City of Bloomington, MN Discover Bloomington, 18 Mar 2022

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From YouTube: Discover Bloomington: March Events

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This month’s events include Continental Ballet presents Swan Lake, the State of the City, frontier rope making and more. Also, Parks and Recreation is hiring now for summer programs - a great way to Discover Bloomington!

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Hello, I'm ben vinar host of discover, bloomington, a cable show that highlights activities the arts, local businesses and much more. Let's check out some upcoming events around the city of bloomington adventures continue at the gideon and agnes pond house with a mystery house tour on saturday march 19th at 1pm.

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This free program for all ages will examine the pond house from the eyes of a history. Detective then, on march 26 from 1 to 4 pm, learn all about rope, a very important item on the frontier and how to make them go to blm dot, mn pond house for more information about these events.

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The continental ballet presents the classic swan lake in the schneider theatre. Beginning march 19th. Don't miss your chance to see this beloved ballet from these dedicated and hard-working dancers tickets and more information are available at continentalballet.com.

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The annual state of the city address is back in person for the first time in three years join mayor, tim bussey and city manager, jamie vebrugi, as they share major accomplishments and challenges from this past year, as well as look to what's on the horizon for the future of bloomington. The event will be streamed on facebook live on wednesday march 23rd go to the link on your screen for more information.

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Volunteering is a great way to discover bloomington and we're fortunate to have some wonderful non-profit organizations in the city, including veep, and bridging, who could use your help visit veep.org to learn more about how you can get involved and its mission of creating pathways to stronger, more hopeful communities through access to healthy food, housing, stability and supportive services.

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Bridging has been furnishing homes with hope in bloomington for over 25 years and could use both donations of furniture beds, small appliances and other household goods, as well as your time.

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The only way we run is with donated volunteers. So truly I am looking for more individuals over the age of 14. All the way up, we've had volunteers in their 90s. Don't think we won't keep everyone busy. We have good meaningful work to keep people going. The.

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City of bloomington also has volunteer opportunities available throughout the year, but if you're looking for a good paying summer, gig look no further than parks and recreation. The department is hiring now for upcoming seasonal jobs. The large number of summer parks and recreation programs that many of us enjoy can only happen with enough staffing. We need facility attendance and leads lifeguards, youth and inclusion program, coordinators, counselors instructors, golf services, zamboni drivers and more.

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Working for parks and recreation is a great step to get some experience if you've never had a job before this can be your first job and we'll train you and anything you need to know you get to be outside in the summer, doing what you love and getting paid. At the same time, some of our youth programs are at risk for having low participation, numbers or even full-on cancellation.

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If we can't get enough staff to work at these programs, we love to have all of our features at the aquatic center open the whole time we're open like the slide, the rock climbing wall and the diving board, but without enough staff those features will have to be closed at some of your favorite times, because we don't have our safety requirements met.

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So we have a new bonus offering if you stay the entire season with us here in park and rec, you get an extra hundred dollars just for sticking around also, if you're already working for us- and you maybe want your friends to work with you- we'll give you another hundred dollars just to recommend your friend. And that means you guys both get to work together, have fun all summer and make that extra hundred dollars.

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If you're looking for a great summer job and a great way to discover bloomington visit the parks and recreation page on the city's website to find out more about, what's happening, around town head to blm.mn events, individual segments from the march episode of discover bloomington can be found on the playlist on our youtube channel this month.

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We'll look back on some of our favorite segments from the past year, including discovering the japanese garden at normandale community college, some self-care tips with forest bathing, a visit to agape african market and practicing our aim at the marsh lake archery range. If you have any story ideas, we invite you to share them with us by emailing. Discover bloomingtonmn.gov thanks for watching.