Why were there police and Fire trucks at Matthews Park? To lead the Halloween Parade.
Angels, Skeletons, John Lennon, a bag of jelly beans, the little match girl, Fred Flintstone, a girl that wandered in from the prairie, locomotives and many other well disguised parents and kids marched in their sartorial splendor through the Seward neighborhood to end up back at the park for treats served by a witch with a Park Board ID and games run by wonderwoman. We even had a parade float of a UFO with aliens capturing an innocent looking child (who was really the space alien who was both the alien and the child and then there was the mad scientist who was really masterminding the whole thing including some kind of mind control to get some adults to dress up like aliens and drag a UFO through residential streets) It was a great parade with 250-300 participants gathered at this great Park sponsored event- a wonderful community gathering of neighbors meeting neighbors. There were less trick or treaters at my house than last year probably about 20 in total and mostly young kids. I didn't see many teens- maybe they were all at Al Bangora's Haunted House at Powderhorn Park. Thanks, Scott Vreeland Seward REMINDERS: 1. Be civil! Please read the NEW RULES at http://www.e-democracy.org/rules. If you think a member is in violation, contact the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[email protected] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
