By Brett Fisher
Carson City Cruise, a local classic car and hot rod club, collected unwanted Halloween costumes Saturday afternoon in the Bully’s Sports Bar and Grill parking lot at the corner of North Carson Street and West College Parkway.
A car cruise to Mills Park followed at 3 p.m.
The collection event, which donates Halloween costumes to disadvantaged children in area shelters, was sponsored by the Nevada Rural Housing Authority.
Monetary donations were also accepted at the cruise event, and those funds raised go to help school children afford to participate in extracurricular activities, Carson City Cruise organizers Jimmie and Janet Thompson said.
“We do a lot of fundraising in the Carson City community for kids,” Jimmie Thompson said. “Not just for Halloween costumes, but to help them to afford school supplies, as well as the costs associated with athletics and other extracurricular activities.”
The Nevada Rural Housing Authority office, located at 3695 Desatoya Drive in Carson City, will be accepting unwanted Halloween costumes from Sept. 19 through Oct. 20, Mondays through Thursdays between the hours of 8 a.m. and 4 p.m.
Thompson said Carson City Cruise is sponsoring another Halloween event next month with its “Trunk or Treat” fundraiser held off Challenger Way behind Sonic Drive-In.
This cruise event will not only feature the classic cars and street rods the club is known for, but it will allow children to “trick or treat” from one car trunk to the next at the Saturday show and shine.
For more information on Carson City Cruise’s upcoming fundraisers, contact Janet Thompson at 775-283-0174 or via email: jthompson@nvrural.org.
