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KAPOSIA DAYS

2015Supplement to the South-West Review Week of June 22, 2015

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JUNE 26, 27 & 28

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This year marks the 40th celebration of Kaposia Days in

South St. Paul. Along with that impressive mile marker, folks

can enjoy many of the same events that took place at the first celebration in 1976 the same year the nation celebrated its Bicentennial including the street dances, parades and fire-works.In addition to the traditional, planners of Kapo-

sia Days have added a few new activities, the most notable of which being the all-week Medal-lion Hunt, by which participants will use clues to search for a medallion the size of a hockey puck that's hidden somewhere in the city.Though that hunt may take some time, and the

use of deductive reasoning and slow contempla-tive thinking in order to piece together clues, there are other events that will require quite the opposite: survival instincts and quick reactions: dodging great bursting orbs of water during the Water Balloon Dodgeball tournament."It's is a very exciting event to participate in, or

even just to watch," Kaposia Days president Jeff MacDonald says.

The event will take place at Central Square, 100 Seventh Ave. N. in South St. Paul, from noon to 2 p.m. Saturday, June 28. The entry fee for the "battle" is $15 per team if registered before June 24. Entries after June 24 will cost $20 per team."Anybody in the community can form a team,"

says MacDonald.To register your team contact Deb Griffith at

[email protected] or call her at 651-554-3230.

For the competitiveThen again, perhaps you prefer more sweat

over just wet, and with a tad more seriousness added to the competition. There's an event for that. According to MacDonald, if competition is

what fits your fancy, the annual Kaposia Days Softball Tournament is the right activity for you. It's the state's second largest softball tournament."The three-day softball tournament always has

a great turnout," MacDonald says. "Teams come from all over the state for it."The tournament begins at 6 p.m. Friday, June

26, ends at 8 p.m. Sunday, June 28, and it will take place at Veterans, McMorrow and Harmon fields.

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To register a team or for more information, contact tournament director Rich Rakness at 651-455-1725.There's plenty more competition in which to participate. There's

the bean bag-throwing Cornhole Tournament, or, if you entered the photography contest, perhaps your photo will be displayed as a win-ner of one of the three categories: scenic, nature or pets. Or, if afraid your children can out-compete you, maybe they'll win the Cute Kid Contest, and you can always enter your baby into the Baby Races.

What it's all aboutThese are fun events, but in reality, the festival is not all about

pitting community members against each other. In fact, it's about quite the opposite. Four decades ago, when civic leaders were looking for a name for

their new-to-town summer festival, they found that they didn't have to look very far. They picked Kaposia, the name of the first settlers of South St.

Paul. The Kaposia were a tribe of Mdewakanton Sioux who established

a village on the east side of the Mississippi River in the mid-1700s. They lived there until a government treaty in 1837 granted them land on the west side of the river for their seasonal village. Every summer, the village of the Kaposia welcomed more than

400 Native Americans. In the same spirit, Kaposia Days hopes to bring the community together for a weekend of summer activities and family-friendly fun. The festival is also steeped in traditions, featuring classic events

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Linda E. Andersen/file photoKeep an eye out for this 1952 Chevy pickup and other gems at the Kaposia Days classic car show.


at the VFW, the royalty coronation and the Children's Parade, which has a story-book theme this year.It hosts Kaposia Native Village,

which presents displays and activities from Native American culture led by volunteers dressed in traditional Indian clothing. "There's so much to do. You can

wear yourself out," says Holly Pugh, last year's president of the Kaposia Days volunteer board, which organizes the festival every year. "It's all kinds of activities for all ages

that everyone can come out and enjoy," Pugh adds. "It's just a good time to get together with your old friends and your family."So whether you're a South St. Paul

native or a Twin Cities transplant, the city of South St. Paul invites you to come out and enjoy the 40th celebra-tion of Kaposia Days, June 27-29.

