Turning Halloween into Food Bank benefit

The treat of more food for local needs outpaced the need for some Medical Lake High School students to collect goodies for their own sweet tooth on Halloween.

In a twist of the traditional cry of "trick or treat," heard at front doors across neighborhoods nearly everywhere, members of the school's Key Club came up with the idea and took it upon themselves to gather food for the needy.

Two of the student leaders were seniors Justyce Cogswell and Emilie Browning.

"We had an opportunity to go to a leadership conference earlier in the year," Browning said. The student body president at Gonzaga Uni...