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Lanterman’s Mill hosts family bash
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Neighbors | Zack Shively.The park provided toilet paper for parents to wrap their children in to make them look like mummies on the top floor of Lanterman's Mill during their Family Halloween Bash at the Old Mill.
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Neighbors | Zack Shively.Mill Creek Metropark held a couple guessing games at their Family Halloween Bash at the Old Mill event. One game asked the children to guess the amount of candy in a jar and the other game asked them to guess how much the pumpkin pictured weighed.
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Neighbors | Zack Shively.The staff for Mill Creek Metroparks hid cut outs of black cats throughout the mill. The children searched on all three floors for the cats and tallied how many the staff hid.
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Neighbors | Zack Shively.Mill Creek Metroparks held a Halloween party at Lanterman's Mill on Oct. 21. The park provided a number of fun and games on the bottom floor of the mill. They had a table for pumpkins, which the families decorated and took home with them.
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Neighbors | Zack Shively.Carol Vigorito, Recreation and Education Director, organized the event. On the top floor, she brought in a DJ to play music and had dance parties and games for the children. Pictured is the winner of the costume contest that they had.
By ZACK SHIVELY
Mill Creek Metroparks threw a Halloween party for families inside Lanterman’s Mill on Oct. 21.
Carol Vigorito, Recreation and Education Director with the Metroparks, organized the “Family Halloween Bash at the Old Mill“ event. She had something to do on all three levels of the mill.
“We wanted to have a safe, fun family event,“ said Vigorito, who continued to say that the mill gave them a “phenomenal place” to have the party.
In the basement, children played games like ring toss and a ball bounce game. The games had a Halloween theme, so the ring toss was a spider ring toss. Families could also decorate and take home small pumpkins provided by the park.
The ground floor had snacks and drinks for the families. The park placed out apples, carrots, cookies, chips and punch. They also had two guessing games where children guessed the weight of a large pumpkin and how many pieces of candy were in a jar.
The top floor included the main party. They had a DJ, limbo, dance party and competitions. The competitions were a costume contest and mummy wrap up contest where families competed to quickly wrap their children in toilet paper.
They also had a searching competition where the children searched on each floor to find cut outs of black cats placed throughout the mill by the park staff. The children tallied the number of cut outs and handed their answers to the staff.
The park has thrown the Family Halloween Bash at the Old Mill for four consecutive years. The event brought in 30 people the first year, but it has grown in popularity as it brought in 200 people this year. They gathered seven staff members and ten volunteers to help run the event.