City of Bloomington, MN 2015 Bloomington Today, 9 Dec 2015

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From YouTube: Bloomington Today: The BUZZ December 9 – 16

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What’s buzzin’ in Bloomington? The Toys for Tots and Veap Toy Drive are underway. Gifts in the Gallery is coming to the Inez Greenberg gallery. Plus, the Bloomington Police Department shares another holiday crime prevention tip.

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Welcome to Bloomington today, I'm Laurie Schulte thanks for joining us. First, we bring you the buzz for the weekend, December 9th through the 16th and we're starting off here in the Bloomington Police Department, where you'll find this huge box. That officers hope will soon be full of toys. It's all part of the Toys for Tots Drive. Every year officers, city, employees and community members donate items for kids in need this holiday season. Each year the department collects about 500 toys, including a few bikes. The donations are for kids ages, 1 to 17.

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Once the drive ends on December, eighteenth officers will Caravan with other police departments to kare 11. That's where the toys are dropped off. Our cameras, followed along for the drive last year, where one officer described the importance of joining together across different agencies for a common cause. As.

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You can see it's a it's a brotherhood. We all have a common bond as officers and we'd love to be able to help kids and make them see that we're actually good guys and ought to help people if.

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You would like to donate swing by the police department during regular business hours and this time of year. There are several ways you can help. Others you can donate here or to veep. Their holiday toy drive is under way and they have bins at Civic, Plaza, the bloomington-based food shelf looks to collect one toy book and two winter clothing items per child in need. They also aim to gather one game per household toys are collected for kids up to age. 18 ideas for gifts include gift cards, chapter books, sports goods, LEGO, sets and puzzles.

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You can drop off items at creekside community center, the public works department or civic plaza by December 11th, while volunteering is a great thing to do during the holiday season, so is supporting our local economy. That's why artistry puts on its annual gifts in the gallery where you'll find unique items from local artists about 70 artists contribute to the two-week boutique in the Inez Greenberg gallery.

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You'll find distinctive gifts like silk scarves, jewelry ceramics blown glass and much more about 10,000 people visit this pop-up boutique each year and one shopper last year told us why it's the perfect place to buy your holiday gifts, I love.

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Giving something that's locally made to my friends here in town as well as out of state I, think it, you know, evokes a lot of thought about the gift. When people see it in their house and yeah, it is one of a kind. So, and so is the relationship represents.

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Gifts in the gallery begins December 9th and runs until the 23rd speaking of holiday shopping. It's time for this week's holiday crime prevention tip from officer Jerry Waka. What's another.

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Shopping tip that I'd like to share with you, is regarding how you purchase your items and one of the recommendations that we make is that you don't carry a lot of cash with you. It's best to make purchases with credit cards and the receipts that you keep make sure you put those in a safe place.

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If you do carry cash, carry it in your front pocket and if you have a purse or wallet, make sure that you keep it in a pocket where you know where it is at all times, and the purse strap is wrapped around your shoulder your neck, to make sure that somebody just can't walk by and steal it.

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We have had a lot of person f's at restaurants and other locations when someone puts the purse on the back of their chair or things like that, it makes it easy for a criminal to take that purse or take things from within. So don't do that. It's good to make copies of all your credit cards that you have or anything any items that you carry in your purse that have financial information in the event that it's stolen.

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You can quickly retrieve that information and then report it to the necessary companies to cancel those credit cards etc. Thank you for your attention. I hope these tips help and have a safe holiday shopping season that.

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Is the buzz on blooming to today for the weekend december, nine through the 16th? If you would like to watch other stories from the show go to this week's playlist, there you'll find a story highlighting Alan and Debbie Schneider, who received the 2015 legacy award, there's also a piece on the guys and gals who shoot pool almost every day over at creekside check those out thanks for watching.

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