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Volunteers keep up annual tradition of making ice candles to display at Northland cemetery

EMBARRASS -- It was a clear December morning, with temperatures in the double digits below zero. No wind. The sun shone over the Embarrass Town Hall.

3034244+121716.N.ICECANDLES.C02.JPG — A vehicle drives past one of several headstones at dusk that were decorated with ice candles at the Embarrass Cemetery in Embarrass in this file photo from December 2006. The ice candles are a Finnish holiday tradition that dates back decades. (Clint Austin / caustin@duluthnews.com)

By Janna Goerdt, for the News Tribune

December 16, 2016 at 11:23 PM

3034245+121716.N.ICECANDLES.C07.JPG — Embarrass Town Clerk Jennifer Boese loads finished ice candles into a truck for delivery to the Embarrass Cemetery on Dec. 9. (Janna Goerdt / for the News Tribune)

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