She said he could not really explain why he had done that, but said digging out the auger manually was an "arduous and laborious task".

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For now, her staff carefully clears ice from the holes with a gasoline-powered auger and then pulls out stray chunks with a ladle-like strainer at the beginning of each shift.

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