Arlington Times, October 31, 2012

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Arlington celebrates Halloween BY KIRK BOXLEITNER kboxleitner@marysvilleglobe.com

FALL BACKWARD Set Your Clocks Back

REMEMBER: Daylight Saving Time ends Nov. 4.

SPORTS: Arlington

Eagles head to playoffs. Page 8

ARLINGTON — The Saturday before Halloween was once again jam-packed with festive events on Olympic Avenue and beyond, as Arlington celebrated its Hometown Halloween all day on Oct. 27. The Arlington Hardware & Lumber pumpkin decorating contest drew 55 entries, including one pumpkin by Dawson Andrews with gourds attached to resemble a chicken, and another by Karen Wilson showing a jack-o’-lantern squatting in an outhouse chair over a pie with a sign reading, “How pumpkin pies are really made.” “This year’s contest remained popular in spite of the rain,” said Karen Ricketts, a veteran of the Arlington Hardware & Lumber pumpkin decorating contest for its two decades and running. “The weather didn’t slow us down a bit. The merchants community has been hugely involved in all the Hometown Halloween activities

this year.” The Arlington High School Flight Choir staged two new events in conjunction with this year’s Hometown Halloween, raising funds for their spring break trip to Branson, Mo., with a “zombie breakfast” at Hubb’s Pizza that morning and reenacting “Thriller” at noon just outside of the Arlington City Hall building. “It’s been a little wet, but we’re holding in there,” Brent McGee said just after noon, as he directed his “Fright Choir” of 22 student zombies. “We’ve probably raised about $6,000, but we need to raise $20,000.” Although the Arlington City Hall parking lot did not host a “Trunkor-Treat” this year, the merchants of Olympic Avenue donned their costumes to gather under their storefront overhangs with handfuls of candy for trick-or-treating families such as the Martins, who came as the “Pumpkin Family” this year, SEE FUN, PAGE 2

Fire districts discuss possible partnerships BY KIRK BOXLEITNER kboxleitner@marysvilleglobe.com

INDEX CLASSIFIED ADS 11-14 10 LEGAL NOTICES 4 OPINION 3, 5 OBITUARY 8 SPORTS 6 WORSHIP

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Kirk Boxleitner/Staff Photo

Chloe Wiersma as Dorothy, left, and Ella McDaniels as Belle help themselves to Halloween candy on Olympic Avenue on Oct. 27.

Kirk Boxleitner/Staff Photo

From left, Larry Longley and Jim Stutzman of the North County Regional Fire Authority and Arlington Mayor Barbara Tolbert consider a proposed study to evaluate the benefits of partnerships between North Snohomish County fire districts on Oct. 25.

ARLINGTON — After an Aug. 30 meeting between representatives of 14 fire districts, the Arlington City Council convened a second special meeting with several North Snohomish County fire districts on Thursday, Oct. 25, albeit with the representatives of the Marysville and Darrington fire districts absent this time around, and representatives of the Tulalip Bay Fire Department and the North County Regional Fire Authority expressing reservations about continuing to participate. Don Bivens, an emergency services consultant with 30 years of experience in the fire service, once again

presented the evening’s program, this time outlining the steps that his group and those agencies willing to participate would need to undertake in order to determine whether the fire districts in question should form a regional fire authority or some other form of partnership. Bivens explained that a baseline evaluation of the agencies that might be involved in such a consolidation would require much of the acquisition of background data and gathering of stakeholder input to be performed, at least in part, by the agencies themselves, which led to some debate about how many of the fire districts in question might even be willing to be SEE FIRE, PAGE 15

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