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Good morning — welcome to issue seventy-eight. Today is sunny and 82 with a low near 52 tonight, so it's a light-jacket morning that turns into a short-sleeve afternoon. Inside: the Meridian bus route that's going away, what Fire Prevention Week has planned for your phone charger, a drive-through spooky light show at Roaring Springs, a parade you can still sign up for, a short events list, the full forecast, and a trivia question about the fire department. Know someone who'd like this in their inbox? Share the Scoop →. Let's get into it.
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🏙️ Trivia: The Meridian Fire Department got its start in 1908 with exactly one piece of firefighting equipment. Was it a hand-pulled hose cart, a steam pumper, or a chemical extinguisher? (Answer at the bottom.)
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Events
A short week on the calendar, and we'd rather tell you that than pad it: most of what's on in Meridian this weekend already ran in recent issues, so you're getting the new stuff only. The big one is next Friday night, when a fire station open house and a drive-through light show share the evening.
Tuesday, October 6
🏛️ Meridian City Council — Fire Prevention Week proclamation — start time not listed in the coverage, cost not listed · 📍 City Hall, 33 E. Broadway Ave. · The mayor signs the Fire Prevention Week proclamation at this meeting. Check meridiancity.org for the agenda and start time before you go. · 🗓️ Add to Calendar
Friday, October 9
🚒 Fire Prevention Week open house — 6:30–8:00 p.m., cost not listed · 📍 Fire Station 7, 6343 S. Recreation Ave. · Ice cream, fire trucks to explore and fire-safety education. Parking is at Discovery Park. · 🗓️ Add to Calendar
🎃 Spooky Light Show opening night — 7:00–9:30 p.m., $29.99 per carload (tickets) · 📍 Roaring Springs parking lot, 400 W. Overland Rd. · Opening night of a run that goes through Oct. 30. Details in the story below. · 🗓️ Add to Calendar
Saturday, October 10
🎸 Rise & Riffs — 10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m., cost not listed · 📍 3410 N. Eagle Rd., Ste. 150 · The Facebook listing doesn't say what the event is or who's hosting, so check the page before you go. · 🗓️ Add to Calendar
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Weather
✅ NO WEATHER ALERTS showed on the Idaho News 6 weather page Thursday evening.
Friday, Meridian (National Weather Service):
82°F
Overnight low near 52°F
Sunny and dry. The warm, quiet stretch keeps going: Saturday sunny near 82 with a low of 52, Sunday sunny near 84, Monday the warmest of the run at 85, and Tuesday a slightly cooler 81. As a cross-check, Idaho News 6's Boise-area forecast has Friday and Saturday at 84 — a couple of degrees above the NWS Meridian number — so plan for 82 to 84 and you'll be fine. Sunrise is about 7:45 a.m., sunset about 7:24 p.m.
News
Valley Regional Transit is ending Meridian's Route 30 bus
Valley Regional Transit is discontinuing Route 30 Pine, the Meridian bus that connected Ten Mile Crossing to the Village, as part of a broader reshuffle of local routes announced Thursday. The paratransit service that ran alongside it, VRT Access in Meridian, ends with it. VRT's answer for riders is Route 45, which connects the College of Western Idaho to Boise State and, in the article's words, “serves many of the same bus stops Route 30 once did.” For riders who relied on Access, the alternatives VRT lists are Beyond Access and Rides2Wellness.
Here's what the coverage doesn't tell you: when Route 30 actually stops running. No effective date is given, no VRT spokesperson is named, and there's no mention of a public comment period, so if you or someone you know rides it, contact VRT directly before you plan around it. Nampa takes the bigger hit in the shuffle, losing its Route 40 express and its on-demand service after the city cut VRT funding.
🗳️ Your call: a bus line most of us have never watched go by is about to vanish. Does it matter to you?
Valley Regional Transit is ending Meridian's Route 30 and its paratransit service. How much does the bus matter to your Meridian?
Source: Idaho News 6 (CBS2 News Staff), published Oct. 1.
Fire Prevention Week: a Station 7 open house and a lesson about phone chargers
Fire Prevention Week runs Oct. 4–10, and the Meridian Fire Department is spending it on a topic that lives in most of our bedrooms: lithium-ion batteries. This year's national theme is “Charge Into Fire Safety™: Safe Charging Is a Superpower.” The department's advice is short. Use only the charger the manufacturer approved, don't charge devices on a bed or couch, and unplug them once they're full. Crews will also visit schools, the YMCA and the Boys & Girls Club during the week, and the mayor signs the proclamation at the Oct. 6 City Council meeting.
The part for the rest of us is next Friday, Oct. 9, from 6:30 to 8 p.m., when the department opens its doors at Fire Station 7, 6343 S. Recreation Ave. Expect ice cream, fire trucks to explore and fire-safety education; parking is at Discovery Park. The department's bottom-line reminder is worth repeating: families may have only two to three minutes to get out, so know two exits from every room and make sure the smoke alarms work. Questions go to [email protected].
Source: Idaho News 6 (CBS2 News Staff), published Oct. 1.
A drive-through spooky light show returns to Roaring Springs
The Spooky Light Show is back for a second year in the Roaring Springs parking lot, running Oct. 9–30 from 7 to 9:30 p.m. nightly. You stay in the car and roll through three themed zones: Electric Ghost Boulevard, with thousands of ghost lights synced to music; Skeleton Lane; and Spider Web Way.
Admission is $29.99 per carload, or $39.99 with the Spooky Party Pack. New this year is a $79 season pass per vehicle, which pencils out to a good deal if your household is the type to go more than twice. Tickets are sold online through the organizer's ticketing page, so you can sort your night out before you get in line.
Source: Idaho News 6 (CBS2 News Staff), published Oct. 1.
Applications are open for the Winter Lights Parade
The City of Meridian is taking entries for the Winter Lights Parade, which lights up Downtown Meridian on Friday, Dec. 4, at 7 p.m., with pre-parade festivities at 5:30. This year's suggested theme is “A Candy-coated Christmas,” and the parade is presented by Rogue Credit Union, with radio hosts Rick and Carly from 96.1 BOB FM as emcees. Floats, walking groups, performance teams and marching bands are all welcome, and the city will take up to 50 entries.
Applications are due Friday, Nov. 20, at 5 p.m. at MeridianCity.org/Christmas. Standard entries cost $100, registered 501(c)(3) nonprofits pay $50, and school bands are free. Questions go to the city at (208) 888-4433.
Source: City of Meridian, published Oct. 1.
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Trivia answer: a chemical extinguisher. The Meridian Fire Department's first piece of equipment, in 1908, was a “Champion double cylinder chemical fire extinguisher,” and it served a town of roughly 600 people. LeRoy Adams was the first chief. The department stayed part-time for most of its history and went full-time in 1992 under Chief Kenny Bowers, and in the early 1950s it teamed up with the Rural Fire Protection District to stretch coverage beyond town limits. Worth remembering next Friday when you're climbing on a fire truck at Station 7.
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