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Meet 2009's Vulcanus Rex

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20090129__090201vulcan2.webp, The Vulcans: front: Vulcanus Rex LXXII, Joe Vogel, N. St. Paul, back row, left to right: Baron Hot Sparkus, Steve Gravem, Maplewood, Duke of Klinker, , 20090129__090201vulcan3-bw.webp, The Vulcans: front: Joe Vogel, (U.S. Postal Service) back row, left to right: Steve Gravem, St.Paul Police Officer, Steve Gurney, W.S.B. & Associates,, 20090129__090201vulcan1-bw.webp, General Flameous, Fred Edstrom, left, fixes the headdress of Grand Duke Fertilious, Tim Shanley, before a photo shoot in the Pioneer Press photo studi
By ANDY RATHBUN | arathbun@pioneerpress.com | Pioneer PressKing Boreas rules no more.Vulcanus Rex and his crew of mischievous Vulcans overthrew the Ki

Woodbury couple's wedding gets the royal treatment from King Boreas and the Queen of the Snows

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20090124__090125wedding.webp, King Boreas LXXIII Christopher “Chris” Schneeman, left, knights Sally and Sam Olson in Rice Park in St Paul on their wedding day during the 2009 St. P
By MOLLY GUTHREY | mguthrey@pioneerpress.com | Pioneer PressWhen Sally and Sam Olson decided on a winter wedding with a snowflake theme, they didn’t k

St. Paul Winter Carnival memorabilia collections contain as much history as kitsch

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20090122__090125collectors1.webp, Howie Register (cq Howie), a collector of St. Paul Winter Carnival memorabilia who is in charge of the exhibit this year at the Landmark Center, at ho, 20090122__090125collectors2.webp, Howie Register (cq Howie), a collector of St. Paul Winter Carnival memorabilia, who is in charge of the exhibit this year at the Landmark Center, with, 20090122__090125collectors3.webp, Howie Register holds buttons from 1946 when the Winter Carnival was called the St. Paul Victory Carnival after WWII. Howie Register (cq Howie), a coll, 20090122__090125collectors4.webp, Howie Register said that earlier St. Paul Winter Carnival buttons had a theme, as indicated on these buttons, January 21, 2009. Howie Register (cq How
By ANDY RATHBUN | arathbun@pioneerpress.com | Pioneer PressWhile thousands search for a medallion during the Winter Carnival each year, Howie Register

Frigid weekend conditions will cheer Winter Carnival's ice sculptors

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20090123__090124icescupt.webp, "We'll just plump up these lips," said Chad Peterson of Robbinsdale, who grinds on Mr. Wally Eye, part of his team's sculpture, "A School of Fish," at, 20090123__090124icesculpt2.webp, Chris Swarbrick of Richfield cleans up an ice sphere, part of his team's entry, "Fountain of the Unicorns," at Rice Park in St. Paul on Friday January, 20090123_091002_090124WinterCarnivalTorchlight_CXNA.webp
By JOHN BREWER | Pioneer PressThe temperature might have dropped below zero as the wind wailed Friday, but the ice-carving teams in Rice Park loved it

Winter Carnival's 2009 Queen of the Snows lives in Minneapolis but will reign over St. Paul

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20090123__090124queen-bw.webp, Sarah Schweich reacts as it is announced that she is the 2009 Aurora, Queen of the Snows during the 2009 Royal Coronation at the Saint Paul RiverCentr
By MOLLY GUTHREY | mguthrey@pioneerpress.com | Pioneer PressSarah Schweich is the new 2009 Queen of the Snows, but she’s also a true daughter of this

This year's Winter Carnival king was born to be Boreas

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20090122__090123coronation.webp, King Boreas LXIII Christopher "Chris" Schneeman is announced before he is offically crowned during the 2009 Royal Coronation at the Saint Paul RiverCe, 20090123_094559_Christopher_Schneeman.webp, Christopher Schneeman
By ANDY RATHBUN | arathbun@pioneerpress.com | Pioneer PressThe Winter Carnival king and queen have been crowned.Christopher Schneeman was declared thi
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