WFB Grab Bag 2010: Trick or Treat & Silver Spring items
Sunday, January 10, 2010
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BID,
Halloween,
Redevelopment,
Silver Spring,
Trick or Treat
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Hello? Is this thing on? There hasn't been much to blog about since the holidays, so this is the first blog post of 2010 .. and it's a grab-bag.
Grab Bag Story Number 1: Trick or Treat
The JS has an interesting story about Milwaukee County municipalities discussing Trick-or-Treating times, with local City Mayors and Village Presidents at their monthly meeting .. some suburbs want a unified time, so that children from other cities stay in their own city to Trick or Treat.
Marauding, candy-hoarding kids descending on the suburbs by the vanload? For trick-or-treating? Where are all the mayors and the village presidents in the face of this debauchery?I will say .. of the 500-600 kids that come to my house, the number of non-residents is 50-60% .. while I see it as a moment of charity, there's a point it gets a bit ridiculous.
They plan to tackle the problem Monday - 9 1/2 months before Halloween.
On Monday .. the Milwaukee County mayors and village presidents will discuss trick-or-treating at their monthly meeting. At their last meeting, they discussed a proposal to have it on Oct. 31 every year from 2010 through 2020. This year, Oct. 31 is a Sunday.
Long time readers of the blog would know .. I'm a fan of having Halloween on, you know, Halloween, like the rest of the United States.
Somehow, the people in Waukesha, Brookfield, Big Bend, Cedarburg, Racine, Sheboygan, Waterford, Elm Grove, Dousman, and Menomonee Falls, not to mention .. Cleveland, St. Paul, Des Moines, Boston, Phoenix .. Chicago, Detroit, Bismark .. somehow people across our country figure out how to trick or treat at the traditional moment: On October 31st, usually when it gets dark. How millions of people do it without ruining their children, screwing up homework time, messing up their sleep pattern, foiling soccer practice, and not running over dozens of children each year is a total mystery!
Perhaps this Milwaukee County meeting will end our long, regional nightmare and align us with the rest of the United States.
Grab Bag Story Number 2:
Jessica Jubelirer Design has opened, kitty-corner from Sendik's. It's a corner lot, and I must say, the exterior and big windows definitely dress up the corner.
JJD is an interior design firm, mostly for the residential set, but they do some commercial work as well.
Website: http://www.jubelirerdesign.com
Number 3:
Jill Stock, Whitefish Bay resident (and blog reader) is having an Open House / Ribbon Cutting of Real Fit at 409 E. Silver Spring, next Saturday 1/16 from 3-7pm. Real Fit is personal training studio.
Number 4:
A new barbershop will open in the long vacant Cingular store (next to What's Poppin') called "Sports 'n Cuts Clubhouse" an "upscale mens/boys barbershop."
When City Market opens .. how many vacant spots are left on Silver Spring? Two? Not bad for a recession.
Number 5:
Lastly, the WFB Business Improvement District has opened its search for a BID Director. Full release can be found here.
The part-time position will be responsible for developing marketing and advertising initiatives, communicating with various community groups to establish partnerships, providing administrative support to the BID Board, organizing and developing special events...
The base contracted salary range is $20,000 to $25,000 with additional compensation possible through performance bonuses. Additional compensation potential from the Village of Whitefish Bay in connection with retail recruitment initiative.
Please send resume, cover letter, and references to Whitefish Bay BID Director Position, attention to Matt Schuenke, at 5300 N. Marlborough Drive, Whitefish Bay, WI 53217. The deadline for submitting this information is January 27, 2010. Please direct all questions to Matt Schuenke at (414) 962-6690 or m.schuenke@wfbvillage.org.
Maybe they should discuss an age limit for candy collection. Halloween trick or treating is for kids. Anyone old enough to drive should not be collecting candy, unless they are holding it for a wee toddler unable to carry it. The two bag collectors have to go as well.
Don't you think that non-resident kids coming to your house more than likely live in areas that may not be the safest places to trick or treat? The point of charity is that it is to be unlimited . . . .
I gotta say, I'm a big fan of your blog and almost always agree with you...but not on this Halloween thing.
First off, how can you tell that 50-60% of the kids you get are non-residents?
Second, a little charity is okay, but a lot isn't? I dunno. I think a lot is even better (or, alternately, just not passing out candy...which is fine too).
I feel lucky to live in this nice neighborhood now, but I grew up in a place where trick-or-treating wasn't an option, because it wasn't safe and none of the neighbors could afford candy anyway. It sucked. I never trick-or-treated as a kid. That's one reason I get such a big kick out of it now.
I think most of these kids are just trying to have Halloween like we do. Some of them don't have much, and I'm okay with buying them a piece of candy once a year. My neighbor kids can afford their own candy (and a $20 Pottery Barn bag to put it in). Not everyone can.
Incidentally, I live on the other side of Lydell, in Glendale (where there are no sidewalks, so trick-or-treating is less safe). You probably don't want me over there trick-or-treating either...but you definitely want me shopping on Silver Spring. You can't have it both ways.