Canada Games Pool will be rockin’ for Halloween 2018.
Lisa Coleman, an aquatic coordinator at Canada Games Pool, is part of a team of students in the management of community events and festivals course. They’re working with the city to plan a Halloween event at the pool this weekend.
“We will be putting on an extra special event this year,” Coleman said. “We have got some really, really cool things going on.
The spooktacular Monster Mash event is being held at Canada Games Pool on Saturday, Oct. 27 from 1 to 4 p.m. It features traditional offerings like the rope swing, mat walk, whirl pool and haunted Halloween music – but some new offerings as well.
“We will be doing some extra special things this year – an art project,” Coleman said. “We’ve got a DJ coming in. It’s a Monster Mash theme so we’ve got our staff dressing up. They will be running activities.”
Carnival games, complimentary snacks like popcorn, a jellybean guessing contest and face painting are also part of the day’s fun.
“There’s lots of different activities going on in and around the pool,” Coleman said. “It will be pretty action packed. There will be lots going on. We have programmed literally every minute of the event.”
Painted rocks is a new activity being offered at the Monster Mash.
“It’s a really big trend going on right now where kids will paint rocks and hide them around the community,” Coleman said. “They can also find rocks and when they find one they post it to a Facebook page.”
Monster Mash organizers have put a Halloween spin on the trend. Details can be found on the New Westminster Rocks page on Facebook, which shows the monsters, pumpkins and haunted rocks folks will have a chance to create at the Monster Mash.
“Some of them we are going to be hiding in the community. Some of them are going to have codes for pool passes and stuff like that,” Coleman said. “That will be our community art project. It’s kind of fun.”
Organizers expect at least 200 people to attend the Monster Mash. Everyone is welcome, and regular admission rates apply.
“We really just want the whole community to come out,” Coleman said. “We are trying to offer something for everybody. We’ve got stuff for our youth, we’ve got arts and crafts which could be for all ages. We really just want to get people out and get people interested in coming through the doors.”
