Article: St. Valentine's Day inspires proposal, heart art in snow.

Byline: Mary Tallon and Chris Lusvardi

Feb. 15--DECATUR -- It took a lot of work, but by late Wednesday afternoon, Ben Andreas finally convinced his girlfriend to go sledding in Nelson Park. Then Andreas convinced Heather Poland to marry him. Andreas and Poland didn't actually play in the snow on Valentine's Day, but the couple did get engaged in front of a red message written on a snowy hillside at the park that read, "Will you marry me?" Andreas said the public proposal was an impromptu idea he devised after the blizzard caused Poland's classes at Eastern Illinois University to be canceled, and she decided to use the free time to visit him and her ...

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