Aitkin County Public Health’s Freedom from Smoking Classes
Aitkin County Public Health’s Liz Short and Brea Hamsdorf discussed upcoming Smoking Cessation Classes coming on Tuesday in January and February at the Aitkin Public Library:
Wake the Lakes “DIMWIT-ZZZZ-DUMB for the Day”
–Manuals for TVs are regarded as useless, but in five thousand years they are as valuable as the Rosetta Stone: Most of those manuals have the same text in over 20 different languages and alphabets. –Tom and Jerry are best friends. But Tom has to pretend to hate Jerry in order to protect (Jerry) so…
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Aitkin Mayor Megan Workman on 12/21 Community Connection
City of Aitkin Megan Workman highlighted the efforts of snow removal from last week and this week, coordination in dealing with bitter cold temperatures, 2023 Levy and Budgets, and business and employment opportunities:
Weird and Wacky Wednesday: “Hippo Swallows Boy Whole, Spits Him Out”
(Katwe Kabatoro, Uganda) — A hungry hippopotamus in Uganda swallowed a toddler whole before spitting the child out. Police say the two-year-old boy was playing in his family’s house near Uganda’s western border when the animal attacked and swallowed him head-first. A man who saw what happened threw rocks at the hippo. The startled animal…
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Weird and Wacky Wednesday: “Florida Man watches Bear eat his Chick-Fil-A on doorbell camera”
A bear on the prowl for dinner in Florida found something a whole better than a pick-a-nick basket — and stole a bag of Chick-Fil-A chow from a man’s front porch. Paul Newman had placed a Grubhub order and was set to fetch it from his porch when he noticed his four-legged visitor had beaten…
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Pequot Lakes Chamber of Commerce 12-20-22
Pequot Lakes Chamber Director, Nichole Heinen, previews two big events in the Pequot Lakes area coming up in early 2023: The “2023 Excellence in Service Awards” on January 12th and the “2023 Bobber Bocce on Ice” on February 11th.
Wake the Lakes “Moron Lawbreaker for the Week”: Man Calls Police More Than 2,000 Times to Insult Them”
Calling police more than 2,000 times in nine days just to call them explicitly bad names will get you arrested — at least in Japan. Police say they received 2,060 angry phone calls between September 30th and October 8th (that’s roughly 229 calls per each of those 9 days or so) from a 67-year-old man…
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City of Crosby update with Administrator Matthew Hill
Crosby City Administrator Matthew Hill discussed snow removal and important information for the community to keep streets cleared, the November Election Results, an opening on the Planning and Zoning Board, and the hiring of a new manager for the Hallett Community Center: