LE MARS — Each month during the school year, the Le Mars Rotary club recognizes three senior students from Le Mars Community and Gehlen Catholic High Schools at the Rotary
The 2024 St. Paul Winter Carnival had its unofficial kickoff Wednesday night as eight women competed for the title of this year's Klondike Kate. In the end, Jody Vander Hart of Vadnais Heights won the sash.
Before she sang her second song at the 2024 Klondike Kate competition, the event’s emcee asked candidate Jody Vander Hart a question. The Winter Carnival legend character is inspired by a real person — the notorious Gold Rush entertainer Kathleen Rockwell — so, in her spirit, what’s the most notorious thing Vander Hart has ever done? “A very wise woman in a boa and feathers once told me, a .