Birthdays this week include: Don Langford - Oct. 29, Alice Watkins - Oct. 31, Amy Pilkington - Nov. 1
It's here. Cold weather hit the area Friday with frosts decorating the landscape each morning. Enjoy.
This weekend's Spookhouse inside the West Saline Community Center was a resounding success with over 100 men, women and children taking the tour. An independent observer reported that he went through this one and others in Fordyce, Rison and White Hall, but ours was the best by far. Plans are afoot for another one next October. The spookhouse included such attractions as: a cannibalistic kitchen, an evil clown and nursery room, a killer school principal complete with spiked paddle, zombies galore, a graveyard, a madman with a chainsaw, and a vampire leaping out of a coffin. Grown men ran out of this place, but everyone seemed to have a great time. Thanks goes to the following people who made this event possible: Nikki Warner, Ryan Rawls, Kathy Hollis, Dianne Harris, Destin Macon, Shawntra Rawls, Julia Crutchfield, Francis White, Jerry Brown, J. C. Rawls, Jessica Ringo, Mateo Martindale, Calvin Warner, Justin Billings, Sammy "The Principal is NOT your pal" Ingram, Johnathon White, Greg White, Chase Warner, Scotty Warner, Darrell Barnett, Erica Rogue, Tony Rogue, and Maria Rogue. Vampires: can't have a Halloween with them.
I was told this weekend there was some slight question about what constitutes "New Edinburg News" with some consternation about Macedonia news showing up here. My definition (the one that matters) includes any local community that actually bussed kids to New Edinburg School back in the day and receives its mail on the New Edinburg mail route. It even covers town residents living out of the area. I think that's a pretty fair call. In fact, a studied tour through the NEHS yearbooks will reveal a startling fact: from at least 1948 until the closing of the doors in 1985, about half of the kids attending those hallowed halls came from outlying regions such as Macedonia, Hebron, Mt. Elba, Emmaus, Mt. Lebanon, Wheeler Springs and Hollis Special. While "New Edinburg Proper" was driving its families off, these communities kept it going. Without them NEHS and the businesses in town would have gone down decades before they did, and they'll get their due here if they want it. Spread the word.
The November meeting of the West Saline Community Center will be at 7pm Monday November 5 in the conference room.
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