The Virginian-Pilot
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              Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Friday, February 9, 1996               TAG: 9602070194
SECTION: PORTSMOUTH CURRENTS      PAGE: 06   EDITION: FINAL 
                                             LENGTH: Short :   30 lines

BRAVE FOLKS ON THE GO IN ICE, SNOW

Portsmouth residents are undaunted by ice and snow when they want to play, exercise of just go, as these pictures attest. The weekend storm was just their speed. ILLUSTRATION: Staff photo by HUY NGUYEN

Staff photo by JIM WALKER

Neither ice nor snow . . . can keep the cars off the road, at left.

These motorists were creeping across the icy Western Freeway Bridge

Friday.

Nor can the snow keep children from having some thrills. At right,

Ashlynn Hoffman, 8, rides on mother Lisa Hoffman's lap as they whip

through the snow in their Belvedere neighborhood Sunday afternoon.

Staff photo by BILL TIERNAN

Give up the morning run? No way, says Ann Hirn as she heads along

Crawford Parkway early Sunday. Her 3-to-5-mile route took her down

High Street, onto packed snow.

by CNB