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Brothers Riley, 9, (left) and Austin, 5, (right) lived to tell the tale of falling through the ice at the pond at Legion Park Friday afternoon. The boys were saved from the pond by city workers: Tom VonSeggern, James Harmon, Harlind Shields, Rob Roderick and Steven Waller. The boys’ Jack Russel Terrier, Buddy, that ran off causing Austin to chase him over the icy pond, is also just fine.
Gina Hanley thought that last Friday afternoon was just the end of a normal week for her family and her, but that was before she got the call that changed her eased mind to terrified.
Hanley had been trying to get ahold of her husband and when she finally did, she was told that her two sons were being driven to Sidney Regional Medical Center.
“When I finally talked to him he told me the boys were in the ambulance on their way to the hospital and that Austin had almost drowned. I was in shock,” Hanley said.
On Friday, Jan. 4 her sons Austin, 5, and Riley, 9, fell through the ice into the pond a...
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