Halloween News

Susie Caliendo has loved Halloween since she was a child, when she and her sister used to turn their family barn into a haunted house. Now, as a mother of three, the Duxbury resident has taken her love of writing, joy in decorating and fond memories of Halloween with her sister and her children and turned them into a children’s book. Caliendo said she was able to work with the designer and describe every small detail of how she wanted the page to look. Throughout the writing, editing and even the creative process, her children were helping her, giving her ideas and critiques. More Halloween News

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GARDEN GROVE When Vicki Conner and her son, Brent Conner, walked through the doors of UCI Medical Center Halloween night, they’d just learned that Brent’s12-year-old son, Nick, had been struck by a sport utility vehicle and was, as a result, in the hospital’s trauma unit. Slowly, the doctor added that he could perform a risky surgery to take out the left bone flap from his head, which would relieve the pressure and swelling in Nick’s brain - if it didn’t kill him. As he lay unconscious on the street, one of his friends grabbed a cell phone and called Brent, telling him that Nick had been in an accident and had broken his leg. On Day 28, the swelling in Nick’s brain subsided for the first time and got to a point where his bone flap could be put back inside his head. More Halloween News

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Perhaps it was just too dangerous for them to start making firecracker arrests on the Fourth ┠on the same principle, I guess, that it was dangerous to do too much about the swashbuckling on Halloween or start running down dogs without leashes (Mayor Earl Fisher used to run on the platform that, as long as he was in office, no dog in town would have to be leashed. Fireworks are dangerous, our parents would say, and each year they would dust off the old chestnut about the drugstore in Spencer that had a big stock of fireworks and they caught fire one night and much of the downtown went up in a spectacular shower of roman candles and sparkling fountains. Appropriately, the celebration was sponsored by the Rex Strait post of the American Legion (Strait, so the story went, was the first boy from Rock Rapids to die on foreign soil during World War I); the legionnaires were a bunch of good guys from the cleaners and the feed store and the bank who sponsored the American Legion baseball team each summer. There was always a big carnival, with a ferris wheel somewhere in the center for the kids, a bingo stand for the elders, a booth where the ladies from the Methodist Church sold homemade baked goods, sometimes a hootchy dancer or two, and a couple of dank watering holes beneath the grandstand where the VFW and the Legion sold Grainbelt and Hamms at 30¢ a bottle to anybody who looked of age. At the end, the flag ┠red, white and blue ┠would burst forth on the ground as the All-American finale in the darkest of the dark summer nights. But I feel better knowing that, back where I come from, everybody in town will be on their porches and on the backroads on the evening of the Fourth to watch the fireworks and that, somewhere in town, a little boy will put a big firecracker under a tin can on a wood porch, then light out for the lilacs behind the barn. More Halloween News

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It’s really easy because I get the dough from a local pizzeria; before you eat it, you have to take a picture and sing the national anthem. Flour the surface of a 12-by-17-inch rimmed baking pan; roll the dough out to about 1/4-inch thickness or spread the dough out evenly with your hands to fit the pan. This is the “dark blue” area of the flag; place it in the upper left-hand quadrant of the sauced dough. Cut circles, as small as you can, from the eggplant slice and place them, in some regular pattern, on the unskinned eggplant half to make a field of “stars. More Halloween News

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Tropical Products makes about a million orders of the costume blood every year, and now they’re producing a line to benefit the city of Salem. Officials were on board with the idea and plans began to roll out to design the label with the Haunted Happenings logo and pitch it to local vendors, especially tourist shops where the product would best sell. The blood, however, has struck a nerve — or a vein — because the bottles they’re being packaged in bear the Haunted Happenings logo, which includes the image of a witch flying on a broomstick. Kate Fox is the director of Destination Salem, the city’s public-private tourism agency, which has been involved in planning the rollout of Haunted Happenings Costume Blood. The only reason a witch is pictured on the bottle is that it’s part of the Haunted Happenings logo, and it’s a Haunted Happenings product. The blood is intended mostly for tourists, who he believes will buy it not because of a correlation to the past, but to enhance a costume and take home a souvenir. More Halloween News

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Donny has been a staple in this band for over 16 years and we love him like a brother, he will always be family and we hope the best for him. As soon as we get some of the mixes finalized, we will be putting a couple of tracks up for everyone to check out. As a Halloween fan I have no beef with the German fast Maiden type of band, but Halloween’s “Don’t Metal with Evil” as a cassette demo album, predates The Helloween EP, by a year or more. The accuracy of the information contained herein is neither confirmed nor guaranteed by Roadrunner Records, and the views and opinions of authors expressed on these pages do not necessarily state or reflect those of Roadrunner Records or its employees. More Halloween News

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The owner of Tropical Products, which manufactures shampoos, hand sanitizers and moisturizers on Highland Avenue, heard about the School Department’s financial crisis and offered to make his own unique donation to the city — fake blood. Still, with an estimated 100,000 revelers converging on downtown Salem on Halloween night alone, not to mention the thousands that pour in each weekend throughout October, it’s hard to imagine the fake blood won’t be a moneymaker for the city and for downtown retailers. On the other hand, shop owner Christian Day, who also runs the Festival of the Dead, said the idea shows the city is willing to get creative when it comes to bringing in revenue. Ed Berman, president of Tropical Products, with a 4-ounce bottle of the costume blood his company is donating to the city of Salem. More Halloween News

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Like my fellow Philadelphian Bill Cosby, the entertainer much maligned and even shunned by a wide section of black America , Obama delivered some home truths in his speech, reminding the audience that a juvenile delinquent is in fact the product of delinquent fatherhood. In fairness to the African American community, church is central to life and thousands of young people have been kept away from gang and drug culture through the tireless efforts of the Baptist Church across the United States. She resents the holiday that celebrates fatherhood and makes an unfortunate reference to going ‘back to the coalface;’ I do not believe she deliberately set out to trivialise the memory of coal miners, but angry bloggers did write in to remind her that Father’s Day was created to honour the 361 miners, mostly fathers and poor immigrants who lost their lives in a 1908 coalface explosion in Moongah, West Virginia. I spent my childhood in USA and every national observance, be it Memorial day, Veterans’ Day ( the Americans honour and value their vets more than we do, that is for sure) President’s Day, Flag Day, Arbor Day, Martin Luther King Day, Independence Day or Thanksgiving, is a reason to be with family and the media make sure children know what these days signify; the schools prepare children to know the meaning of these commemorations ahead of the holiday. Sitting on a bus yesterday I looked at my watch and knew that in Washington at that very moment Tim’s memory was being honoured at the Kennedy Centre by the great and the good including Barack Obama, John McCain and the Clintons, as well as by his elementary school teacher, a nun, and by ordinary Washingtonians. Gill Hornby seems to have a narrow view of family life and writes an erroneous history of American holidays; in the same weekend in which Tim Russert died, leaving so young a son, and in which Barack Obama reminded fathers of their obligations, Flag Day was celebrated across America. More Halloween News

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