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Trunk-Or-Treat Celebrations Are Among The Fall Festivals Taking Place In The Chattanooga Area This Weekend

As the month comes to a close, the list of fall festivals continues to grow. Saturday is the last day for Dollywood’s Great Pumpkin LumiNights and the Harvest Festival and the Harvest of Art taking place in Dayton, Tennessee. North Georgia Agricultural Fair organizers in Dalton have made the decision to add one day to the fair, which ends on Sunday now.

This weekend also sees Halloween celebrations with community celebrations taking place in Jasper and Cleveland, Tennessee. Around the area, several trunk-or-treat candy giveaways will also be happening.

On Saturday the Jasper Jack-o-Lantern Jamboree is taking place in the town square. At 4 p.m., a drive-thru Trunk or Treat Trail, which is open to golf carts, vehicles, and hayrides will be opening. Participants will be entering on Warrior Drive and then circling the Jasper Sports Complex and then exit on Turner Street. The evening will end with a small fireworks display to honor Joshua K, Jennings, the late founder of the event.

The Halloween block party in Cleveland has been expanded and is now a Trick-or-Treat over two days to accommodate increased social distancing than what could be achieved over the normal one-night even around the square of the Bradley County Courthouse, according to Sharon Marr, MainStreet Cleveland’s executive director.

Marr says they have 33 years of experience in being a large Halloween event. For us, it is a really fun night. Changing it was a very tough decision to make. However with a crowd of 15,000 to 18,000 individuals, many vendors, and lines of people waiting for food ad candy, we needed to find some way to make things safe due to the COVID situation.

Instead of a busy Treat Street well-stocked with Mars Wrigley candy, which has a Cleveland manufacturing plant, children will be trick-or-treating on the sidewalks in front of restaurants, retailers, and businesses in four different neighborhood zones, the Old Woolen Mill, the Museum Center, First Street square, and the courthouse square. There will also be street musicians adding to the festivity.

Expanding the event to two nights provides families to choose which one they want to attend. It is open on Friday from 5-8 pm and on Saturday from 3-6 pm. At http://www.mainstreetcleveland.com there is a map of all of the candy stops available.

Similar events, which include LaFayette, Georgia’s Scare on the Square, Chickamauga, Georgia’s Pumpkin Fest, and Dayton, Tennessee’s PumpkinFest, have all been canceled for this year due to concerns over coronavirus.

Candice Graham, MainStreet Dayton’s executive director said that officials had been hoping to hold some PUmpkinFest version before they ultimately decided to cancel the event. Usually, the event runs over two days with its multiple activities including trick-or-treating, pie-eating contests, and karaoke.

Graham said that for a while things hung in the balance.

Although fall is a draw still in the Great Smoky Mountains, it will be the final weekend for enjoying the Great Pumpkin LumiNights and the Harvest Festival at Dollywood. The park will be transitioning into Smoky Mountain Christmas in a week and opens on November 7.

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