Broughton kids prepare Halloween lanternsby Tom Rodgers, Article taken from Salford Online
Salford Park Ranger Billy Masters and the volunteers down at the Church of Nazarene in Lower Broughton were helping local children to make lanterns for their Halloween parade in Albert Park on Saturday.
The simple laterns, which will have tealights inside them for the walking parade, were built by pasting tissue paper onto wooden sticks, which were soaked overnight to make them taut and strong.
As Billy says, the children also produced toadstools, bats and other spooky Halloween items to display on the night with GRUMPY – the Greater Manchester Play Resources Unit.
Around 50 children are expected to the Halloween walk through Albert Park in Lower Broughton on Saturday night, with the parade starting at 5pm and finishing at 7pm. There is also a pre-event party planned for the local children, from 3pm to 5pm.
The Church of Nazarene is currently open on a Monday and Tuesday for local families to bring down their children for a place to hang out and play, taking the pressure off mums and dads to find childcare for them in the afternoons or after school.
It's a wonderful place, but it's completely unfunded at the moment and oversubscibed, obviously. Out of everything going on there, this is the only thing that needs to change.
