Tag: Wake The Lakes Morning Show

Weird and Wacky Wednesday: “School Worker Charged With Stealing $1.5 Million Worth Of Chicken Wings”

(Harvey, IL)  —  A food service director is being accused of stealing one-and-a-half million dollars worth of chicken wings from a Chicago-area school district.  Vera Liddell is accused of ordering more than eleven-thousand cases of the wings from the district’s food provider before picking them up in a district cargo van.  Court records say the…
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February 1, 2023 0

Weird and Wacky Wednesday: “Girls Basketball Coach plays in place of 13-year-old”

An assistant girls’ basketball coach at a high school in Virginia has been fired after the 22-year-old woman put on a uniform and played in place of a 13-year-old member of the team.  Churchland High School in Portsmouth, Virginia says the 13-year-old girl was out of town and unable to make the junior varsity game,…
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February 1, 2023 0

Aitkin Community Education on January 31st Community Connection

Lara Parkin and Rocco DiPaolo on behalf Aitkin Community Education spoke about upcoming programming that will connection youth with older generation thanks for grant funding from the Northland Foundation, where you can find out more on Community Education, and the how Ag Programming through Aitkin High Schools has great benefits for students as well as…
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January 31, 2023 0

Wake the Lakes Moron Lawbreaker for the Week: “San Diego man parks stolen car, falls asleep in front of Police Station”

A San Diego man was arrested after he stole a car, parked it in front of the police station, and then fell asleep in the driver’s seat. Cops with the San Diego Traffic Division noticed a car parked in a handicapped spot and saw a man sleeping behind the wheel. A check of the license…
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January 31, 2023 0

Aitkin County CARE on January 26th Community Connection

Aitkin County CARE soon-to-retire Program Director Mike Eisenbraun and new Program Director Holly Amundson talked about upcoming exercise classes, “Donuts with Dawn” meetings talking about scams, and more:


January 26, 2023 0

Wake the Lakes DIMWIT-ZZZZ-DUMB for the Day”

–We are the last generation that knows what life was like BEFORE social media. –Anybody that questions why you are shoveling 6 inches of snow in the *middle* of a snowstorm hasn’t shoveled 12 inches of snow at the end of a snowstorm. –Extra fries in your bag is going to become a thing of…
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January 26, 2023 0

Weird and Wacky Wednesday: “Florida Police Rescue Woman from Storm Drain…Again”

Police in Florida were called down to a canal to pull a woman out of a storm drain — something that felt very familiar to them because it was the second time in two years that they had to pull the same woman out of the storm drain. Cops in Delray Beach responded to a…
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January 25, 2023 0

Weird and Wacky Wednesday: “Florida man injured at yoga class from fallen iguana”

An outdoor yoga class in Miami came to an abrupt end when a man laying on his back was injured by a very large iguana that fell out of a tree.  Falling iguanas are quite common in Florida when the temperature is freezing, but this was not the case. It was a warm day and…
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January 25, 2023 0

McGregor School District update on January 24th Community Connection

McGregor School District Superintendent and Elementary Principal Brad Johnson joined the show to give an update on the start of 2023 for McGregor Schools, the most recent School Board meeting, and upcoming including the return of the School Play and Pow-Wow for this Spring:


January 24, 2023 0

Wake The Lakes “Moron Lawbreaker(s) for the Week

Three New York men are behind bars on drug charges after one of them called 911 to snitch on the other two.  Troopers in Pennsylvania say they received a 911 call from 30-year-old Sauigi Wang who told the dispatcher that there were two people in his car with marijuana and they wouldn’t leave. He then…
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January 24, 2023 0