For The Love Of Trick Or Treating
The Edmonds Chamber of Commerce has been providing a safe venue for Halloween “Trick or Treaters” for several years now. Each year on October 31 from 5 to 7pm, it is eagerly anticipated by young and old. The downtown streets are closed off at dusk and the businesses put tables in front of their storefronts, passing out wrapped candy to the costumed revelers. The shops have been decorated for weeks in orange and black, dancing skeletons and wispy ghosts flutter in the shadowy light of Jack-o-Lanterns — all is in readiness for cavorting goblins of every kind. This is an occasion for the whole family, and indeed every member can dress in costume. Some families seem to have a theme, and you might find dad dressed as Long John Silver, complete with a peg leg; mom, as his captive princess; a teen brandishing a huge cutlass; and the dog with a red bandana and eye patch! Last year there was a campaign for Best Costumes in several categories. From “baby’s first Halloween” to “most original,” they all posed for professional pictures by Head Spinner Photography. This event is a safe and fun experience for our community. And it is such a neighborly gesture for our shop keepers to dress-up too and hand out treats to the children. This is your opportunity to meet the faces behind the counters in downtown Edmonds. I hope the Edmonds Bakery remembers to bake plenty of donut holes, and the Main St. Theater keeps that popcorn popping. Friends and neighbors are happily greeting each other, and then music comes from speakers by the big fountain. Yes, hooray, it’s the “Monster Mash “song. A great cheer goes up, and soon an odd mix of dragons and princesses are dancing in the street. As the evening goes on, the little ones on a “sugar high” finally begin to tire, tiaras tip and cowboy boots pinch toes. Friends and neighbors wave with last calls of, “Happy Halloween” and head home. The police can now re-open the roads, and another safe and sane Halloween is in the books.
