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Soucheray: Cold and barbed wire, scrapes and dents and busted skis. What a race that was!

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By JOE SOUCHERAY | jsoucheray@pioneerpress.com | Pioneer PressAround this time of year, when the morning sun is a rumor and the air cuts your breath l

Soucheray: It’s an inopportune time to be a Winter Carnival Vulcan

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By JOE SOUCHERAY | jsoucheray@pioneerpress.com | Pioneer PressThis is a bad time to be a Vulcan. Inopportune, to put it mildly. The fellows, who once

Soucheray: King Boreas will meet with the mayor about the monument. We’ll see what happens

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By JOE SOUCHERAY | jsoucheray@pioneerpress.com | Pioneer PressThoughtful people have written thoughtful letters to the editor concerning the location,

Soucheray: Find that Ice Palace monument and move it to Rice Park

Submitted by Administrator on Sat, 06/03/2017 - 11:00 AM

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By JOE SOUCHERAY | jsoucheray@pioneerpress.com | Pioneer PressCharlie Hall, the 47th King Boreas of the St. Paul Winter Carnival, in 1983, challenged

Soucheray: Will Minneapolis steal St. Paul Winter Carnival thunder in 2018?

Submitted by Administrator on Fri, 02/10/2017 - 8:08 AM

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By JOE SOUCHERAY | jsoucheray@pioneerpress.com | Pioneer PressEarly warning signs include the idea that Minneapolis, or suspect provocateurs in Minnea

Soucheray: I don’t write the Treasure Hunt clues, but I once hunted

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By JOE SOUCHERAY | jsoucheray@pioneerpress.com | Pioneer PressMy own beloved newspaper did me a disservice last week by printing snippets from a numbe

Joe Soucheray: Bring back the Winter Carnival floats

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20140124__140125bbcut-norwayfloat_2.webp, Gordon Shumaker built this Whirlpool-sponsored float for the International Festival in Bergen, Norway. (Courtesy Steve Shumaker)

By JOE SOUCHERAY | jsoucheray@pioneerpress.com | Pioneer PressOne of Gordie Shumaker’s biggest Winter Carnival Grande Day parade floats was commission

Soucheray: Super Bowl is fun but ice palace could be forever

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20140521__140525superpalace.webp, A fireworks display puts the final touches on the lighting ceremony for the 1992 Ice Palace during opening night on Harriet Island in St. Paul Wednesd, 20140523__5-23IcePalace1992.webp, The 1992 St. Paul Winter Carnival Ice Palace on Harriet Island in St. Paul. (Pioneer Press: Richard Marshall)

By JOE SOUCHERAY | jsoucheray@pioneerpress.com | Pioneer PressSo magnificent was the Winter Carnival ice palace of 1992 that we — carnival-goers — mar

Joe Soucheray: When they say St. Paul, they'll think, 'ice palace'

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20140204__140207bbcut-39palace.jpg, Bulletin Board Notes: Our Web-wandering research has concluded that this is the 1939 Ice Palace. Our best find: http://tinyurl.com/Palace-39. If our c

By JOE SOUCHERAY | jsoucheray@pioneerpress.com | Pioneer PressGloria Carpenter of White Bear Lake wrote to the Pioneer Press last week of her desire t

Worry not over Vulcan vehicles, but over Vulcan victory

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20110131_023405_vulcanKrewe.webp, A group of Vulcans cavorting in the streets during the 2009 Winter Carnival.

By JOE SOUCHERAY | jsoucheray@pioneerpress.com | Pioneer PressAs initially reported, it sounded as though the boys had gotten themselves into another

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