Trunk or Treat is back! This year the event will be on Saturday, October 27th at Riverside Middle School from 5:00-7:30.
During Trunk or Treat, children trick-or-treat from the decorated trunks of vehicles.
This popular event is from 5-7:30 and will include stories, games, haunted house, and food! The event is being coordinated by the All-4-One After School program in conjunction with the Lights on Afterschool Initiative.
Gather together with friends and neighbors to enjoy these safe Halloween festivities.
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The All-4-One Program opened in 1997 with a child care license from the State of Vermont Child Development Division and in 2004 with a 21st Century Community Learning Centers grant from the U.S. Department of Education. It now has a 5 STAR (Step Ahead Quality Rating) from the state of Vermont and serves yearly over 550 children, providing homework assistance, mentoring, tutoring, and classes and clubs in sports, recreation, STEAM, drama, Community Service and dozens of other subjects. The program is a collaboration between the school system, Springfield Parks and Recreation, Edgar May Facility, Springfield Town Library and other various members and businesses of the Springfield community.
The Afterschool Alliance is a nonprofit public awareness and advocacy organization working to ensure that all children have access to quality after school programs. More information on Lights On Afterschool is available at www.afterschoolalliance.org.
Is there a rain date? It is snowing and supposed to sleet today. Will you continue today or cancel?
ReplyDeleteGet rid of this stupid "holiday". Can anyone one please tell me why "people" are so attracted to human skulls? Put tattoos of skulls on them. Why do "you" like skeltons? Just stupid. Don't you know skulls are brainless and ded. DED dead.
ReplyDeleteIt would be very interesting to see if Halloween could be banned. It's very deeply ingrained in Northern European tradition. If I remember correctly, the Druids viewed this time of year as one when the past and present sort of leaked around each other, hence the ghosties. It was their New Year-- but of course not to be confused with the Wiccan New Year which we now call Ground Hog Day (freeing it from the religious friction engendered between Protestants and Catholics when it was known as Candlemas Day).
ReplyDeleteWould we really feel comfortable in our skins by dumping it?
Figure out some angle to make it seem politically incorrect and a movement to ban it will begin.
DeleteThe modern English translation of Hallow'een is Holy Evening. It marks the night before All Saints Day. The early Church changed the dates of many holidays, (including Easter and Christmas) to coincide with pagan holidays as a means of making Pagans converts more comfortable within Christianity. The wearing of ghoulish costumes is a more modern custom. It arose from the belief that evil spirits and monsters would be given free reign over the Earth on "Holy Evening," and one must dress like them to blend in, or be devoured. The "Treats" were supposed to pacify the wayward demons, and those who did not offer them would be subject to the "Tricks." Children would dress up as monsters, and thereby get free sweets. Hence the saying, "Trick or Treat."
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