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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 5,2014
VOLUME 33, NUMBER 34
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BRIAN MASCHINO/STAFF PHOTOS
TCHS celebrates 2014 homecoming
The Colony High School hosted its annual homecoming parade Wednesday. After the parade students and community members took
part in a pep rally behind the high school.
SPOOKS AND THRILLS
City to host Family Fright Night
Heather M. GOODWIN
hgoodwin@starlocalmedia.com
The Colony’s premier Halloween
event is expected to fill up quickly,
even as city officials expand the
event to allow for more participants.
The Colony Parks and Recreation
Department will host the eighth an-
nual Family Fright Night family Hal-
loween campout from 4 p.m. Oct. 25
to 9 a.m. Oct. 26 at Stewart Creek
Park, 3700 Sparks Road. Registration
opened Wednesday and is $15 per
person.
“We’re anticipating around 700
people this year, and we know it will |
sell out fast,” said Lindsey Stansell,
special events coordinator. “This year
we added more campsites because
last year we had to turn away peo-
ple.”
• This year’s event will include a
haunted trail, tent trick or treating,
costume and scream contests, a
scary movie, hayride, campfire and
s’mores. Stansell said this year she
added a haunted house to the lineup.
She said there will also be a jack-o’-
lantern contest for people to bring in
pre-carved pumpkins. She said they
would also bring back the photo
booth, which was a popular activity.
“People stay the night and fully
decorate their tent sites for our tent
decorating contest,” Stansell said. PHOTOS COURTESY OF LNDSEYSTANSELL
We do provide dinner, but a lot of The Colony Parks and Recreation Department will host the eighth annual Family Fright
people bring snacks.” Night famjly Halloween campout. The event will include a haunted house, bonfire and
Stansell said people are allowed trick-or-treating.
to bring alcohol and raised fire pits,
but generators and in-ground fires but activities won’t start until 4 p.m. a Cub Scout troop and a family bring-
are not allowed. She said during the “We’ve had every range of age ing their 8-month-old baby. But you
event, officials would have a bonfire come to this event,” Stansell said, don’t have to have kids to come to
for campers to enjoy. She said people “Last year we had a 16-year-old boy’s this.”
may start setting up tents at 1 p.m., birthday party, and this year we have Stansell said the average age for
younger campers is from 8 to 10 years
old, but she said one couple has
come to the event for years, some-
times without their grandchildren.
“The event definitely caters to all
ages. If you love Halloween, you’ll
enjoy this event,” Stansell said.
“Earth to Echo” will be the fea-
tured Saturday night movie. The
movie, released in the summer, fol-
lows a group of children, who re-
ceived a series of encrypted
messages and take off on an adven-
ture with an alien who needs their
help. The movie is rated PG.
“It’s a family friendly movie but
still has the suspense people crave
around Halloween,” Stansell said.
During the haunted trail, partici-
pants will walk along a decorated
Stewart Creek trail, where they will
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Taddesse strives to continue
positive trends in The Colony
Heather M. Goodwin
hgoodwin @starlocalmedia. com
Virginia Taddesse said a desire to
be part of The Colony’s growth led
her to the three-person race for
Place 4 on the city council.
“I love living in The Colony, and I
want to be a part of the city’s progres-
sion, continued growth and change,”
Taddesse said.
If elected, Taddesse said she
wants to continue the growth of The
Colony by stimulating continued
growth of new and existing business,
which she said would create more job
opportunities and an increase in the
Virginia Taddesse
economy. She said residents should
vote for her because she will bring "I love living in The
skills she has learned in her profes- Cony and I want to
sional life to the council. one I
“I have excellent listening and be a part Or the city's
problem-solving skills, something I progression continued
use daily in my current profession as P 94 .
a mortgage consultant,” Taddesse growth and change.
said. “I am an empathic person that
genuinely cares for people and wants - Virginia Taddesse
to create positive change.” _________________-___
Taddesse said she plans to cam-
paign by talking to residents about services, and I am currently a mort-
the type of candidate she is.
gage consultant with Citi Mortgage,”
“I want them to see my true desire Taddesse said. “I have always been
to help progress the city that we all interested in charity work and have
care for so much,” Taddesse said. participated in many organizations
Taddesse grew up in Dallas and over the years. I am currently a board
graduated from the University of member on the Ethiopian Women’s
Houston.
“I have mainly worked in financial DFW.”
Organization, a nonprofit charity in
Ending
the silence
County hosts domestic
violence awareness event
HEATHER Goodwin
hgoodwin@starlocalmedia. com
Denton County Friends of the
Family (DCFoF) is inviting people to
dress like their favorite rock star and
end the silence surrounding domes-
tic violence during its Rock ‘n‘ Stroll
event.
The event will be held from 3 to 6
p.m. Oct. 25 at Texas Woman’s Uni-
versity in front of Hubbard Hall. Vol-
unteers will direct parking. The
event will include a 1K awareness
walk. The fee for the walk is $15 and
includes a T-shirt and entrance into
Rock ‘n‘ Stroll.
“This is, above all else, an aware-
ness event. Along the walk, people
will come across silent witnesses
each of whom will bear a story of do-
mestic violence from a Denton
County victim,” said Sarah Lehman,
community education liaison with
DCFoF and AmeriCorps VISTA of
North Texas. “We want people to
learn about domestic violence during
this event.”
In addition to the walk, Lehman
FAMILY
VIOLENCE
INSTANCES
IN 2013*
Denton County unincorporated 205
The Colony 152
Argyle 2
Denton 561
Lake Dallas 49
Lewisville 460
Pilot Point 8
Sanger 0
Texas Women’s University 3
University of North Texas 11
Flower Mound 124
Little Elm 97
Aubrey 15
Highland Village 22
Corinth 70
Double Oak 5
Hickory Creek 7
Roanoke 22
Trophy Club 14
Ponder 1
Northlake 5
’Source Texas Department of Public Safety
said the event would include vendor as their favorite rock star or artist for
booths featuring activities and edu- the walk and event,” Lehman said,
cational material and a costume con- “This is a family-friendly that is
test. geared toward everyone.”
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