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DISCOVER! | OCTOBER 22, 2016
At a Glance:
WHAT: Hartley Halloween
Spectacular
WHERE: Downtown Hartley
WHEN: Monday, Oct. 31, at 3:30
p.m.
COST: Free
CONTACT: 712-928-2240
ONLINE: www.hartleyiowa.com
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RYLAN HOWE | STAFF WRITER
Halloween
Hartley
Downtown businesses break out the candy
Costumed kids will have plenty
of opportunity to collect candy
this Halloween in Hartley.
The annual Halloween Spectacular
on Oct. 31 features a trick-or-trunk
event and tour through downtown as
well as citywide trick-or-treating.
It all starts at the fire station at 3:30
p.m. when everyone will gather before
heading out to visit the downtown
businesses.
Those who own businesses off Central
Avenue can partcipate as well and
are encouraged to set up in the parking
lot for a trick-or-trunk portion of
the evening.
“As a chamber we’re always looking
for ways to get people into businesses
and the owners themselves really
enjoy seeing all the kids dressed up
in their costumes,” Trisha Pearson, a
chamber board member and supervisor
of the Halloween event, said. “Not
everyone realizes what we have downtown
and this is a great opportunity to
walk downtown and see everything.”
As the group moves its way around
downtown, business owners will be
set up outside to greet everyone and
hand out candy.
It is the third year that Halloween
has had this particular format in
Hartley and it has proved quite popular.
After completing their circuit of
downtown, families and their little
ghosts, princesses and superheroes
can continue to trick-or-treat throughout
their neighborhoods until 8 p.m.
It’s not just the young ones that
enjoy the evening though as Pearson
said many of the business owners that
get involved will dress the part as well.
New this year will be events hosted
at St. Paul Lutheran Church just north
of downtown. There will be a bouncy
house set up as well as hot cocoa and
apple cider served from 3-5:30 p.m.
Some congregation members will
have a trick-or-trunk set up outside
as well with church-related trinkets as
well as candy to hand out.
“It’s a great, fun, family event. We
start with the sun still out and everyone
had a good time visiting and
seeing all the different costumes,”
Pearson said. F
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