Interesting I read an editorial the other day about the lack of kids looking for candy on Halloween and how the numbers are way down over the last ten years.
I agree I had sixteen kids this time ten years ago I would have had fifty or more.
The suggestion was made that maybe kids get too much money now days, they don't have to go out for free candy.
Other people have suggested that you can't get kids out from in front of their computers, or off there psp's.
I'm going to throw out a crazy suggestion, maybe just maybe we don' t have as many kids as we used to.
Now I know some people will argue with me, that's fine I'm a numbers kind of guy.
So lets take a look at the enrollment numbers for the last 15 years.
Year-------------MDM-------HA-------ISS-------CCHS-------Total
1995-1996------- 221-------- 163------ 399------- 389-------- 1172
1996-1997------- 225-------- 142------ 379------- 407---------1153
1997-1998------- 227-------- 141-------353------- 382-------- 1103
1998-1999------- 218-------- 149------ 338------- 385-------- 1090
1999-2000------ 205-------- 146------ 309------- 376-------- 1036
2000-2001------ 193-------- 155------ 299------- 357-------- 1004
2001-2002------ 180-------- 145------ 292------- 350--------- 967
2002-2003------------------ 246------ 436------- 257--------- 939
2003-2004------------------ 241-------190------- 442--------- 873
2004-2005------------------ 238------ 165-------- 427--------- 830
2005-2006------------------ 210------ 164-------- 381--------- 755
2006-2007------------------ 205------ 150-------- 357--------- 712
2007-2008------------------ 168------ 170---------325--------- 663
2008-2009------------------ 154------ 171-------- 319---------- 644
2009-2010------------------ 156------ 167-------- 317---------- 640
Just looking at 2000 to 2010 we have dropped 364 kids, now some would argue that's not a big number but take a 36% drop and apply it to Lethbridge, Calgary etc.
On the bright side the numbers have levelled off the last two years thank goodness the mines have been hiring like crazy.
Anyway there will be a Census taken next year with the results in the spring of 2012, hopefully we will not maintain our status as the oldest community in Alberta.
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in bushtown I saw a stretched limousine ferrying young costumed trick-or-treaters. what demographic are they from?
Actually that was Darryl from the funeral home, I know a couple of the kids that went with him, they had a blast.
I have had a haunted yard and put on a haunted house/gargage for the last 20 years. I just only missed two years in all that time. One in 1995, due to my being away for work for Foresty in Rocky Mountain House, and this year due to the election being so close to Halloween. It usually takes me a good two months to set it all up with help from my children. This would have been my 8th year here in the Pass. In that time I have seen a lot of kids drop by my haunted house. In fact, as they caught on, there were more every year. Parent's have been encouraged to attend with their children. I have had a lot of adults without children drop by too. I started to keep track of the numbers here, in 2003.
2003: kids/teens - 26 parent's ??
2004: kids/teens - 39 parent's ??
2005: no haunted house
2006: kids/teens - 52 parent's ??
2007: kids/teens - 65 parent's/adults - 32
2008: kids/teens - 79 parent's/adults - 43
2009: kids/teens - 86 parent's/adults - 39
people from out of town ( not CNP): 12
Last years numbers were the highest, ever since I have been doing the haunted house here in the Pass.
Notice the steady increase. Now the only thing I can think of to say is that as it got more known, more people showed up. It was advertised in the paper for three years.
I know I had people from Calgary, Red Deer, Burmis, Bellevue, Hillcrest, Frank, Blairmore, Coleman and Sparwood drop by the last few years.
This year, I just didn't have time to set it up, with campaigning and all. I did notice a significant decrease in kids coming by. Maybe it was because I didn't advertise it. Maybe it was because of word-of-mouth that I wasn't doing it this year. Whatever it was, there was a noticable change.
I will however be back up and running again, next year, as usual. Expect it to be bigger, better, and scarier than ever, complete with much more guts and gore.
Stay tuned, I will tell you how those number's work out.
Hope to scare you there....
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