The Crest Candy Collection Community Project is a decade-long service project to offset the financial pressure on people who live on F Street and distribute candy on Halloween. F Street residents receive upwards of 1,400 trick-or-treaters per home on Halloween! With the City of Salida Halloween festivities in Alpine Park and the F Street road closure, these homes provide a crucial part of Halloween to local kids. In order to help with the burden of buying so much candy, The Crest Academy collects candy from our community which is then distributed to the houses. Crest 8th graders lead the project, and calculate data on how much candy is collected by date, location, weight, number of pieces, and category of candy. They also survey F Street residents to get an idea of how many trick-or-treaters are participating. In the past, students have collected 200 - 400 pounds of candy and distributed it to 75 homes. Help us “reverse trick-or-treat” and donate candy to our collection!

We are very excited to announce a new incentive partnership with High Country Bank for the 2026 Candy Collection Project. High Country Bank will donate $500 to the project if they collect 500 pounds of candy at their Salida locations by Monday, October 26th. This $500 will then be used to buy supplemental candy to fill in any gaps missing from the requests of the F Street residents. This partnership has the potential to extremely boost the support of F Street residents!

Please donate candy by Monday, October 26th at any of these donation partner sites:

● The Crest Academy, 627 Oak Street

● Salida Early Childhood Center, 516 Teller Street

● The Salida Montessori Charter School, 1040 I Street

● Salida Middle School, 520 Milford Street

● Salida Hot Springs Aquatic Center, 410 W Rainbow Boulevard

● Longfellow Elementary School, 425 W 7th Street

● Touber Building in City Hall, 448 East 1st Street

● High Country Bank, 7360 W US Highway 50 and 130 W Second St