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Glow for it

Posted by matsublog

Posted: October 27, 2009 - 10:48 am

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Some kids in the Mat-Su will get free glow sticks at school on Friday, courtesy of Operation Glow, a partnership of law enforcement and other agencies to keep little ones safe as they make the rounds for candy in the dark. Operation Glow, Phase One, happens tonight: community volunteers will meet at the Curtis D. Menard Memorial Sports Center to assemble lanyards and glow sticks. Phase Two: Wasilla's police department, along with departments in Palmer and Houston and the Alaska State Troopers, deliver the lanyards to area schools Wednesday and Thursday. Phase Three: students from kindergarten through fifth grade get the goods on Friday. Officers will also have glow sticks in their patrol cars on Halloween, according to a press release from Wasilla police Sgt. Kelly Swihart. Other partners involved in the glow-stick distribution are Mat-Su Youth Court, the Alaska State Highway Office -- and Evangelo's restaurant, which is donating pizza for tonight's volunteers.


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