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Family fun at Merrysville for the Holidays North County Outlook • November 21, 2018

anta and Mrs. Claus will join thousands of good-cheer-filled festival goers to usher in the holiday season. Merrysville for the Holidays is on Saturday, Dec. 1, offering a full slate of events including the Electric Lights Parade. “It’s just fun. People are excited to see their neighbors walking through the parade,” said Andrea Kingsford, recreation supervisor for the city of Marysville. Festivities begin at 5 p.m. in Comeford Park with family activities, holiday photo booth and the a craft show. The park is located at 514 Delta Ave. Live holiday music, performed by Holiday Harmony Pop, takes place at the Comeford Park gazebo beginning at 5:30 p.m. A procession of vehicles, floats and parade-goers decked out in holiday lights will comprise the Electric Lights Parade that begins at 6:30 p.m. The parade travels on State Avenue from the Marysville Court building to Comeford Park. Kingsford said between 35 and 50 entrants that includes community groups such as scouting troops

will comprise this year’s procession. The parade also marks the final time people can see the current Strawberry Festival float. After the parade, volunteers will spend months redesigning the float in time for the 2019 Strawberry Festival. The start of the holiday season will be officially commemorated on Dec. 1 with the annual lighting of the water tower at Comeford Park. The lighting, along with a holiday bonfire, takes place at around 7 p.m. following the parade. Santa and Mrs. Claus will be on hand after the parade for photographs. Shutterbugs will have a chance to photograph their loved ones in front of holiday scenes that are staged throughout the park as well. People should bring non-perishable food items and unwrapped gifts to be given to the Marysville Community Food Bank. Those donated items will be donated to needy families prior to the Christmas holiday. For more information about Merrysville for the Holidays, go to https:// www.marysvillewa.gov/689/Merrysville-for-the-Holidays.

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Santa and Mrs. Claus will be taking part in this year’s Electric Lights Parade which begins at 6:30 p.m. on Dec. 1.

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owntown Marysville merchants will again be hiding elves in their stores from Nov. 24 to Dec. 1 for community members to find and potentially win prizes. This is the second year for the downtown “Elf on the Shelf” event. “If you find the elf in all of the stores and submit your program you are entered into a contest drawing,” said Mary Kirkland, owner of downtown Marysville Hilton Pharmacy and member of the Downtown Marysville Merchants Association. Winners are announced at the end of the Merrysville for the Holidays parade.

“We will be contacting the winners afterward as well, so you don’t have to be at the parade to win,” said Kirkland. This year the prizes are gift cards, including a $100 first-place prize, two $50 second-place winners and four thirdplace $25 winners, that can be spent at the participating stores. Last year was the first time that the downtown merchants ran the event and Kirkland said it went well. “We’re very excited about it because it was so successful the first year,” she said. “We had lots of businesses and people who participated in it last year.”

This year includes 10 participating businesses on Third Street. “For the merchants, it brought a lot of people from the community into our stores,” said Kirkland. “They could see what we have to offer for the Christmas season,” she said. Kids enjoyed looking for the elves throughout the store, said Kirkland, although the event is for anybody. “It’s not just for the children, but for anybody who wants to partake in it,” Kirkland said. Local kids liked the scavenger hunt aspect of the event. “I think they really enjoyed

looking for each of our elves,” she said. “I loved the glee on the children’s faces as they found the elves.” The elves also changed locations each day so participants could join in on more than one day if they wanted to. “I loved having to move and find a secretive place for my elf each day,” said Kirkland. Kirkland said all the elves have a different personality and hers is named Matilda. The idea for the event came from the city, said Kirkland. The Marysville Parks, Culture and Recreation

Department approached the Downtown Marysville Merchants Association with the event last year. “They came up with the initial idea and the merchants put it together and worked to come

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nearly week-long festival at the Tulalip Resort will help children served by Providence Hospital. The 33rd Festival of Trees takes place Nov. 27 through Dec. 1 and is organized by Providence General Foundation and benefits Providence Children’s Services. Last year the festival garnered $1.2 million. Cumulatively, more than $11 million has been raised to benefit Providence’s Children’s Center, the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and Providence Boyden Family Autism Center. “As our county continues to grow, the need for children’s services continues to grow,” said Jennifer Coyle, senior manager for special events at the Providence General Foundation. This year’s festival offers 17 decorated trees and six wreaths decorated by various designers based in Snohomish County. Coyle noted Funko, which is headquartered in Everett, will provide a tree based on characters from its Wetmore Forest. The festival kicks off Nov. 27 with a silent auction starting at 6 p.m. The Seattle-based jazz band Apollo Trio will perform during the silent auction. Tickets cost $65 and people can register at washington.providence.org/ donate/providence-general-foundation/events/ festival-of-trees. The community open house takes place

from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 28, where visitors can view the trees, listen to local singing groups perform and enjoy cocoa free of charge. The highlight of the week is the Black-Tie-optional gala that takes place at 6 p.m. Friday, Nov. 30, where the trees and wreaths will be auctioned to the highest bidder. The gala includes a three-course dinner and a silent wine auction. Tickets cost $275 per person. Several of the trees will provide some holiday flair to several nonprofit organizations in the area. Several of the auctioned trees will be donated to Dawson Place, Cocoon House, Providence Children’s Center and Providence Hospice Center. The Festival of Trees concludes with the Teddy Bear Breakfast that takes place from 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m., Saturday, Dec. 1. Santa will be present and people are encouraged to wear holiday attire. Tickets

