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HooDoo Offers Hometown Fun
By Ted Hayes
ELKTON — G.I. Joes, witches, fairies and many strange and nameless creatures were among the costumes of children who crowded the streets of Elkton last Friday for the Elkton Downtown Revitalization Corporation’s annual Halloween HooDoo event — which this year also included a “trunk-or-treat experience on Warren Avenue courtesy of Elkton United Methodist Church, a “terror trail” created by the Elkton Emergency Squad and a costume-judging contest which filled a large room of the Elkton Area Community Center with kids and parents for an hour.
Elkton Town Councilmember Margaretta Dean Isom, dressed as a clown with shoes that seemed to fill the street, joined former flyer Bill Holt, dressed in his aviator’s jacket and helmet, to dispense candy in front of the Elkton Welcome Center — a site which also offered hot cider inside.
It was definitely a night of contrasts. The blackish figure making mawkish sounds outside Donny Meadows’ SoundTrack store competed with dozens of kids dressed as cats, princesses, action figures and skeletons. A line went in and out of Subway, a few people buying food, but most to warm up and receive a piece of candy from clown Cathy Lantz. Another line went past the front of McDonald’s to receive goodies at an outside table, but then moved directly into the store to give the fast food place one of its busiest nights of the year, with costumed kids and regular diners sharing the re...
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