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Snowballs in Puerto Rico

Wednesday, 13 December 2000 12:00 AM EST

The Times of London is reporting that:

An enterprising entrepreneur in the Caribbean island thought up a way to give snow-starved residents of San Juan a white, and frosty, Christmas.

Luis Guzman struck a deal with Robert Belanger, the mayor of Fermont in northern Quebec province, to supply 300 tons of snow – at $650 United States dollars a ton, that's $195,000 worth of snow.

When all that snow arrives in San Juan, Guzman plans to charge Puerto Rican families $20 a day to play in it, making snowmen and pelting one another with snowballs.

But how to transfer Canadian snow to the Caribbean?

"It was easy," said Fermont's mayor. "We just sent a front-end loader over to the parking lot next to the baseball diamond, which we aren’t using right now, and scooped up the snow and packed it into a refrigerated container."

Now: How to redirect the balmy Caribbean's sunshine to Canada for Christmas?

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The Times of London is reporting that: An enterprising entrepreneur in the Caribbean island thought up a way to give snow-starved residents of San Juan a white, and frosty, Christmas. Luis Guzman struck a deal with Robert Belanger, the mayor of Fermont in northern Quebec...
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