Friends Make Ferndale 'Snow Bowl' a Neighborly Tradition
Residents of all ages came out to Geary Park on Saturday for the fourth annual football game.
When do friends become family? When do neighbors become friends? In Ferndale, that seems to happen while 100 or so residents of all ages chase a football through a snowy field. The event that drew such a crowd to Geary Park on Saturday is known as the "Snow Bowl" and has become a much-loved tradition among this close-knit group of friends and family over the past few years. Local residents Pam Bellaver and Dan Keller came up with the idea for the football game four years ago. "We decided that this would be a fun thing to do. So we rallied all of our friends," said Bellaver, of Oak Park. While their first game had just 14 or 15 people, yesterday's event drew around 100 people and everyone pitched in. Tents were set up to help people stay …
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Jessica Schrader
9:16 pm on Sunday, January 6, 2013
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