{"id":5970,"date":"2015-10-21T21:11:59","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T04:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/?p=5970"},"modified":"2015-10-21T21:11:59","modified_gmt":"2015-10-22T04:11:59","slug":"stapleton-residents-move-trick-or-treating-to-1023-plan-to-go-to-mountains-weekend-of-31st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/?p=5970","title":{"rendered":"Stapleton Residents Move Trick or Treating to 10\/23; Plan to Go to Mountains Weekend of 31st"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\"trick<\/a>Fed up with their yearly obligation to provide candy for the entire Denver metropolitan area, SUN held a meeting on 10\/15 to decide whether or not Stapleton should have its own trick-or-treating day. \u201cWe have had so many issues with this in the past,\u201d said SUN President Mike Victoria. \u201cWe would get hundreds of complaints each year about the large number of outsiders coming in to pillage residents’ candy before our own Stapleton kids even have a chance to go see their friends and neighbors. So, we decided to hold a meeting to discuss the issue.\u201d Stanley Marketplace<\/a> was kind enough to lend its space for the meeting. \u201cWe had a dismal 100 people show up to discuss the potential name change<\/a>,\u201d said Victoria. \u201cWe knew this was a much bigger issue to residents, so that space would be adequately filled.\u201d Victoria was right, as over 1200 residents filled Stanley and spilled out into the outdoor area. A speaker system was put in place for those in the outdoor seating area.\nResidents spoke up about why they felt strongly about this important issue. \u201cOur kids shouldn\u2019t have to share our candy and our sidewalks with kids from outside of this community,\u201d barked resident Amy Leonard. \u201cOf course we want diversity in the community, but that\u2019s in the community. We don\u2019t need outsiders for that.\u201d Jonathan Drenner agreed. \u201cI love seeing all of the smiling Stapleton kids on Halloween,\u201d said Drenner. \u201cBut these kids from the outside, I\u2019m not so sure I need to be seeing them and handing out my hard-earned candy to them.\u201d Shannon Zarifis was one of the few dissenters of that opinion. \u201cSure there are the occasional older kids and adults abusing us,\u201d said Zarifis. \u201cBut, for the most part, these are just kids. And shouldn\u2019t we do what we can to make the Halloween experience as fun for as many kids as we can?\u201d By the sound of the boos, it was clear most residents didn’t agree with her.\nIn the end, the purpose of the meeting was to discuss a proposal to quietly move the Stapleton trick-or-treating day to this coming Friday (10\/23). \u201cIt was almost unanimous,\u201d said Victoria. \u201cAnd we had a large enough number of residents attending; we thought the people who showed up were representative of the community as a whole.\u201d Those who attended were ecstatic about the change. \u201cThis is going to be a much less stressful and costly Halloween,\u2019 said resident Matt Geary. \u201cIn fact, we are going to use the money we are saving on candy to have a little trip to the mountains the following week.\u201d The Bastemeyers have similar plans. \u201cIt\u2019s great that we will be able to see all of our local friends\u2019 kids this weekend,\u201d said Kelly Bastemeyer. \u201cAnd then, we can just turn off the lights to the house, lock the doors, and head to Vail the following weekend to relax at our place in the mountains. It\u2019s going to be a great end to October.\u201d It’s uncertain whether or not Halloween will continue to be celebrated in Stapleton on a different day than the rest of Denver, but this Friday, residents will be walking the kids around in a Stapleton-only atmosphere. And what could be better than that?]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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