that afternoon and thank you for that warm welcome but don't take this period of time warm to seriously after all we want to have a cool celebration for the winter carnival with all the temperatures cold enough to sustain the ice carvings the snow sculptures and even the snow and i think we've started out quite well the day probably the coldest day of the year so far so we thank you for coming to th warm celebration for us and the royal family rule over the st paul for one week in january the rest of the year the city is led by mayor chris coleman although mayor coleman is not able to be here today he his official greetings through this message that i will read to you as mayor of st paul i wouldn't like to extend the city's participation and appreciation for the hard work all the great candidates have done in their bid for the crown i do want to congratulate each individual candidate for their contribution to the community and to our wonderful st paul winter carnival one park which makes st paul the most livable city in america is its rich and longstanding traditions as well as a people who make up our unique diverse and successful community again i want to thank you for your individual achievements and i hope you cherry sis period of community service and fun that the winter carnival reflects each year i wish you an enjoyable time at the coronation and success in all your future endeavors sign christopher be calm and their city of st paul as you know the winter carnival has a long and storied tradition of one hundred twenty seven years what you may not know is that the senior royalty began their tradition over fifty years ago the senior royalty program has come a long way since its humble beginnings hundred fifty s the modern day senior royal court participates in parades makes appearances at schools senior residences public events entertains a terrace centers and senior clubs and has face to face contact with thousands of people the two thousand and twelve court court participated in twenty parades and made ninety one appearances mingling with thousands of people during their time and during their r soon will be greeting the two thousand and twelve court we welcome them to these proceedings and welcome all of you again before we bring them in let us set the stage for their arrival will the royal gift bearers please come forward with the corey brady fitzgerald ella fitzgerald mr pat i go and from the west the wild wild west were all the wind comes from was spicy one the guy that brought the temperatures that everybody wish we had today this summer from there our house of up tech partners mr chuck scheffler participate in this grand spectacle and we've had such a great time with the seniors this year in all the parades and as he's mentioned the south and was working overtime because it was a hot summer so i think the things being equal we're going to have a cold really is an honor to be here today and be here to welcome in a new court we did have just a wonderful time with last year senior as they joined us and several parade throughout the year so it's always great to show every side of the winter carnival celebration with the juniors and our seniors and it really completes the family to have all of us together sell thank you for joining us throughout the year and we really look forward to all of you coming to the hundred twenty seventh winter carnival celebration as a kicks off here starting thursday that is just amazing so thank you now remain standing please as we welcome the senior rulers of the and be recognized as their names are unknowns from the st paul city council representing ward six council member dan b representing words three council member from the st paul department of parks and recreation your own sponsor and coordinator of senior oil to please welcome director manager of recreation services when peterson him the new c e o of the st paul festival and heritage foundation rosanne bomb the two thousand and thirteen winter carnival would be the final coolest celebration on earth for best pinkney in her position as c e o beth will be stepping down from her post the simple parks and recreation senior program would like to extend our sincere gratitude for all of your support with the senior  or a sister city of minneapolis has sent members of their senior royalty alumni organization we are grateful for their support and for the cooperative agreement between our two festivals with the minneapolis awkward ten year old senior along ny please stand  also plus president today are members of the cameo club and royalty from the various st paul neighborhood festivals with those individuals please stand as was mentioned earlier the theme for today's event centers around the history volunteer ism and dedication to winter carnival the st paul winter carnival senior royalty could not exist without the dedication of our senior royalty alumni association many of them are here in the audience today as they are introduced with the senior royalty alumni in attendance please stand and be recognized from the court of one nine hundred ninety king winner of the thirty second john m from the court of two thousand and one princess of the four winds colleen charles from the court of two thousand and two prime minister gary from the court of two thousand and six prime minister edward urn writer more sincere thanks and appreciation is extended to all members of the senior royalty our distinguished panel of judges are also present to confirm their selection of the new miners please join me in thanking gary theme for the winter carnival as you know is the coolest celebration on earth some of the coolest celebrations of carnival that may come to you to mind in mind to you are the grand day parade the torchlight free the vulcans in their firetrucks the king's guard as they march the winds in their lovely princesses and let's not forget the royal court coronation of boris rex and aurora queen of snows but possibly the most distinctive celebration of carnival belongs to our