started i was the last of the youngest of the family i started i was twelve i started building parade floats in the in one thousand nine hundred eighty three awkward and i remember my very first job was sorting jeep a dad actually helped start the seattle sea fair in seattle washington so what it's a little more about what you've done at the water carnival well exam probably be quicker to tell us wh haven't done with the winter carnival sol floats that we built we used to decorate landmarks center where we lit up the front of the building with lights and the insight straight down incidentally were the first people to on and his duties during the winter carols not only bring down two dozen floats at a time he was in charge of the floor operations of the auditorium so it was up to him to make sure the show moved through that the auditorium the way it was supposed to so he had a business as well as quite a bit of volunteer work a lot of things it's unique about festival folks as betty betty of the people say that they are all volunteers the people put on the  the real trick is you have to be able to drive a float that is a tricky part some of them are incredibly easy they will be a trailer pulled by a vehicle we like to use the old willies jeep which was just a fantastic vehicle  cover and decorate it to match the float and you just drove it through the parade others you drove from perhaps behind where the jeep was built into the frame more often than not completely blind you had to rely on navigators on the outside to tell you if you need to go left or right or slower or faster but then you also have to be able to strip these down so you can hop somewhat the the big we used to make we used to make them in one piece and haul them from our shop to downtown usually at a crawl ten to fifteen miles an hour which when our shop was in roseville wasn't too bad or we had one over there in st paul it was great blaine wasn't very nice pretty tough to do that we're going to be the parade today yes i actually am marching with the world war two reactors sponsored by the commemorative air force out of these selfsame paul airport and i'm following them with a group representing the marines of we talked a little bit before we got started about how quick darrius works i'd like to introduce you to steve schmidt he is boreas sixty nine this is his ten year anniversary steve that is here me oh yeah here ten years out two thousand and five so watch it tell the folks a little bit about how you got involved and where carter well i actually i work for i work with for n s p xcel energy and i travel around to different divisions in the company and i want up at rice street in st paul and i am a st paul guy so i was familiar with one of carnival but i was asked to be a north wind in one thousand nine hundred seventy so i was part of the royal fire family in ninety seven and then i got involved with the board the festival and heritage foundation i chaired it for a couple years and then i was asked to be boris in two thousand and four the year we had the ice palace so that's kind of it's quite a history steve what is it what does being a bore us entails i think a lot of people watch the grey but don't know what goes on behind the scenes well it entails a lot more i think that people actually think as probably a comment or two but you know you know you start out you've got the first ten days a carnival we made we made over one hundred appearances the first ten days you basically live at the same pollo tell and you go to schools you go to nursing homes you go to businesses you go to hospitals you travel around you go out of state you go out of the country you go to winnipeg we go braden to florida macon georgia san antonio but these people come to our coronation also so there's a lot of research stuff going on where you do a lot of community work yeah i'm involved with wilder foundation i'm a development committee i do stuff with the boy scouts of america i've been involved with a couple other nonprofits volcan charitable contributions b c c which is a five hundred one c three nonprofit that's that's giving money and scholarships out to university  minnesota students so yeah i'm involved i've been retired now six years but i feel like i'm working more now and getting paid less but still we just we just do the new family is for these people can you talk briefly about some of the roles people fill in the winter kind of a ok as far as roles go with the royal family are you talking specifically yeah you have you have that the king queen and prime minister are kind of the three i call the three legged stool they provide the leadership to the royal family but you've got to ne we west south wind and then you go north east west south princes and then you've got the royal guard that basically protects the royal family from the balkans throughout the year however and we lose at the torchlight parade but  know right now actually but yeah so you know the royal family consists of body thousand people then klondike kate is part of our little deal and everybody has their skit but the you know you think of the king and queen were kind of the sho it you got the prime minister which is really probably the toughest job because they're the ones that have to organize everything make sure you're on the bus on time off the bus get to the different events and like i say we made three hundred appearances our year you made them as a family yeah yeah and that's how many people well twenty but that's quite a job to get twenty people somewhere the prime does have a difficult that's all volunteer work people nobody's being paid to do that they're all volunteers yep and those  one hundred fifty of those are things like nursing homes children's hospitals yeah ronald mcdonald house these are these are not high profile they're hard work good civic work exactly we i remember going to some time or folk songs and stuff like that i mean people that even know but you know you bring a smile to their face or a tear to their i and they just love it and it makes your day so there's something about showing up and everybody's  attitude changes and everybody is a lot of fun in the family of people if you know if you want to be part of winter carnival can they do it how would they do it well i mean it yeah you could get involved there's different organizations there's a north wind organization there is the west wind organization i would seek out somebody in the family in the royal family and expressed some interest and i'm sure they can make make you or get you introduced to the right people otherwise you can go to the st paul winter carnival st paul festival heritage foundation there's a website anybody in the office could put you in touch with someone