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IVINS, Washington County — If it's a school day in Ivins, there's one person who residents are guaranteed to see at the corner of 400 East and 200 South: 81-year-old Sandy Ames.
Wearing her neon yellow-green uniform, she raises a stop sign while taking intermittent trips to help students and pedestrians safely cross the street past the neon-green traffic cones she set up earlier that day.
Since 2005, at a time when Ivins had a 40% smaller population and Red Mountain Elementary School was 7 years old, Ames has been stationed at the same corner when kids go to school in the morning and when they come home. Sometimes Ames has a shadow — her cat Shadow, who is known to join her and the kids on occasion to "catch mice."
"She had been out hunting mice already and I said, 'Go home now and stay home until I get home," Ames said. "And don't get run over. She knows where home is, so she goes home."
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