wonderful klondyke capes please welcome the klondike h as they raise your voice is our spirits and possibly their skirts a bit i think it's taped holy cow this is this means i can't wander around and kiss anybody's foreheads to later i found myself i'll take care of that part and it is my honor to and i thought it would be fun if you got to hear a little bit of why she got that sash and in honor of our kind of credit weather i'm going to sing a little song about the sun the sun  we're going to do one more and this one some of you just may know some of the words and so you can feel free to sing along she's just learned and most of them so and will forgive her for another maybe day like maybe twelve hours we're bringing him back a little bit later on to give some advice to our candidates king winter has continued the time honored tradition of sending their loyal senior alumni subjects in search of really successors to his throne at this time his majesty would like to present his hopeful successors please welcome our candidates her own graduated with a master's degree in psychology on december twelfth two thousand and twelve she worked as a nurse gerontologist in hawaii in his spare time she enjoys walking reading dancing and singing own volunteers developing proposals for seniors needing support at the west seven community center energy is what she has and she enjoys sharing it with everybody gerry has retired from the i was owners insurance company she enjoys traveling and has been in every state in the united states except hawaii in the summer you will find her outside her garden and every chance she has she is at the lake fishi she has traveled from alaska to oregon on a road trip with her grandson she has two beautiful daughters two wonderful son in law and five outstanding grandchildren jerry volunteers a change john's hospital every wednesday and the same platoon as three of his siblings he is a volunteer a bone marrow donor and won't blood donor and is a life member of the purple heart  sixty and went on to be the executive secretary for governor kohl raul leader self has worked in both public and private sector endeavors she has two wonderful children and one grandson and one of her goals includes equity all she enjoys singing and entertaining for other randy spent thirty years working in the computer field he now enjoys playing the guitar and writing songs he is a spiritual spiritualist reiki master and an ordained minister with the universalist church of christ he shares his love of entertaining running an open mike and happen in minnesota in his spare time he delivered meals on wheels promotes church and community dinners and helps with fundraisers for the homeless retired state of minnesota worker she was very active and enjoyed ballroom dancing with progress free sports music travel and exercise she enjoyed sharing her retirement with her two sisters her brother in law and three nephews one niece and one grand news currently she is secretary of the midwest polka association she enjoyed sharing her time working with challenging us and bring hopes and cheers to patients who are undergoing heart surgery next we have lady patricia richardson escorted by michael hayman earlier she still enjoyed working as an in it and is the owner of two subway restaurants has celebrated fifty two years of marriage has seven daughters and seventeen grandchildren her grandchildren keep her on the go attending all their special events she is the oldest civil levon siblings and enjoy volunteering at the irish fair held on harriet island and of course to st patrick's day parade lady carol fish and sir david for sell girl enjoy such reading gardening keeping house teaching she is employed by the minneapolis public schools her first experience after graduating with working in the atlanta school district missing the snow she came back to minnesota she had volunteered as a girl scout leader as a church catechist and hosting a delegate from kenya david was born in the icebox of the nation international falls minnesota he has six children fifteen grandchildren and one great granddaughter he is an active volunteer at the local food shelf working with parks and recreation coaching youth being a scout leader he enjoys fishing boating and skiing lady jackie whitner escorted by  jackie served in the united states army and was employed by the same paul school district and now enjoys being retired she has a difficult time trying to figure out how to get the love all those activities interest her happiness include sewing fishing downhill skiing cooking grandchildren volunteering is a must and includes a lutheran social services catholic charities and operation glass slipper she is a member of the winter carnival ambassadors group past senior royalty and as treasurer for the senior royalty alumni association sir everett budge escorted by judy bu retired from life track resource in his free time he enjoys volunteering at his church's food shelf working on the computer playing cards hand and foot going to the casino and many vacations in the five state area he enjoy spending time with his grandchildren to keep in touch with his family and friends he enjoys facebook he celebrated his forty fifth wedding anniversary on december sixteenth who is a retired individual he loves to make people laugh and smile his private hobbies include traveling art music and teaching although lou is retired he continues to work as a photographer volunteers taking photos for the senior program is a past senior royalty and is a vice president of the senior royalty alumn best enjoyed clowning and bringing fun to all she is the oldest of seven trilled and learn how to create stories and share them at bedtime she now has multiple children books ready to go to the publisher celeste favorite activity is in the winter of volunteering for winter carnival activities carnival is extensive and she can talk for hours about her involvement in enjoyment of winter carnival she is currently heading up the winter carnival but in