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Charles Dickens and Harry Potter: Cedar Falls Thursday Morning Roundup

News, events, information: some tidbits as you go about your day.

Jingle All the Way:

Holiday Hoopla continues with Jingle and Minge on Main tonight from 5 to 8 p.m. Live nativity, sleigh rides, Santa, carolers and roaming holiday characters will be featured as local businesses offer incentives and door prizes.

Music Magic:

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The UNI Student Composer's Concert is 6 p.m. at the . UNI School of Music student composers will showcase their work. Stick around and at 8 p.m. you can hear the UNI Student Chamber Music Concert. Two shows for the price of nothing.

Christmas Dessert Theatre:

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premieres it's original musical The Chimes, based on Charles Dickens' forgotten Christmas story. The story of Scrooge is familiar, but do you know the story of Trotty Veck? Opens at 7 p.m. tonight and runs through Dec. 18.

The Occupation lives on:

Both KWWL and The Missourian, a paper out of Columbia, Missouri, had stories about Occupy Cedar Valley's continued presence now that the tents are gone.

Harry Potter:

Time is running out for the great Cedar Valley Horcrux hunt. All the clues are in, and kids can win a chance at an e-reader if they find all seven horcurxes hidden at the Cedar Falls, Waterloo and Rod libraries. Entries are due Dec. 3.

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