Are teens too old to trick or treat?
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Visualize, if you will, an all Hallows Eve leery, creatures emerging from the murk, foreboding, eerie: a witch, a bumble bee, the guy from the "Howl" movies, a zombie Captain America and -- most puzzling of all -- two figures in black hoodies and jeans, looming o'er the lie-down.
Although not in league, all reach out in concert toward the vulnerable homeowner, confronting her with gaping maws of pillow cases and malleable SpongeBobs. The towering hooded figures -- positively of advanced teen years -- also endure b offer out bags, but are greeted with a query.
The age-old mystery
"Um, aren't you a rarely old for this?" the resident asks, delivering a couple of mini Charleston Chews to appease these uppish spirits. And once again, the great debate of the Halloween macrocosm bubbles to the surface.
How old is too old to trick or treat?
Answers to this horrendous, grim and ancient conundrum are legion. There is no documented law. Well, there is in Belleville, Ill., where an ordinance was passed in 2008 and remains in less to this day, limiting costumed Snickers seekers to those in the eighth rating and younger, imposing a $25 fine on traitorous violators.
Source: San Jose Mercury News
Mini Major League Baseball fields coming in 2013
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Kids who deportment baseball and softball in North Charleston will be superior to swing for the "Green Monster" like bona fide pro players in Boston's Fenway Park.
After six years of planning, bishopric officials will hold a groundbreaking this morning to shoot the Wescott Park baseball and sports complex, a $9 million attempt geared to athletes 12 years old and younger.
A key features of the 48-acre situation in the upper Dorchester Road corridor are tiny-scale versions from three of the Major League Baseball's habitual layouts and skylines, including the Braves' Turner Common, the Boston Red Sox's Fenway and the San Francisco Giants' AT&T Garden.
All the diamonds will feature artificial turf and be whippersnapper-hitter friendly, with outfield fences in the 200 to 220-foot retreat-run range.
For Red Sox fans, the Fenway version will involve a replica of the infamous "Green Monster" go broke that dominates left field. But this one will be much smaller, at about 14 feet large.
Other aspects of the park include a Ripken Training Encircle. Launched by major league figures Cal and Bill Ripken, the enclosure is designed to allow practicing several different key baseball skate sets in one location. Batting cages and pitching mounds will be incorporated.
Source: Charleston Post Courier