{"id":316669,"date":"2026-10-29T05:58:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T05:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/316669\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T05:58:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T05:58:07","slug":"reading-candy-shop-to-hold-spooktacular-community-bash-on-saturday-reading-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/316669\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading candy shop to hold &#8216;Spooktacular Community Bash&#8217; on Saturday | Reading Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. \u2013 This Halloween, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/p\/Candy-factory-of-reading-pa-61591852948388\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Candy Factory of Reading<\/a> is hosting a \u201cSpooktacular Community Bash.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re going to be giving out tons of candy for Halloween,&#8221; said Edgardo Ortiz, an owner of The Candy Factory.<\/p>\n<p>Ortiz said they bought more than 100 cases of 70 different kinds of candy.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s all to hand out to children this weekend and all for free.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re going to have about 12 tables set up out there for all the kids with different types of candy that they can pick, choose from,&#8221; Ortiz said.<\/p>\n<p>Candy isn&#8217;t all they\u2019ll be offering.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ll also have face painting, toys and a costume contest.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re all dressing up in costumes, and we&#8217;re all going to be out there with the kids. So, it&#8217;s going to be awesome,&#8221; Ortiz said.<\/p>\n<p>He said this huge trick-or-treat bash is a way to give back to their community.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want them to get to experience, like, everything we had when we were kids,&#8221; Ortiz said.<\/p>\n<p>The store\u2019s goal is to make this Halloween one to remember.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re definitely excited,&#8221; Ortiz said.<\/p>\n<p>The Spooktacular Community Bash will take place this Saturday from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. at The Candy Factory, 11 S. Fifth St., Reading.<\/p>\n<p>\nCopyright 2026 Maranatha Broadcasting Co., Inc.. All Rights Reserved.\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. \u2013 This Halloween, The Candy Factory of Reading is hosting a \u201cSpooktacular Community Bash.\u201d &#8220;We&#8217;re going&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[129114,732,736,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-316669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-candy-factory","tag-halloween","tag-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}