St. Paul Public Library a trove of Carnival history
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By MARY ANN GROSSMANN | mgrossmann@pioneerpress.com | Pioneer PressDid you know the official St. Paul Winter Carnival legend is 15 pages long?The conv
Pioneer Press Winter Carnival
It's cool to be queen
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By MOLLY GUTHREY | mguthrey@pioneerpress.com | Pioneer PressThey wear sensible winter boots. Some of them like to fish and hunt. Others ice skate, sno
One celebration, many clubs
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By PIONEER PRESS | news@pioneerpress.com | Pioneer PressThe Klondike Kates and the noisy Vulcans you know, but did you know there are 16 fraternities
Enjoy great indoors in downtown St. Paul
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By AMY CARLSON GUSTAFSON | Pioneer PressWho says you have to be cold to enjoy the Winter Carnival? True – getting bit by a nippy winter breeze does ma
This Kate has plenty of spunk
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20080111__080120WC-Box3.webp, Klondike Kate 2005 Paula Berends at Landmark Center Wednesday night January 5, 2005 when she won the competition to be this year’s Kate.
By ALEX FRIEDRICH | Pioneer PressThis year, people will call Audra Weier by her new title: Klondike Kate.Her friends have called her something else: t
Friends of the fire and ice
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20080111__080120WC-box4.webp, For Boxmeyer Story...1946 Vulcan Krewe member Dick O'Brien and his 1946 Vulcan cap covered with vintage Vulcan and Winter Carnival buttons-- in front , 20080111__080120WC-box.webp, Dorothy Furlong, 71, sits in her home in White Bear Lake, Minn., Friday, Jan. 11, 2008. (Brandi Jade Thomas, Pioneer Press)
By DON BOXMEYER | Pioneer PressWorld War II had just ended and it was time to have fun again. Dick O’Toole was home from the sea, having somehow safel
CARNIVAL TIME!
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By PIONEER PRESS | news@pioneerpress.com | Pioneer PressThe history. The rules. The royalty. The eats. The schedule. Your complete guide to the 2008 W
Thanks to the Vulcans, snow will be sculpted
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20080117_065651_sculpt.webp, Colin Jones, 5, looks at a Rino balancing on a ball that won first place in the Saint Paul Winter Carnival Snow Sculpting contest in Roseville on Mond
By ALEX FRIEDRICH | Pioneer PressKing Boreas, time to eat humble pie.The same dudes who are plotting to give you the boot next month – those fire-mong
Winter Carnival snow sculpting competition a go
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By ALEX FRIEDRICH | Pioneer PressThe Winter Carnival’s Snow Sculpting Competition is back on, thanks to a $10,000 donation by the Vulcans, carnival of
Winter carnival cuts snow sculpting competition
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By ALEX FRIEDRICH | Pioneer PressIn the end, it was money and not Mother Nature that ended the St. Paul Winter Carnival’s snow-sculpting competition t