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p thetwbunc thursday october 30 1997 st coming winter is the real scary halloween trick halloween is just a few days away and little trick or treaters are ready to hit our rural roads decked out in an assortment of costumes pumpkins were seen growing in abundance in our fields over summer and fall now they line the roadsides waiting to find a home to glow in long ago it was thought that on hal loween night the spirits of the dead arose and came seeking the living to ward off these evil spirits it was decid- rural route ruth ruth leblanc ed to carve gruesome faces on pump kins and set them in a window it was hoped this would frighten the spirits and keep them at bay weve come a long way since then halloween has become the second biggest retail holiday next to christ mas millions are spent on costumes and even more on candy and decora tions last year i helped judge our rural halloween displays and was amazed at the effort put into decorating homes and yards tombstones with eerie music 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mom and dads and all the kids helped plan the spooki est show on the street older kids volunteered to sit dressed in full costume waiting to greet and enter tain little trick or treaters flashing strobe lights and stuffed figures along with gigantic spiders decorated front porches and to see it was to believe it we rural routers are not alone it seems big kids everywhere want to get in on the holiday fun and hal loween is not just for the lit tle ones anymore once this holiday con jured up thoughts of ghosts and goblins those days seem far behind now as halloween has become a time for revelry and merry making and thoughts of demons are far removed it is not uncommon to see doors open and candies being handed out by cos tumed adults who seem to have as much if not even more fun than the kids who wait for them just a few years ago corn stalks with a stuffed figure sitting on a bale of hay seemed really festive and in the spirit of halloween the big guy and 1 had ghosts made out of sheets hanging from our fir trees with spooky music playing hauntingly at the time it seemed out rageous but now it is pretty tame stuff compared to some of the yards seen around our rural country side whatever the reason hal loween has become an event that many rural routers cele brate maybe the thought of the upcoming winter scares us silly one rural router had a chilling thought to end the month of october there is a tree outside his shop win dow which produces berries and this has become his winter monitor five years running he has accurately predicted the weather and was right each time if the tree has a few berries the winter will be mild if the tree has loads of red berries the winter will be a killer i dont want to be the bear er of bad news but the tree had more berries than he has ever seen this year sorry folks now thats really scary happy halloween the financial planning group ifiri presents new seniors benefit legislation presented by talbot stevens author of the best selling 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