Johanns suggests indoor Halloween
By Ted Taylor
Senior Reporter
Mayor Mike Johanns has some
ideas for fun on Halloween weekend in
a city where 20 percent of its residents
don’t have power and 100-year-old trees
still block some streets and sidewalks:
Throw a Halloween party Friday
and take part in a giant slumber parts
Saturday.
Instead of taking children trick or
treating, Johanns is urging parents to
throw Halloween parties instead.
If that doesn’t sound fun, the mayor
is asking parents with children who
absolutely must get their sugar rush
Friday night to try to be finished with
their tricking and treating before night
fall.
Johanns, unlike former Omaha
Mayor RJ. Morgan in 1991, stopped
short of canceling Halloween, but want
ed parents to be aware of the dangers
that still exist from Sunday's 13-inch
snowstorm.
Tree limbs still block many side
walks in the city's older areas, and some
neighborhoods remain without power.
Lincoln Police Chief Tom Casady
outlined an area of Lincoln, which
mcluded the majority of the city, that he
called unsafe to trick or treat in because
of fallen tree limbs and potentially dan
gerous open power lines.
He is asking parents to maybe hit the
newer, and less tree-dense, part of town
on the outskirts of the city.
On Saturday night, Johanns is ask
ing that Lincoln visitors, in for the game
or any other reason, come join the state’s
largest sleepover at the Cook Pavilion.
Most of Lincoln's 3,300 hotel rooms
are already booked, Johanns said, and
more rooms will be needed as electric
contractors from the region helping
restore power in the city begin looking
«
Our greatest concern is for the citizens of
the community. I'm confident that our
visitors will understand that"
Mike Johanns
Lincoln mayor
for a place to stay for the weekend.
Johanns went as far as asking any
one from out of town who maybe
already had weekend hotel reservations
to give them up.
“Our greatest concern is for the citi
zens of the community,” he said. “I'm
confident that our visitors will under
stand that.”
The Husker football mdoor practice
facility will be open Saturday night for
those who can’t find a place to stay in
Lincoln and don't want to make a long
drive back home.
The showers will be available and
towels will be provided, but there are
only 60 sleeping bags for rent at the
Campus Recreation Center, director
Stan Campbell said.
Those wishing to be a part of
Lincoln’s largest slumber party must
arrive before 10 p.m. and are not
allowed to re-enter the facility upon
exitmg.
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