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Living a dream
Professional ice carver achieves lifelong goal
By Carol Souchock -– Special Writer won back to back national champi-
Ice Carver Ben Goebel is living out onships while attending Oakland
his childhood dream as one of the main Community College. This college hobby
artists creating the ice sculptures at the started him off on his culinary arts
Plymouth Ice Festival. As a child he career and he enjoys sharing his skills
visited the festival with his parents and with youth at the festival who might ask
wondered how the carvers created the themselves the same questions. He
amazing sculptures and asked himself will present a live carving demonstra-
is carving something I can do? Years tion on Saturday in Kellogg Park during
later, as a culinary arts student at which he will make small pieces to give
Oakland Community College, he was out to the youth attending. This year he
inspired to participate in a student will be carving several pieces at the fes-
competition at the Plymouth Ice tival including one of Barbie which is
Festival. The following year he was
undefeated in every completion and See Carver, page 8 Ben Goebel