to make sure you get in role and then i think the coronation as far as the women go with the snow queens and stuff like that that's got their own program but people ask is it is it hard to become part of it my observations been if you want to be a part of it you're going to be welcomed you'll find a role it has definitely been part of it and just one last thing here before before it wor ok we're going to be looking for a lot of volunteers in a lot of different capacities coming up now you notice here in rice park we've got this ice wall this was our first attempt this year now to build something with ice harvesting ice on a lake fail building this ice wall we're going to do something in two thousand and sixteen probably a little bit bigger two thousand and seventeen a little bit bigger and two thousand eighty we're looking to build another ice palace here in st paul and that will be in conjunction with the two thousand eight hundred super bowl and we've been talking with the super bowl committee and a couple other people and there's a real strong commitment by everybody that this is going to happen so all we need people to help us harvest ice we need people t ice we need people to work down here to shovels you know wood chips around to haul cables or whatever so we're looking for a lot of volunteers coming up to do a lot of good work and make st paul really a spot on the map here in two thousand eighteen and kids if you like that movie frozen this is an opportunity to see what they were doing and what harvest ice means well if you're going to chance to see it this year on a fail and we actually hired a group o space or yes space or minnesota it's called we cut ice and these guys have been doing this for a long time and they're pros at it but hopefully in two thousand and eighty we'll be doing our own cutting but they come down here with the size and they they cut they basically go out in the lake you score the ice and these blocks run somewhere between three fifty to four hundred fifty to five hundred pounds and they score the ice and then they basically got this saw and they cut this stuff and then they've got an actual machine where you move this stuff around and get it up on his conveyor system comes up the conveyor onto trucks and we've got forklifts another here to pick it up and move it around but that's that's a major job in itself just harvesting the ice haul it down other festivals and the fact who is here this year well i think we've got some wires between fifty to sixty what they call i v are international busy royalty so we've got festivals from winnipeg to festival  whether it's pine city or lakeville or main cable there's people from all over so they come here to our festival we try to go to their festivals we try to show up for their prayed in the summertime and recognize them and acknowledge their people and but there's a lot of community a lot of connections meeting with all these different festivals we probably go to fifty coronations during the summer yeah the other thing too is everybody gets to know each other because we travel together  go what happened there is what a lot of festivals experienced here they had a downturn in their economy that was pretty severe earlier than we had in their festival by the way say from what i understand it was a pretty spectacular that you join you become a member after you serve your time and you got to be accepted star board yes and we have a chancellor person that kind of runs the organization and we do a lot of things we do a lot of things right now  today but we do something we raise some money in their name and we do some charitable things we give money out and it's just a good group of guys that you get to know over the years and we show up at this different different events we have dinners we have lunches a welcome thank you all right all right folks the parade coming our way here i think the color guard should be coming up any minute now you can hear the marching band as the safe all police band behind them the st paul police band was formed by a trio of st paul police officers celebrating its ninety first year this year you know they've grown to sixty five members they've got police officers volunteers and this is the only thing they do joy of making music and representing the city of st paul and the st paul police department all over this throughout the year so the praise movie a pretty good pace we got started about two o'clock we got here twenty five minutes yeah it's so warm i think the parade might be slow this year everybody's going to enjoy take their time thank them for their service  parade in two thousand and two after nine eleven we are proud that they were proud of fall behind the police and the fire units however now at the better way to women veterans still serving in harm's way we were as they've joined us now in the following behind the fourth and fifth district american legion you'll see saint paul mayor chris coleman mayor coleman became the forty fifth mayor of st paul in two thousand and six he was soaring for a third term and twenty thirty mayor coleman is a lifelong res of minnesota's capital city the post bridging the education gap at the core of his agenda making sure families and children have access to quality early childhood education program you know i think is quite a skater he did the make sure you join us this evening at seven o'clock right behind us cattle be performing from seven to nine maybe you can get a new single fearless it's available on i  they're walking behind her with the treasure check treasure was filed last thursday that's pretty early in the treasure hunt pair i think this might have been our lucky treasure hunter or skillful treasure but here we have this is card to go i think we got a lot order car to go is providing the twin cities on demand transportation from point a to point b join the alternative transportation movement today at car to go dot go see the show at the river center right over next to us here this is and you will show it features hundreds of cats or of the united states and canada competing for the crown the highest scoring male and female will be crowned winter carnival very successful either not miss one you know well they're doing well they've got washers and two trucks yeah you get a feeling for how i was strong these organizations are all the hard work they do for st paul it's great to see it all to out here on this beautiful me winter day troop thirteen has provided the lake power since nineteen forty six statistically freestyle artistic players and unicycle racing members hold over thirty national titles and over fifteen world championship titles this is an impressive group they've been very successful in the twin cities and our number