sales for the senior royalty alumni association another king winter the fifty fourth queen of the north lands in their court here preparing a farewell message for this audience will the two thousand and twelve court please stand  winter the fifty fourth with my most fabulous court i stand before you today with the crown on for the last time when we leave here today we will enjoy the reign of king winter the fifty fifth and his court i would like to thank everyone who has made this court two thousand and twelve so perfect  paul parks and recreation department the winter carnival senior royalty and aluminum aluminite association and all the people people who have helped us in the past year especially and a very special thanks to call ange charles who was there to help out with her experience let's have a big hand for these three very special people we started off slow with meetings once a week everyone shared ideas in soon we were ready for our first show it was at maternity and mary school on feb thirteenth two thousand and twel we had some rough edges but that didn't stop us from having fun and putting on a good show we musta been done something right some say invited us back again in the fall we started going to nursing homes and church groups we kept sharpening our skills we read poetry saying old tunes and made some ourselves and we did dance we even created a rap group and may have heard of them they have been they have become quite famous now rapping grannies the spring we had to figure out how we would travel in parades that would be coming up we knew if we use convertibles we would need three princes to marcy said to her son knew of a person with a trailer we could use and prime minister frank said we could use his pick up to pull a trailer so next saturday we meant to frank's and we were in the float building business it's an auger all parade was a cinco de mayo parade i have a couple favorite moments i'd like to share when we were in the october fest parade in lacrosse wisconsin marcy got tired of sitting in the car and got out and started walk in the parade it was like she was running for mayor shaking hands posing for pictures i think if there would have been some babies around she would have kissed  another fun time was hudson wisconsin queening wanted to enter the spaghetti eating contest i wasn't in favor of it i told her if she got three others for the team i would be a good sport and be the fourth well you guessed it i was the fourth we had eat half a pound of cook cold spaghetti with a little watery sauce added to it in two minutes by the end of iran we will have made it one hundred seven people put in one hundred eleven appearances twenty of which were parades this is got to be the best court and now as we promised we asked at the klondike a to return and entertain our candidates and you the audience know that was very true and one of the things i did for them was create a little song my senior king actually brought his lovely wife mary up and danced to it here a couple of years ago so i know you will probably know what it's from the it's based on the melody of a christmas waltz if you feel yourself doing a little one two three one two three that's why but this is for my seniors who was the two thousand and nine i believe klondike kate and i need your this years two thousand and thirteen we thank you for your for warming effect today you can hear one more of that wonderful kate scholl on when all the kids get together for the klondike eight winter carnival cabaret which will be on saturday seven pm at the doubletree by hilton which at four which is at four eleven minnesota st sounds like a celebration you wouldn't want to miss again thank you very much ladies and gentlemen it is now time to select our new monarch here to act as our lord hard chamberlain of the court is a leader of the peace keeping officers in this northern realm of winter where you'll please join me in welcoming the city of st paul's chief of chief smith resides on st paul's westside with his wife and family he has a special compassion for this neighborhood and this is the one he grew up in he is a graduate of humble high school and is a strong supporter and board member of house and also volunteers at the boys and girls club on the west side chief smith will now assist us in selection of our new royalty lord chamberlain of the court chief smith we ask that you choose our new prince of the four win we now have one half of the two thousand and thirteen porch elected we need a princess a lady in waiting and a queen to complete the court ladies please step forward and take your positions and now it is time to select the lady in waiting as their first roy king winner the fifty fifth and queen of the northlands have decreed that all remaining candidates in escorts become their special ambassadors to help spread the royal messages throughout the kingdom what the faithful ambassadors come forward and pa ladies and gentlemen once again please join me in congratulating our senior our algy for two thousand and thirteen join me in a round of applause also for pages were in venice and laurie m king winner of the fifty fifth has decreed that the royal photographer be allowed on stage to take the official photos of the new court and their guests well yes members may take photos as well but please allow the official photos to be taken first after the royal photographs have been taken there will be time for those who would like to take pictures to come forward so get your cameras ready for the winter carnival scene your coronation will be broadcast on st paul neighborhood network cable nineteen please check your program for further information you are invited to join refreshments in the back of the room following today's festivities the reception is provided courtesy of pathways in the park senior apartment thank you for attending the two thousand and thirteen st paul winter carnival senior royalty coronation and have a wonderful evening as we all enjoy the coolest celebration on earth