🌱 Top Toys + Idaho Rabies Death + Idaho's Lost Diary Project

Happy Friday, people of Boise! Here's everything you need to know about what's happening in Boise today.

Welcome to the Friday edition of the Boise Daily. An arrest has been made from the Boise Towne Square Mall shooting after a woman was discovered removing items from a deceased body. We provide you a heads up on the popular toys for the upcoming Christmas, and an Idaho man has died from rabies. Boise State University is now more full of people from out of state, and we ask for help in the Lost Diary Project.

First, today's weather:

Clouds and sunshine. High: 63 Low: 49.

Here are the top stories in Boise today:

1. The Boise Towne Square Mall shooting was bad enough, but now a woman has been charged with stripping jewelry, clothing and other possessions from the body of a security guard shot to death during the rampage. KTVB-TV Kaite Terhune reports Mary Alyce Scarbrough, 54, told detectives she had gone into "survival mode" and believed she was entitled to the items. (KTVB)
2. Christmas shopping is upon us in Boise and experts are advising to shop early and watch shipping dates. In a special report to The Oregonian, Anna Canzano interviews Jackie Breyer, editorial director of The Toy Insider, for the top toys this upcoming holiday. (oregonlive)
3. The last time it occurred was 1978, but an Idaho man has died from rabies, according to staff of CBS2-TV. (idahonews)
4. For the first time in history, Boise State University now has more freshman from out of the state than from within Idaho. IdahoEdNews and Kevin Richert looks at the trend of students outside the state looking to the Broncos for an education. (idahoednews)
5. Kendal Brenneman has an interesting hobby. She purchases diaries at thrift stories or auctions and attempts to reunite the books with their authors or family members. Her latest acquisition is a 1946 diary of an Idaho woman, Twila Montgomery. The Lost Diary Project is looking for help, according to Bowen West of the Boise Weekly. (boiseweekly)

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Today in Boise:

• After their incredibly successful first tour in 2019 that saw them selling out arenas across the U.S., Dude Perfect is back with an all-new tour for 2021. (8 a.m.)
• The Riverside Hotel in Boise hosts Lethal Force Gun Laws 2021 Tactics and Strategies Conference on Friday. (8 a.m.)
• Immersive artist-in-residence Kathleen Cohen asks specific questions inside virtual worlds, “What makes up you?” and “What is real?” During the residency, Cohen and her collaborators set out to provide the tech support for a live virtual event with members of a native Indigenous community and from a community of neurodivergent individuals. The hope is to explore what this expresses about their individual and collective identities and how this platform can help bridge the two. (5:30 p.m.)
• Join the upcoming virtual First Friday Astronomy Lectures at the Boise State University Recreation Center. (6:30 p.m.)
• The Household Hazardous Waste Collection site for Friday is the Waste Collection Facility located at 10330 Seamans Gulch Road. (8 a.m.)

Boise Fact of the Day

Once a person becomes infected, rabies is nearly always fatal without treatment. The number of deaths in the United States ranged from 30 to 50 per year in the 1940s but has since dropped to one to three deaths per year.

Boise Patch Notebook

• Zoo Boise: "With all the election news, we have some news of our own! The sand cat kittens have won the U.S. Bank Baby Animal of the Year award. It was a close race, with the red panda cubs coming in second and the penguin chicks right behind them." (Facebook)
• Boise Police Department: "Message from Boise Police Chief Ryan Lee: Over the last week, I and many other officers have heard from community members about how last week’s events disrupted their sense of safety." (Facebook)
• US National Weather Service Boise Idaho: "There is a good chance to see the northern lights this evening away from the light pollution in the northern-northeast skies. Here is the current forecast from NOAA NWS Space Weather Prediction Center #idwx #orwx #Aurora" (Facebook)
• Boise Rock School: "Our Education Director Jared Goodpaster just spent two weeks in France, taking a class from multiple Grammy winning producer and music engineer Shawn Everett (who has worked with Kacey Musgraves, The War on Drugs, Beck, et al.)!" (Instagram)
• Boise State Public Radio: "Candidates running for local school boards against mask requirements and teaching critical race theory were successful races for seats on the West Ada and Nampa School Boards Tuesday." (Facebook)

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