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Photos: 2014 Saint Paul Winter Carnival Royal Coronation

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The Vulcan crew departs after trying to ruin the celebrations at the 128th St. Paul Winter Carnival Royal Coronation on Friday, January 24, 2014. (Pio, Candidates for the 2014 Queen of the Snows wait to be introduced, including Laura Werk of Anoka, right. (Pioneer Press: Ben Garvin), Guns are fired as the Prince of the West Wind enters. (Pioneer Press: Ben Garvin), 2013's Prince of the Southwinds Chris Stout of Minneapolis shouts "Ole!" on final time before a new Prince was selected. "It's a bitter sweet moment,", Abby Massee of Savage reacts after being named the 2014 West Wind Princess. (Pioneer Press: Ben Garvin), Christine Schrader of Lakeville reacts after being named the 2014 East Wind Princess. (Pioneer Press: Ben Garvin), More guns are fired. (Pioneer Press: Ben Garvin), Roger C. Kruse of Anoka, this year's King Boreas LXXVIII, right, is crowned by the 2013 King Boreas Ted Natus of St. Paul. (Pioneer Press: Ben Garvin), Vulcans do their best to ruin the festivities. (Pioneer Press: Ben Garvin), Abby Hoglin of Lakeville reacts after being named the 2014 Queen of the Snows. (Pioneer Press: Ben Garvin), Hoglin is crowned by last year's queen Melissa Hoffbeck of Burnsville. (Pioneer Press: Ben Garvin), Roger C. Kruse of Anoka, this year's King Boreas LXXVIII, salutes the crowd with the new 2014 Queen of the Snows Abby Hoglin of Lakeville. (Pioneer Pr, Hoglin reacts to all the applause after being named Queen of the Snows. (Pioneer Press: Ben Garvin), Vulcanus Rex leads his crew off the stage. (Pioneer Press: Ben Garvin), Description of . People snap photos of this year's royal family at the 128th St. Paul Winter Carnival Royal Coronation on Friday, January 24, 2014.  (
The 2014 royal family was revealed at the Royal Coronation at St. Paul’s RiverCentre Friday, Jan. 24, 2014.Copyright 2014 Pioneer Press.

Winter Carnival’s Moon Glow parade lights up Rice Park

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Rice Park and Landmark Center lit up the night sky as Moon Glow Parade-goers were sent skyward by the St. Paul Bouncing Team during the 128th Saint Pa, Some of the 87 visiting ambassadors glowed in the firelight from a nearby hot air balloon basket. (Pioneer Press: Ben Garvin), he Bouncing Team bouncing. (Pioneer Press: Ben Garvin), More bouncing. (Pioneer Press: Ben Garvin), People stay warm in the sub-zero temperatures under the heat of a hot air balloon basket's fire. (Pioneer Press: Ben Garvin), 87 visiting ambassadors from other communities warm up on the bus after attending the 128th Saint Paul Winter Carnival Moon Glow Parade at Rice Park i, Pioneer Press photographer Ben Garvin was sent skyward by the bouncing team and managed to take this underexposed photo. (Pioneer Press: Ben Garvin)
By PIONEER PRESS | news@pioneerpress.com | Pioneer PressThe 128th St. Paul Winter Carnival officially kicked off tonight at the Moon Glow Parade in Ri

Hunt evolution: from treasure chest to medallion

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Jake Ingebrigtson, right, and his new wife, Sara, incorporated the Pioneer Presss Treasure Hunt medallion into their wedding ceremony Saturday, August, Jake and Sara Ingebrigtson at their 2010 wedding. (Courtesy photo), Pam Olson, from left, and Ray and Diane Wood hold 1979's medallion. (Pioneer Press file photo), 1979's medallion was found taped to a piece of bark and stuck near the base of a tree in Marthaler Park in West St. Paul. (Pioneer Press file photo), 1973's medallion is shown fastened into part of a doorknob bracket. (Pioneer Press file photo), One side of 1973's medallion. (Pioneer Press file photo), In 1973, the medallion was embedded in the heavy section of steel rail. (Pioneer Press file photo), These fake medallions were found in Central Park during the 2007 Treasure Hunt. (Pioneer Press file photo), In 1966, the prize was called a medal. Winners Peggy Fritzke and Iola Mossbrugger display it where they found it on Harriet Island. (Pioneer Press fil, To mark the 60th anniversary of the Pioneer Press Treasure Hunt, this medallion, used in the past five hunts, was retired in 2012 and given away in an, n 1953, people searched for a treasure chest. (Pioneer Press file photo), Inside the treasure chest was a certificate. (Pioneer Press file photo)
By PIONEER PRESS | news@pioneerpress.com | Pioneer PressParticipants in the Pioneer Press Treasure Hunt didn't always search for just a medallion. At

