Canal Winchester Messenger - October 16th, 2022

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No matter where you are on life’s journey,
you’re welcome at
DAVID’S UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST
80 W. Columbus St., Canal Winchester
614-837-7734 www.davidsucc.net
10 a.m.-Worship Service
10:15 a.m. - Sunday School
Please join us October 31
from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
in our parking lot for our
TRUNK-OR-TREAT
Be a Part of Our Local Worship Guide
Our Worship Guide is geared toward celebrating faith and helping readers
connect with religious resources in our community. Make sure these readers
know how you can help with a presence in this very special section distributed to
more than 19,000 households in the South/Canal Winchester area.
Contact us today to secure your spot in our Worship Guide.
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Library School Help Centers
The Columbus Metropolitan Library’s
School Help Centers for grades K-12 are
open with staff and volunteers are ready to
help.
These after-school spaces give your students
access to technology, resources and
the library’s catalog of books and materials.
Visit columbuslibrary.org/school-help for
information. Hours vary by location. Local
library School Help Centers are:
•Southeast Branch, 3980 S. Hamilton
Road, Groveport. Monday-Thursday from 4-
7 p.m. and Friday from 3-6 p.m.
•Canal Winchester Branch, 115
Franklin St., Canal Winchester. Monday-
Thursday from 3:30-6:30 p.m. and Friday
from 3-6 p.m.
Area libraries
•The Canal Winchester Branch of the
Columbus Metropolitan Library, 115
Franklin St., is located in the rear portion
of the former school at 100 Washington St.
For information visit www.columbuslibrary.org
or call 614-645-2275.
•Wagnalls Memorial Library is located
at 150 E. Columbus St., Lithopolis. For information
call (614) 837-4765 or visit
www.wagnalls.org.
•The Southeast Branch of the Columbus
Metropolitan Library is located at 3980 S.
Hamilton Road, Groveport. For information
visit www.columbuslibrary.org or call 614-
645-2275.
Please visit a
Canal Winchester
Church of your choice.
List your Worship
Services here.
For info. call 614-272-5422
Halloween trick-or-treat is an exciting and
special time when you are a kid.
It’s a time when you can disguise yourself
and become someone or something else for a
few hours. You get to walk around the neighborhood
streets in that twilight time when
dusk settles in and shadows can become
whatever your imagination wants them to be.
Plus there is candy, lots of candy.
As a kid growing up in the 1950s and
1960s in Groveport, I have fond memories of
trick-or-treating. I liked seeing the sidewalks
filled with other kids in costume darting
about from house to house. I was awed by the
crazed faces of jack-o-lanterns lit by the dancing
flames of candlelight that beckoned to us
trick-o-treaters to front porches. It was fun to
be out adventuring in the forbidden dark - a
time one was normally safe at home.
I recall stopping by the old fire station on
College Street (now gone) and getting hot
dogs and doughnuts. Speaking of doughnuts,
there was one house that gave out doughnuts
and they even let you pick which doughnut
you wanted! They could probably afford to do
that back then because the town was much
smaller and there weren’t as many of us kid
goblins showing up at the door.
We used paper grocery bags to collect our
treats, a haul that could include candy bars of
all kinds, as well as assorted other sugary delights,
but also popcorn balls.
In the days leading up to trick-or-treat, our
school classrooms and homes were adorned in
assorted orange and black Halloween decorations
and crepe paper. These decorations were
not cute, but instead tended to have a scary
edge to their appearance in keeping with the
other worldly spirit of Halloween. These unusual
visages were great to look at and inspired
our imaginations.
Also in those days, while some kids did
have store bought costumes, most kids, with
the help of their parents, made their own costumes
from whatever
was at hand. That
being said, there are
still some kids today
who still create their
own costumes because
I have seen some great
ones at recent Halloween
trick-or-treats.
As for my costumes
when I was a kid, I remember
being a ghost
a couple of times -
which was an easy costume
as evidenced by
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The simple fun of trick-or-treat
Photo courtesy of Eastland-
Fairfield Career Centers
Food drive
Editor’s Notebook
Rick
Palsgrove
the “Peanuts” characters in the great Halloween
television show, “It’s the Great Pumpkin
Charlie Brown.” Probably my favorite
costume was when my mom helped me put together
a Civil War era Union Army cavalryman
outfit. The Civil War centennial was
being remembered in the mid-1960s so it was
easy to find a cheap blue, felt fabric replica
Union Army hat. My mom then stitched a
stripe down the side length of the legs of a
pair of my blue jeans. We then added a small
black mask, a blue shirt, a toy sword and toy
gun and I was set. I was proud of that outfit.
I had hoped the stripe would remain on that
pair of blue jeans after Halloween, but mom
removed it the next day because those were
my good “school blue jeans.”
So trick-or-treat is coming soon and today’s
kids will form their own memories that they
will hold onto with fondness as the years go
by. It is simple fun, which is the best kind of
fun.
Rick Palsgrove is managing editor of the
Groveport Messenger.
On Aug. 30, the Fairfield
Career Center
chapter of the National
Technical Honor
Society was named a
2022 recipient of the
Silver Star of Excellence
Award by the
NTHS national organization.
This award is
presented to NTHS
chapters that distinguish
themselves through their consistent excellence in career-technical education
and is a reflection of their commitment to community service, chapter advancement,
and active civic involvement. During the past school year, Fairfield Career Center’s
NTHS chapter has participated in philanthropic food drives, donut sales, and educational
activities. Their members collected approximately 3,000 boxed and canned
goods for a local food pantry during the 2021 holiday season. Additionally, last year’s
members raised over $1,200 to be used for membership fees and educational field
trips that will benefit NTHS students during the 2022-23 school year.