SPRINGFIELD NEWSLETTER

What’s New in Springfield, NE

October 24, 2007

Happy Halloween! It’s almost time to celebrate this festive holiday with costumes, jack- o-lanterns, and trick or treating. Here is some interesting trivia about Halloween:

• Halloween was originally a Celtic holiday celebrated on October 31.
• Halloween was brought to North America by immigrants from Europe who celebrated the harvest by sitting around a bonfire sharing ghost stories, singing, dancing, and telling fortunes.
• Pumpkins originated in Central America. When Europeans arrived in the New World, they found pumpkins plentiful and used in cooking by Native Americans. They took the seeds back to Europe where they quickly became popular.
• There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with the word orange, the color of pumpkins.
• According to folklore the jack-o-lantern got its name from a man named Jack.
• Turnips and beets served as the first jack-o-lanterns.
• Halloween is the second most commercially successful day. Christmas is the first. Average sales for Halloween are over $2.5 billion spent for candy, costumes, decorations and parties.
• It is believed that the Irish, began the tradition of Trick or Treating. In preparation for All Hallows Eve, Irish town folk would visit neighbors and ask for contributions for a feast in town.
  

Celebrate this holiday right here in Springfield:

Come out to watch the Springfield Elementary students’ parade down Main Street in their Halloween costumes on October 31st at 1:50pm.

The Springfield PTO is hosting a Pumpkin Party for students & families on Monday, October 29 at 7pm. Don’t forget to sign up.

Sunday October 29th from 1-4pm is the date set for the Fall Festival and Pumpkin Decorating Contest at Springfield Memorial Library. Carve or paint a pumpkin to enter. Drop off your creation on Thursday or Saturday before the contest. Adults and children divisions will be judged. Voting by the public during the festival. Crafts for the kids and refreshments for all during the festival.

Springfield’s Creative Memories consultant Brenda Sherman is introducing a new digital format for photographic scrapbooking. This new format allows users to capture their story using software with templates, layouts and add-ons making it easy, expressive and personal. Make memories last and tell your personal story with help from Creative Memories using the finest products in the scrapbooking industry. Brenda will help you get started with your projects right here in Springfield. You may contact her at 253-2787, email: kbsherman@q.com or check out her website: www.mycmsite.com/brendasherman

Brenda shows off the new digital format

Brenda shares her creative photo album

WHAT’S HAPPENING IN SPRINGFIELD

October 27, 5-7:30pm - Annual Soup Supper at St. Joseph’s Church hosted by the Ladies Guild A raffle will take place during the event. Cost is $5 per meal or $20 per family for some of the best Chicken Noodle Soup or Chili made by the finest cooks in Springfield. Don’t forget about all the yummy desserts, too. Help support the Ladies Guild scholarship program for college bound graduating seniors.

October 29, 7-8pm – Springfield PTO Family Fun Night, Pumpkin Party

October 31 – Halloween, time to Trick or Treat!!!

November 1 – South Sarpy Schools District#46 – Late Start –Happy day!! Happening right after Halloween!

November 3, 9am – 2pm – The Round Tuits Craft Fair at First United Methodist Church. Lunch will be served from 11am -1pm.

November 4 – Daylight Saving Time ends. Turn back the clocks and check the batteries in your smoke detector.

November 8 –Springfield Elementary 5&6th grade Music Program

November 17, 9am-1pm- Used Book Sale at Springfield Memorial Library. Gently used books, reasonably priced.

Purchase Village Inn Pie gift certificates for $10.00 from the Friends of the Springfield Memorial Library. For more information call the library at 253-2797.

Correction: Last week’s information about Platteview High School’s Fall Play, Romeo & Winifred, was wrong. I apologize for the misinformation.

SPRINGFIELD HISTORICAL TIDBIT:
A Mr. John Coleman had the contract to erect the Missouri Pacific depot early in 1882. Mr. A.B. Betts was the first depot agent and he and his family lived in the depot.
-Reference: Springfield, Nebraska At It’s Source 1882-1982

~The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
-John F. Kennedy

Connie Manzer

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