Published: Friday, December 16, 2005

Making spirits bright

By Jenny Lynn Zappala
Enterprise editor

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Enterprise/CHRIS GOODENOW In front of the splendor of holiday lights of the Candy Cane Shack, Ronn and Dianna Bellacy, are ready to hang out candy canes on Monday, Dec. 12, 2005, at Timberline Park neighborhood, located at 228th Place SW. in Brier. The Bellacy family and their neighbors put up the Timberline Park holiday lights to collect donations for the local food bank. Mountlake Terrace residents at 228th Street SW. and 42nd Place W. put up their own holiday lights to benefit a local food bank.

Enterprise/CHRIS GOODENOW Speckles of holiday light span across about half a dozen front yards, and expands out of view to the whole culdesac, Monday, Dec. 12, 2005, at Timberline Park in Brier.

Dazzling Christmas lights and doing good deeds are two winter holiday traditions that go well together. Here are opportunities in Brier and Mountlake Terrace to do both:



Timberline Park lights

The families in Brier's Timberline Park set an ambitious goal -- gathering more food and monetary donations for the Lynnwood Food Bank than last year. It would be quite a feat, considering the group collected 11,443 pounds of food and $26,710 for the food bank in 2004. As of Dec. 11, visitors donated at least 2,670 pounds of food and $7,940.

The ninth-annual Timberline Park lights is open 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday through Thursdays and 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays until Dec. 31. Santa will visit the display on Dec. 16, 17, 18, 22, 23 and 24. For information, visit www.brierlights.org.