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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
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