(Seguin) — Despite having to alter years of tradition, the Seguin Police Department is setting out to still make Halloween fun for local children.
Mike McCann, the administrative lieutenant with the Seguin PD, says due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the police department was forced to cancel its traditional DARE Halloween Safe House at the Seguin Coliseum. Instead, the police department this Halloween night will be hosting Trunk and Treat stations across the city.
After years and years of hosting the Safe House for local families, McCann says officers still wanted a way to connect with local children and their families.
“Unfortunately due to the COVID pandemic, we are not going to be able to do our annual Halloween Safe House which obviously, we do not like. We enjoy spending time with the kids and getting out and meeting everybody and spending time with our community. In light of that, we have found another way to still be out with the kids so we have six different locations throughout the city that traditionally have good turnouts for trick-or-treaters. We will have our officers out in marked units, parked at these different locations and the officers will have candy and their baseball cards if they still have any and they’ll be handing out candy to all the kids coming by,” said McCann.
McCann says officers will be joined by a member of the Seguin PD Citizen Police Academy Alumni at each of the six Trunk and Treat locations.
“We are going to be at (College) and Bauer (streets at) Bauer Park; Club View East and Country Club Drive; Coral Sky and Mustang Meadow (in the Mill Creek) Subdivision; Elmwood Drive and Redwood Street (in the Chaparral area); AJ Malone Drive at Chapman Street; and Birmingham Dr. (at) Nolte Farms Drive (in the Meadows subdivision). Officers will be out at all these locations with their marked patrol units with candy and hopefully, the kiddos will come up and get candy from the officers,” said McCann.
The Seguin PD Trunk and Treat locations will be parked at the various locations across the city on Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m. Those wishing to donate independently wrapped candy to the police department may do so by dropping it off in the police lobby.