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owntown Arlington will be overflowing with white snow and holiday cheer after Thanksgiving. Hometown Holidays takes place Saturday, Dec. 1 with a full slate of events that will help usher in the Christmas season. Olympic Avenue through downtown will be closed to make way for the Santa Parade that starts at noon and is sponsored by the city of Arlington. Santa will highlight the parade that goes between Fifth Street and Division Street. Arlington’s Holiday celebrations kicked off the weekend after Thanksgiving with Small Business Saturday, which is sandwiched between Black Friday and Cyber Monday. “We’re going to close down Olympic Avenue,” said Sarah Lopez, Community Revitalization Project Manager for the city of Arlington. The

closure will make room for fire pits and carolers that are a popular feature of the event each year. On Nov. 24, Olympic Avenue will be closed in downtown Arlington and the businesses will stay open late to cater to holiday shoppers who will enjoy staying warm around fire pits enjoying festive holiday cheer. The day is highlighted by the tree lighting that takes place at 5 p.m. at Legion Park. Hometown Holidays kicks into full gear Dec. 1 with the Santa Breakfast going from 8:30 a.m. to noon at Presidents Elementary School on Third Street. The breakfast serves as a fundraiser for the Arlington Education Foundation. The Homemade Holiday vendor fair, sponsored by the Arlington Farmers Market, takes place at Pioneer Hall at 20722 67th Ave on both Saturday and Sunday.

Festival goers will welcome Kris Kringle to Arlington when he participates in the annual Santa Parade that begins at noon starting at Fifth Street on Olympic Avenue. People and groups can pre-register at City Hall or on the day of the parade to participate in the annual event. Prize will be given for the best parade participant, which is sponsored by Arlington Lifeway Church. Following the parade Santa will be available in the Olympic Park gazebo from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m., so bring a camera. Fire pits with s’mores, along with crafts

sponsored by Arlington Lifeway Church begins at 11 a.m. and goes until 2 p.m. and the festive sweater contest, also sponsored by Arlington Lifeway, begins at 12:30 p.m. at Legion Park. The Downtown Arlington Business Association is hosting wagon rides on Olympic Avenue from 12:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Those rides take place again on Dec. 8 and Dec. 15. The festival day also includes a viewing of A Charlie Brown Christmas and The Grinch that Stole Christmas at the Olympic Theater located on Olympic Avenue.

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here is a new way to explore the nooks and crannies of downtown Arlington. The Stilly Valley Chamber of Commerce is hosting a “Charm Walk” during the holiday season to encourage shoppers to visit businesses in Arlington’s downtown. “It gives people a chance to discover businesses in Arlington that they may not have gone into. A lot of these small businesses are hidden gems,” said Jen Egger, executive director for the Stilly Valley Chamber of Commerce. People can purchase bracelets for $25 and receive a charm whenever they visit a participating business in Arlington. Bracelets are available during Small Business Saturday that takes place on Nov. 24. The chamber first used the Charm Walk in February during Arlington’s annual Eagle Festival. “We’re just looking for ways to help people discover Arlington’s small businesses,” Egger said. The Charm Walk replaces the Snowball Drop, which took place during last year’s holiday celebration. The Snowball Drop was an event that entailed dropping around 1,000 ping-pong-ball-shaped “snowballs” that included prizes at local businesses. Egger said they came up with the idea for the Charm Walk because they wanted something more interactive and family friendly.

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Tour of Lights offers family fun at Cedarcrest

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ber’s largest fundraiser of the year, collecting around $25,000 to pay for chamber programs that help small businesses. Stickles describes the holidays as the “season of auctions,” and the chamber’s auction to offer something unique. Previous years incorporated karaoke and a dance-off into the auction festivities. The semi-formal event starts with a hosted reception with a no-host bar to follow. The event includes a gourmet dinner, dessert dash as well as silent and live auctions. Stickles pointed out the “raise the paddle” will benefit the Marysville Community Food Bank toy store. As for why the chamber auction takes place during the Festival of Trees, Sickles said the decorations from the

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edged between two of the biggest shopping days of the year is a day focused on small, locally owned businesses. Small Business Saturday, which takes place between Black Friday and Cyber Monday, is an event spear-headed by American Express, designed to encourage shopping at local and family-owned businesses. Olympic Avenue in downtown Arlington will be shut down to vehicles from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 24 so shoppers can peruse the businesses that are staying open late, eat at food trucks, enjoy fire pits and all-around holiday atmosphere that includes seeing the decorated Santa truck. “It just ends up being a beautiful night-time

event,” said Jen Egger, executive director for the Stilly Valley Chamber of Commerce. Small Business Saturday helps families prepare for the holidays and it is also a way to help keep more local dollars within the community. Egger said $1 of every $100 spent online stays in the community, $15 of every $100 spent at a big-box store remains in the community and $45 of every $100 spent at a locally owned business stays in the community.

