This year’s Halloween Parade will begin at 6 pm, Wednesday, Oct. 28. 

It will be at Boutwells Landing senior’s center and attract 400 to 500 ten-and-under kids and as many seniors. The Boutwell residents will drop upwards of 30,000 pieces of candy into kids’ bags.  Tricksters, in return, will show off their costumes.  

And as in year’s past, we’ll have the “Purple Pinkie” table, where kids will get their “pinkie” fingers dipped in purple ink.  They, if they have one, will drop a small monetary donation into a Polio Plus pot.  The money will go to Polio Plus, a Rotary International campaign which is “that close” to eradicating polio around the world.  Painting pinkies purple is how kids in distant countries are marked after being immunized.

This will be the 14th year Stillwater’s Sunrise Rotary and Boutwells Landing have sponsored the Halloween Parade, which has grown to become one of Sunrise Rotary’s main community “give back” programs.

Thank you to our sponsors, Lake Elmo Bank, St Croix Orthopedics and First State Bank and Trust.