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Book Pick Of The Week
I borrowed Homicide and Halo-Halo from the library on a whim because the title was
intriguing, and I love halo-halo. I think this is the fifirst book revolving around Filipino culture
that I’ve read.
A few pages into the novel, I realized that
this wasn’t the first installment of author Mia Manansala’s Tita Rosie’s
Kitchen Mystery series.
In total, there are three books and Halo-Halo is the second. In Halo-Halo, main character Lila Macapagal has to solve a murder revolving around the Miss Teen Shady Palms Beauty Pageant. It’s a cookie-cutter storyline, but there are also so many cultural references
that were familiar to me, that I left the
book feeling refreshed. I
could relate to the familial challenges the characters faced, as well as the great comfort
food they indulged in, like the hot/sour sinigang soup, as well as the fact that Lila’s
sausage dog was named Longganisa. Now, I have the first book (Arsenic and Adobo) on hold, and will tackle the third
(Blackmail and Bibingka) right after.
What started as a creative way to raise funds during the pandemic has quickly turned into arguably the big- gest Halloween attraction of the year. Habilitat’s “Dead End” haunted drive-thru ex- perience at Aloha Stadium began in 2020 when the pan- demic forced the nonprofit to halt its yearly summer lū‘au fundraiser, and in its inau- gural year sold out before the event even started. This year, the nonprofit invites the community back to try out 2022’s experience, aptly titled “The Aftermath.”
Expect an evening of
actually utilize the structures around the stadium.”
by Nicole Monton
A Night Of Fright For A Good Cause
Habilitat’s haunted drive-thru fundraiser, “Dead End: The Aftermath,” runs Fridays-Sundays until Halloween. PHOTO COURTESY HABILITAT
There will be six interac- tive scenes, the next more terrifying than the last, that run about 3-5 minutes each. The entire experience lasts around 30 minutes, and Edginton recommends bringing water and snacks while waiting to enter “Dead End: The Aftermath.”
fright — featuring chilling monsters, deranged doctors and killer clowns — from the safety of your car. But not really on that last part, says Kyler Edginton, who’s part of the nonprofit’s public relations team.
“We use the aspect of being in a car to our advan- tage,” he explains. “This year, we’ ve gotten a lot more creative with our props and designs, and we’ ve utilized Aloha Stadium to our ad- vantage. Some of the scenes
To me, the coolest part of the attraction is that the whole thing is built and run by more than 115 Habilitat program residents. Plus, pro- ceeds from ticket sales go to- ward Habilitat’s mission to offer residential substance abuse treatment to individu- als wanting to make positive
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