15th year of ‘trick or treat’ at SouthPointe Pavilion

The Lincoln Southpointe Pavilion shopping mall hosts an early trick or treating event every Sunday prior to Halloween.

“lots of moms and dads and kiddos having a really good time,” Marketing Director of SouthPointe Pavilions, Julie Lattimer said. 

This is the 15th year they have held the event.

The activities include a chance to meet the Domestipups group, a bounce in the bounce house, and balloon tying clowns, and even live music.

“We’re out here to trick or treat, and he jumped in the bounce house and he got some candy, some bouncy toys,” dressed up as ‘A Tired Mother,’ Hanna Christiansen said. 

They say more than half of the stores participated in handing out candy, and with the event landing on a Sunday, they expected more than 2,000 kids to visit for the day out.

“As a parent myself, families get to be so busy that we forget sometimes that we can spend time together, and so this is the perfect opportunity for families to spend a relaxing afternoon, just being outside, just enjoying things,” Lattimer said. 

“So being able to take a day where they to get to just go around and still experience dressing up and getting candy without maybe some of the other worries that parents might have, it’s nice to give them a safer option I guess,” Wesleyan University student in a ‘Spider-Gwen’ Stacy costume, Stephanie Earhart said. 

Families and participants alike just enjoyed getting to wear their costumes more than once for the year.

“If I got a costume and it’s Halloween, I might as well spread the joy. I know as a kid I used to love dressing up as superheroes and seeing other people dress up and just being able to become someone else for just one day. I just want to be able to give people candy and just show them it’s okay to be goofy,” Wesleyan University freshman and dressed in a ‘Miles Morales’ Spider-man costume, Simeon Williams said.

Families agree the weather may be tough for this Halloween, but nothing is like the sweet tooth that carries us through October.

“Very cold, but the candy is keeping us warm,” Christiansen said.