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With the summer nearing its end, people’s thoughts are beginning to drift towards the best holiday of all, Halloween. Well, actually Halloween has been a big topic lately, the reason, there is a petition going around to change the way we celebrate the holiday. The petition, created by the “Halloween & Costume Association” wants to have Halloween celebration changed from the 31st to the last Saturday of October every year. The group/blog sites safety as one of the reasons. As of Friday afternoon, the petition was only 83,155 signatures away from its goal of 150,000. When the petition reaches its goal it will be sent to the White House. Did I really need to say this, this is ridiculous. Every community has the right to designate a time for a public celebration. We do not need a law to tell us when we can celebrate. It’s Halloween, people, HALLOWEEN! No petition or decree could ever change that Halloween is on
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One holiday stands above all others for horror fans, that’s right I’m talking about our beloved Halloween. But even after centuries of celebration (under one name or another), Halloween still doesn’t quite get the respect it deserves. It’s not even a federal holiday, and both you and I know that it deserves that honor and we deserve that day off to prepare and celebrate accordingly. Even if you only look at it from a financial stand point, Halloween brings in a ton of commerce, in 2015 alone, consumers spent around $6.9 billion in the US (according to useconoimy.about.com). Only Christmas brings in more. One fan of the holiday, Richard Doredant, has started a petition in an effort to get the White House to label the day as a federal holiday. If he can get 100,000 signatures by July 25th the White House will be forced to respond. So, to my fellow Halloween lovers I say this, let’s make sure that
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With the summer nearing its end, people’s thoughts are beginning to drift towards the best holiday of all, Halloween. Well, actually Halloween has been a big topic lately, the reason, there is a petition going around to change the way we celebrate the holiday. The petition, created by the “Halloween & Costume Association” wants to have Halloween celebration changed from the 31st to the last Saturday of October every year. The group/blog sites safety as one of the reasons. As of Friday afternoon, the petition was only 83,155 signatures away from its goal of 150,000. When the petition reaches its goal it will be sent to the White House. Did I really need to say this, this is ridiculous. Every community has the right to designate a time for a public celebration. We do not need a law to tell us when we can celebrate. It’s Halloween, people, HALLOWEEN! No petition or decree could ever change that Halloween is on
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One holiday stands above all others for horror fans, that’s right I’m talking about our beloved Halloween. But even after centuries of celebration (under one name or another), Halloween still doesn’t quite get the respect it deserves. It’s not even a federal holiday, and both you and I know that it deserves that honor and we deserve that day off to prepare and celebrate accordingly. Even if you only look at it from a financial stand point, Halloween brings in a ton of commerce, in 2015 alone, consumers spent around $6.9 billion in the US (according to useconoimy.about.com). Only Christmas brings in more. One fan of the holiday, Richard Doredant, has started a petition in an effort to get the White House to label the day as a federal holiday. If he can get 100,000 signatures by July 25th the White House will be forced to respond. So, to my fellow Halloween lovers I say this, let’s make sure that
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