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Help hired for Ice Palace Tony Kennedy, Star Tribune
Dick Anfang of the Minnesota State Building and Construction Trades Council said Thursday that he agonized during that time, wondering how union volunteers would overcome the lost time. He said he is hopeful that all volunteers will understand the decision to bring in a paid contingent of specialists. The masons hired for the job are unionized, Anfang and Schletty said.

'If this is the contingency plan to make the best possible Ice Palace for the public, then we're just going to keep working the best we can,' said Anfang, one of the approximately 500 union workers who have filled volunteer shifts for the Ice Palace.

Why build an ice palace? Because it's really cool BY DAVID HAWLEY, Pioneer Press
"I'll never forget seeing some iron worker walking in his Sorrel boots on blocks of ice 130 feet in the air and hearing him say, 'Oh, yeah, this is the one that's loose,' " Rust recalled. "And then watching him jump up and down on it to show how it wobbled. Oh, boy."

St. Paul may be the modern epicenter of ice-palace building, but the practice goes back to the 18th century, said Fred Anders, who Olsen regards as "the other" ice palace historian in America. Anders, who lives in New York, is the author of the 1983 book "Ice Palaces."

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