Come on and admit it; this is an extremely confusing time for adults, right? How can one even begin to fathom what is going on in the minds of children? Halloween is coming up quickly and I’m aware that it may not be the favorite holiday for many, but children like it. Children like to dress up and children like candy; Halloween covers both.
This year’s Halloween falls on a Saturday, which makes it convenient for parents to start the festivities a little earlier before the sun goes down and it begins getting cold. Other advantages in respect to Covid-19 are: most Halloween activities take place outside, most costumes include masks, and there is ample space to provide for social distancing!
The parade will begin at Lincoln Library at 4:00 PM. We are planning for 250 this year due to it being on a Saturday. It takes a lot of candy to fill that many bags. We ran out last year when we did 150 bags; I don’t want to repeat that this year.
We have the bags, and those at Arrowhead West graciously fill bags for us every year. What we need is candy! We would so appreciate it if you would please think of us when you are in the Halloween candy aisle and maybe drop a bag or two of individually wrapped candy by the library. We will see that it gets in the bags for the children of our community.
After the parade, the First Assembly of God Church will be holding their annual Trunk or Treat from 5:00 to 6:30 PM at the church.
These activities will give our children a few hours of enjoyment that will gradually build to an exciting crescendo as the treats are checked out at the end of the evening. These are good times that make good memories, and no matter what age we are, we need to incorporate as many good times as we can get into our lives!
Word of the Week: The word of the week is “abstentious”! The word is an adjective and is pronounced əbˈstɛnʃəs. Abstentious is the longest word in the English language to use all five vowels in order once. Abstentious means self-restraining. He was a man of abstentious habits, charitable disposition, and impressive eloquence.
While hop-skipping through Facebook, I stopped to read a post by Brian Withrow. I always like talking with him and enjoy his relaxed manner of speech. He does a couple of sessions for the summer reading program and I’m always amazed how he can keep a room full of children buzzing around busy as bees while teaching them about the honey-producing insects. The thing that is really crazy is all the places he has gone and all the things he has done. He just isn’t the type of guy that toots his own horn, but I have run onto numerous Brian Withrow facts while doing research on other things! Now he lives here in our county and serves the northern part of the county in the position of president of the USD 254 school board. One of the points Brian made in his post was that we all have the tendency to gravitate towards the information the media is reporting that best reflects our beliefs, which unfortunately may exclude some important truths.