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Ice skating has been a popular winter activity in Otter Tail County for many decades. Shown here is the public ice rink at Lake Alice in Fergus Falls.
Many kids who grew up in Otter Tail County enjoyed ice skating during the winter months. There were good times at public skating rinks and also home-made ice rinks at various lakes where families would shovel off the snow and make smaller rinks.
Fortunately, ice skating remains popular today in many areas of the county.
“Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree,” recorded by Brenda Lee in 1958, was a favorite of skaters at Lake Alice in Fergus Falls, during the Christmas holiday season.
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…“Perplexed” was a common reaction. Rowling had never been a particularly controversial figure. Her books sold hundreds of millions of copies, they inspired films that brought in billions of dollars, and she used the money she made to save children from orphanages. In 2012, she gave enough to charity and paid enough in taxes to knock herself off the
Forbes billionaires list. In 2020, she was tweeting links to a store that sold pins that said F CK YOUR PRONOUNS.
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