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Barring stormy skies or bad fortunes, visitors to Scoville Park on Oct. 21 will find a coven of witches swishing their brooms to a German reggae-pop song that translates to “Shake Your Bacon.” The witches aren’t real witches they’re a group of Oak Park residents who gather once a year dressed in a variety of black skirts, sparkly dresses, pointy hats and green face paint. This year marks the sixth time the Oak Park witch flash mob will perform the dance, which is a choreographed piece performed around the world to Peter Fox’s “Schüttel deinen Speck.”When Oak Park resident Sarah Corbin stumbled in 2018 upon a video of the dance, which is performed near Halloween all over the world, she wanted to bring it home. Corbin created a Facebook group for interested locals, which now has nearly 300 members.
‘Tree protectors’ have climbed into a 100-year-old tree in York Gardens and are camping out to save it from being cut down. The black popular was due for felling on Feb 22 to make way for a housing regeneration scheme. However, two environmental protestors have stayed in the tree’s branches overnight, despite bailiffs serving a note of eviction. The poplar is classified by Wandsworth Council’s tree officers as ‘a tree of high amenity value (category A)’, for which there must be compelling reasons to cut it down. But Wandsworth Extinction Rebellion member, Caroline Hartnell, said that replacing the tree for an electrical cable, which is part of the new housing project, is unacceptable.
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