🌱 Patch AM: Minnetonka Police Clarify Ridgedale Center Presence

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• Minnetonka police explain heightened presence at Ridgedale Center

Also on today's calendar: Pet Mondays – Photos with Santa and 2 more events.

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• Saturday: Breezy; morning flurries, temps: high: 27, low: 0.
• Sunday: Partly sunny, with a high of 26 and low of 21 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Minnetonka Police Clarify Ridgedale Center Presence (patch.com) — Minnetonka residents are being reassured that the noticeable police presence at Ridgedale Center is part of a planned retail theft deterrence effort during the busy shopping season, not an immigration or federal enforcement action. Officers, including plainclothes staff from the retail investigations unit, are targeting theft at local shopping areas while emphasizing that no federal or immigration officials are working with the department.
   

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Saturday December 20

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Friday December 19

• Connect and Play
  Saint Louis Park Library , 3240 Library Lane , St. Louis Park
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  Hopkins Library , 22 11th Avenue North , Hopkins
  9:30 am
• Minnetonka Center for the Arts 2025 Arts of the Holidays Show & Sale
  Minnetonka Center For the Arts , 2240 N Shore Dr , Wayzata
  10:00 am
• Chanukiah Feldenkrais Lesson with Maggie
  Capp Center St. Paul , 1375 St. Paul Ave , St. Paul
  11:00 am
• Caregiver Night Off
  Gatewood Elementary School , 14900 Gatewood Dr , Minnetonka
  4:00 pm

Sunday December 21

• Read With an Animal
  Saint Louis Park Library , 3240 Library Lane , St. Louis Park
  2:00 pm
• Hanukkah Jamboree: Louis & Dan & The Invisible Band
  Capp Center St. Paul , 1375 St. Paul Ave , St. Paul
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• Be the Light Winter Solstice Walk
  Westwood Hills Nature Center , 8300 W Franklin Ave , St Louis Park
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• Target posted a job opening for Specialty Sales (Style, Tech, Beauty) (T0100) in Minnetonka. Apply here.
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