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Mendo Lake Family Life

Trunk-or-Treating Gets a Pandemic-Era Makeover

Halloween is not dead. At least not at the Moose Lodge in Clearlake Oaks. The nonprofit is instituting COVID-19 safety protocols—social distancing, hand sanitizing, and masking—to make sure that its annual trunk-or-treat and haunted house go on. The free trunk-or-treat will be held in the Lodge parking lot on October 31 from 5 p.m. until the treats run out. Expect some creative goodie-distribution techniques, such as candy sliding down a big PVC pipe into waiting cupped hands, or volunteers distributing treats with tongs. At the haunted house, only small numbers of masked individuals will be allowed in at any one time. The haunt will be held on October 23–24 and 30–31, 6:30–9 p.m.; admission is $3 per person.