Sit back and enjoyThough the events could lead to

exhaustion and some people seek just that there are plenty of more relaxing things to sink your teeth into,

including the foods. Before, after, in-between and during

the parades, the kite flying, the clas-sic car show, the street dancing, bingo, lot parties, pony rides, games and live music, there will be foods to be con-sumed delicious ones. A couple food locations include the

"food court" with concession vendors that will be set up at Eighth and South-view Friday evening from 5 to 9:30 p.m. Also, Fury Motors employees

will be flipping pancakes and grilling up sausages for your Sunday morning breakfast from 9 a.m. to noon at the car dealership, 1000 Concord Street S. in South St. Paul. The meal is complimen-tary with a Kaposia Days button.

The buttonThe 2015 button was designed by

Donald Madland, Jr., a fifth-grade stu-dent at Kaposia Education Center. "I got the idea for the button from

features of South St. Paul such as the Packers logo, a teepee from the Kaposia Indians, and the Mississippi River," says Madland, 10, who likes to draw and play golf and hockey.The button, which costs $3, will

help you get into the Royalty Candi-date Showcase, the Button Swim, Fury Motor's Pancake Breakfast, miniature golf, and it will act as a discount on the Pro Wrestling America event and street dance at the VFW, too.You can purchase the button at any

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Events at the VFWAccording to MacDonald, one of the

funniest places to be Saturday after-noon is the VFW, 111 South Concord Exchange, South St. Paul.That's because from 2 to 4 p.m.

there's going to be a smashing perfor-mance by Pro Wrestling America."I've watched it before," says Mac-

Donald. "And I have to say, it's pretty comical."On top of that, beginning at 4:30

p.m. is the Pie Eating Contest, where participants will compete to determine who can eat a pie the fastest. The festivities will wrap up with a

bonfire, outdoor live music, and the street dance starting at 8 p.m.

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If you happen to be driving south on 10th Avenue in South St. Paul the night of June 25, you can expect lawn chairs arrayed beside the road. That evening South St. Paul's Kaposia

Days Grande Parade will be "popular as always," predicts Tim Simplot, who has been directing the parade since 2007. Simplot has been in dozens of parades, but the Kaposia Days Grande Parade is one he seems to cherish. He says the "overall excitement" the parade brings to the community is what he enjoys most about it. Mother Nature must look favorably

on the parade, too; in all the parade's years, it has only been rained out twice. It's also the parade that gives out

the most candy, Simplot adds with a chuckle.

A worthy grand marshal joins the fun

One South St. Paul resident who is particularly thrilled about this year's parade is Adam Carter. The award-

winning news reporter, who has been on the staff of WCCO Radio since 2001, was born and raised in South St. Paul and has been attending the

parade since he was a boy. He considers it a dream come true to

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Parade starts at 6:30 p.m. Friday, June 26 at the intersection of 12th Avenue North and Third Street. But the fun does not stop once the parade has ended. The parade kicks off the annual Kaposia Days summer festival. Information on all the festivi-

ties can be found at kaposiadays.org/calendar/2015-06. A PDF link to a detailed map of the parade route can be found at kaposiadays.org/event/grande-parade.The Childrens Parade begins

at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, June 27 at the corner of Fifth Avenue North and Southview Boule-vard. A map of the parade route can

be found at kaposiadays.org/event/childrens-parade.

Linda E. Andersen/file photoLittle pirates set sail in the 2014 childrens parade. This years theme for the chil-drens parade on June 27 is storybook.

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be selected as this year's parade grand marshal. "It's a tremendous honor," he says. "I don't think I'm worthy of it." His involvement in the South St. Paul

community proves otherwise. He is cur-rently a member of the South St. Paul Educational Foundation, where he ful-fills responsibilities such as raising money for scholarships for high school seniors. He also emcees a variety of community events, such as fundraisers and banquets. In Carter's words, he "always tries to

say yes" when someone asks him to be master of ceremonies for a local event, and also attends fundraisers at "any chance I can get."Why so devoted?Carter says he simply wishes to give

"any help that I can give in my posi-tion." To Carter, South St. Paul is not a little

dot on a Twin Cities map. It is a place where "lifelong friendships and con-tacts" are made; where there are always "people to look up to;" where families can "grow and strive together;" where people carry on the tradition of working

hard for the benefit of those around them and the bettering of their community. This might all explain why Tim Sim-

plot says that Carter is "very proud of his hometown."