Winter Carnival: Vulcans' Snow Park becoming festival of its own

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David White scrapes the chin of a enormous ogre head, part of a gigantic snow carving at the State Fairgrounds in Falcon Heights, on Tuesday, January , Pat Mogren works on a gigantic ogre's head at the State Fairgrounds in Falcon Heights, on Tuesday, January 21, 2014. The sculpture, at the site of the
By PIONEER PRESS | news@pioneerpress.com | Pioneer PressJust a couple weeks before the start of the 2008 St. Paul Winter Carnival, organizers gave the

It took a decade for this King Boreas to rise

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Candidates for the 2014 Queen of the Snows wait to be introduced, including Laura Werk of Anoka, right, at the 128th St. Paul Winter Carnival Royal Co, 2013's Prince of the Southwinds Chris Stout of Minneapolis shouts "Ole!" on final time before a new Prince was selected at the 128th St. Paul Winter C, Roger C. Kruse of Anoka, this year's King Boreas LXXVIII, salutes the crowd with the new 2014 Queen of the Snows Abby Hoglin of Lakeville at the 128th, The Vulcan crew departs after trying to ruin the celebrations at the 128th St. Paul Winter Carnival Royal Coronation on Friday, January 24, 2014. (Pio
By JOSEPH LINDBERG | Pioneer Press“What’s a West Wind?”Watching a 2004 St. Paul Winter Carnival parade slide by, Anoka small-business owner Roger Krus

2014 Winter Carnival royalty named

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Candidates for the 2014 Queen of the Snows wait to be introduced, including Laura Werk of Anoka, right, at the 128th St. Paul Winter Carnival Royal Co, The Vulcan crew departs after trying to ruin the celebrations at the 128th St. Paul Winter Carnival Royal Coronation on Friday, January 24, 2014. (Pio, Guns are fired as the Prince of the West Wind enters. (Pioneer Press: Ben Garvin), 2013's Prince of the Southwinds Chris Stout of Minneapolis shouts, Abby Massee of Savage reacts after being named the 2014 West Wind Princess. (Pioneer Press: Ben Garvin)
By PIONEER PRESS | news@pioneerpress.com | Pioneer PressHail, St. Paul Winter Carnival royalty. The 2014 King Boreas and Aurora, Queen of the Snows, w

It’s here, there, everywhere in the hunt for the medallion

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In February 1979, Al Johnson begins his search for the medallion under a snow-covered picnic table on the fringe of Como Park. (Pioneer Press file pho, Gravity exists in 1979, too, as Al Johnson meets it as he slips off the Como Park picnic table he was searching around. According to the photo's origi, Al Johnson doesn't take his search lying down. The intrepid hunter resumes the hunt after falling off the Como Park picnic table. (Pioneer Press file , Al Johnson's search continues. (Pioneer Press file photo), In January 1987, grocery stockers Pat Hoelscher, left, and Jim Harrington, who had worked all night, headed for Mounds Park to hunt for the medallion., In February 1982, Terry Heiser of Woodbury searches for the Treasure Hunt medallion on Harriet Island. Note the acid-wash jeans on the hunter to the r, It's Treasure Hunt 1979, and Mary and Kevin Phernetton search for the medallion along the fence at the Como Park tennis courts. (Pioneer Press file ph, This medallion hunter searched Keller Park during the 1976 Treasure Hunt. (Pioneer Press file photo), Mike Powers, who was 19 during the 1987 Treasure Hunt, checked under picnic tables in Como Park. He came close to finding the medallion as an eighth-g, In 1984, Linda Schmidt of St. Paul searched for the medallion under trash barrels at the picnic area of Como Park. (Pioneer Press file photo: John Dom, In 1976, the St. Paul Winter Carnival King Boreas Treasure Medallion, worth $2,500 at the time, was found in this area of Keller Park. The winners tha, In 1976, Jack Trenter, with his brothers Jim, 14, and Mike, 8, all of St. Paul, look for the medallion at Como Park by the conservatory pool. (Pioneer, It's 1973, and members of this group, who believed they had interpreted the clue correctly, according to original caption information, were digging ne, Jack Barisoni of St. Paul and his daughter Denise, who was 16 at the time, search Highland Park during the 1976 Treasure Hunt. (Pioneer Press file pho, During the 1959 Treasure Hunt, three kids are oblivious to traffic rushing by on Warner Road as they search for the medallion along a fence near the r, Not even darkness can deter Leonard DeBee and Blaine Funkhausen, both of Roseville, as they search in Mounds Park during the 1982 medallion hunt.
By PIONEER PRESS | news@pioneerpress.com | Pioneer PressOn top of signs, under trash barrels or around picnic tables, intrepid searchers leave no spot

Once upon a time, before Twitter

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Screen grab from video of the 1993 Pioneer Press Treasure Hunt. Here, people wait to get clues that could only be had through hot-off-the-presses news
By JOHN BREWER | Pioneer PressThe video begins outside the St. Paul Pioneer Press building in downtown St. Paul. Cedar Street is clogged with cars, an
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