A giant snowman greets visitors on Main Street

By Mark E. Vogler

People passing by Miss Rina’s Lil Rascals Childcare Center at 24 Main St. on Tuesday got a fun taste of winter. Three workers from The Kaat Services Group, Inc. who were cleaning up the parking lot made the most of Monday’s snowstorm, building a snowman close to 15 feet tall.

“It was so cool, I couldn’t believe it,” said Natalia Daniels, 25, a visitor from Liverpool, England, who was winding up a three-week vacation.

“It was the biggest snowman I’ve ever seen. But I’ve never seen this amount of snow in my life,” she said.

Daniels was spending her final day with her aunt, Saugus Youth and Recreation Director Crystal Cakounes, who was with her seven-year-old son Brackett when they noticed the snowman, who caught the attention of many people driving up Main Street on Tuesday.

“I’d like to make a special ‘Shout Out’ for those three guys from Kaat Services Group, Inc. for building that snowman – and for entertaining Saugus and putting a smile on people’s faces,” said Rick Fail, one of the many people who stopped by the snowman to get some photos after it caught his attention.

“I thought it might make a nice picture for the paper. They told me it took about five hours to build,” he said of the three workers.