High time for the whole familyRiding with Carter in the lead con-

vertible will be his wife, Heidi, and daughters Morgan and Signe. Carter says his daughters have never been in a parade. One can only imagine their delight. Joining Carter and his family in the

parade will be 90 to 100 other entrants, including musicians, floats, local busi-nesses and clubs, and the traditional parade royalty. Simplot says that all the

entrants that participated last year will be marching again on June 26.Also returning is the Children's

Parade, which takes place Saturday, June 27. Entrants line up at 10:15 a.m. at Fifth Avenue North and Southview Boulevard. The kiddie parade begins at 10:30 and

concludes at 11 a.m. at Central Square, 100 Seventh Ave. N.This year, the procession's theme is

"Storybook."Regardless if you are in the Grande

Parade, the Children's Parade, or simply setting your lawn chair beside the curb, you will find yourself entertained and delighted by the sights, sounds, and the overall joy that the parades bring. You might even manage to snatch

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Michaele Rowan, 17, says she can remember watching Kaposia Days royalty ride through the parade on a float when she was a little girl and the sense of wonder it instilled in her. She vowed she'd run one day, but

nearly lost sight of that goal as she gravi-tated away from "girly things" in high school. Thanks to a nudge to apply along with the support of her good friend Emily York (who also ran and was crowned princess) and sponsorship from state Sen. Jim Metzen and his wife Sandie Rowan decided to fulfill her childhood dream before she graduated.

Royal reflectionsClosing in on her final days as Kaposia

Days queen, Rowan says the experience has changed her for the better. "I've become a lot more comfortable in

social situations," she says. "This gave me a lot of new relationships."Having served as an ambassador for

the city this past year, she attended every single event, including the grand re-open-ing of the Wakota Arena, South St. Paul Spirit of Christmas events and area-wide festivities. "There were times where I've been up

late figuring out parade times, what to wear and who to contact," she says, add-ing she enjoyed every minute of it. In juggling her new responsibilities

with school, she found herself spending less time scrolling through Instagram on her phone and more time utilizing it as a business tool to make calls and schedule appointments.

Highlight reelAs South St. Paul Kaposia Days queen,

Rowan says her interactions with people meant the most to her. During the cele-bration last summer, she got to meet with representatives of the Kaposia Native American tribe to thank them for com-ing and sharing the history behind the festival's name. She says she always preferred these

face-to-face encounters over riding on a parade float. But one parade moment stood out above all the rest, she says. She noticed a little girl sitting on the curb with no arms looking up at her, smiling. "I waved at her and she actually waved

at me with her foot," Rowan says. "I felt a lot of strength in this little girl that she knew how to interact with her disability.

I thought that was really cool."Words of advice

Rowan says she decided early on that she wasn't going to compare her service to that of any past royalty, and it worked out for the best. "The best advice I could give is to

make it your year," she says, offering advice to the 2015 queen. "Just be your-self. In keeping with the qualities that earn

her title, Rowan gives credit to her fam-ily, for supporting her throughout her term. Her parents were at every single event and her brothers would help pre-pare parade floats. But she never felt her royal duties were

about her. Passing along the perspective that

made her year such a success, she says, "Know that the crown is not necessarily a symbol of entitlement, but more a sym-bol of service to the city and everybody around you. You're now in a role where you have a chance to make an impact."

Erin Hinrichs can be reached at 651-748-7814 and [email protected]. Fol-low her at twitter.com/EHinrichsNews.

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2014 Kaposia Days Queen Michaele Rowan

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