Golden Horizons Assisted Living on August 24th Community Connection
Sean Weimer and Robin Gerard of Golden Horizons Assisted Living in Aitkin talk about their Carnival Party on August 27th, a fundraisers for Aitkin Schools:
Weird and Wacky Wednesday: “Man finds rare purple pearl in seafood dinner”
Scott Overland was enjoying dinner with his family at a seafood restaurant in Delaware when he made an amazing discovery. While enjoying an appetizer, Scott found a rare purple pearl inside one of the clams. At first, he thought it was a bead or a little piece of candy that the chef might have put…
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Weird and Wacky Wednesday: “Musicians and Composers Helping Automakers with Car Sounds”
Automakers are now working with musicians and composers to help with creating pleasing alert systems — as well as in-cabin chimes and tones. For example, world famous film composer Hans Zimmer was involved in scoring sounds for BMW’s Vision M Next car. And, Atlanta-based electronic musician Richard Devine was brought in to help make the…
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Wake The Lakes “Moron Lawbreaker of the Week”: Woman Makes Eleven-Thousand Calls To Police This Year
A woman was arrested after making over eleven-thousand calls to police this year (That’s almost a full-time job!!). Carla Jefferson was busted recently on a misdemeanor charge of placing a torrent of calls to a Florida police department and sheriff’s office. At one point, Jefferson made 512 calls to police in a 24-hour period. Authorities…
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Wake The Lakes “Lifehack of the Week”: The Best Ways to Use Up Old Spices in the Kitchen
The simplest way to use your old spices is to use your old spices. Since spices never actually spoil, you can still use them in your cooking. If they’re a bit bland, use more than you normally would. Also, you can toast your spices right before you use them in a recipe. Tossing some exhausted…
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Snoop Dogg Drops His Own Cereal
(Undated) — Snoop Dogg wants to be a part of your breakfast routine. The rapper teamed up with Broadus Foods to launch his own cereal brand called Snoop Loopz. The sweet breakfast looks like Fruit Loops with marshmallows. Snoop reposted a photo of the cereal box saying it’s the best tasting cereal in the…
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Chicken Wing prices hits lowest number since 2018
Wingin’ It … Here’s a rare food item that’s not going up in price due to inflation — chicken wings! The U.S. Department of Agriculture says that the average wholesale price of a pound of wings fell to $1.68 in July and is expected to go down more when the figures for August are announced.…
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Wake the Lakes “DIMWIT-ZZZZ-DUMB for the Day”
–Vampires are always remarkably well-groomed given their inability to use mirrors –Dusting can be either adding or removing dust. –A scarecrow is also a scarehuman IF it is unexpectedly encountered. –An unscientific survey found that waterpark urinals are used less than any other urinals. –Goosebumps are most likely just gibberish in braille. –The entire chore…
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Three Friends Break World Record For Visiting All 50 States in 5-and-a-half days
Three friends broke a world record by visiting all 50 states in about five-and-a-half days. The guys started in Vermont, drove through all the 48 lower states — and then hopped on planes to get to Alaska and Hawaii. They completed the trip with a final time of five days, 13 hours and 10 minutes. …
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