No surprises here: Local mayors and village presidents met today and endorsed a plan to hold trick-or-treating on the same day across municipalities.
Most years, that day won’t be Halloween.
You can read the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel story here. From the story:
The resolution is aimed at keeping children safe and deterring groups of kids from collecting candy outside their own communities. Under the resolution, trick-or-treat would be held from 1 to 4 p.m. the Sunday on or before Oct. 31. When Oct 31 falls on a Saturday, trick-or-treat would be held that day. The resolution is for 10 years.
It’s not binding. That’s good, although I am certain the South Milwaukee City Council will choose to hold trick-or-treating at the endorsed time.
I, however, think South Milwaukee should hold its trick-or-treating on Halloween … Halloween evening. My previous post on this explains why.
Do you agree or disagree? Post your comments below.
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Personally, I grew up with the Sunday afternoon trick or treat, so I really don’t see a problem with it. I really have no hard feelings one way or another. However, I wonder what the participation (house-wise) would be for night due to other activities and people coming home late from work.
I do agree that all the communities should have it at the same time, though. The purpose of trick-or-treat is for the neighborhood kids to have some fun in their own neighborhoods – not a greed fest to see how much candy can be wrangled from all over. In fact, the proposed 3-hour time is way to long. The kids should stick to their own neighborhoods and people they know. That would solve all of the safety issues as well as the complaints in the previous JS article about people having to spend $70.
Finally, the comment in the article about racism is ridiculous. Personally, I have not seen an influx of other races. I don’t like seeing cars pulling up and a bunch of non-neighborhood people getting out. Any the one’s I have seen are all white.