
{"id":13576,"date":"2010-11-04T08:11:30","date_gmt":"2010-11-04T16:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=13576"},"modified":"2010-11-04T08:13:43","modified_gmt":"2010-11-04T16:13:43","slug":"halloween-draws-smaller-crowd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2010\/11\/04\/halloween-draws-smaller-crowd\/","title":{"rendered":"Halloween draws smaller crowd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Susan Dickson, Staff Writer<\/em><\/p>\n<p>CHAPEL HILL  \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Efforts to reduce the number of Halloween revelers on Franklin Street were successful this year, with Sunday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s crowds estimated at about 35,000 people \u00e2\u20ac\u201c about 30 percent less than last year.<br \/>\nChapel Hill officials said they plan to keep up the efforts in future years. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I think it might be nice if it was a little bit smaller, even smaller than it was [this year], but I think [this Halloween] went really well,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Chapel Hill Mayor Mark Kleinschmidt said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153A lot went into making sure it did.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>\nIn 2008, the town launched Homegrown Halloween, an effort aimed at returning the celebration to a small-town community gathering, out of concern that crowd sizes were becoming unmanageable. More than 80,000 people visited Franklin Street for Halloween in 2007. Crowds shrunk to 35,000 in 2008, but increased to 50,000 for last year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Saturday night Halloween. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re looking forward now to having several years where [Halloween is] in the middle of the week,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Kleinschmidt said.<\/p>\n<p>Town officials kept the event relatively early, with streets cleared by 11:40 p.m. and open to traffic by 12:40 a.m. Officials also focused on efforts to identify people who might be in trouble, Kleinschmidt said, which helped avoid other types of issues. <\/p>\n<p>Orange County EMS responded to seven calls, with three people transported to UNC Hospitals. Six of the seven calls were related to alcohol. One citation was issued for simple possession of marijuana. During last year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s event, 22 people were treated for alcohol-related issues, down from 31 in 2008. <\/p>\n<p>Last year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s event cost the town about $197,000, compared with $203,000 in 2008 and $221,000 in 2007. Cost estimates for this year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s event are not yet available. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Susan Dickson, Staff Writer CHAPEL HILL \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Efforts to reduce the number of Halloween revelers on Franklin Street were successful this year, with Sunday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s crowds estimated at about 35,000 people \u00e2\u20ac\u201c about 30 percent less than last year. Chapel Hill officials said they plan to keep up the efforts in future years. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I think&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13576"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13584,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13576\/revisions\/13584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}