FYI

Today is Three Kings’ Day. In Mexico, children traditionally receive the majority of their gifts during this celebration, rather than at Christmas.

The day commemorates the three wise men who followed the star to Bethlehem, according to inside-mexico.com.

Rosca de reyes, or sweet bread, is baked to be eaten on Three Kings’ Day. A small doll that represents Jesus is baked into the dough.

Whoever finds the figure in their slice of sweet bread on Three Kings’ Day is obliged to give a party Feb. 2, Candlemas Day, or Dia de la Candelaria, offering tamales and atole, a hot, sweet drink thickened with corn flour, to guests.

State ferries move to winter schedule

Washington State Ferries begins a winter ferry schedule Sunday. It continues through March 31.

Service reductions are made to save money during the slow winter season. Changes save the system about $500,000 each winter.

The blue winter schedule, No. 203, is available at all ferry terminals, at libraries and at www.wsdot.wa.gov/ferries.

Lecture on music and the Holocaust

Everett Community College will play host to Mina Miller, president and artistic director of Seattle-based Music of Remembrance, at noon Monday at Baker Hall on campus, 2000 Tower St.

Miller will speak about musical repression and the plight of musicians during the Holocaust. The free program is part of the EvCC Humanities Center’s yearlong “Memory: The Metaphor of the Muses,” which looks at how humanities shapes an understanding of the past.

Correction

Former Everett police officer trainee Jason Bair was sentenced to 364 days in jail with 304 days suspended. A story that appeared on Page B1 on Friday incorrectly stated the sentence imposed by the judge.

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