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A Ride to remember

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Margaret Heaven explains the hay ride rules to a group of
Machetanz Elementary students Monday at Heaven’s Hayfield. Local
school have been visiting the Heaven homestead off Fairview Loop
for — Margaret Heaven explains the hay ride rules to a group of Machetanz Elementary students Monday at Heaven’s Hayfield. Local school have been visiting the Heaven homestead off Fairview Loop for almost 12 years. (ROBERT DeBERRY/Frontiersman)

Machetanz Elementary School third-grade students and teacher Kristine Sobbe wave as they bounce along under blue skies on a hay ride at Heaven’s Hayfield Monday afternoon. Tomorrow is the last day of school for the Mat-Su Borough School District. (ROBERT DeBERRY/Frontiersman)