we Halloween Events in Vancouver By Maria Asselin-Roy, Staff Reporter ot sure where to go for Nise: this year? If you don’t want to go trick or treating, Vancouver has a long list of options. On Saturday October 30%, you can visit the Vancouver Aquarium with their exhibit “World of the Weird”, or you could visit the famous Stanley Park Ghost Train, with the theme Dia de los Muertos from six until ten. Or, if you would prefer something 19+, on Saturday there is the 4% Annual Halloween Costume ball located at the PNE Agrodome. This event will be playing mostly hip hop and house music, runs from eight until two. Another popular event is the Halloween club crawl. This runs from Friday October 29" to the 30° and tickets are $30. The club crawl includes a party bus, entrance to four clubs with drink specials at the locations, VIP access with no lines or cover charge, and costume contests and prizes. 560 night club is hosting “The Musical Massacre” featuring bands like Long WalkShortDock and My!Gay!Husband! On Halloween. There will be prizes for the best costume, $4 high balls, four different rooms, and haunted decor. Also on Halloween, “Nightmare on Abbott Street” is located at Lotus, and Honey and Milk Nightclubs. The music will be house, mash up, electro, etc, and like most other places a costume is preferred and there are prizes for the best costume. Since Halloween is on a Sunday this year, many people will be going to Mirage. Mirage will also be hosting a huge Halloween party the night before, with $1000 cash prize for the best group costume, an Avatar/Bioluminescence theme, and $10,000 being spent on decor. Whatever you decide to do on Halloween, there is an option for everybody and make sure to take a cab home! Paint for Peace at Douglas College By Maria Asselin-Roy, Staff Reporter n Sunday, November 21“ (): the Douglas Concourse there will be four exhibitions displaying the talents of various artists. The event is hosted by Peace and Love International and Douglas. The college is looking for artists of all backgrounds to come to New West and paint together. Once all the painting is done, the works of art will be auctioned off and all of the proceeds will go towards building an orphanage in Cape Town, South Africa. Admission for the exhibit is free. The centre of the event will consist of about 40 talented local artists that will be painting “live” for guests to look at. The goal is to get a wide variety of artists with different styles and genres so the public can have lots to choose from. There will be about 100 pieces of art there, and the college is hoping to have almost or all pieces sold so that the Peace and Love International can build the orphanage in 2011. There will also be a display called ‘Art for Hope’. This project will display 20 moving drawings by children from kindergarten to grade six from a school in Bethlehem. All drawings have an added paragraph from the child as well as a photo. “This exhibit has always drawn a great crowd.” critics say. Other projects will be shown from children around the world from places like Ecuador and the Philippines. For more information on Peace and Love International and the event taking place, visit www. peaceandloveinternational.com. The Idea of Doing Away with Pennies Exploring Different Perspectives By Karin Keefe less bright these days. The Senate Committee on National Finance, which has been holding meetings to decide whether to recommend eliminating the penny, has now heard from final experts who are all in favour of removing it. On Tuesday October 5", Michael Maidment, a representative of the Salvation Army, informed the committee that the elimination of the penny would not have a negative impact on his organization and by implication on other charitable organizations that depend to some extent on coin donations. Maidment described the tremendous effort and expense involved in rolling and processing coins, especially pennies. He is confident that people would continue to make donations by choosing the next larger denomination to donate, as he says they did in 1989 when the one-dollar bill was phased out. Maidment, on behalf of The Salvation Army, expressed an interest in initiating a campaign to help the government remove the pennies from circulation. By some estimates $200 million is sitting out there in yogurt containers and dresser drawers. On Wednesday October 6", Alan Boeden, head of the New Zealand Reserve Bank currency department, told the committee that the New Ts future of the Canadian penny is looking 4 Zealand economy did not suffer any negative consequences when they scrapped the one- and two- cent coins in 1989. Getting rid of these coins was so popular that New Zealanders decided to scrap the nickel in 2006. This recent feedback in favour of eliminating the penny is in syne with opinions offered by experts in earlier meetings. On May 26, 2010 Pierre Duguay, deputy governor of the Bank of Canada, made a speech to the committee focussing on the potential impact on inflation. Specifically, he addressed the rounding up of prices. Duguay stated that the impact would not be measurable since this rounding up would be a one- time occurrence. He added that only the total price would be rounded up at the cash register and this would only happen with cash transactions. For debit and credit transactions, prices would still remain the same. Duguay further suggested that prices ending in one, two, six or seven could be rounded down and those ending in three, four, eight or nine could be rounded up to negate any potential effects on inflation. The Senate committee has concluded its six meetings, after hearing from a range of sources from bankers to consumer associations. It will now put together a report to be submitted to the Finance Minister in the coming months.