Lakes Area Announcements and Cancellations 12/13/22-12/14/22
Tuesday, December 13th: Wednesday, December 14th:
How CHS Is Adapting to Current Workforce Challenges
St. Paul, MN — Staffing shortages are a problem for businesses nationwide and there’s no exception for the agribusiness economy either. Gary Halvorson is the Senior Vice President for CHS, a diversified global agribusiness cooperative owned by farmers and local cooperatives across the US with more than 10,000 employees. He talks about some of the…
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Donating Blood Is An Easy Process
Ada, MN — This weekend on the Access Health Program, we chatted with Jessica Kinzler of Vitalant about the ins and outs of donating blood. Blood continues to be in short supply and your donation will help save someone’s life, and donating is a pretty simple process. Kinzler says the whole process takes less than…
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Lakes Area Food Shelf – Pequot Lakes 12-12-22
Lakes Area Food Shelf in Pequot Lakes is ready to help this holiday season with needed food and warm clothing. Board member, Jean Kraft tells us more information on how their goal is to be a resource when it’s a challenge to make ends meet.
Wake The Lakes Lifehack for the Week: “A Hodgepodge of Lifehacks”
–How to determine if an egg is fresh: Fill a bowl full of water–A very fresh egg will sink to the bottom and lay on its side. Week old eggs will rest on the bottom, but the fat end of the egg will rise up slightly. Three week old eggs will be balanced on the…
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Local Veterans join December 9th Community Connection
Carroll Janzen, Russ and Tom Philstrom give an update on the latest happening with local American Legions and VFW’s:
Northland Arboretum 12-8-22
We visit with Candice Zimmermann, Executive Director of Northland Arboretum, and find out all of the fun winter activities happening at the Arb, including “Winter Wonderland,” skiing on their trails, snowshoeing, their Winter Nature Camp and MORE!
CRMC Social Worker Kim Olesen talks Tree of Love, Hospice Care
Cuyuna Regional Medical Center Social Worker Kim Olesen joined the show to talk about the 38th annual Tree of Love to honor loved ones and area hospice patients, how people can donate to the non-profit group, and what all goes into hospice care:
Wake the Lakes “DIMWIT-ZZZZ-DUMB for the Day”
–You only technically have one birthday, the rest are just congratulations for surviving. (Hey, you’re STILL alive…way to go) –Being a truck driver for a company that transports eggs must be an extremely stressful job. –Eventually, when everyone’s car is fully autonomous, we are going to get charged money for our cars to get somewhere…
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