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'I'm a little persistent. I don't give up on dreams,' says new Queen of the Snows Gretchen Spier

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By MOLLY GUTHREY | mguthrey@pioneerpress.com | Pioneer PressThe fourth time was the charm for the new Queen of the Snows.Gretchen Spier, a 33-year-old

'I don't want them to look at me as an ex-cop,' says new King Boreas Art Blakey Jr.

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By JOHN BREWER | Pioneer PressArthur “Art” Blakey Jr. is used to being a pioneer of sorts.In his family, he was the first grandson, the first to serve

The Winter Carnival begins with the naming of the Royal Family

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Gretchen Spier 2010 Queen of the Snows gets a hug from the new King Boreas Rex, Art Blakey, Jr. Thursday night January 21, 2010 at the RiverCentre in , Gretchen Spier 2010 Queen of the Snows gets a hug from the new King Boreas Rex, Art Blakey, Jr. Thursday night January 21, 2010 at the RiverCentre in

By ANDY RATHBUN | arathbun@pioneerpress.com | Pioneer PressThe 2010 St. Paul Winter Carnival officially kicked off Thursday night with a coronation of

Life is a cabaret

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2010 Klondike Kate contest winner Suzanne Leisman of North St. Paul sings “Is You Is Or Is You Ain’t My Baby” by Louis Jordan at the Prom Center in Oa

By MOLLY GUTHREY | mguthrey@pioneerpress.com | Pioneer PressThe Pioneer Press recently queried Suzanne Leisman, a 47-year-old North St. Paul day-care

It ain't easy being royalty

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By JOHN BREWER | Pioneer PressHow should a Winter Carnival princess stand on stage?When can the West Wind fire blanks from his pistol?Is it OK for the

Meet the candidates vying for the crown

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By MOLLY GUTHREY | mguthrey@pioneerpress.com | Pioneer PressThe 13 candidates for the title of 2010 Queen of the Snows include a figure-skating coach,

Despite that boa, Klondike Kate is no featherweight

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By PIONEER PRESS | news@pioneerpress.com | Pioneer PressActive members of the Royal Order of Klondike Kates are known as the “mistresses of fun, frivo

Vulcans get an 'A' in comportment

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By PIONEER PRESS | news@pioneerpress.com | Pioneer PressWe had a wonderful dinner at Axel’s in Mendota on Jan. 26. We were seated for only a few minut

Meet 2009's Vulcanus Rex

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The Vulcans: front: Vulcanus Rex LXXII, Joe Vogel, N. St. Paul, back row, left to right: Baron Hot Sparkus, Steve Gravem, Maplewood, Duke of Klinker, , The Vulcans: front: Joe Vogel, (U.S. Postal Service) back row, left to right: Steve Gravem, St.Paul Police Officer, Steve Gurney, W.S.B. & Associates,, General Flameous, Fred Edstrom, left, fixes the headdress of Grand Duke Fertilious, Tim Shanley, before a photo shoot in the Pioneer Press photo studi

By ANDY RATHBUN | arathbun@pioneerpress.com | Pioneer PressKing Boreas rules no more.Vulcanus Rex and his crew of mischievous Vulcans overthrew the Ki

Woodbury couple's wedding gets the royal treatment from King Boreas and the Queen of the Snows

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King Boreas LXXIII Christopher “Chris” Schneeman, left, knights Sally and Sam Olson in Rice Park in St Paul on their wedding day during the 2009 St. P

By MOLLY GUTHREY | mguthrey@pioneerpress.com | Pioneer PressWhen Sally and Sam Olson decided on a winter wedding with a snowflake theme, they didn’t k

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