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City of Bloomington, MN / 2015 Bloomington Today / 8 Jul 2015
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From YouTube: Bloomington Today: The BUZZ July 8 - 14

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What’s buzzin’ in Bloomington? The development at Penn and American is nearing the end of construction. The City adopted new tobacco and nutrition policies. Plus, VEAP needs your help to make up for a low egg supply.

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Welcome to Bloomington today, I'm Laurie Schulte thanks for joining us. First, we bring you the buzz for the week of July eighth through the 14th phase. Two of the pen American project is really starting to take shape and will open in just a couple months. The development will include a red robin restaurant, home2, suites, hotel and fresh thyme grocery store. There will also be retail space, which will include an AT&T store right now. Construction is entering its final stages.

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Crews are installing windows in the hotel and multi-tenant space interior framing is taking place in the hotel and red robin and the grocery store is being painted and refrigerators are being installed. Brickwork throughout the new development is also ongoing. The project includes both above and underground parking, and that is nearly finished. The pen American redevelopment project is set to open in late August. The city has new tobacco and nutrition policies and you'll see some healthy changes. The next time you visit city hall, while city buildings were already smoke-free.

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Smoking is now prohibited on the entire grounds that includes sidewalks grass areas and parking lots at city properties. You can, however, smoke inside your personal vehicle. The other change will be seen at the vending machines. Forty percent of all city bought food will be a healthy option, for example, that means fruit, whole grains or low-fat dairy products, public health administrator body Paulson says this shift will make the healthier choice. The easier choice when visiting city buildings.

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It just is going to make your choice to stay healthy, easier, you're, not going to be exposed to any type of secondhand smoke or tobacco products. You are going to be able to make a healthy choice for food if your hair, when you're needing to grab something to eat that you know the only choice that you have isn't soda and candy bars, healthier.

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Food choices we're already being offered at some city facilities like the Aquatic, Center and ice garden, but now you see those healthy items citywide it's tobacco and nutrition policies like this that are helping curb a rising obesity rate. After the statewide health improvement program was implemented in 2008 minnesota's obesity rate stopped climbing the obesity rate and surrounding states continued to rise, starting.

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In about 2008-2009 Minnesota's has plateaued, so even though we might still have a fairly high obesity rate, actually we're doing much better than surrounding states and its really related to some of the policy decisions that the state and local leaders have made. The.

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Avian flu virus is not only affecting farmers across Minnesota, consumers are dealing with price hikes, and local food shelves are faced with low supply. Since early june, Minnesota's largest food shelf veep has had no eggs to offer clients. The cost of eggs has doubled since the avian flu outbreak, so organizers are scrambling to gather other protein sources to put on the shelves. It's a difficult task, since eggs are a high quality inexpensive protein to battle. The problem, veep is looking to secure donations to buy canned tuna and chicken beans and other alternatives.

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If you would like to make a donation to beep visit their website at the volunteers org over the past few weeks, we've been telling the stories of local disabilities activists in preparation for the 25th anniversary of the Americans, with Disabilities Act Bob Peters was one person highlighted, and he recently passed away. My.

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Life is good and I have no regrets. Like I, said, I thrived because of my disability and in that respect, I I have no regrets that.

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Was Bob earlier this summer he was injured more than 50 years ago after a shallow water diving accident. Since then, he fought for equal rights for people of all abilities. One of his accomplishments was creating the first comprehensive statewide disability parking legislation in the country. He's also received several awards, including the 2012 amar bondhu route award. But 25 years later, after the Americans with Disabilities Act Bob said there was more work to be done.

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Attitudes attitudes are still not where you want them to be people. We need to be more aware of disability awareness, Bob.

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Passed away on jun 25th, his life was celebrated on june thirtieth. That is the buzz on bloomington today for the week of july, eighth through the 14th. If you would like to watch other stories from the show go to this week's playlist, there you'll find a story on the Donaldson company. They just celebrated 100 years of business, there's also a piece explaining why bees are the newest guests at the Radisson Blu check the mountain thanks for watching.