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<\/a>To the Editor,<\/p>\n(Bouckville, NY \u2013 Oct. 2015) I would like to thank everyone who helped make the Halloween Happenin\u2019 a great success on Saturday, Oct. 17 on the Chenango Canal in Bouckville. This event took seven weeks and 120 hours of preparation and arrangements, 116 man-hours to set up, 28 hours to wire the electricity and 145 hours of pumpkin carving and delivery.<\/p>\n
Halloween Happenin\u2019 was available for one night, from\u00a05 to 9 p.m., free to the public at the Chenango Canal.<\/p>\n
At least 150 people enjoyed the spectacularly lit trees and decorations, the popular Clues Hunt, walked the scary live-haunted trail, watched cartoons in the dungeon and learned important scientific facts through experiments presented by real scientists.<\/p>\n
Children arrived in costumes that were judged with ribbon prizes. All children received prizes and everyone enjoyed refreshments and stayed a while in unexpectedly cold weather.<\/p>\n
The Chenango Canal Association was the sponsor, partnering with Kelley Phillips Post 569 American Legion from Oriskany Falls manning the refreshment and prizes tent. Volunteers from Waterville, Hamilton, Madison and Bouckville participated.<\/p>\n
Here is an excerpt of a poem written by Helen Lundt that summarized what she saw at the 2015 Halloween Happenin\u2019:<\/p>\n
The Halloween Party<\/p>\n
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\u201cI sat in the little canal museum<\/em> \u2026 And they filed into the room, some in warm<\/em> The scientist poured liquids, mixed colors to show<\/em> Special thanks go to friends and members of the Chenango Canal Association, Oriskany Falls Rotary Club, Valley Propane, Waterman Pumpkin Farm, Byrne Dairy, Kountry Kupboard, Colgate Bookstore, Tanner Insurance, Kinney Drugs, Price Chopper, the new Hamilton 4-H Club, COVE at Colgate University, the Interfaith Council & friends at Colgate University, Trish Coon and student volunteers at Madison Central School (MCS), MCS Art Department and Madison\u2019s FFA at the Fall Festival, all the promotion with area newspapers and handouts at Memorial Park School and Madison Central School.<\/p>\n This event was an all-out community effort with a dozen volunteers who put in long hours to prepare and work at the event.<\/p>\n In appreciation,<\/p>\n Diane Van Slyke, President<\/strong><\/p>\n Chenango Canal Association<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" To the Editor, (Bouckville, NY \u2013 Oct. 2015) I would like to thank everyone who helped make the Halloween Happenin\u2019 a great success on Saturday, Oct. 17 on the Chenango Canal in Bouckville. This event took seven weeks and 120 hours of preparation and arrangements, 116 man-hours to set up, 28 hours to wire […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23678],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letterstotheeditor"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-gK3","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/letters-to-the-editor.jpg?fit=300%2C225&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/58690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n at a small table, The Greeter. I wore black,\u00a0<\/em>
\n a huge floppy hat with a gorgeous\u00a0<\/em>
\n purple feather, and a sparkly blue-silver\u00a0<\/em>
\n shawl around my shoulders. Behind me was a<\/em>
\n window showing a fairy-land of colored lights<\/em>
\n around trees, spotting pumpkins the children<\/em>
\n had carved into evil looking faces, figures of<\/em>
\n storybook land and in the basement, foods<\/em>
\n and prizes the prize lady gave out\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n
\n jackets, others with great costumes and masks.<\/em>
\n Mothers carried little ones in costume\u2026I saw<\/em>
\n a little baby sheep outfit, cowboys, spacemen,<\/em>
\n a beautiful light blue princess with jeweled crown,<\/em>
\n they were filling the room\u2026over and over.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n what base, the alkali and acids did when mixed.<\/em>
\n He had colored paper with outlines of a picture\u2026the\u00a0<\/em>
\n children used cotton swabs dipped in Windex<\/em>
\n to color the outline, finding the orange picture<\/em>
\n turning red. Wow, their favorite red dog. They were<\/em>
\n fascinated with all the different experiments<\/em>
\n ready and willing to join in before their yearly\u00a0<\/em>
\n Clue Hunt, their foods, drinks, and prizes.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n