Cold doesn’t stop First Night revelers

Hundreds of children and their parents packed into the Spokane Convention Center to launch First Night with face painting, hat making and the writing of New Year’s resolutions on a six-foot-high dream catcher. “I am making a wish to see the ball drop,” said 5-year-old Henry Groenen, who attended the festivities with his brother, Jakob, 8, and parents, Patty and Harald, of Spokane. The Kids Night Out was the first part of the 10th annual First Night Spokane, expected to draw up to 26,000 revelers for everything from a Resolution Run, a rail jam with skiers and snowboarders, a street dance party, musical performances, pottery demonstrations, improvisational comedy, film festivals and more.