CANORA, SASK.- “What an amazing turnout for our Halloween Walk. We heard just as much laughing as we did screaming so we’d say it was a huge success!”
This post at the Canora & District Fire Rescue Facebook page pretty much sums up the excitement at the Haunted Halloween Walk held on Oct. 31. With a pleasant afternoon weather-wise, fire chief Jess Harper estimated “we put through about 200 youngsters. We had 240 candy bags for them and only a few were left,” but then added that he and the other firefighters “may have had one or two.”
The entrance was at the edge of the Canora Golf Course on Coronation Drive, and the exit was at the east end of Barschel Avenue, where the candy bags were handed out after the kids completed the course.
The walk was opened at 4 p.m. so the younger children could walk through the eerie course in the daylight. The older one were free to wait until dark, when things got considerably scarier.
Harper said this was the department’s first Halloween Walk since 2020 during the COVID-19 Pandemic, when the practice was started to give kids a fun outdoor Halloween activity in the midst of all the restrictions on having fun indoors.
Harper said the event could not have been so successful without the strong community support, as was mentioned at the Facebook page.
“Thank you to everyone who came out! A special thank you to Canora Pharmacy, Red Apple and a few of their customers who went in together to donate candy, Canora Home Hardware, Penny from Canora Home Hardware, Rice Construction, Good Lake Electric, and the Canora Air Cadets for all the generous donations.”
With the large number of kids taking part this year, Harper says they’re already planning the next one for 2027.
“We don’t have any room to make it bigger, so our goal is to make it scarier.”
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