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Harrington Hall-oween

Attendees of the meeting sat down to watch the 2018 version of “Halloween” (Brandon Salick/ STU Journalism)

Fredericton, NB – The COVID cases in New Brunswick are on the rise again and this has many residents of Fredericton worrying about the state of their Halloween celebrations. The Premier, Blaine Higgs, announced on Saturday that there were 33 new cases and this took the active cases to 116. He unfortunately announced that there were also two deaths.

Despite this, the male residents of Harrington Hall, at St Thomas University, decided to work around this new COVID spike and had their own celebrations on campus.

There is a mandate on campus for all students to be vaccinated and to also have a proof of vaccination to access many parts of the campus. This is also true for those staying at the residences; however, they were the ones ahead of the curve. In order to stay at the residences, you needed to show a proof of vaccination before being accepted to live there. The residences are naturally a safe environment and they have to be.

Pumpkin carving was one of the available activities. (Brandon Salick/STU Journalism)

There is a requirement for the male residents to have a monthly meeting in order for the Residence Assistant (RA) to inform the students of anything that is happening at the hall for the upcoming month and to give a report on what has transpired in the past month.

Tristan Eisnor, RA for Harrignton Hall, has taken a unique approach to his meetings. He strives to make the meetings fun and to breed a sense of camaraderie at Harrington. In keeping with his meeting theme, Eisnor decided to make October’s a Halloween meeting.

“I decided to have this meeting just as a way for Harrington residents to be able to mingle and have fun but still be safe during this Halloween during COVID,” Eisnor explained.

The members of the meeting were offered the opportunity to come in a costume and, if they did, they would automatically enter the contest for the “Best Costume Award.” Many took him up on the offer and dressed as some interesting characters such as Michael Myers, Jason Vorhees, Greek gods, hotdogs and even sports players. Eisnor even came as a 70’s disco-dancer.

The meeting went ahead as normal but everyone came for the Halloween festivities. Eisnor set up a pumpkin carving station for those who were interested. There was also Halloween refreshments available to attendees like candy, chocolate, chips and pop. He even included a movie for everyone to decide on and they decided to watch Halloween. An appropriate choice for the occasion.

The persons who attended stayed and watched the movie till its end. They mostly stayed for the prize for the best costume. The winner turned out to be the person who came in the Michael Myers costume, Tanner Augustine. Tanner won himself a $50 gift-card.

The scariest thing about Halloween this year is that you can get COVID instead of candy. The Halloween meeting proved a great success and Eisnor deserves credit for his approach. He managed to carry out his RA duties and to give the members of Harrington Hall a Halloween experience without even leaving the campus.

– Brandon Salick

Brandon Salick

Hello, my name is Brandon Salick and I am an STU student. I am a Canadian citizen, however I was born and spent my entire life on the twin-island Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, which is located at the base of the Caribbean - just above South America. I am pursuing a degree in Journalism. I hope to work as a sports broadcaster/commentator/radio announcer. My interests have always been sports. I am a huge soccer fan and do have an extensive knowledge of the sport. My other sporting interests are cricket, basketball and tennis. I am also interested in animals and sightseeing of historical sites and nature. I love music of all types and the same for movies and series.