Relatives in the Newspaper!

Look what was in the Minot Daily News today! (Terry and Tracy Knutson's mom is my cousin, whose dad is my dad's brother.)

They're Homecoming Royalty . . . and Twin Siblings

By Andrea Johnson

Minot Daily News

09/23/2008

BOWBELLS, N.D. -- When you're the homecoming king and your queen is your twin sister, there isn't a lot of romance involved.

When it came time for homecoming king Terry Knutson to crown his sister, Tracy, the homecoming queen, "He just plopped it on her head," said an amused superintendent Brent Johnston. The twins also weren't eager to ride together in a car during the homecoming parade at Bowbells High School, waving to all the people in the crowd. "They just rode with their own classes," Johnston said.

The twins make up a third of the six-member senior class at Bowbells High School. In such a small school, they do everything together, Tracy Knutson said. Everyone in the class was a member of the homecoming court. "They're twins, but they're two individuals," Johnston said. "They're both really good kids, participate in everything."

The result of the election was a coincidence. Their classmates voted separately for the homecoming king and queen, and the brother and sister just happened to get the most votes.
But everyone thinks it's pretty neat that the class elected a set of twins homecoming king and queen.

Homecoming coronation has become something of a family tradition for the Knutsons. Their older sister was homecoming queen three years ago, and their dad was a homecoming king years earlier.

The homecoming coronation will be given a page in the school yearbook. "It's pretty cool," said Terry Knutson. "It's kind of different."

["Different" from what, Terry doesn't specify . . .]

Terry Knutson and Tracy Knutson, Bowbells (ND) High School homecoming king and queen for 2008 -- and first cousins once removed of yours truly!