Volunteers needed to keep Winterfest going

A brand new festival burst onto the local scene in 2015, immediately attracting plenty of visitors whose idea of a fine winter day was to play around in the snow while watching their neighbors ski-jor down Main Street or tumble down a slope atop a bar stool.

The hard-working organizers who first hosted the Sundance Winter Festival decided last year that it was time to pass the torch to someone else, and the Sundance Chamber of Commerce is now looking for assistance to keep the popular event running.

This year’s Winterfest was hampered by ongoing issues to find volunteers willing to run it, unt...