Oct. 17, 2025

Survey Says grown-ups want Adult-o-ween

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Grace Goul, a quarter-finalist in the Face of Halloween 2025 competition, is competing to raise funds for the Starlight Children's Foundation. Philadelphia hosts multiple dog costume contests benefiting local animal shelters, while Cincinnati's Corgi Palooza gathers dog lovers for a festive event. A survey reveals that many adults prioritize celebrating Halloween just as much as children, highlighting candy preferences and costume trends. Lastly, the San Jose Sharks hockey team hosts a fun-filled Halloween party with creative costumes.

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Callaroga Shark Media. Hello, Johnny Mack with five good news

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Halloween stories. Let's road for Grace Goul. She's from Eerie

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and she's a quarter finalist in the Face of Halloween

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twenty twenty five online competition. Now she spells her last

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name g u e L. I pronounced it Ghoul. Maybe

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it's Guel, or maybe it's just the perfect name for

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somebody in the Face of Halloween twenty twenty five online competition.

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The contest raises funds for the Starlight Children's Foundation. Public

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voting determines the winner, who will receive thirteen grand at

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a feature in Rue morg magazine. Her birthday is on Halloween.

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Her last name is Ghoul or Guel. She's perfect. Founded

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in nineteen eighty two, Starlight Children's Foundation is a nonprofit

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organization that delivers happiness to seriously ill children and their

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families through programs and initiatives. Goule said, there was an

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ad in my Facebok book feed. I clicked to learn

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what it was, and then when I saw it, I

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was hooked. I submitted an applicant entry and then received

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an email. I was accepted and invited to fill out

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a contest and form. She describes her entry as a

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mix of humor and heart, and says, Halloween has always

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meant more to me than costumes and candy. It's my birthday,

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and it was the day my dad made me feel

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like the most special kid in the world. He'd bake

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and decorate my cake, filled the house with balloons and streamers,

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and would take me and my friends and haunted houses.

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Since he passed away in twenty twenty two, Halloween hasn't

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felt the same. But my fiance has helped keep that

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magic alive, celebrating meat, encouraging my wild ideas, and reminded

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me that love is what makes any day special. She

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fondly remembers when her dad searched for a Michael Myers costume,

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not Mike Myers, Michael Meyers, the Halloween Guy for her

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twelfth birthday. She said, back then it wasn't a common

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costume to find, but he always supported and went along

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with my crazy ideas and requests. If she wins, not

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only does she get the cash prize and the future

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of the magazine, she gets a chance to meet Jimmie

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Lee Curtis and says, I'll spend the unlucky thirteen thousand

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dollars on an hour, Haunted Nuptials and Honeymoon Bury some

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away in saving in reserve a slice for a Cadillac Superior.

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Hearse because nothing says happily ever After like a gothic

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getaway car. Love it, good luck. The Brewery Town Dog

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Bar is hosting a costume contest with prizes for both

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dogs and humans to benefit Philly Bully Team. This is

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happening October seventeenth, five to nine pm at the Boozy

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Mutt twenty six to thirty nine Poplar Street. The Philadelphia

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area has a whole bunch of things. The biggest dog

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costume contest is Northern Liberties. Dozens of furry contestants will

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compete for prizes in various categories. That one's on the eighteenth,

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from eleven to four at Liberty Lands Park, nine thirteen

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North third Street. Then there's the Howloween Dog Buried In

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Costume Contest. It starts and ends at the Dog Alley.

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Awards will be given for scariest, best homemade, and best

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group Dog and human or more than one dog costume categories.

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That one's on the nineteenth at one pm at the

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Dog Alley on two thirty nine Market Street, or if

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you want to wait till the twenty six from eleven

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to one Franklin Square, two hundred North sixth Street. Dogs

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invited to dress and costume. It's the Bark or Treat Trail.

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Follow a trail of treats and enjoy music, photo ops

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and fun in Franklin Square. Meanwhile, Corki Poalooza is inviting

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the canine community together for a Halloween special. This one

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hosted by Cincinnati Corgis. No if you're keeping track, all

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the Philly stuff is officially story number two, and now

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we're doing Cincinnati good News Halloween stories, so this is

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officially story number three. This annual party is the largest

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gathering of dogs in the Cincinnati area. All Corgi lovers

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are invited on the eighteenth to Corgi Palooza, a dog friendly,

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family friendly Halloween party centered around, of course, corgis. Cincy

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Corgi's was founded by Nicki, who is a dog mom

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content creator, and said, I call it my passion project

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because this is something I do purely out of wanting

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to bring the community together and dog lovers together, and

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people who may not have a chance to go out

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and do something fun. Eleven four Saturday, Horsepower Farm in Middletown.

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All right, story number four. I know you're keeping track.

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A new survey reveals that the adulta trend has continued

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to soar. Now. I saw that and I was like,

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I don't know if that's going to be appropriate. It

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is appropriate. I don't know what you were thinking adult

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aween is. It's not that at all. This survey shows

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that over half of adults fifty four percent, believe they

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deserve their own adults Halloween night without childcare responsibilities. I agree.

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I hit the brewery. They have a little costume contest,

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have a couple of beers. We never win. I still

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think my Bill Belichick costume from two years ago was

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spot on. The study also reveals that sixty five percent

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of adults would rather face a haunted house than running

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into their ex Sixty two percent of adults believe Halloween

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is as much for adults as it is for children's.

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Seventy one percent of parents agree Halloween belongs to grown ups.

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Forty seven percent of adults named Halloween as their favorite holiday.

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Sixty four percent by candy even if they don't expect

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trick or treaters yeah, I live up on the hill.

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We never get any. Seventy one percent of parents buy

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extra candy for themselves. Fifty eight percent of adults believe

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they can take candy when accompanying trick or treaters. Now

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I don't do that. I mean, I don't go trick

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or treating anymore. My children are grown. But you know

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I was a trick or treat dad for a while.

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All seventy six percent on full sized candy bars, Seventy

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two percent prefer premium chocolate bars, Seventy two percent prefer

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familiar flavors over novelty options. Twenty one percent of men

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judge neighbors by candy quality versus fifteen percent of women

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judging you by your candy quality. The San Jose Sharks

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hockey team had their annual Halloween party. Macklin, Celebrini and

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Will Smith know not that Will Smith Will Smith teamed

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up for a dumb and dummer approach. Celebrini wore Lloyd's Christmases,

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Orange Smith dressed up as Harry Dunn. Some of the

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other players dressed as Sarah and from Hocus Pocus. One

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player and his wife went as Mario and Princess Peach.

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Another couple went as a classic Peter Parker spider Man

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and Miles Morales spider Man. Two others went as K

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Pop Demon Hunters, and Yaroslav Ascaroff and his wife Alexandra

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addressed as Leelo and Stitch. It's the San Jose Sharks

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Halloween Party, and those are your five good News Halloween stories.

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Have a great day.