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The Idaho Enterprise
October 27, 2022
Annual Malad City TRUNK OR TREAT & PUMPKIN MAZE At Thomas Market Parking Lot!!
October 31 Halloween Night 6:00 p.m.
Come join us for Free Hot Chocolate and Donuts at the Pepsi of Logan Trailer
• Line up for vehicles starts at 5:30 p.m. at south end of parking lot • $25 gift cards will be given to the Best Decorated Car, Truck or Trailer. Let’s get creative!! Everyone, please bring lots of bags of candy, goodies and treats to participate. If you don’t have a vehicle set up and would like to participate, bring a bag of candy to the Pepsi trailer.
All the fun starts at 6:00 p.m. when the fire truck siren sounds.
Food Drive
A number of community of organizations came together to deliver food stores to the Oneida Crisis Center. The annual food drive, headed up by the local Boy Scout Troop 1776, youth leaders from all the wards, and the Interfaith Council collected over
Thanks for helping us support the community Thomas Market, Your Hometown Grocer Since 1949
3000 food items. 942 were retained by the Baptist Church to be also shared with the community. Once again, the Malad community has contributed in a big way to help combat food insecurity across the valley!
Halloween on the Farm By Allison Eliason
Raise your hand if you love fall! There aren’t too many out there that don’t enjoy the festive fun of fall and Halloween Haunts. From the pumpkin walk pleasantries to the spooky tricks and candy corn treats, there is something for everyone to enjoy throughout the season. Most, if not all, of the season’s fun starts at the farm and it is thanks to the hard working farmers that we can enjoy Fall to its fullest. Before the magic of the season runs out, take a moment to park your brooms and see what harvest and Halloween fun farmers bring you. It’s not quite Halloween without picture perfect pumpkins. Some are big, some are small, some are warty, some are tall but they ALL come from the patch a farmer grew all summer long. Those hard earned pumpkins turn into jack-o-lanterns, pumpkin pie, pumpkin roll and even the crowd favorite, pumpkin spice. Haunted or not, it's easy to get lost in fall fun in the midst of a C Y
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maze. Farmer’s corn fields and straw stacks turn into eerie entertainment as folks move past the dead ends and monster misdirects to make their way out of the cursed course. Those corn stalks and straw bales serve for other holiday fun as demented decorations and thrilling flourishes. That trip to the pumpkin patch isn’t quite the same without a little hayride. Those bales, intended to feed the farmer’s critters through the winter, make a mighty fine seat for you and all your ghouls and goblins as you enjoy fall at its finest before they hit the manger in the months to come. If pumpkin spice is the flavor for fall, it can only come with its counterpart sweet apple. Those delectable fall treats come in a variety of ways to be enjoyed, thanks to those dedicated apple farmers. You can have apple pie, apple, crisp, or apple cider. You can dip ‘em, you can sauce ‘em, you can even fry ‘em! It’s not Halloween without a caramel-ed apple and apple bobbing, for sure!
Those spectualarily spooky costumes just wouldn’t happen without farmers at work. The very beginnings of every zombie, werewolf or vampire costume is with field grown cotton. Beyond the chilling disguises we love so much, cotton is used to make other decor much like spider webs and more. Before scarecrows became fashionable fall fun, they were functional must haves for farmers in the fields. As the name implies, they were intended to scare away crows and keep them from ruining crops. These days we see them more as front porch visitors than field workers, but it's thanks to farmer ingenuity that we have these seasonal icons. Trick or treating would be all tricks without farmers and their products. Those tasty treats handed out on Halloween night are full of farm field fixins. Sugar beets and sugar cane are refined into, yep, you guessed it- SUGAR, a staple of all those holiday sweets. Peanut farmers have their hand in those fall favorites like
Reeces, Butterfingers, Pay Days, and Snickers, just to name a few, while dairy farmers help make that delicious milk chocolate. It may sound especially spine-tingling, but animal byproducts play a big part of making fall fun. From the Friday night football games to the ghastly face paint and makeup, those animal inedibles are well used to support our seasonal favorite activities. The cool weather fashion favorites would never be the same without the work of farm hands as they help bring us stylish wool sweaters, scarves and caps. Leather jackets and gloves are just a few others we love to slip into as we grab fall by the horns. In the days of old, fall festivities were a celebration of the years’ harvest. While we may not celebrate in the same way or with the same purpose, the fun of the season will always be rooted in the farmer’s field and the goods they produce. Happy Halloween and Harvest Season from farmhouse to yours!
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