November 2013

Oct. 26, 9:20 p.m., 7700 Block of 16th Ave NW -- A woman had approximately $50,000-worth of jewelry stolen from her home. The metal, back door of the kitchen was forced in and her bedroom was rifled through. No other rooms were touched. The victim said her home was burglarized in 2006 in the same way. She said she was starting a detailed list of each item and will submit it with a followup form.

Oct. 26, 10:42 p.m., 4400 Block of 2nd Ave NW -- A burglar went through a home and stole an Apple Macbook Pro, an unknown amount of jewelry and approximately three alcohol bottles (totaling to about $1,500-worth of items stolen). Two file drawers with paperwork were rifled through but the victim was unsure anything had been taken. The responding police officer noted that the suspect used a ladder stolen from the next door neighbor and broke in through the kitchen window. The victim was able to provide a serial number for the Macbook and the officer gave her followup forms. The officer could not find any surfaces that he could lift fingerprints from.

By Peggy Sturdivant

Folks Donna Williams had never met kept popping their heads into the barbershop all day long on Halloween to ask, “Will you be doing it this year?”

What they were asking was, since the death of Gene the Barber last spring will you be continuing his 31-year tradition of handing out full size candy bars to Trick-or-Treaters and vodka-laced Jell-O shots to adults? The answer, of course, was yes.

Since now-owner Donna Williams also maintains a business in Aberdeen she has never been on Sunset Hill for Halloween, but she certainly heard about it, and managed to co-exist with the utterly creepy barber dummy that usually shared the shop all of October.

Wanting to honor those for whom a visit to Gene George’s was definitive of Halloween, Donna prepared 150 candy grab bags as well as candy bars. She also received boxes of the infamous full size candy bars from folks who wanted to help sustain the tradition. Some of the earliest candy recipients have their own families now.