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Meet 2009's Vulcanus Rex

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20090129__090201vulcan2.webp, 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, , 20090129__090201vulcan3-bw.webp, 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,, 20090129__090201vulcan1-bw.webp, 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

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

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