10/28/2026
We will be passing out candy Friday 2pm-5pm!!! Come swing by!! š¦š
A MONDAY MORNING "GOOD MORNING!"
This final week of October is looking like we'll have a few showers to start the week, but should end with sunshine though cooler weather for the THE GREAT LYNDEN TRICK OR "DUTCH" TREAT 2026! on Friday. Highs temps are expected to be in the "Oof, it's kind a chilly" with lows in the mid "That's got a little bite to it".
+ Rain, shine, cool or cooler, from 2 to 5 p.m. on Friday there will be a number of merchants, 50-ish or so, who will be handing out sweet treats to those aged 12 and under. Our thanks to supporting sponsors AMS Print, Banner Bank, LSM Heating, Plumbing, Electric - formerly Lynden Sheet Metal, and WECU for being there with presenting sponsors Katty Baldwin Real Estate and The Hoglin Team - Guild Mortgage to give us an assist on spreading the sweet Friday afternoon fun!
+ Goes without sayin' but we'll have to anyway: All the 2,000 and some candy grabbers and their adult escorts from last year DID NOT park on Front Street. Please park north of Grover Street if you're coming downtown, or west of 8th along Front Street. Remember to cross Grover Street VERY carefully.
While it may that that ol' superhero costume is authentic, nope, not so much.
+ Every year we get asked why the street doesn't close, so here is a reminder you can share:
When streets are closed, the closing part has to occur around 2 hours or so before hand to clear out vehicles before the street is actually closed, which when put into practice in the case of the Trick or Dutch Treat means closing off incoming traffic either right before or during the lunch hour, cutting off all those restaurant customers from the restaurants, as well as disrupting other downtown business customers and businesses as well.
So to hand out free candy to our costumed kinder's, a business would effectively have 3 or less hours of actual consumer engagement time, and not that 2,000+ candy eaters aren't a lot of candy eaters, it is, especially if your distributing the sugar wads, but this crowd isn't the browse and come back later to buy crowd, this is the keep-an-eye-on-the-kids crowd, which we definitely encourage.
Oh, and the insurance. There's always insurance involved. However this isn't an "event" in the insurance sense, it's each individual business choosing to do something at around the same time, and us sharing who is choosing to do so.
Plain as mud? Yep, for us too.
Anyway, we'll have a list of businesses up hopefully tomorrow a.m., or at least most of them, we always have a few stragglers we gladly welcome to the share list, and with a sunny but cool forecast, looks like it will be a great Friday afternoon for the costumed Boo's and Ghouls in family-friendly Lynden!
God bless, enjoy your week, and like a warm costume on a chilly October afternoon, YOU are loved!
