A happy haunting
Well, thats a wrap! The Dunbar Haunted House is closing. A solid 10 years of spooking has come to an end. I have been there for about six of them and it is an amazing place: hundreds if not thousands of hours to set up, not to mention the costs; these arent some SuperCostcostore crap props. When I tell people to go it is because it is a what I call, a true Vancouver experience. This is what community really is volunteer-run and going to charity. Ahhh, the memories! I will miss the urinators, the chases down the alley and sweetly saying, you smell like pretty to participants, and I had an amazing kiss in the haunt last year. We were just creating memories! So a shout out to Brad, Sakura, Anna Maria, and Gideon who made Vancouver a little familiar and a lot more frightening. This wont happen again. Go if you havent; your time is running out.
Keith
All trick, no treat
My friends and I very much enjoy your publication, so when you published a glowing article about an upcoming Halloween party we jumped on the bandwagon. There were numerous issues, however, including it starting over an hour late and ending early, a lack of heating and washroom facilities, running out of key supplies (beer, ice) only two hours into the party, a small fire, lack of security and other key staff and most alarmingly, multiple complaints of injuries to patrons. Needless to say the entire event was a complete bust and there are a lot of angry people who were literally left out in the cold.
Anonymous
Stop harping your bazaar
This is to all the people, either at work or at their apartment building, who post a note for donations to a bazaar that has no connection to anyone other than themselves. Then they go around asking people what they are going to donate when no one answers. Do they not realize that when they do this, they make people feel obligated? It doesnt make me feel like I have to give something but I hope they realize that people are talking about them.
Give Your Own Donations
Return to sender
All these fundraising charities that send out name stickers, Christmas cards, etc, really get me mad. The money could surely be better used to support their own needs. Secondly, their so-called return envelopes need the donor to supply their own stamp! It is my understanding that the Post Office will not return any addressed admail without the return prepaid postage label (business reply paid). They just dump it, thereby wasting all the charitys efforts and funds. So, just how many of these unsolicited mail runs really make a difference, or how much is just ignored by Joe Public, who can easily just keep the contents? Mine all go back returned, as I will not accept this line of pressure. I choose my own personal charities to whom I donate.
Wilhelmina Westender
From gory comes glory
Re: Cover your eyes, Rants, Oct. 24.
Dear anonymous, to help immature audiences become mature,teach themthat life consists of bad and good; yin and yang; rain and rainbows; gray days and sunny skies; laughter and tears;frightening pictures and happy pictures; judgment and acceptance... your judgment that the pictures are not family friendly.
Blessings, a septuagenarian
