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Friday, November 2, 2012
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A new format SAMMI Awards to look different in 2013
The Issaquah Highland Zombies performed to Michael Jackson’s “Thriller,” at noon Saturday. The dance was performed throughout the world at the same time, in order to break the Guinness Book of World Records for the largest simultaneous dance. LINDA BALL,
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A REAL ‘THRILLER’ Zombies show their stuff at Issaquah’s annual Green Halloween festival
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horde of zombies descended on the Issaquah Highlands Saturday.
At exactly noon, about 40 Highlands’ residents, “the (unofficial) Highland Zombies,” performed a spot-on zombie dance to Michael Jackson’s classic “Thriller,” while thousands all over the world also performed the dance in order to break the Guinness Book of World Records for the largest simultaneous dance. The choreography was close to perfect, considering the group only practiced once a week for the past six weeks said Amy Hammingh, who with her son, Alex, 8, were part of the brain-eating troupe. The “Thriller” flash mob kicked off the 12th annual Green Halloween Festival at Blakely Hall and Village Green Park. Communication manager for the event, Nina Milligan, said attendance was lower than anticipated due to the inclement weather. The event is presented by the Highlands Council which includes homeowners, renters, home owner’s associations
“It’s not so much about sugar, rather food that’s not real.” - Corey Colwell-Lipson and businesses. Several businesses set up booths, including Safeway, which was giving away free apples. Young and old alike had the opportunity to pitch an apple into a basket for a chance to win a caramel apple from the Safeway bakery. One of the more unusual vendors was Mr. Clean-A-Can, a trash can cleaning service. The company cleans large residential trash cans curbside, eliminating diseases spread by garbage can foraging critters, such as rats, raccoons and maggots. “The deodorizer in the cans also deters bears, which are a problem in Issaquah,” said Brian Gallagher, whose wife started the business.
He said they use green cleaning solutions, then at the end of the day they take the dirty water to a sanitary sewer dump which then goes to the wastewater treatment plant. Corey Colwell-Lipson, originally from Bellevue, now living in Issaquah, started Green Halloween from her home, and this year it became an official event with Green America. Now, as a national event, Green Halloween has evolved and expanded to address all aspects of Halloween, from helping families find nontoxic face paint, to facilitating costume swaps to promote reuse, to encouraging people to buy fair trade and organic candy from green companies. Colwell-Lipson said that through 70-80 events nationwide, over a million kids will get SEE GREEN HALLOWEEN, 2
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Sammamish’s largest community awards celebration will have a different look in 2013. The SAMMI Awards Foundation announced last week that it will change its format to increase the number of volunteers celebrated each year. The annual celebration of volunteers will move from a competition-based event, which recognized only a few volunteers each year, to a more expansive recognition event. “We’ve had a lot of feedback over the years on the competition-based program which ends up only recognizing a small number of community volunteers each year so the Board of Directors is moving in a new direction to recognize a greater number of volunteers, while still including a ‘surprise’ portion to the event,” said Kristina Williams, executive director of the SAMMI Awards Foundation. All those nominated for SAMMIs within a category will be recognized during the March 15 event at Eastridge Church. In addition, a crosssection of SAMMI volunteer stories within each category will be shared during the onstage production. The stories highlighted will represent a broad range of volunteer service and will be a surprise to all those in attendance, SAMMI officials say. For more than a decade, the SAMMIs have gathered the community and shared stories
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