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This Halloween Dress Up, Go Trick-Or-Canning
Kala Kachmar
Issue date: 10/19/06 Section: News
Each year on Halloween, UConn students get dressed up in costume to go out trick-or-treating with the main goal of stuffing their pillowcases with pounds of candy. This year, Hillel at UConn is presenting students with an alternative to trick-or-treating: Trick-or-Canning.
According to Edy Fink, the assistant director of Hillel at UConn, Trick-or-Canning is just like trick-or-treating, except students don't collect candy when they go door to door. They collect cans of food that will be donated to a local soup kitchen or shelter that will be chosen at a later date.
"The idea is that instead of trick-or-treating, students will go out, dressed up and collect cans instead of candy," Fink said.
The goal of the program is to collect as many cans of food for those less fortunate, but at the same time it still gives students an opportunity to dress up in costume and have a fun night, Fink said.
Students who plan on Trick-or-Canning will thank the person they got a can from by giving out cards with candy taped to the back of each card. The back of the card will read, "A Treat for a Treat," according to Fink.
Letters were sent out to the Storrs/Mansfield community asking households to pick up extra cans.
"It's a competition between different teams from different organizations, so a group of students will go out together and will go to local neighborhoods to collect cans in exchange for pre-made thank you cards," said Cayla Smith, president of the Month of Kindness Committee.
Students will go out in teams of three or more, according to Fink, and were asked to sign up by Wednesday, Oct. 18. All students are welcome to participate, but organizations on campus are urged to send members of their group Trick-or-Canning. All participating organizations will have their name printed on the back of the thank-you card.
Trick-or-Canning is co-sponsored by Hillel at UConn, the Month of Kindness Committee and all organizations who participate in Trick-or-Canning. This event will kick off the National Month of Kindness at UConn.
According to Edy Fink, the assistant director of Hillel at UConn, Trick-or-Canning is just like trick-or-treating, except students don't collect candy when they go door to door. They collect cans of food that will be donated to a local soup kitchen or shelter that will be chosen at a later date.
"The idea is that instead of trick-or-treating, students will go out, dressed up and collect cans instead of candy," Fink said.
The goal of the program is to collect as many cans of food for those less fortunate, but at the same time it still gives students an opportunity to dress up in costume and have a fun night, Fink said.
Students who plan on Trick-or-Canning will thank the person they got a can from by giving out cards with candy taped to the back of each card. The back of the card will read, "A Treat for a Treat," according to Fink.
Letters were sent out to the Storrs/Mansfield community asking households to pick up extra cans.
"It's a competition between different teams from different organizations, so a group of students will go out together and will go to local neighborhoods to collect cans in exchange for pre-made thank you cards," said Cayla Smith, president of the Month of Kindness Committee.
Students will go out in teams of three or more, according to Fink, and were asked to sign up by Wednesday, Oct. 18. All students are welcome to participate, but organizations on campus are urged to send members of their group Trick-or-Canning. All participating organizations will have their name printed on the back of the thank-you card.
Trick-or-Canning is co-sponsored by Hillel at UConn, the Month of Kindness Committee and all organizations who participate in Trick-or-Canning. This event will kick off the National Month of Kindness at UConn.
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