Sorokowski was responsible for drafting and designing the initial plans for the ice fishing shack and was a leader throughout the project, teachers said.

Despite the looming March 31 deadline to remove shacks from bodies of water north of Highway 16, and ice-fishing season set to end Monday, there are plenty of shelters frozen in place.

Urve Manuel has been bringing her stained glass ice fishing shack to different parts of Newfoundland’s west coast on her own dime. She wants people to stumble upon it out in the open.