The Best Pop Culture Halloween Costumes for 2011
While I thoroughly enjoy Christmas for obvious reasons, there are two other holidays that grace the calendar each year that I go crazy over: Cinco de Mayo and Halloween. Why Cinco de Mayo? It just so happens that yours truly made her debut on earth that day (and because it’s a great excuse to drink a bunch of Coronas, eat a whole mess of chips and salsa, and bust out a sombrero).
But then there’s Halloween. I loved the holiday as a youngster, except I’ll admit I went through a strange phase during a few Octobers. I didn’t like candy so I gave all of it away (practically a childhood crime) and I wanted to go trick-or-treating as a vampire, black cat, grim reaper, or witch. Oddly enough, I guess I turned out somewhat normal.
There’s just something wonderful I remember about traveling the neighborhood on an eerily dark yet crisp fall evening with a candy-filled bag in hand.
Rumford bike-a-thon raises more than $2K for St. Jude's Children's Hospital
RUMFORD — “Fifteen miles!” Tyler Steward yelled, pedaling his bicycle on the Hosmer Field track during Saturday's Holy Savior Catholic School Bike-a-thon benefit.
Twenty laps around the track equals 5 miles.
Like a stock-car racer doing victory laps, Steward proudly pumped his fist and right arm into the air, repeatedly yelling, “15 miles!”
The milestone, pardon the pun, meant the Holy Savior student had pedaled 60 laps to help 28 other children from the school raise more than $2,000 in two hours for St. Jude's Children's Hospital .
As he rode past, the pattern of back-wheel bicycle spray from riding in rain puddles on the track was distinct on his green, Holy Savior T-shirt, attesting to the many laps.
Four-year-old Orbin Honor of Mexico, riding a neon-green Hot Wheels bicycle, rolled to a stop beside Holy Savior seventh-grade teacher Michelle Ladd of Byron.
“I'm done,” the boy said.
“Honk your horn!” Ladd told him. “You've got to do a victory honk.
I'd recommend sporting a grayish ensemble (whether it's jeans and a t-shirt or a sweatshirt and sweatpants get-up), then covering yourself in leaves or various items of debris. Why not take some silver wire and wrap it around yourself to mimic the
