CLEARLAKE, Calif. – The inaugural “Trunk or Treat” at the Clearlake Youth Center will take place on Halloween night.

The event takes place from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday at the Clearlake Youth Center, 4750 Golf Ave.

Come prepared to have fun with Halloween games, a haunted house, music and food, and various decorated trunks to visit and collect treats.

The event has been organized by a diverse community group and is sponsored by Lake County Youth Services.

There will be pumpkin races, bowling, basketball, angry ghost, bean bag toss, bobbing for apples, a bouncy house and many more games to play for free.

Featured will be a haunted house for everyone to satisfy their Halloween needs, absolutely free.

In addition, there will be music throughout the event with DJ Nemesis turning the youth center into a Halloween rave dance from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m., free of charge.

The event will provide attendees with free hot dogs, chips and water.

Last, but not least, don't forget to walk through the vehicles parked, decorated and ready to hand out treats to all the trick-or-treaters.

To top it all off, Clearlake's Trunk or Treat will have a raffle every 15 minutes until 8 p.m. with a grand raffle prize as well.

Make sure to visit the information booth when you walk in and receive a Halloween bag with a free raffle ticket and obtain more for participating in other activities.

There also will be costume contests from from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. for different age groups as well as best trunk and best booth contests.

For more information contact Bruno Sabatier via email at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. , by phone at 707-695-0834 or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/TrunkOrTreatClearlake .