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Catch a ride to “Halloweentown” this spooky season By Velvet Jessen Staff Editor
Photo by Kincaid Strain
Morgan Ekwall, 19, sophomore of Yoder, Wyoming, laughs during the Sip and Paint in the Hub Tuesday evening.
Students get spirited at Halloween Sip and Paint By Kincaid Strain Reporter
On Wednesday, CSC Students gathered in the Hub from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. to get into the spooky season spirit one brush stroke at a time. A total of 47 students showed up to show off their art skills. There were beverages provided as well as different sized canvases, paints and paint brushes. “RLA has hosted an event like this in previous years, and I liked the idea, so I decided to put one on himself,” Colton Bevins, the head coordinator of the event, said. Beverages were provided for the stu-
dents and Halloween music played to get everyone in the spooky spirit. While students came in throughout the night to paint, many came with old friends or made new friends while sitting around the tables. “This event allowed me to get my mind off of studying and to just relax and be in the moment with my friends and peers,” Paige Boitz,18, freshman of Pueblo, Colorado, said. “This is exactly what I needed.” Colton said that the Sip and Paint exceeded his expectation, and he was pleased to see this event bring students together to get into the spooky spirit while creating art and making new friends.
If you didn’t spend your childhood on Disney channel then you may have missed out on one of my favorite Halloween movies. Halloweentown aired in 1998 on Disney channel and though I may not have been born when it first came out, I have watched it for every Halloween season that I can remember or had control over the remote for. The movie starts with the main character Marnie arguing with her mom about why she isn’t allowed to trick or treat. Marnie is in the middle of arguing with her mom when her Grandma Aggie pops up at her house much to her mother’s chagrin. The movie’s plot is quickly set up when it’s shown that Marnie’s mother is trying to hide the magical powers her children have from them while her grandmother argues that they should be honing their powers before they lose them. Once Marnie and her siblings realize this the movie really starts. Grandma Aggie goes back home to Halloweentown, a place where goblins, trolls, witches, a skeleton cabby and any other odd creatures can roam peacefully, or at least they used to be able to before evil had started to seep into the town. Marnie and her siblings work with their grandmother to develop their powers and save the town. You may think that this seems like a bor-
ing children’s movie but I assure you that it’s worth more than just nostalgic value. Afterall the movie was given three sequels, “Halloweentown II: Kalbar’s Revenge” in 2001, “Halloweentown High in 2004” and “Return to Halloweentown” in 2006. Personally, I think Halloweentown II is the best but it’s important to start from the beginning. Nothing could have started had Marnie not argued with her mom that she was 13 and she should be able to make decisions. The movie is full of sass and magic which I think are some of the best ingredients to a Halloween movie. Granted if you prefer a ton of guts and gore in your Halloween movies this movie probably isn’t for you, but if you enjoy a simple funny movie that you can safely watch without nightmares then it might just be perfect. It’s easily a movie you watch while carving pumpkins to get into the Halloween spirit and get ready for the night. It’s easily one of the best parts of my Halloween traditions and if you add it to yours, I’m sure you would love it too. The movies are so popular that this year marks the first year the Halloweentown movies haven’t aired on Disney channel. That makes 22 years of the movie being aired because it’s that good. With loveable characters like sassy Grandma Aggie or the skeleton cab driver Benny its easy to keep coming back to the movie.
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