The Eldred Township Halloween Parade was packed with community spirit on Sunday as the parade marched on another year.

Starting at St. Matthew's Church grove, the parade was full of scary costumes, delightful floats and community organizations coming together to celebrate.The community event has dwindled down over the years. The parade will run for one more year with hopes that the community will have more participation."We talked about this being our last year," said Diane Bittenbender. "But we're going to try one more year."The parade saw the biggest downturn when the Eldred School District closed down. Now they are looking to reach out to different school districts and communities."We're going to do everything we can to get the parade built back up a little bit bigger," said Bittenbender.Prizes were given out for the most original costumes, best group, best pair, best float, ugliest and cutest.Jonathan Piekarski won first for most original as "Geo" from the Umi Zoomi Show followed by Mikayla Wilkins as an Army veteran in second place and Abram Pozza as a racecar driver in third.Cub Scout Pack 102 won first place as the best group. The Tornado Softball team won second place.The best pairs were Brody and Tyler DeSieno in first place as Cowboy and Indian; Bruce and Andi Pozza as a Dalmatian and dogcatcher in second place; and Lawson and Easton Bower in third place as lumber jacks.The Princess Castle won the best float prize followed by the Witches and Batman rides again in second and third place.Dylan Haydt won first place for the ugliest costume as the Death Dapper.The cutest costume was won by Julia Bulawa as a cupcake in first place, Chase Borger as a superhero in second place and Miranda Wilkinens in third place as Tinkerbell.