Spooky Cape Coral food drive; Costume shortage as Halloween draws near

Halloween arrives Sunday, and a Cape Coral family is using the holiday to help support a local food bank. In other spooky news, many big box stores are facing a costume shortage due to global supply chain woes.

Jason Fields, the brains behind Terror on 20th, calls it a display that got out of control. Every nook and cranny of the property at 2812 SW 20th Ave. is covered in something befitting Halloween and the home becomes a full-blown haunted house, but screams aren’t the event’s primary aim; Terror on 20th is also a fundraiser and food drive for the Harry Chapin Food Bank.

There’s no entry fee, but the family asks you bring a can or two of food to donate instead.
Fields says the enthusiasm and support from the community are what have kept him going every year.

“Our biggest thing is for the community, we want to be that house, we want to be… later on, a lifetime from now, 20 years from now, when that kid has their grandchildren or their children, they say, you know, ‘When I was growing up, we used to go to this house,'” Fields said. “It just it means everything to us.”

Fields says Terror on 20th collected almost 2,000 pounds of food on Halloween in 2020.

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