Monday, October 29, 2018

Track or Treat Table Display Winners

Congratulations to the 2018 Track or Treat table display winners: 

Ginny Russell and family





Stacy and Anne / Wizard of Oz





Redeemer Community Church




Jeffrey Hassell and family





The Dearborn Agency




Andrea Fitzgerald, Century 21 Curran and Oberski





Rain or Shine it's Track or Treat time



Rain or Shine it's Track or Treat time!!

Thanks Dearborn! 
Thank you to all our awesome treat station sponsors for braving the rain.
Thank you to everyone that donated or helped with the event.
Thank you to all the kids and families that came out to have fun with their neighbors! #SODATrackOrTreat 🎃

Huge shout out to Sarah Ford for all her hard work organizing, contacting treat station sponsors, gathering candy donations, and dealing with logistics at the event! We couldn't do it without you!!

Thursday, October 18, 2018

SODA Halloween Decorations

Each year SODA awards several homes in our neighborhood with a certificate and window sticker for their outstanding Halloween displays. If you know of any that deserve that honor this year leave a comment with address on our Contact Us page.

Check out the video and article below from FOX2 news about two of our past SODA Halloween Decoration winners.



DEARBORN, Mich. (WJBK) - Ghost and goblins are haunting neighbors in one Metro Detroit neighborhood. The two homeowners behind the spooky display are going all out for a good scare.

Hundreds of people a day are stopping by the two homes every day on Grindley Park in Dearborn. Skeltons, spiders, plenty of clowns and even a T-rex help spook visitors.

One of the homeowners says he just loves Halloween and enjoys watching the scares.

"People love it. People always say it's a great job and thanks for me doing it and they appreciate it. I just love the little kids how they react," says Ray Stachurski.

This is Ray's eighth year setting up the display.

Ray says it takes him about two weeks to set up, and it gets bigger every year. He also changes things around to keep it fresh. This year, he says one of his different decorations is a skeleton scene where they're fighting dragons.

But Ray's not alone. On the corner is the Grindley Park Haunt, run the by Romanchuk family.

Savanna Romanchuk says the family has been doing their Halloween display for about five years in Dearborn but it's tradition that stretches back 30 years to when the family lived on Detroit' west side on Mansfield.

Savanna's mom's brother started it but died when he was just 28. Her mom picked up the tradition and, about three decades later, it's now in Dearborn with the Romanchuk family.

Initially, they were told they wouldn't get more than 60 kids trick-or-treating. The first year, they said they had 1,300 kids.

They even set up a Facebook page that reached all the way to the west coast, bringing a woman from California just to see their exhibit.

Track or Treat Donations

We're still accepting candy donations for this year's SODA Track or Treat.

If you are interested in having a treat station, donating, or volunteering for this event; email Sarah Ford: sford@vividclean.com

You do not have to be a SODA member to have a treat station or volunteer.

The 5th Annual SODA Track or Treat is October 28th, 5:30pm at Penn-Vassar Park

Friday, October 12, 2018

Questions For Dearborn Public Works

Our January guest speaker will be Eric Witte, City of Dearborn - Deputy Director of Public Works.
In order for Mr. Witte to give informed answers to resident questions, he has asked that we submit any specific questions we may have so that he has time to find the accurate information.

Please fill out the form below to submit your questions.

The January SODA meeting will be Jan 10th 2019, 7:00 pm at Whitmore-Bolles. We hope you will be able to join us.