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The week of October 24, 2025
SPOOKY EVENTS Halloween happenings, beginning on October 25 P.7
STORY SLAM Randey Brophy recounts an inspirational winning story P.8
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ABOUT TOWN Find out what’s going on and where it’s happening P.11
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HALLOWEEN ORIGINS
Lengthy sloping driveways discourage costumed munchkins
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By Keith Fielding
s someone living in an area where it’s hilly and where houses tend to be further apart and built with driveways in the 25- 45 degree range, I have often found myself chewing on Halloween Mars Bars, Smarties and KitKat, well into December. Even without Grade 12 math it doesn’t take a young mind more than a few moments to figure out that the candy haul per bell-ring-hour is inversely proportional to the distance between bell pushes. And, with that being so, candy haul productivity increases as the distance between front doors shortens. So, If you want to avoid the temptation to eat all of the left over candy you purchased in case you were besieged by Trick or Treat visitors, and weren’t, you can either move to an area where front doors are fairly close together, or, somewhat less radically, not buy
any in the first place, turn off all the lights, and pretend to be out. But it is a difficult calculation. You don’t want to disappoint a child who hasn’t yet figured out that trolling Island View Villas, The Terraces, or Eagles View is a better bet than trudging up Ponderosa Ave, Princeton or Trepanier, so you can’t just not buy any candy and hope that a couple of apples will save you the embarrassment of sending the child away empty handed. No, some candy purchase is mandatory wherever you live. And, to help us understand why, we explore in this edition how it all started, where we are now, and what’s on offer for adults and munchkins for Halloween in Peachland. Warning: Segments in this edition my refer to ghosts and the occasional boundary transition they make between their world and ours - particularly on October 31st.
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