Arlington shoppers can expect a white Small Business Saturday when they show up. Organizers have a snow machine that will be operating to add a cool flair to the celebration that helps usher in the holiday season. In Marysville, the

Greater Marysville Tulalip Chamber of Commerce is working with 15 locally owned businesses who are participating in Small Businesses Saturday. Those businesses are in operation from downtown Marysville to Lakewood Crossing.

“This is kind of their Black Friday and they need to make it fun and exciting,” said Jesica Stickles, President/CEO of the Greater Marysville Tulalip Chamber of Commerce. The Chamber’s Emissary Committee is heading up the effort to help

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rlington firefighters will bring Santa and sirens to local communities as part of the annual Arlington Santa Run Dec. 7 to Dec. 16. Firefighters and a fire engine decorated with Christmas lights will be traveling to various neighborhoods each night of the Santa Run. Santa will greet children and families while volunteers collect donations of food or money for the Arlington Community Food Bank. Monetary donations go straight to the food bank. Last year volunteers raised around 7,500 pounds of food and roughly $2,000 in cash. “We’d like to surpass 8,000 pounds this year,” said Arlington firefighter/ paramedic Nich Sacha, one of the main organizers of this year’s event. The Santa Run typically begins at 5:30 p.m. on weekdays and 5 p.m. on weekends. Sacha said that the Santa Run is something that is popular with the community and the firefighters.

“People in our community really look forward to this and the firefighters like the amount of support that we have from our community,” he said. It’s become a popular tradition in the community, something that Sacha is familiar with because he was raised in Arlington. “I grew up in this community and I used to see the Santa Run go by,” he said. “It’s fun to hear the music going and being in the spirit of everything,” he said. The Arlington Santa Run has been held for more than 20 years now and is something that the Arlington Fire Department likes doing to be part of the community, said Sacha. Sacha said as the city has grown there have been more and more complaints about the Santa Run being unable to get to some locations. “Some of the complaints we get over the years is that we can’t hit all the developments that are new or maybe there are additions to

neighborhoods,” he said. The city is large enough now that it’s not practical for the department to hit every neighborhood, he said, but added the Santa Run will continue to drive through areas it traditionally has and encourages locals to look online at arlingtonwa.gov/santarun where the full list of Santa Run routes is posted. The length of the Santa Run is also concerning, as it can last until 8:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. “We are pretty generous and Santa is really generous so if we see someone down a culde-sac Santa is going to run down there, take pictures,” said Sacha. Sacha encourages residents to come down to the sidewalk so that the the firefighters will have more time to spend at all houses along the route. “If everyone can mingle on down to the main road it will really help Santa have more time,” he said. The Santa Run is primarily run by firefighters but is supported

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tions and other support. Everyone who participates is volunteering and spends their own time to help, said Sacha. He said that local firefighters give their time to support the community and the food bank.

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Tulalip Bay Fire Department Silvana firefighters plan to hold Santa___ Run Dec. 14-16 annual Santa Run

irefighters at Tulalip Bay Fire Department have a chance to spread some holiday cheer and thank voters for their support in the recent election. The Santa Run, which provides a light-hearted chance for firefighters to visit residents they serve and collect donations for the local food bank, takes place Dec. 14, Dec. 15 and Dec. 16. The route schedule as of press time is being finalized, but look for firefighters to start on the north end of the district and work their way south, said Patrick Dinneen, firefighter with the Tulalip Bay Fire Department. The Santa Run starts at around 6 p.m. and concludes around 9 p.m. each night. Sunday might finish up a little early because people have to go to work the next day. “It’s our chance to go out into the commu-

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nity and say ‘Thanks,’” Dinneen said. The fire engine will be decked out with Christmas lights and carols will be playing over the speakers. “This is a great way to go out and be ourselves,” Dinneen said. Firefighters will be collecting food and cash for the Tulalip Food Bank. They will also take time during the Santa Run to thank the voters of the fire district for their support of a levy that will support fire district operations. As of press time Nov. 14,

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a count from the Snohomish County Auditor’s Office showed 65.93 percent of the district’s voters approved the levy proposal. The levy will cost homeowners $1.50 per $1,000 assessed property value. Dinneen said that since the levy was first approved in 2002, the number of calls per years has increased. Back then the department received between 300 and 500 calls per year. The number of calls currently is around 1,500. Dinneen said the levy approval is a sign of progress for the department and will provide more resources to serve the community including the hiring of three fulltime firefighters. “We’re really excited about it,” Dinneen said. To find out the route of the Tulalip Bay Santa Run, check out the fire department’s Facebook page.

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