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This Kate has plenty of spunk

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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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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 , 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