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City worker saves local children

By: Hannah Van Ree

Heroic action by Parks Superintendent Tom Von Seggern and four other city employees, very possibly saved the life of two brothers in January of this year.

On the afternoon of Jan. 4 the two boys fell through the ice and into the pond at Legion Park, according to information from then Police Chief Mike Brown.

Luckily the city workers were in the park area with one witnessing the accident occur, then rushing to aid in rescuing the children.

Brown was told that the brothers' dog ran out onto the ice covered pond.

One child went out to retri...

 

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