Our Views: An off-key Halloween
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Trick-or-treating in daylight made for an off-key Halloween in Baton Rouge this past weekend.
Official trick-or-treating hours were moved up an hour from their usual time and were from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. to accommodate the LSU-Tulane home football game. That put trick-or-treaters in local neighborhoods more than an hour before sunset, which diminished the Halloween mood a bit. We’re glad trick-or-treaters got some door-to-door visits after dusk, though.
Halloween is a challenge when it falls on weekends here. Friday night Halloweens often conflict with high school football, and Saturday night Halloweens can bump up against university football schedules. Some conservative Christians dislike trick-or-treating on Sundays. With those things in mind, we doubt that any mayor is going to make everyone happy in setting trick-or-treating hours for a weekend Halloween.
Former city-parish Mayor-President Tom Ed McHugh, who tinkered with trick-or-treating hours a good bit during his time in office and caught a lot of flak about it, advised his successor, Bobby Simpson, to leave Halloween alone.
The important thing is that this year’s Halloween seemed to pass without serious safety problems for local youngsters. Halloween is now put to bed until next year, when All Hallow’s Eve falls on a Sunday.
Let the grumbling begin ...
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