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Sweet Home Police Department will host an alternative-format K-9 Jamboree this year, a scavenger hunt that will feature the department’s canine officer Gemma, from Oct. 3 through 17.

This year’s Cascade K9 Jamboree will be a photo scavenger hunt beginning Saturday, Oct. 3.

While the Sweet Home Police Department was unable to offer its typical festival-style Cascade K9 Jamboree, thanks to restrictions imposed by the state to limit the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, it developed this event as a “fun way” to get Sweet Home residents out and about, Community Services Officer Sean...