Winnipeg mayor’s advice for Halloween 2020: ‘Consider staying home with your children’ He used dozens of wooden boards along with some leftover fencing material to craft the nine-foot-tall device.Rempel says he and his family handed out over 500 candy bags between 5 and 9 p.m., with the bulk of trick-or-treaters coming around 7 p.m.“We had hand sanitizer out, we were amazed at how many people were using it.
People were social distancing, we didn’t even have to encourage that, it just happened naturally.”The Rempel’s shattered their 2019 trick-or-treater record of 250 well before the conclusion of the evening.“It seemed like people needed a reason to get out and Halloween provided that reason for them,” said Rempel.Even more surprising.