To the Editor:

The Westerlo Rural Cemetery is holding its third annual trunk-or-treat event this year, on Saturday, Oct. 27, at the Westerlo Town Park from 5 to 7 p.m. with a costume parade at 6 p.m. Trunks can be set up any time after 3 p.m. on Saturday.

We would like to get the information out to the kids; plus we need the parents, grandparents, and friends as we not only need trick-or-treaters, we need people to decorate their trunks and hand out candy! Anyone from the Berne, Knox and Westerlo area is welcome.

There will be a prize for the best-decorated vehicle. Last year, we had over 300 kids! There is no age limit; we like them all off the street and all having fun!

At the same time, just up the street from the park at Woodmans Hall is a haunted house for the older kids, with lots of candies handouts as well, sponsored by the Westerlo Fire Company and put together by Debbie and Don Filkins and the fire family!

The reason we started this is not only to have one place for the parents to bring their kids and to bring the community together, but also to have fun and keep the kids off the dark country roads on Halloween and because five out of seven years Halloween falls on a school night!

At the same time, the trunk-or-treat event is a small fundraiser for our cemetery. since it is so hard to come by funds to help maintain our 13-acre historical cemetery, we sell refreshments at the park!

Our daughter lives in Ohio where the towns regulate which night will be allowed to trick or treat and most only allow Saturday afternoon! Our goal is to make it the Saturday preceding Halloween here in the Hilltowns, which is good not only for the kids but the parents who also have to get up early to go to work.

We do have a large pavilion in the park where we can park at least 40 vehicles so everyone is out of the weather if its bad.

All of this is free admission!

Betty Peck Filkins

President

Westerlo Rural Cemetery