You gotta have friends

We had a great response to our Snapz “You Gotta Have Friends” theme this month. And we had an even better variety of the different kinds of friends.

Here are a few of the many pictures we received. You can view all of them on our website at www.vindy.com. Click on the Snapz banner located in the scrolling Features area of the home page.

NEXT MONTH

Whether it’s a shade of the autumn sky, leaves or pumpkins, the color orange is synonymous with this time of year, especially when it comes to those artfully carved jack-o’-lanterns that begin to show their faces with the onset of Halloween.

The carefully crafted creations even have their own special observance: Carve a Pumpkin Day on Oct. 31. So it makes perfect sense to focus on those true works of art for our October Snapz feature, “Gourd-geous Creations.”

Dig out a picture of your favorite jack-o’-lantern from a Halloween gone by. We’ll publish a few of the ones we receive in our Sunday, Oct. 5, edition, and they’ll all be posted online. Remember, we accept snapshots only; no professional portraits.

HERE’S HOW

• Email a large jpeg file to society@vindy.com or mail your picture to:

SNAPZ: Gourd-geous Creations

The Vindicator

Attn.: Barb Shaffer, Society/

Features Editor, P.O. Box 780,

Youngstown, OH 44501

• Don’t forget to include the names and cities of residence for those in the picture. It’s also nice to know who submitted it.

DEADLINE IS OCT. 1.