Aitkin Area Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Taylor Erickson gave us a full breakdown of the 31st annual Fish House Parade for Friday, November 25th:
–BOIL & SHOCK POTATOES. Avoid the tedium of peeling (with your fingers) by boiling the potatoes until they’re soft and then shocking them in ice water. The skin will practically peel itself off. This works with beets, too, btw. –HACK A SLOW COOKER AS A WARMER. One of the trickiest things about preparing Thanksgiving dinner…
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Forester Kyle Frederickson of the Aitkin County Soil and Water Conservation District joined the show to talk about an upcoming workshop with the Aitkin Area Private Woodlands Group on December 2nd from the Long Lake Conservation Center:
–You can’t get in a store and buy clothes if you don’t already own clothes. –The recipe for success and the recipe for disaster differ by only one ingredient: luck –Your alarm sound is technically your theme song, since it plays at the start of every episode. –The youngest picture of you is also the…
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Minnesota State Patrol responded to a crash scene just north of Princeton on Monday night. The crash, which was reported at 4:04pm in Princeton Township, injured a passenger. The driver was uninjured. The police report said that a 2003 Jeep Liberty lost control while southbound on highway 169. After leaving the road, the Jeep rolled…
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–Cook it dry. Yes, you have to boil the noodles first. But then, just drain the water, add the seasoning packet and fry up the whole mess. Add some sriracha for that extra oomph. –Call in Mister Peanut. Add a Thai spin with a simple peanut sauce made of two tablespoons of peanut butter, one…
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–Giving somebody CPR is like blowing into a classic video game cartridge to make it work again. –The more people talk about the Powerball drawing at your work, the more likely you’re all underpaid and overworked. –Fun size candy bars are much less fun than normal sized candy bars. –When you get married you roughly…
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A Florida woman arrested for stealing a wallet inside a Waffle House, told cops she had to do it because “the money was calling to me.” Police say the owner of the wallet paid for their meal and accidentally left it on the counter. Police reviewed surveillance footage and saw 47-year-old Kwanita Morton looking around…
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TSA agents at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport foiled a traveler’s attempt to smuggle a gun through security by hiding it inside the cavity of a raw chicken. Chickens — raw or cooked — are ok to travel with passengers, according to TSA’s guidelines, but obviously, firearms inside said chicken … ain’t gonna fly. Authorities knew…
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Two men in Oklahoma robbed and ransacked an AT&T store there, stealing a bunch of phones and chargers, but they didn’t leave with all the phones. Cops responded to a tripped alarm at the AT&T store and found the window broken and the store destroyed. Many phones were stolen but there were some found on…
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