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HALLOWEEN
RETURNS TO “LIFE” Life West provides a Fun, Safe, and Free Place
to Trick or Treat
HAYWARD, Calif., November 5, 2003
The halls and classrooms of Life Chiropractic College
West (25001 Industrial Blvd., Hayward) were busy with more than 800 excited
costume-clad children and their appreciative parents at the college's Halloween
Returns to "Life", held on October 31. Halloween Returns to "Life" certainly
filled the community need for children and their parents looking for a fun
and safe venue to enjoy Halloween indoors-at no cost.
Along with local businesses
and organizations, the Life West students and staff worked together in
transforming classrooms into trick-or-treat rooms, where participating
kids would visit and fill their bags with goodies. In addition, the trick-or-treaters
took in party games, face painting, animal balloons, and refreshments-with
their evening's adventure finishing with a trip through the Life West Haunted
House.
A number of kids also took advantage of having the candy they collected outside
the campus X-rayed.
There was no doubt that the evening was a huge hit with
the kids, but it also got an enormous thumbs-up from their parents. "So
many parents mentioned how grateful they were for such a safe and fun Halloween
alternate offered to
their children," reported the event's coordinator, Life West Director
of Community Outreach and Marketing Dr. Pat Hospy.
From 1994 to 1999, Life
West's original Halloween celebration, Halloween Comes to "Life," was
a huge hit with the local families when the event was held at the old college
clinic in downtown Hayward. The high attendance clearly
proved that the Life West Clinic was fulfilling a community need: a free,
fun, and safe environment for local families to celebrate Halloween indoors.
More
than 1,000 kids and their families attended the last event in 1999. This
year, Life West was very excited about bringing back this special event
in its newer
location on Industrial Blvd. (where the college moved in 2000). The college
also looks forward to making Halloween Returns to "Life" a new
annual tradition for its community.
2003 Halloween Returns to "Life" participants
Major
Donors:
- Feedbag Ventures/KettleKorn
- Home Depot-Hayward
- Life West Student Council
- Life West Health Center Faculty
Trick-or-Treat Door Sponsors:
- Hayward Youth Football
and Cheer
- Life West Student Groups and Organizations
- Life West
Staff and Departments
Donors:
- Albertson's-Hayward Stores
- Community Child Care Coordinating
Council (CCCC)-Alameda County
- Target-Union City
- Costco-San Leandro
- Safeway-Hayward
- Wal-Mart-Hayward
- California State Automobile Association-Hayward
- Life
West Staff, Faculty, and Students
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