Fright Nite is done for another year
I love this event. It takes some organizing and tons of volunteers - thank you thank you thank you to all of them - but it's really not a hard event to run.
Well that is if you think that having upwards of 200 teenagers in your custody from midnight until 7 am is no big deal. But with 20-30 volunteers on hand, 2 paid duty OPP and St John's Ambulance, the bases are all covered safety wise.
I have found that teens are very well behaved when the expecations are clear, the boundaries are clear, and you are operating on thier level. No adult in thier right mind wants to spend the whole night watching movies. Even the dusk to dawn shows at the drive inn are attended by the young and young at heart.
So for thier $20 they get to watch 3 out of 4 movies and a ton of junk food. The video games are all switched over to free and we have some kids who just come to play video games all night long. That's cool too.
We make a few thousand dollars on this event and if we had sponsors our safety and promotional costs could be covered devoting more of the dollars raised to our Rotary Children's Fund, but that will come in time.
So while I'm bleary eyed today with exhaustion, my heart is content, we did a good thing.
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