as they are calling for.” The National Weather Service is calling for between 7 to 10 inches of snow to fall in the Abilene area. “We’ll throw everything we have at it,” Abilene Public Works Director Lon Schrader said of the snowstorm that shuttered schools throughout the region. Snow was falling early Tuesday morning as road crews in Abilene began clearing roads in what was ex- pected to be a day-long pr ocess.
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