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 newsletter
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
Sent from my iPad
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
Powered by
cloudHQ
Denise
