Health Dept. shares Halloween safety tips

The St.

Joseph Health Dept.

Recommends families stay together while trick or treating this year as well as separating candy for distribution.

Talk more about that coming up in a few minutes.

>> looking forward to that warm up, thanks, mike.

>> despite the pandemic, people are getting into the halloween spirit in st.

Joseph and they are doing it safely.

An event at heritage ballpark is helping people do that.

That's where we find kq2's johnson.

>> ron.

>> yeah, that's right, bob, just under an hour this place here at the heritage baseball fields will be filled with all kinds of ghosts and ghouling and goblins.

They will all be coming here for a trunk or treat event hosted by the st.

Joseph parks department.

But whether you're coming down here or having other halloween plans of your own, how to celebrate safely.

We talked to the st.

Joseph on what you need to think about before you make your halloween plans.

If you're handing out treat, separate them from germs spreading.

This is probably not the year to wear a halloween mask.

They prefer you stick to the regular face masks.

Halloween masks typically don't count.

If it's a halloween mask that looks like this, it just has a pattern on it and that's what we're looking for.

The cloth masks like we have been asking for people to wear for several weeks now.

>> all right.

Following the health department's advice on trick or treating, they say you should set up for a low risk exposure to covid-19.

Of course you can check out this event here at the heritage baseball field and we're here with jessica oshel with the st.

Joseph parks department who put together this event for us this evening.

Tell us about it.

>> we're going to have about 37 trucks set up and 30 different organizations.

When you get up here, there will be someone setting up in the front table.

You can see how many kids are in your car and stop at every other trunk and they will come to you.

You will not be reaching from the community basket.

They will hand you the exact amount of candy.

Nobody will get out of trunk or interacting with each other.

It will be really safe.

A free event for the public.

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