Halfmoon Bay Elementary would like your help to create The Great Halfmoon Bay Pumpkin Trail. Last year it was a great success, so let's do it again! Let’s come together and light up the trail between Lohn Road and Hart Road in Welcome Woods on Halloween night and make the trail brighter and safer for our little trick-or-treaters. How can you help? It’s simple: carve a pumpkin, add a tea light and put it in the trail anytime after 4:30 p.m. on Halloween night. A volunteer will go through and light or turn on tea lights just before dark. Or you can drop off ahead of time. Contact Wendy in the Community School Office to make arrangements: [email protected] or 604-551-8461.
You are invited to join the first Halfmoon Bay Family Book Club. Read the selected book at home as a family and then come for an evening of book-related fun. Activities vary according to the book read. The first meeting will be Wednesday, Nov. 7 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. in the school library. The first book is Wishtree by Katherine Applegate and is appropriate for Grade 2 and up. There are limited copies available to borrow in the community school library.
HMB Elementary’s first Tween Night is Friday Oct. 26 for grades 5 to 7 students, 6:30 to 8 p.m., $5 drop in. The first night will be a Halloween Bash and Dinner.
AppleFest/Halloween weekend is Oct. 27 and 28. Saturday is the Halloween costume dance party, with Poppa Greg and the Chillin’ Dylans plus special guests Simon Paradis and Daryle Todd. Doors at 7 p.m., music starts at 7:30 p.m. at Coopers Green Hall. Tickets are at HMB General Store, Welcome Woods Market and Pastimes in Sechelt.
Oct. 28 is the date for the Apple Festival and the theme will be based on the celebration of its 10-year anniversary, with a focus on harvest and Halloween. AppleFest will run from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., rain or shine, in Coopers Green Park.
Please take some time to think about how your craft relates to the Harvest or to Halloween. There are many traditions of old, be it Celtic/Samhain or other ancient folklore that we would like to add to the theme. We hope to have stories like this to tell people, to add some tradition or history to the Festival.
For details about becoming a vendor, volunteering to help or for more information, contact Katie Angermeyer at [email protected]
To have your say at the Bay, contact me before 5 p.m. Monday at [email protected] or 604-885-5034.
