With Halloween just one day away, the sophomore class started off the week in an exciting, yet scary and ghoulish way.

The first-ever CHS Haunted Walk was hosted on Tuesday, October 28th and it was a hit by virtue of the attendance numbers alone.  The attraction had over 400 students (including the 60 who acted in the walk) or Cinnaminson residents attend the walk.  Considering they only sold around 120 tickets by the end of the day on Tuesday and ran out of the 300 wristbands before the end of the night, the amount of attendants was surprising and rewarding to all those involved. Sophomore class adviser Mrs. Carroll would have never expected this big of a turn out “for the first year.”

The walk was organized by the sophomore class. Mrs. Carroll and her “Monsters Among and Within Us” class developed the idea. “Originally, they wanted to take a trip to the Eastern State Penitentiary and then I thought ‘why don’t we have one here?'” The other class adviser, Mr. McNamara, was on board with the idea right away. The walk would not have been successful without the support of CHS Principal Mrs. Llewellyn; Mrs. DePietro and Mr. Moore and the art department with the props; Mr. Wilson with the sound effects, and the custodial staff who all put an immense time and effort into making the walk memorable, fun, and, of course, frightening.

There were also students that were beneficial to the success of the walk. “Junior Jacob Manara basically led the backstage aspect of the walk,” claimed Mrs. Carroll. Senior Devon Galbraith helped with a lot costumes and seniors Sam Erigo, Darlene Perez, Marissa Cosgrove, Ryan Addesberger, and many more artistically talented kids helped with make up.

Mrs. Carroll was very impressed and ecstatic with the popularity of the walk. There were two things that really stood out in her mind as the best part of the night. “When the first tour guide came back and claimed that the people really enjoyed the walk and were actually frightened, I knew everyone’s hard work paid off.”

Despite her fear of sounding “cheesy with this quote,” the overall best part of the night for Mrs. Carroll was “everybody in the school community, the art department, the freshmen, sophomore, juniors, seniors, the maintenance staff, and the many staff members, coming together made the night the best it could be.”

The money raised from the walk will benefit the sophomore class.

Their main goal  was to start a new tradition here at CHS. It is safe to say that there will be a Haunted Walk next year and for many years to come.

Following the Haunted Walk, the bonfire was brought back to CHS. The Class of 2o15 were the only students who attended to CHS at the time of the last bonfire attempt. The last time student council attempted to have a bonfire, they actually lost money since there was no charge to enter. It has not been attempted in the past few years since it was not successful; however, the sophomore class teamed up with Student Council of the whole school found a way to draw people to the bonfire but also make some money.

Student Council put their own twist on the bonfire, moving past the simple pile of burning wood. The most popular was the burning of the stuffed animal bear with “DELRAN” written across its belly. Delran has been a long-time rival of Cinnaminson and the bear-burning ceremony was to promote the homecoming game on Thanksgiving Day that will be against Delran.

Student Council also sold hot chocolate and candy for one dollar, attracting the wallets of poor high schoolers.

Overall, both events couldn’t have happened without the other. “The walk couldn’t happen without the bonfire because people would go through a six-minute walk and then have nothing to do.”  The same goes for the bonfire, as seen in past attempts.