On Oct. 12, National Honors Society (NHS) will be hosting the annual Halloween Fair at RCHS. This event is put on every year to provide a safe environment for kids to go trick-or-treating and celebrate Halloween. For students, this provides a good opportunity to help out in their community and have fun.
English teacher Stephanie Brooks is the sponsor of NHS and is helping run the Halloween Fair this year. She talks about the reason that NHS puts on the Halloween Fair each year.
“The Halloween fair was designed to offer a safe place for children in the community to have Halloween fun, trick or treating, games, all of that stuff. But really, it is an NHS fundraiser to support the Rockbridge Christmas Baskets Association,” said Brooks.
Volunteers are not limited to NHS members. Brooks describes how students can get involved with the Halloween Fair.
“NHS members help out for the entire event. But any person in the school is welcome to sponsor a trick or treat door. FCCLA, Y-Street, and Interact also usually help out with the doors,” said Brooks.
Finally, Brooks explains what to expect this year at Halloween Fair and how the school is going to be set up.
“We have trick or treat doors at the bottom half of the school. We have a haunted hallway in the upper half of the school. We have carnival games with prizes in the gym and common areas. And in some years, we have costume contests, and some years we don’t, it just depends,” said Brooks.
Senior Lydia Kendall is the vice president for NHS and is helping prepare for the Halloween Fair. She explains how they are preparing for the event.
“We are trying to get people to donate their leftover Halloween decorations. We are advertising amongst the elementary schools and throughout churches. We are also trying to get our members and other students to participate in the Halloween fair by volunteering and decorating doors,” said Kendall.
Kendall stated that the haunted hallway is usually the most popular portion of the fair.
“The haunted hallway it’s definitely one of the main attractions of the Halloween fair. The haunted hallway used to be the entire T -hall until it got demolished, and now it will be in the hallways upstairs,” said Kendall.
Evelyn McClung is a junior member of NHS and participated in the fair last year.
“Last year I helped out at the Halloween fair by decorating a door. We decided to decorate it with different ghost themed decor and we dressed in different halloween costumes to hand out candy to the kids,” said McClung.
McClung stated why she felt the Halloween Fair was beneficial last year.
“I think it was beneficial because it gives us an opportunity to be involved in our community, and it also gives little kids the opportunity to have fun,” said McClung.
Lastly, she gave advice to students decorating doors this year.
“For people decorating doors this year, I would advise them to be creative and have fun decorating each door,” said McClung.
The NHS Halloween Fair will be on Oct. 19 at RCHS from 4-6 pm. It is a great way to get involved with the community for all students. Even if you aren’t decorating a door or helping run games, you can always come out and support the NHS.
