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According to a Facebook post by the Crosslake Chamber of Commerce, it was announced on Friday that the 2021 version of the Crosslake St. Patrick’s Day Parade is canceled due to COVID restrictions.

According to the caption for this video, a woman is terrified of guinea pigs . . . but her friend got the brilliant idea to put one on her shoulder so they’d get acquainted.  Instead, it crawls into her wig and she completely freaks.

It’s time to get some answers with the help of Essentia Health!  In a press release Essentia Health announced that they will be holding an hour long webinar this Friday (1/22/21) from noon until 1pm.  

A video has gone viral of a British man and his dog limping down the sidewalk together.  The man’s on crutches.  And the caption tells the story.  Quote, “Cost me [$400] in vet fees and X-rays.  Nothing wrong, just sympathy.” So the dog wasn’t injured, he was just imitating his owner.  The guy and his wife did a TV interview …

The “Device Orchestra” guy hacked his toaster to make it play “The Imperial March” from “Star Wars”.  He also hacked two toothbrushes and a typewriter and had them accompany the toaster.

Here’s a Flashback Friday commercial from the ’70s of a disgusting-looking dessert called a Fruit Float.  It’s a syrupy liquid in a can that you pour into a bowl, add some milk, and stir.  And it comes in five delicious flavors!

Well we all know the Brainerd Jaycees Ice Fishing Extravaganza is coming up on January 30th, with fishing statewide, but if you just can’t just get enough fishing (and some of us can’t) there is this to follow. The Cuyuna Lakes Chamber’s 17th Annual Ice Fishing Contest is on Saturday, Feb. 6, from 12 to 3 p.m. Catch a fish …

Deer feeding and attractant restrictions remain in place in Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, Rice, Scott and Washington counties. These counties were added on July 1, 2020, to the bans already were in place in the following counties affected by chronic wasting disease: Aitkin, Cass, Crow Wing, Dodge, Fillmore, Freeborn, Goodhue, Houston, Hubbard, Mille Lacs, Morrison, Mower, Olmsted, Steele, Todd, Wabasha, Wadena …

An Associated Press reporter named Philip Crowther can speak six different languages:  French, English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, and Luxembourgish. And a video of him filing live reports in each one of them has been racking up the hits on Twitter. From Dalton to Washington, here's my coverage for @AP_GMS of last week's events in French, English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, and Luxembourgish, …