Over the past few years, a craze has sprung up in cities nationwide. This craze presents a solution in places where people don’t know their neighbors well, where houses are spaced far apart and where sidewalks are absent.
This craze is called Trunk-or-Treat. People decorate their car trunks with Halloween decorations in the true spirit of the night. Instead of wearing out at house-stop number 10 so that the family calls it a night early, kids stroll from car to car gathering candy at each stop.
I come from a subdivision in Wisconsin where treaters still go door to door. But on Sunday, Oct. 31, I experienced my first Trunk or Treat not only as the Chamber director but also as a member of this community, and I was so delighted to see all the trunks decorated and the treaters dressed up.
When organizing the event, I would tell “trunkers” to plan for at least 500 “treaters.” Since COVID-19 disrupted last year’s event and caused numbers of participants to go down, I anticipated that people would want to get out and about this year in force. That proved to be true.
The community overwhelmingly turned out for the event with a count of 22 Trunks and 950-plus Treaters. Countless friends, family, parents, grandparents, and guardians attended with their little treaters in tow.
My heart is full after Sunday night, and I am pleased to call the area my home.
