Trick or Treat

Trick or Treat

Last year in a September weekend, we noticed kids in costumes going from house to house trick or treating. I thought few neighbors decided to have early Halloween for fun. Later I came know that a 5 year old kid in our neighborhood was losing his battle to leukemia. Knowing he might not survive to Halloween, they decided to bring Halloween to him and invited few neighbors along. The kid had great time going from one house to the next collecting candy. Few weeks later he died.
A year later the parents contacted everybody including me to have a bigger early Halloween for the whole neighborhood and for all the kids to enjoy in memory of their son. They used this occasion for fund raising for charities helping families and kids dealing with cancer. The evening rose over $3,000. The event was featured on channel 13 local news http://www.aksuperstation.com/news/local/3894817.html
It is this spirit what makes this country great, turning something very tragic and sad into something productive and useful. The family sent thank you emails to the all neighbors and already thinking about ways to increase the activity to raise more money for charity and ways to involve local businesses in donations.