Now this is scary: the idea of a Halloween without the elaborate sights and sounds of Broadview Avenue in College Hill.
For more than a quarter century, residents of the 100 block of North Broadview have transformed their street into a Halloween extravaganza for kids, with streets festooned with lights and elaborate yard decorations and spooky sound effects. It’s a must-see experience.
But the event has grown so large in recent years — an estimated 3,500 people visited in 2007 — that it’s become a safety concern, and police say about $1,800 is needed to help pay for barricades and officers to work the event.
This is a wonderful neighborhood tradition that has become a community tradition. It’s well worth saving.
Let’s hope city officials and College Hill leaders work something out that will both keep the event going and enhance the safety of participants.
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But, when everyone goes to the same neighborhood, it becomes a problem for the police. It’s fun, but, the amount of candy given away is less because so many people are there. I think the College Hill thing has grown too large.
People should try other neighborhoods like the Park Place / Fairview Avnue Historic district for an alternate Halloween experience. They have some nice halloween displays going on. They have nice quality sidewalks as well.
Why are all these good Christian parents allowing their children to participate in a PAGAN holiday??!
Shut it down.
Halloween is supposed to be for local kids to safely have fun in their own neighborhood.
College Hill gets innundated with thousands of kids bused in from Oakland, California, I think.
It’s just a matter of time before somebody gets hurt.
It’s ridiculous. Way too much of a good thing.
Yeah, can’t have those little negro kids from D4 hustling candy in your neighborhood, eh Kapn?
Do you live in College Hill, GoofNuts?
Because if you don’t, then you don’t have a clue.
Halloween is supposed to be for kids in groups to walk to their neighbors’ houses. It’s supposed to be a community building event.
That’s how it was for me and my friends years ago.
Now, the parents load up the car and drag their kids across town to get the best candy apparently.
Defeats the purpose of Halloween.
every “christian” holiday was a pagan holiday in the first place. the christians just wanted to convince the natives to join with them and incorporating a favorite native celebration into a church activity was the best way. don’t be such a snob.
My my, look at all these religious bigots.
Nothing was mentioned about Christianity until the Libs brought it up.
Such hatred.
KKKapn,
I GREW UP in College Hill – Hyde/Robinson/East – And I lived there most of my adult life, as well. I was in our backyard on Crestway when I heard on the radio that someone was downtown shooting from the top of the Holiday Inn, and my dad was working downtown at the time. I went trick or treating on Broadview long before (and after) it was cool to go there.
Where I live now attracts plenty of little urchins from outside of my neighborhood – on Halloween and for every school fundraiser known to humanity. Naturally, I share my candy with (or buy tubs of cookie batter from) them with a giving heart.
I’m happy to share the spoils of my success with those less fortunate – without government interference.
Isn’t THAT the purpose?
No, it’s not the purpose.
Otherwise, you could just drop canned food off at a shelter.
You grew up in College Hill and you trick-or-treated in your own neighborhood. You didn’t go across town to somebody else’s neighborhood because the candy bars were bigger.
That’s the purpose–have fun where you live.
And you and your self-proclaimed giving heart.
How much does that candy set you back?
Thirty dollars?
Wow. Getting candy from a wealthy fat guy in an Izod shirt. I bet that really turns some kid’s life around.
Wow. Getting candy from a wealthy fat guy in an Izod shirt. I bet that really turns some kid’s life around.
hehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehheheheheheheheh…..
Chuckles
Yeah, KFGrrl, GoofNuts wants to imagine himself as the Monopoly Man in his chauffer-driven Bentley that rolls down the window in the drive way of the country club and throws coins to the ragamuffin children begging on the sidewalk.
“Scramble, children, scramble.”
Then he can pat himself on the back for his “generous heart.”
Well captain, I was pretty fortunate in the parent lottery myself, but nut boy just proves what Jed said the other day. That the biggest factor in economic success is who your parents were. Not that some folks dont make it on their own, and hats off to them, but nothing replaces a leg up on the economic ladder at an early age.
One wonders if nut boy had been born into different circumstances if he would be so freakin’ smug. At least some of us have the good sense and grace to know we were lucky out of the starting gate.
“Yeah, KFGrrl, GoofNuts wants to imagine himself as the Monopoly Man in his chauffer-driven Bentley that rolls down the window in the drive way of the country club and throws coins to the ragamuffin children begging on the sidewalk.”
Hee hee hee heeeeee….
I’m reminded of the american touristas who toss pennies off the bridge in Juarez so the kids can fish for it in the filthy waters of the Rio Grande.
And then they go back to their air conditioned hotels, have a margarita and congratulate themselves on being good international citizens by helping the poor kids!
=)
It’s fun to watch the libs make up stories and turn the debate into personal attacks.
Every time.
Just like clockwork.
Heheheh. HEE HEE HE HEEEEEE!
Um, yeah, because calling political mama Pee Mom and calling me Farm Nag is so, like above the fray…
Should we call the waaaaaambulance for you, nut boy?
Just like clockwork.
In perpetuity.
tic toc tic toc
=)
Back to the point…
I’m all for encouraging the residents of Broadview to continue the show. Whilst there may be a few gangsters that stop by for a free meal, there are thousands that benefit more honestly.
And I’m confident the owners get far more joy than the associated costs.
First How does a barricade and a couple of cops = a 1,800 dollar expense. and the police have resources to have officers stake out nightclubs on a daily basis but not spare a couple to watch a neighborhood, what about using reservists who are volunteers?