Area businesses offering safe Halloween alternatives

Calling all goblins, ghouls, and ghosts! Halloween is still happening in the Touchet Valley, with some minor adjustments. Social distancing will be enforced at all events listed below for the safety of all the spooky participants.

Per state guidelines, face masks will be required in addition to a costume mask. Halloween costume masks are not accepted forms of face coverings.

Downtown Waitsburg plans on getting spooky on Saturday, starting at 4 p.m. with David Long, Walla Walla DJ, providing music at the Fire Station on Main. Does anyone know the Monster Mash?

Angled parking spaces in front of Ten Ton Coffee will be available for trunk-or-treat cars. If trick-or-treaters are far and few at your house (or you simply would like to join the fun), decorate your car and bring your treats downtown for a trunk or treat evening.

Businesses up and down Main Street, including The Millstone Bakery and Waitsburg Grocery, will have treats, music, cookies and cocoa. Trick or treaters of all ages are welcome from 4 p.m- 7 p.m.

The Waitsburg Presbyterian Church will also be hosting a trunk or treat for preschool and elementary-aged kiddos, Saturday from 5 p.m- 6:30 p.m. 504 Main Street, Waitsburg.

Columbia County Health System is hosting a Safe Trick or Treat Saturday from 2 p.m - 4 p.m. Staff will be at both the Administration Building and Booker Rest Home handing out treats.

Swing into the parking lot behind Dingles Hardware in Dayton for a drive-through trick-or-treating experience. Located at the corner of Commercial and 1st Streets from 3 p.m - 5 p.m.

In partnership with Columbia County Public Health, the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office will be offering treats for the trick-or-treaters of Dayton. Deputies and other volunteers will be set up at a table Saturday from 3 p.m. - 5 p.m. for a self-serve style pick up.

The Wenaha Gallery will have a table full of treats available for a self-serve style stop all day Friday, October 30. Costumes not required, but appreciated.