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Weekend Stories

Being a reporter means that sometimes you might have to give up a weekend or evening to cover a story. Well, today I decided to do just that - I covered my first weekend story.

Although this was completely optional on my part I decided to do this for several reasons. One because my birthday occurs on the day I have a news shift so by covering this story today I would get my birthday (semi) off. Plus, I have never attempted to cover a weekend story or event and felt like now would be the perfect time to do so.

I'm used to covering a story during the week when people are mostly active at work and not really taking downtime for themselves and their family. So, I was a little concerned with how the story would turn out.

I decided to cover an event called Bricks-N-Blocks. This event was started a few years ago by a husband and wife dedicated to sharing their passion for Lego and other building bricks. The event took place in New Port Richey, Florida and welcomed over a thousand guests during its two-day event.

Below is the video/story I put together for WUFT News on the Bricks-N-Blocks event. 




Although covering this event did take away one of my weekend days, I was so happy with how the story turned out. I met some amazing people and even got to get in on the action by building a creation for myself.

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