GLM Homes Inc.<\/a>, said he remembers being wowed by the elaborate snow sculptures that was a hallmark of the Bon Soo Winter Carnival for many years before it was eventually phased out.\u00a0<\/p>\n“One of my favourite memories was, we were probably six or seven and they had professional ice sculptures and they made a dinosaur. I thought it was the greatest thing in the world,” said Nott, now 48 years old.<\/p>\n
For 15 years, Nott operated a log cabin manufacturing company in the Czech Republic.<\/p>\n
When he returned to the Sault a few years ago, he opened GLM, which manufactures prefabricated structural panels for use in construction.<\/p>\n
Nott was surprised to learn that snow sculptures were no longer a big part of Bon Soo.<\/p>\n
“Now it’s it’s a little bit smaller than it used to be, and probably for a good reason,” he said of the winter carnival.<\/p>\n
Nott decided to put his knowledge of wood carving to good use by reducing the snow pile in front of his White Oak Drive business into a snow sculpture of the Bon Soo mascot, Mr. Bon Soo.<\/p>\n
“We had this huge mound of snow that I wanted to get rid of and I’m like, ‘let’s\u00a0carve it up let’s see what we can\u00a0do,'” said Nott.<\/p>\n
He said the almost week-long job gave him a new appreciation for the work that went into the sculptures he admired as a kid. The varying weather conditions \u2014 \u00a0warm temperatures, rain and heavy snowfall \u2014 didn’t help.<\/p>\n
“I guess that’s one of the reasons why it’s so difficult to do the ice sculptures now, is because you can’t control the weather and all of a sudden\u00a0it’s 10 degrees\u00a0outside and the sculpture you’ve been working on for a week and a half is\u00a0gone pretty quick,” he added.<\/p>\n
Nott said he hopes his unofficial Bon Soo sculpture could maybe result in a return of the tradition.<\/p>\n
“Hopefully we can get something going, maybe next year, for a Bon Soo competition where\u00a0businesses can carve their own sculptures,”\u00a0he added.<\/p>\n
Nott said he has enjoyed the attention the sculpting has attracted.<\/p>\n
“They’ve been driving by and stopping and all week there’s been people coming up,” he added.<\/p>\n
On Monday, the sculpture had another visitor \u2014 Mr. Bon Soo himself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Drivers have been stopping all week to take in an unexpected sight \u2014 a larger-than-life Mr. Bon Soo…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,49,48,356,75,199146],"class_list":["post-496818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-mr-bon-soobon-soo-winter-carnivalderek-nottglm-homes-inc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}