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The Winter Carnival's Vulcans aim to be naughty and nice after years of declining reputation

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20080201__080202Klinker.webp, Four-year-old Erin Young gets a close-up view of herself in the goggles of Tim Cole, the Vulcan Duke of Klinker, this week during the Krewe’s St. Paul
By ALEX FRIEDRICH | Pioneer PressFor decades, the Vulcans were like the guy at your party with the lampshade on his head.A lot of people found him sil

This year's King Boreas loves St. Paul, loves the Carnival and loves to chat them up.

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20080125_095253_BLG_WINTER_CARNIVAL.webp, The new 2008 Saint Paul Winter Carnival King Boreas LXXII Bill Foussard after being announced during the Royal Coronation at the RiverCentre Ballroom
By ALEX FRIEDRICH | Pioneer PressIf most of King Boreas’ reign is a matter of representing St. Paul, Bill Foussard should have it down pat already.The

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
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