Hey today I helped report on the elections so you should check out my group's blogs on ch 3's site!
(you'll have to copy and paste these....sorry!)
http://www.wkyc.com/news/elections/election_article.aspx?storyid=58984
http://www.wkyc.com/news/elections/election_article.aspx?storyid=59005
http://www.wkyc.com/news/elections/election_article.aspx?storyid=58971
We submitted 5 stories, but I think I only found 3 which were published. I was the driver and I helped take notes, quotes and asked questions. It was a long, but good day. It rained a lot, but luckily it wasn't too hard! A little chilly, but at our second location an elderly woman let us in the lobby. As ch 3 interns (and other people involved with media or handing out info), we were only allowed 100 ft away from the enterance, but she was nice and let us warm up in the lobby area. We met some interesting people there. One lady enjoyed explaining her views! This was at the Barton Center in Lakewood. Before we left (at 1 pm) they gave us boxed lunches with a sandwich, pasta salad, fruit cup, pickle, and chocolate chip cookie. Later when we were all done, (stopped at 7:30) we went back to the station and hung out for about a half hour. We saw Romona Robinson and Tim White- tv personalities and got our pic taken with Romona. It was a pretty cool experience I thought. Not thinking I want to be a reporter, but I enjoyed it! Oh yea at our first location, the flags which were supposed to show us where to stand, were wayyyyy further away than 100 ft so Kathryn called in and they (from the station) said we could move up to talk to people since they weren't coming to us. So a little while later (after our Prof. Horowitz left who took a couple pics of us on the job) a lady working the polls came out and kicked us back to the sidewalk. She didnt seem very friendly! Oh well! Met some nice people there!
Yesterday (Nov. 1st) around 6 o'clock I heard voices outside the front door. Then the doorbell rang. At first I thought maybe it was my parents coming home and they might've had their hands full from shopping. I opened the door and I was wrong. There were 3 boys shivering and saying "Trick-or-Treat." I was like 'what?' I told them they were a day behind and that they were crazy. They played it off like no....they weren't a day behind. They wanted some 'left over candy.' So I was like 'alright..hang on.' I ran upstairs grabbed 3 mini candy bars and 3 suckers (hha..from the corn festival in August that I knew we weren't going to eat since we hadn't eaten them yet) and gave them to the boys. They were grateful. I gave them the candy because I thought they had a creative idea to go a day after Halloween collecting the left over candy no one wants. I thought it was funny. Oh they were sorta dressed up...as nerds/geeks I guess.
Halloween went well...I think we had around 60 trick-or-treaters. I dressed up as a gypsy and handed out candy. There were some cute kids- a little raggedy ann and some Curious George's I liked. We even had a ballerina dog come by! I just love trick-or-treating and seeing the kids in their costumes coming to the house. Plus it's soooooooooooo fun carving a pumpkin every year. I just love it!! It's tradition!!
