The owner of a Mankato tanning salon wants to draw attention to the health benefits of vitamin D. And what better way to draw attention than with women in bikinis? But the city council in Madison Lake is not keen on the idea of the town's Paddlefish Days festival becoming the setting for the world's largest parade of bikini-clad women.

Despite protests by city council members, a group of bikini-wearing women -- and a couple of men in bikini tops -- marched in the Paddlefish Days Parade Saturday afternoon in the southern Minnesota town of Madison Lake. About 39 participants took part in the bikini march -- far below the 451 need to break the mark in the Guiness Book of World Records.

A doctor says when methotrexate is given to childhood leukemia patients its cure rate is 90 percent or better. But a shortage of the drug has patients and their families worried. U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar is among those pressuring pharmaceutical companies to increase the supply.

Organizers of the 22nd Annual Brainerd Jaycees $150,000 Ice Fishing Extravaganza had to postpone the event last month because of thin ice conditions on Gull Lake. The Star Tribune reports more than 10,000 anglers took part in the event this weekend.

There has yet to be a local parade specifically to thank U.S. service members for their service in the war against terror, WCCO reports. That’ll change with the Twin Cities Heroes Parade down Nicollet Mall beginning at 11 a.m. on Saturday. It took a grassroots effort to organize the event.

The northeastern Minnesota town first claimed the title in 2009 after gathering more than 1600 ATVs. However, it wasn't long before Richfield, Utah topped the world record with 1,870 ATVs. The Duluth News Tribune reports organizers along the North Shore are hoping at least 2,000 ATVs participate in the parade this summer.

About 30 groups marched down Nicollet Mall in downtown Minneapolis Saturday in the Twin Cities Heroes parade, a first for Minnesota and one of about a dozen special "welcome home" parades across the nation to specifically honoring post-9/11 veterans. The event was pushed back from April so members of Minnesota's Red Bull Division could join the event after returning home in May.

Thanks to the Make-A-Wish Foundation, a Minnesota teen with a rare metabolic disorder is getting his own parade Saturday because his disease has never allowed him to attend one. Jacob Albeck, 16, suffers from non-ketotic hyperglicinemia, a rare and incurable genetic metabolic disorder.