{"id":27450,"date":"2026-11-03T08:53:56","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T13:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/?p=27450"},"modified":"2026-11-03T08:53:56","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T13:53:56","slug":"winners-announced-for-safety-street-candy-donation-and-facade-decoration-competitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/2026\/11\/03\/winners-announced-for-safety-street-candy-donation-and-facade-decoration-competitions\/","title":{"rendered":"Winners announced for Safety Street candy donation and facade decoration competitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-27451 aligncenter lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/11\/safety-street-2026.png?resize=993%2C208&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Images from Safety Street 2026\" width=\"993\" height=\"208\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/11\/safety-street-2026.png?resize=300%2C63&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/11\/safety-street-2026.png?resize=768%2C160&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/11\/safety-street-2026.png?w=912&amp;ssl=1 912w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 993px) 100vw, 993px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 993px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 993\/208;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The 2026 Safety Street trick-or-treat and Movies at Mercy event was a great success and would not be possible without the candy donations and involvement from students and staff from Detroit Mercy. More than 300 children from the local community and their families were able to safely enjoy trick-or-treating.<\/p>\n<p>The Student Life Office would like to congratulate the following groups and departments:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <strong>Pre-Law Society<\/strong> donated <strong>64 pounds<\/strong> of candy and won the student group candy donation competition.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Office of the Registrar<\/strong> donated <strong>53 pounds<\/strong> of candy and won the faculty &amp; staff candy donation competition.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Campus Activity Board<\/strong> and the <strong>Lebanese Student Association (LSA)<\/strong>\u00a0tied for the facade decorating competition.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This event is only possible with collaboration from the campus community. Thank you to everyone who participated in creating a fun Halloween event for our community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Student Life Office would like to thank the University community for supporting the 2026 Safety Street trick-or-treat and Movies at Mercy event held on the McNichols Campus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":677,"featured_media":27451,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,6438,4404],"tags":[6296,7595,7168,7490,6877,285,13,375,522,524],"class_list":["post-27450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ccnews","category-community","category-student-announcements","tag-campus-activity-board","tag-lebanese-student-association","tag-movies-at-mercy","tag-office-of-registrar","tag-pre-law-society","tag-safety-street","tag-student-life","tag-student-life-office","tag-trick-or-treat","tag-trick-or-treating"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbwnTV-78K","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/11\/safety-street-2026.png?fit=912%2C190&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/677"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27450"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27458,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27450\/revisions\/27458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}