Hi Rachel! I appreciate you volunteering. We have Ramblewood/Queenswood
covered. Any chance you want to deliver to Lancaster?
Thanks!
Xan
On Sun, Oct 17, 2021 at 8:54 PM Rachel Martinez Eismeier <
rmeismeier@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
We support the decision Sean! I can pickup flyers from your house to do
Ramblewood, our queenswood loop and anywhere else you need us to.
Excited for Halloween!
On Oct 17, 2021, at 8:06 PM, Denise Sample <sample.denise@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
I’m can distribute what you need on my newsletter route as well.
On Sun, Oct 17, 2021 at 7:42 PM Sean McCormack <sean@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Capital idea Frank! I will create a flyer and ask the newsletterDenise
distributors and/or any volunteer to spread the word to the entire
neighborhood. This is going to be great!🎃
On Sun, Oct 17, 2021 at 7:19 PM Frank de la Teja <frankdelateja@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Sean, happy to walk them on my newsletter route--Heatherwood and
Queenswood.
JF de la Teja
On Sun, Oct 17, 2021, 6:41 PM Sean McCormack <sean@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Thanks so much Karen. I’ll keep
you posted.
On Sun, Oct 17, 2021 at 6:38 PM karen mattison <
dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Thank you, Sean. Ron and I can walk flyers if we do it before next
Sunday (camping in Caprock with the bison).
Karen
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On Oct 17, 2021, at 5:38 PM, Sean McCormack <sean@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Neighbors,
I have made the decision to have our *COVNA Halloween Stroll for
Saturday October 30, 2021 starting at 4:00pm *like we did last year.
I did not come to this decision lightly. We have lived in this
neighborhood
for over a decade and Halloween is typically a light participation night
because of these issues:
*Not a lot of streetlights/ No sidewalks/ Houses are too far apart for
quick trick or treating.*
- *Houses too far apart:* Children and parents alike know that the
houses in Castlewood Forest are too far apart so trick or treaters
typically head to Tanglewood (the neighborhood next to ours) because
three
houses can be visited versus one house in COVNA.
- *Not a lot of streetlights:* There are zero streetlights on my
block and not a lot in the neighborhood. This makes for an unsafe
evening.
- *No sidewalks:* Without the use of sidewalks, kids will be in
the street. Wearing masks. Without a lot of streetlights. Unsafe.
Unsafe.
Unsafe.
- *Halloween falls on a school night.* That means either earlier
bed times (missing out on the full experience) or
overly-stimulated/sugared
up children out too late and too excited to fall asleep (I'm sure all
their
teachers *REALLY* appreciate that the next day).
*Here is why I want to create an annual neighborhood event the
Saturday before Halloween:*
- All the reasons listed above.
- There is no rush to get home or to get the kids from
after-school programs to get into costumes.
- Starting at 4:00p gives the whole neighborhood the opportunity
to congregate and to see each other's costumes because it is NOT too
dark
and we're NOT in a rush.
*To Wrap It Up:*
This is a separate COVNA neighborhood event from Halloween. You're
free to participate in this event, traditional Halloween, either or
neither.
How this event started: My street (with no streetlights) never got
more than one or two trick or treaters outside of the kids who lived on
our
street so it always devolved into the neighbors and I eating lots of our
own candy and drinking way too much Irish whiskey. Then when Covid hit, I
thought to create something the whole neighborhood could enjoy. Hence the
COVNA Halloween Stroll last year that WAS on a Saturday and WAS an
extraordinary success. Why not make this an annual neighborhood event?
Halloween can be Halloween on the 31st but we are a social bunch. I
repeat:
we. are. a. social. bunch. Am I truly the only one who actually likes
seeing my neighbors in fully costumed getups?
*Also, I intend to print up flyers next week advertising our COVNA
Halloween Stroll to let all of our neighbors, who are not on the COVNA
email list or social media, aware that this event is taking place
on Saturday, October 30. *
*I need volunteers from our neighborhood to help identify these
neighbors and distribute these flyers to them.*
As you know *the volunteer COVNA Board has many vacancies right now
and we are very short-staffed.* I love love love the enthusiasm in
the emails. Please consider joining the COVNA Board! We need enthusiastic
folks like you to step up and volunteer for a Board position. My tenure as
President (also volunteer) ends in December.
-- Sean
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