PAUL SCHRAG: HI JACK PREVIEW >>>

It will happen during First Night Tacoma in front of Sanford and Son on Broadway. They will gather before what people at the port call a TEU â€" or 20-foot-equivalent â€" container. Audience members are encouraged to bring an instrument made from recycled plastic of some sort â€" a milk jug filled with gravel will allow you to participate, says organizer Lynn Di Nino. Audience members also are invited to bring a piece of bread or toast, which will be toasted atop the container in a bank of special toasters. We don’t know what makes them special, or what they’ll do to your toast, but we promise you’ll end up with some magic mf’n toast. So you can toast in the New Year. Got it?

They will call the event "Hi Jack."

Today, we snapped a few shots of "The Ice Queen of Tollefson Plaza" who will grace the Hi Jack event during First Night Tacoma. Hey, that looks a lot like Mary K Johnson.

For more information on First Night Tacoma, check out www.firstnighttacoma.org.

[Sanford and Son, Wednesday, Dec. 31, 8:30-10 p.m., between Seventh and Ninth on Broadway, downtown Tacoma]