Isaiah Owens, a 4-year employee of Walmart, volunteered to wear a cape as part of the back-to-school season and continued the accessory after the promotion was over. (Kevin Clark / The Herald)

Tate Tupen, 4, pops a bubble during Lake Stevens Education Foundation’s Dolly Parton Imagination Library celebration on Sept. 21 in Lake Stevens. (Olivia Vanni / The Herald)

Everett Fire Department firefighters watch as water is sprayed on the Judd & Black appliance store at 3001 Hewitt Ave on Sept. 21 in Everett. (Olivia Vanni / The Herald)

Everett firefighters spray water on the still smoking Judd & Black appliance store at 3001 Hewitt Ave on Sept. 22 in Everett. (Olivia Vanni / The Herald)

The Cedarcrest girls soccer team holds hands before their game on Sept. 25 in Snohomish. (Olivia Vanni / The Herald)

Snohomish’s Gracie Winders battles Cedarcrest’s Lauren Miller for the ball on Sept. 25, 2018 in Lake Stevens. (Olivia Vanni / The Herald)

Using a five-foot tape, Gary Baldwin measures his pumpkin that weighs nearly 1,000 pounds at his home on Sept. 11 in Everett. (Andy Bronson / The Herald)

Darrington’s Leevi Whittaker and Ashton Weidman block a pass to an Evergreen Lutheran receiver on Sept. 14 in Darrington. (Olivia Vanni / The Herald)

A female kid mountain goat stands in a crate before being transferred to Stillaguamish Peak from the Mountain Loop Highway bridge over the South Fork Sauk River on Sept. 12 in Granite Falls. (Olivia Vanni / The Herald)

Silvertips goalie Blake Lyda tries to keep an eye on the puck as a defender moves out of the way of the shot during practice on Sept. 20 in Everett. (Andy Bronson / The Herald)

Laela-Marie Leyva recently competed as a finalist in the 2018 National American Miss Jr Teen Washington. The Stanwood Middle School 8th grader also enjoys full contact roller derby and volunteering. (Andy Bronson / The Herald)

Monroe’s Efton Chism hauls in a pass between two defenders as Lake Stevens led Monroe 35-14 late in the second quarter on Sept. 14 in Monroe. (Andy Bronson / The Herald)

Brenda Willis wraps her friend Karen Pszonka in a quilt that Pszonka commissioned her to create as part of the Oso memorial planning effort. Pszonka lost her daughter, son-in-law and grandchildren in the Oso mudslide. The quilt, made with T-shirts from the agencies involved in the rescue and recovery efforts was the centerpiece of a Sept. 21 fundraiser auction. (Dan Bates / The Herald)

Evergreen Lutheran’s Gabe Lorette jumps to avoid the tackle of Darrington’s Lucas Reuwsaat after his touchdown to during the game on Sept. 14 in Darrington. (Olivia Vanni / The Herald)

Marshall Elementary fifth-grader Talia Gibbs reacts as her team’s gravity car goes farther than previous attempts during a one-week engineering program at the University of Washington on Sept. 12 in Seattle. (Andy Bronson / The Herald)

Snohomish’s Tayte Conover crosses the goal line as teammate Tyler Massena celebrates at Everett Memorial Stadium on Sept. 21. (Kevin Clark / The Herald)

A Snohomish Fire District 4 firefighter signals for water to his hose as he prepares to attack a fire that destroyed an out building on the Fobes Road, west of Snohomish, on Sept. 17. (Doug Ramsay / For the Herald)

Shorewood quarterback David Snell takes a snap during football practice on Sept. 19 in Shoreline. (Olivia Vanni / The Herald)

Alejandro Ramos paints the stall door in the mens’ room at Crossroads High School in Granite Falls on Sept. 11. (Kevin Clark / The Herald)

Heather Martin, 6, bends down to look a wallaby in the eyes at the annual Friendship Festival at Harvey Field on Sept. 15 in Snohomish. The event was put on by the Down Syndrome Association of Snohomish County. (Andy Bronson / The Herald)

Waiting for the next ferry to come in, Hayden Potter gets in a short sailboard run along the beach at the Edmonds Ferry dock on Sept. 21 in Edmonds. (Andy Bronson / The Herald)

Jackson Hiatt walks through the corn field dressed in a dinosaur costume during the annual Community Harvest and Hustle at Ebey Island on Sept. 7 in Everett. (Olivia Vanni / The Herald)

Addison Layton, 3, tries to catch bubbles at the annual Friendship Festival at Harvey Field on Sept. 15 in Snohomish. The event was put on by the Down Syndrome Association of Snohomish County. (Andy Bronson / The Herald)

Snohomish’s Trenton Brown breaks up a pass intended for Everett’s Riley Bennett at Everett Memorial Stadium on September 21. (Kevin Clark / The Herald)

Woldesemait Teklehaymanot (right), a leader of Debre Selam Kidus Michael Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church in Edmonds, and Henoke Hadera pause during their daily walk along the Interurban Trail in Lynnwood. (Dan Bates / The Herald)

Lynnwood’s Anna Hernandez battles with Oak Harbor’s Danielle Lonborg for the ball as Lynnwood led Oak Harbor 2-0 at the half in a girls’ soccer game on Sept. 18 in Lynnwood. (Andy Bronson / The Herald)

Anabelle Parsons, 6, left, looks up to the sky with binoculars to watch the Vaux Swift fly in during Swift Night Out on Sept. 8, 2018 in Monroe, Wa. Olivia Vanni / The Herald)

Vaux Swifts begin flying into the wagner Performing Art Center’s chimney during Swift Night Out on Sept. 8, 2018 in Monroe, Wa. Olivia Vanni / The Herald)

Seahawks’ Shaquem Griffin adjust his helmet before the snap during the game against the Dallas Cowboys on Sept. 23, 2018 in Seattle, Wa. (Olivia Vanni / The Herald)

A man takes a photo of the Vaux Swifts during Swift Night Out on Sept. 8, 2018 in Monroe, Wa. Olivia Vanni / The Herald)