While it is “more than likely” too late to change the Halloween Trick or Treat hours in Waukesha for 2011, said he would still be opening to changing the date in the future.
The city's website states that Trick or Treat for 2011 is from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Oct. 31. It's the mayor's duty to set the hours for the Halloween activity each year.
Common Council President Paul Ybarra asked Scrima Tuesday night to see if the hours could change to the Saturday before Halloween. While the kids won’t care about what day they get to dress up in costumes and gather candy from their neighbors, Ybarra said it does affect parents when Oct. 31 is on a school night.
Ybarra, in his request, noted that if it is too late to change the hours for 2011, that consideration to the request is given for Halloween 2012.
The Trick or Treat times is important to parents, Ybarra said after the Common Council meeting.
“It is probably too late for this year, because I know there are a number of other things that are planned around that,” Scrima said.
Scrima said he wants to hear what the community thinks about the issue and invited them to tell him via Patch. We also have a Facebook poll where you can answer how you feel about Trick or Treat hours.
“I would welcome feedback from the community on this issue,” Scrima said. “It is certainly a question that is worth receiving input and being discussed.”
Many of my fondest memories as a child are the joys of the actual darkness, where the only lights were those houses handing out treats.
I've lived all over the US and this is the only place that thinks it needs to regulate our every action and activity. Halloween everywhere elsie I've lived is on the 31st and kids go out when they feel like going and come home based on the rules the parents establish, not the government. One more example of government do-gooders over reaching and butting in because they think they know what's best for everyone else while the people who get accustomed to it continue to let them do it because after all it's just trick or treat, or some other minor thing. This is the foundation of socialism that so many people don't seem to understand. It seems harmless enough but each little thing the nanny state decides to regulate is one more loss of self determination and self responsibility until after it's too late and we are all incapable of doing or thinking for ourselves. It's just trick or treat you say, but the line of government interfering in everything must be drawn and maintained. Otherwise freedoms of choice will continue to be taken and taken, regulated and manipulated each new bureaucrat trying to make their mark and go further than the last one will continue take and take in our best interests because they know best how we should live, where we should go, and what we do.
Parents would have time to make costumes look nice. Because I for one, am tired of handing out candy to kids who aren't really wearing one. Many people that hand out candy enjoy seeing the great costumes. And they should get something out of it, since they are willing to give our kids candy. Then there is safety. Parents with small children would be take them out while there is still some daylight. Yet there would still be an hour or two of darkness for older kids & the parents who want to be out later. Finally, a personal reason that may effect other parents. I am a divorced father, whose kids live 30 min away. It's hard to get my kids here on time and get them back home for school. I'm sure other parents wither it be a parent that works later or in cases of divorce. We would like to be able to see our kids in their costumes and be able to take them out tick or treating.