Truancy

Truancy

Truancy

The Olmsted County Attorney’s Office is dedicated to promoting school attendance by providing early intervention collaboration between children, parents, schools, and the county.

Commitments

Commitments

Commitments

Social workers within Olmsted County’s Community Services department investigate reports and screen hospitalized individuals to develop an appropriate plan of action for mentally ill and/or chemically dependent residents of the County.

Pet costumes now available

Pet costumes now available

Don't let your pets miss out

Pet costumes now available

Don't let your pets miss out

According to a 2018 report from the National Retail Federation, 30 million Americans will spend an estimated $480 million on Halloween costumes for their pets in 2018. This is up from an estimated $200 million in 2010. The most popular costumes for pets are the pumpkin, followed by the hot dog, and the bumble bee in third place.[172]

Trick-or-treating 3 - training post

Trick-or-treating 3 - training post

Trick-or-treating 3 - training post

In Scotland and Ireland, guising – children disguised in costume going from door to door for food or coins – is a traditional Halloween custom, and is recorded in Scotland at Halloween in 1895 where masqueraders in disguise carrying lanterns made out of scooped out turnips, visit homes to be rewarded with cakes, fruit, and money.[131][150] The practice of guising at Halloween in North America is first recorded in 1911, where a newspaper in Kingston, Ontario, Canada reported children going "guising" around the neighborhood.[151]

Trick-or-treating part 2 - training post

Trick-or-treating part 2 - training post

Trick-or-treating part 2 - training post

In England, from the medieval period,[148] up until the 1930s,[149] people practiced the Christian custom of souling on Halloween, which involved groups of soulers, both Protestant and Catholic,[112] going from parish to parish, begging the rich for soul cakes, in exchange for praying for the souls of the givers and their friends.[90] In the Philippines, the practice of souling is called Pangangaluwa and is practiced on All Hallow's Eve among children in rural areas.[22] People drape themselves in white cloths to represent souls and then visit hou

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