Cars can be decorated, music and food is sometimes offered, and there’s no worry about losing track of little ones.
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New Bethel United Methodist Church on Pond Creek Road will hold its annual Halloween party and weenie roast on Sunday, November 1 at 5 p.m. Everyone in the community is invited to come in costume for fun, games and roasting weenies with all the trimmings. The church is located at 301 S. Washington St.in Tullahoma.
30, the Clinton Chamber of Commerce and the Shoreline Community Women host the annual Trunk or Treat celebration at Clinton Crossing Premium Outlets. The tour will last about two hours and costs $20.
If more money is being spent on candy, costumes and decorations than in 2009 when Americans spent $4.7 billion on the holiday, then where are all of the trick-or-treaters? Following the race, the Halloween Fun Bash will kick off in the park with activities like apple bobbing, face painting, a Halloween pageant, pumpkin carving, corn hole, hay rides, inflatables, sack races, pumpkin races, Halloween bingo, cake walks and more.
The Northgate Mall has hosted a Spookyfest on Halloween for the past six years. Silent auction, costume contest, tarot card readers, food tasting, cash bar and more.
Safety is a major factor in the shift from traditional trick-or-treating to trunk-or-treating.
“It was a great day”, Reinwald said. The event is free and open to the community.
“The hospitals used X-rays to scan candy. We want the kids to have a good experience”, Stevens said. Fright Fest is the department’s free, nonprofit Halloween event that gives kids and parents a safe, controlled environment for trick-or-treating. It got a boost in 2012, when Superstorm Sandy made conventional trick-or-treating impossible in certain hard-hit regions.
Food, fun and games will be available to the community free of charge from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday. So, like I said, trunk or treat is cool, too.
“I think parents are looking for an alternative to going door-to-door because you just don’t know who’s behind the door”, Mitchell said.
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Numerous trunk-or-treat events in Tullahoma began within in the past 10 years. As an added treat, they will also be having a Trunk-or-Treat taking place at the same time.
Hannah Burlbaw said that her family prefers trunk-or-treating. Walker estimates that about 300 kids come through each year.
Kathy Paradis, a town deputy clerk and an event organizer, said Oakland did a trunk-or-treat event a couple years ago and parents asked for it this year.
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Beggar’s Night is tonight from 6 to 7:30 p.m. from the looks of it most (with the exception of Huntington Township which is Friday 6 to 7:30 p.m.) if not all areas in Ross County have trick or treat at this time.
