As Fleta Carol swirled around the dance floor last week, it was her head that drew the eye first.

Easter eggs dangled from the brim of her brightly colored hat, and a large stuffed blue and white toy bird perched high above the eggs and bright yellow paper tendrils.

Carol wasn't the only one with a bird on her head. Bette Upton's straw hat featured a garland of flowers with a tiny, but more realistic-looking, redbird on top.

Carol and Upton took first- and second place in the annual hat contest at the Senior Dance April 17 at the Cloquet VFW, where polka legend Florian Chmielewski and bandm...