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Shop with a Cop

Brenda Ahearn | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 11 years, 4 months AGO
by Brenda Ahearn
| December 11, 2013 3:43 PM

Steve Hughes of the Columbia Falls Police Department gives a badge sticker to Tory Lewis, 6, before the police officers and children split up to go shopping on Wednesday at Target during the annual Shop with a Cop outing. (Brenda Ahearn photo/Daily Inter Lake)

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