Sometime back in the 1980s, Betti Anne McVey decided it was time to change up some things about the annual Halloween parade in Stafford Township.
“I thought it would be a good idea to have a Halloween party at the Oxycocus School rather than a parade,” said McVey, who at the end of June retired and left behind the recreation department she had directed for 38 years. “The party was an utter failure. It was a nightmare.”
That particular program lasted one holiday, but during the past few decades so many more of McVey’s visions led to…
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