By Martha Aitkin,
Bruce Peninsula Press
This fun and spooky event at the Tobermory Community Centre, hosted by the Bruce Peninsula Real Estate Team, is always a big hit with children of all ages in the Tobermory area. The 2025 Spooktacular was no exception. Witches and fairies, dinosaurs, Spidermen and vampires, ghosts and goblins galore! There were many delightful and imaginative costumes on display.
Did you see the Minecraft guy? And how about the Rock Star?
The Tao family came dressed as Scooby-Doo characters, and they looked great! Now that baby Wilfred is very mobile and not very shy, he kept his papa chasing a ghost all night! Christine Tao reported that Ellie chooses the family’s Halloween themes, and she will do just about anything to get Henry (dad) dressed as a woman!
Many of the older children actually got to enjoy some door-to-door trick-or-treating on the warm but windy night. It was not raining or snowing! Could this really be Halloween?
There were still lots of goodies for the giant loot bags being carried by the big kids when they came a-knocking at the Community Centre. Activities included an opportunity to decorate a cupcake, design a tattoo and toss an eyeball into a carved pumpkin. There were prizes for costumes in several categories and a prize for the best table as well. There were many great costumes and several very well-decorated tables, making it a challenge to determine who the winners were. Everyone is a winner! Especially the lucky children of the Tobermory community.
