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10 candies kids love getting Editor’s Note: This is the last in a series where Outlook staff members wrote a Halloween-related editorial piece leading up to Oct. 31. By CARTER SINGLETON Digital Marketing Coordinator
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TRICK-OR-TREAT Alex City has decades of experience with Halloween By CLIFF WILLAMS Staff Writer
Game characters, superheroes and dinosaurs are trending in the sales category for many in the costume business. Nationwide, Fortnite characters, Spider-Man, unicorns and dinosaurs top
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the lists. In Alabama, Fortnite characters again leads the way followed by a wave of superheroes, mice and princesses. The Outlook has been a part of Halloween in Alexander City for decades. Just take a look back through the decades of issues See HALLOWEEN • Page 3
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Costumes are still available at area stores for those who do not wish make their own like these from 40 years ago.
f you know me personally, you know I have a serious sweet tooth. I also enjoy giving fellow sweet tooth folks their fix. Ask anyone at The Outlook office; they all swing by and grab candy out of the huge bowl that sits on my desk. Trick-or-treating for Halloween was something I looked forward to every year as a child and now I get to be the old geezer sitting on the porch giving candy to the neighborhood kids in their costumes. Life comes full circle. Sorry in advance to the parents in my neighborhood — I got boatload of candy Monday night at Walmart. Get ready for the sugar rush. Here’s a commentary on my 10 favorite types of candy. It’s mostly chocolate, so be warned. See CANDY • Page 3
Renew Our Rivers cleanup coming up
AC schools to interview Cooper replacement
By CLIFF WILLIAMS Staff Writer
By CLIFF WILLIAMS Staff Writer
Water levels might change where the trash is collected this weekend for the Renew Our Rivers annual cleanup, but not the mission. John Thompson and the Lake Martin Resource Association have been helping Alabama Power organize the cleanup for the last 15 years. This will be the 16th year and Thompson says it will be a little different.
The Alexander City Board of Education is finalizing a schedule to interview five finalists to replace the retiring superintendent Dr. Darryl Cooper next week. Dr. Terry Jenkins of the Alabama Association of School Boards is assisting the Alexander City Board of Education in the search and was surprised with the number of people interested in the position. “Early in the search, I said I was concerned doing
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Trash is backed up into a cove on Lake Martin. The Renew Our Rivers cleanup hopes to reach some places on the upper end of the lake that have not been cleaned up in previous years.
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