With the holidays coming up fast, Black Friday will be here before we know it.

Every year we hear about the craziness at big name stores like Walmart, Target, etc. As a change of pace, we want to hear from local, small businesses and others in the community!

Will you be having any Black Friday sales or deals? If so, what are they? What are some tips you can give to people in your community wanting to shop more "local?"

If you're a local restaurant, will you have different hours and specials to cater to the Black Friday shoppers?

Is anyone in the community: churches, community centers, etc. offering babysitting for those that will be out in the early a.m. for shopping?

You can e-mail Amber Ruch, County News Web Producer at aruch@kfvs12.com. The information you provide will be featured online and on-air. Make sure to include a picture or two of your business!

(KFVS) - More than 30,000 Scouts are expected to participate in the 28th annual "Scouting for Food" canned goods drive on Saturday, November 17.

Last Saturday, Scouts distributed more than 1 million plastic grocery bags throughout eastern Missouri and Southern Illinois. Scouts, parents and leaders will return to those same areas to collect the bags filled with food items.

The Scouts collected more than 45 million food items during the first 27 years of the drive.

If you took pictures as you passed out bags for Scouting for Food on Saturday, you can e-mail them to cNews@kfvs12.com or click here to upload them. Don't forget to include your name and where you're from.

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(KFVS) - These pictures are from some polling stations throughout the Hearltand on Tuesday, November 6.

You can e-mail us a picture of your voting sticker or from your polling station to cNews@kfvs12.com or click here to upload them. Don't forget to include your name and where you're from.

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