Some N.B. children get double the enjoyable due to Halloween climate delay

When the Municipality of Nouvelle-Arcadie postponed Halloween trick-or-treating, that gave some children the prospect to double-up on their sweet quotas.

Friday’s heavy rain forecast led some New Brunswick municipalities, together with Nouvelle-Arcadie, to postpone their door-to-door ghostly greetings by a day.

The rain fell brief, however the resolution was already made.

But it labored out properly for 10-year previous Peyton Wright and her mates.

Wright was dressed as a hunter.

“We get two Halloweens and that means more candy,” she mentioned. “Yesterday, we went to Moncton and today we are going to Rogersville.”

Karleigh Arsenault, 10, mentioned the thought to postpone the native occasion was a beautiful resolution.

“Two full grocery bags” is how a lot sweet she already had from her journey to Moncton.

On Saturday, Arsenault, in her pink zebra costume, was excited to gather extra sweet as her group was celebrating their second Halloween.

Novelle-Arcadie Mayor Jimmy Bourque mentioned the choice to postpone was to make sure the youngsters have been secure from harsh climate.

Bourque didn’t thoughts the youngsters double-dipping and mentioned in the event that they knocked on his door they might get a bag full.

“If that’s what makes them happy, I’m glad for them,” he mentioned.