PARMA, Ohio — In case you couldn’t inform by all of the spooky decorations, pumpkins and different vacation trappings, Halloween is simply across the nook — actually.

Trick-or-treaters shall be taking to the streets from 6 to eight p.m. Monday (Oct. 31) in Parma, Parma Heights, Brooklyn, Independence and Seven Hills.

Only a reminder to motorists to be looking out for pint-size (or generally bigger) ghosts, goblins and different assorted costumed characters as they go to properties in the hunt for treats.

Additionally, the Haunted Yard shall be open for one final hurrah from 7:30 to 10 p.m. Thursday via Sunday (Oct. 27-30) at 5900 Rousseau Drive in Parma. Proceeds will profit the Parma Animal Shelter.

Honoring our vets: Independence could have its annual Veterans Day celebration at lunchtime Nov. 5 on the Civic Middle. All those that are at present serving or who’ve served in any department of america armed forces are invited to attend.

The lunch from Mission BBQ is sponsored by Vodrazka Funeral Residence. Musical leisure shall be supplied by Leonard DiCosimo and Nada Montgomery.

All residents and their friends ought to register for the celebration by 5 p.m. Friday (Oct. 28). Name 216-524-7373 for extra data or to register.

Congratulations: The Parma Regulation Put up of the Parma Police Explorers sends finest needs to newly promoted Sgt. Abigail Brosky, who obtained her promotion letter and new badge just lately.

Benedictine hall-of-famers: Two individuals with ties to Parma shall be inducted into the Benedictine Excessive Faculty Corridor of Fame and Corridor of Honors throughout a ceremony Nov. 13 at Home windows on the River, 2000 Sycamore St. in Cleveland, within the Powerhouse Constructing of the Nautica Leisure Advanced within the Flats.

The Rev. Anselm Zupka will enter the Corridor of Honors and Chris Leanza will turn out to be a member of the BHS Athletic Corridor of Fame.

Zupka, a 1958 BHS graduate, has served as a weekend priest for 55 years at St. Charles Borromeo Parish in Parma. One of many longest-serving educating monks at BHS, with greater than 54 years within the classroom, he celebrated his 82nd birthday Aug. 28. He’s the primary instructor at school historical past to be actively educating at that age.

He beforehand served as moderator of the Nationwide Honor Society, Journey Membership and Key Membership. Zupka continues to show German at BHS and to direct the German Membership.

Zupka, a Cleveland native, professed his first vows as a Benedictine monk on July 11, 1961, and was ordained a priest on Might 20, 1967. The Rev. Fr. Jack Carlin, St. Charles’ pastor, wrote within the parish bulletin that he believes Zupka has served longer at one parish than some other priest within the Diocese of Cleveland.

At St. Charles, Zupka volunteered to accompany a lot of college students from the parish youth group to 5 worldwide Catholic World Youth Day celebrations all over the world, together with as just lately as 2011.

Leanza, a Parma native, is a 1999 BHS alumnus who earned an economics diploma from Yale College. At Saybrook Faculty, he obtained the William Neely Mallory Award as Yale’s prime male athlete. Leanza is the 18th participant in Yale males’s basketball historical past to attain 1,000 profession factors.

He additionally was the third-leading scorer in Benedictine Bengals basketball historical past, ending with 1,182 factors. Leanza was a four-year letter winner who helped the Bengals to 3 consecutive state remaining 4 appearances, leading to back-to-back state titles.

At Yale, he was a two-time All-Ivy League choice and a workforce captain as a senior.

The celebration begins at 2 p.m. with check-in and a public reception, adopted by dinner at 3 and the induction ceremony at 4.

Tickets for the Corridor of Fame/ Corridor of Honors Ceremony are $60. To buy tickets, mail a verify to Benedictine Excessive Faculty, 2900 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, Cleveland, OH 44104. Mark Corridor of Fame/Corridor of Honors on the verify memo.

For extra data, name 216-421-2080, extension 342, or go to cbhs.internet/alumni/alumni-events/hall-of-fame-hall-of-honors/.

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