palace tonight from eight o'clock until sometime sunday morning this is at the amsterdam bar hall you are welcome to it this giant dance party that's hosted by the royal guard the order of royal guard there's so much to do at the state fair it's a world class event showcase for a bigger culture industry technology and entertainment so here come our visiting royalty these are all the visiting ambassadors for over twenty five years ambassadors coming from surrounding woodbury their weekend takes in all of the winter carnival fun and they have a great time coming up the high that we have the commemorative air force minnesota wing steve baker show backers with them you've met here earlier today this is a commemorative air force minnesota wing of the minnesota historical societies historic fort snowing and world war two historical reinvent activant society they present a tribute to minnesota's military history and it's a veterans feature an authentic one nine hundred thirty s u s army color guard  military vehicles and reactors in authentic gear and uniforms for past conflicts there founded in one thousand and seventy one the commemorative air force minnesota wing is based at fleming field in south st paul the wing offers history flies of the actual world war two warplanes is operated as it was operating a museum and restored military vehicles several you could see right here today and there i see you can see written on the side of the bus they're all the reasons why you should almost no prob competition this is run by the institute of they have a geisha or star section which a student competition which which challenges science technology engineering and mathematics  raises awareness and appreciation of the st paul public library among the residents of the city they play appearing at numerous community festivals events and parades they're here with us every year we see of it just about every parade princes they want to invite all of you to their sixtieth waterer ramma and that's the last full weekend in july that's another photo that i've been to that one too that is absolutely beautiful there looking devoted to holding up banded and stray siberian husky huskies through a network of foster homes they really are beautiful they are these volunteers have successfully placed over seven thousand eight hundred deserving dogs ranging in age from twelve years down the puppies you know it's sad to if they don't find a home there are the only crime these dogs are committed as not having been raised in an environment that understood their breed they will shelters in minnesota wisconsin and illinois there's a st paul regional labor federation at the st paul regional man our federation unites more than fifty five thousand union members in the four counties of these metro area although the work that the union members do is change throughout the years commis commitment to working to improve our commitment as our community is consistent here some of the things they do a blood drives credit are way that i think they just came to see us t father's back yard got rated they invite you to join them in red wing for river city days the first weekend of august coming up right behind them right on their tail is he want to go to the world's toughest radio sponsor get it ready to go out west for the night the world's toughest rodeo bucks into x street ball soccer that's coming up saturday next saturday from ten in the morning to five and park that's another fun event a lot of fun to watch for pony express rides next saturday as well those of the here next to the  the former host of other courts services this is quite a haunted house and it's it's the real deal scary looking guy there if you like to be frightened you won't want to miss this one the festival of nations and st paul their mascot troll loki watches over the sparks leds in warmer weather they dance to traditional region national but they're all part of norwegian there's their mascot trol behind them we have a huge huge fish your movie offers full service movie with number one focus on making your moves they have a great team ready to help that's coming up right behind high that this is an all volunteer not profit organization that was founded at night sixty seven the belief that everyone should have a reason to smile summer now we have the minnesota historical society they've been sharing stories of minnesotans for over one hundred sixty five years through their historic sites interactive museums because when our community succeeds everyone wins us banks all of us are serving you  and we have next to look like we have the united states postal service the st paul postal office the st paul postmaster robot reynosa leads a contingent representing the u s postal services northland district volunteers advertise many products and services that are offered us p s dot com the north wind district encompasses more than ninety thousand square miles in minnesota and western wisconsin more than twelve thousand employees process and deliver mail to serve nearly six million customers the northland district is a leader of the use of flex fuel technology with approximately eleven hundred flex fuel vehicles in their delivery fleet the postal service receives no tax dollars for  celebrating ninety one years of sign trying circus in st paul this year this is the longest running shrine circus in north america ozma trying as represented by its legion of honor followed by  hospitals for children which provide specialized care to children with orthopedic edition her spinal cord and cleft lip and palate all their services are provided charge because of with we talked about next saturday night the potential overthrow boreas after that there's a fireworks show sheet from the crown plaza hotel where make sure not to miss a spectacular end to the st paul winter has played the greatest orchestral music for the greatest audience in the world the people of minnesota want to make sure to visit their newly remodeled hall of minneapolis behind the orchestra you'll find the northeast minneapolis twin cities that ran between st paul and minneapolis minnesota transportation museum is a nonprofit volunteer organization and their goals are to preserve an educated about trains and busses and they are different in many ways but this your core belief community is what we make it we serve to float that great cost  there comes a western saddle clubs association the ambassadors for the western saddle clubs association representing the five state area the twenty fourteen fifteen royalty are with us today  folks it looks like that's the end thank you for joining s p n and today for the say paul winter carnival grand day parade is sure to join us next saturday at five thirty for the torch