Halloween truly was a time of frights and delights for children Thursday evening, especially for the hundreds that took part in Downtown Trick’R’Treat.
With 50 businesses taking part this year, the downtown core was packed with bands of roaming ghouls, goblins, superheroes and more as children, teenagers and adults dressed up and went looking for candy. With clear skies and brisk temperatures, the lakecity couldn’t have asked for better conditions to go out and take part in some good old fashioned trick or treating.
Organized each year by Jazmyn Lyons and her mother Joan Douillard of The Realm of Toys in partnership with Downtown Williams Lake it’s become a popular lakecity tradition. This year, Lyons said 722 children came and collected passports from her store, up by over 200 from last year’s numbers.
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“The kids were all wonderfully polite and we didn’t get any panicked phone calls because a store ran out of candy at 4 p.m.,” Lyons said.
Overall the response and turnout was “insane” and very heartwarming to see, Lyons said. She’d like to let businesses know for next year, however, to stay open even if they run out of candy as many children are looking to fill out their passports for the raffle. Lyons asked them to contact her if there’s any reason they can’t partake like planned.
Lyons would like to thank everyone for coming out and taking part in 2019’s Downtown Trick’R’Treat and hopes to see even more people take part next year.
As Halloween falls on a Saturday next year she said that they’ll have to look at changing the event a bit so businesses are able to close on time.
patrick.davies@wltribune.com
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