Parents upset as Winnipeg school kills Halloween

Great Cody teachers in 2011
A report from Winnipeg says the Hastings School, part of the Louis Riel School Division, will cancel Halloween this year. It will also cancel  the school’s annual winter concert and replace it with an evening of African drumming. Parents are quite upset about this. But the school board says it doesn’t get involved and has directed parents to the school. It isn’t clear from the news reports whether this school is under the control of the Winnipeg Board of Education. For our part, The South Bayview Bulldog cannot wait for the annual Halloween march by the Cody kids along Bayview Avenue. We like it so much we remembered a picture from 2011, inset.