Bridgenorth Family's Spooky Display is Gathering Donations for Food Bank

The Mitchell family from Bridgenorth has invited the community to tour their spooky Halloween display and drop off donations for the Bridgenorth Food Bank during their visit.

The Mitchell Family hopes to fill the trailer by Halloween, Crystal says donations have already been pouring in from community members. Photo by Angela O’Grady.

Crystal Mitchell, her husband and their five children moved to Bridgenorth from Gamebridge this August.

“Last year we did food bank donations in Gamebridge and did really well,” she said. “So we figured we’d continue what we used to do there.”

The Halloween display stretches across the Mitchell’s 350 foot front lawn, located at 1058 Ward St, Bridgenorth.

Located in the middle of the display is an enclosed trailer, which the Mitchell’s hope will be filled with donations for the Bridgenorth Food Bank by Halloween.

“We love Halloween, the kids love Halloween, it’s our favourite holiday,” said Mitchell. “We just want to share our love of it with everyone and what better way to do that than to help to food bank while we’re at it.”

The display features spiderwebs, ghosts, aliens and a hard-to-miss 12 foot tall skeleton.

Donations can be dropped off at anytime, but the animatronic decorations, lights and effects will only be on from about 6 p.m. - 9 p.m. every Saturday until Halloween.

The Bridgenorth Food Bank runs out of Bridgenorth United Church at 832 Charles St. Clients can pick up food once a month.

While it may seem far away, Mitchell says that when the Halloween decorations come down the Christmas decorations go up.

“We did so well with the Halloween food bank donations last so we thought we’d do it for Christmas too,” she said.

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