City of Belle Plaine, Iowa

The City of Belle Plaine is switching to a new text messaging system. To register for the new system, text JOIN TEXT to 833-683-2538. We will stop using the current Nixle system on 12/2/20.

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TRICK OR TREATING – CITY OF BELLE PLAINE

The City of Belle Plaine approved both Trunk or Treat & Trick or Treat for Saturday October 31.  Trunk or Treat will start at 2:00 & you should check the BPCDC Facebook page for the details of the event. (This event is sponsored by BPCDC.)

 Cars will be spaced out & Face Masks are encouraged.

Trick or Treat Hours will be from 5 to 8:00 pm &, if a resident does not wish to participate, turn off your porch light.  Please respect a resident’s right to not participate in Trick or Treating.  Face Masks are strongly encouraged for both the residents & those who participate in Trick or Treating.

The council would further like the public to know that Trick or Treating is a volunteer activity that is not recommended by the CDC this year.

The CDC has labeled the following activities as high-risk C-19 virus activities.

• Participating in traditional trick-or-treating where treats are handed to children who go door to door
• Having trunk-or-treat where treats are handed out from trunks of cars lined up in large parking lots
• Attending crowded costume parties held indoors
• Going to an indoor haunted house where people may be crowded together and screaming
• Going on hayrides or tractor rides with people who are not in your household

This year, the CDC is encouraging residents to CELEBRATE a COVID-19 HALLOWEEN CREATIVELY and here are a few helpful ideas to keep you and others extra safe while still celebrating Halloween:

• Make treat bags and hang them from streamers outside for kids to grab;
•  Have a Halloween movie night with household members either at home or drive-in;
• Do reverse trick-or-treat by dropping off small gift bags on your neighbor’s porch;
• Put on a trunk-or-treat on your street (Halloween decorated car trunks) with socially distanced parked cars in driveways;
• Coordinate a contact-free neighborhood scavenger hunt;

WHILE THE CDC IS RECOMMENDING AGAINST NORMAL HALLOWEEN ACTIVITES THE CITY OF BELLE PLAINE IS REMINDING EVERYONE IT IS A VOLUNTEER ACTIVITY AND IS NOT REQUIRED OF ANYONE.

AS FOR TRICK OR TREATING IN BELLE PLAINE THE OFFICIAL CITY HOURS ARE FROM 5:00 TO 8:00 PM AND THE CITY ENCOURAGES EVERYONE TO HAVE A SAFE TIME.

Mayor Dave Fish & the Belle Plaine City Council

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The City of Belle Plaine will be testing the emergency sirens today, Friday, October 2, 2020 at approximately 1pm.

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The Belle Plaine Homecoming Parade will be going through Main St. on Friday, Sept 25 at 2:00 pm. There will be no candy thrown this year.

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ATTN BP RESIDENTS: The burn ban has been lifted for Belle Plaine. Reminder that legal burning hours are 4pm-9pm daily.

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