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Article: SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED; You don't need a Ph.D. to build a milk-carton boat, but a little know-how can mean the difference between a prize-winning vessel and a sunken ship.(FREETIME)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- July 14, 2000
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Milk cartons are piled high. Tables are cluttered with drinks and rolls of tape. And energetic children chatter incessantly and zip around the room. It looks like chaos. It sounds like chaos. But on a deeper level, things at the Wood residence are definitely under control.
On a recent Tuesday evening, Colleen Wood and a cadre of family members, friends, children and neighbors gathered in her living-room-turned-laboratory to start folding and taping hundreds of milk cartons for the Mendota Heights family's entry in this year's Aquatennial Milk Carton Boat Race.
The races - which began in 1971 as an ad agency's scheme to boost lagging milk sales - feature ...
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Article: Some big changes for Aquatennial; Junior royalty is out; 24-hour ...
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);
May 23, 2001 ;
700+ words
... ... events such as fireworks and the milk carton boat races have been moved to new locations ... find events. That's why the milk carton boat races will be moved from Lake Nokomis ... the festival. 2. Beach Bash: Milk carton boat races move from Lake Nokomis to Lake ...
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