Edmonton neighbours in Halloween hot spot organize candy redistribution centre

It's Halloween night, hundreds of ghosts and ghouls have come knocking at your doorand supplies of candy have run dry.

The prospect of trick or treatingwithout the sugary treatscan strike fear into even the most well-prepared of Halloween households.

That was the nightmare Tara Danyluk faced during last year's haunted holiday. Her Summerside homeon Grande Boulevard in south Edmonton, was inundated with 1,000 children.

"It was crazy,"Danyluk said in an interview with CBC Edmonton's Radio Active.

"I dressed up as Maleficent to get into the spirit of things and there wasn't enough room for me on the porch. I couldn't believe it.

"It went on for a couple of hours. You couldn't even close your door."

'The perfect haunt'

Now Danyluk and her neighboursare banding together to ensure no one comes up short this year.

They're organizing an official candy redistribution centre to keep residents of Grande Boulevard flush with chocolate and candy bars all night long.

Something about the street makes it the perfect haunt for trick-or-treaters andDanyluk wasn't the only one who ran out last year.

"At the end of the festivities there was a lot of feedback that homes had run out of candy," said Greg Miskewith the the Summerside Business Network.

"And then there were homes a few blocks away that were also into the Halloween spirit who had also anticipated a few hundreds children coming and they were left with bags and bags of candy.

"And we thought, 'there has to be a way for us to facilitate this transfer of goods.'"

The candy coalition was born.

Candy coalition kicks off

The coordinated effort will set up a home base on Danyluk's front yard and at the Summerside Beach Club building, where teams of dedicated volunteers will be managing logistics.

Through sharing of text messages, phone calls and word of mouth, they will deliver surplus candy to the busiest Halloween hot spots in the neighbourhood.

"We'll do a redistribution as the candy comes in and we'll kind of pick it up and run it out to houses as the flow of children increases and decreases," said Miske.

"We're going to to have two to four runners and we'll just kind of shuffle it down the street and hope to fill orders that way."

For her part, Danyluk can't wait to don her black hornsand get back into the Halloween spirit, knowing for certain the neighbourhood ghouls will be well fed.

"It's going to be quite a little event," she said."It's going to be crazy. I'm so excited."