On Monday, a St. Helens public works crew got to work with backhoes and forklifts on one of the town’s biggest annual projects: unpacking the Halloween storage units.

Along with a few Santas and a Statue of Liberty (the city also stores props for other holidays here), these two city warehouses are primarily filled with more than 3,000 square feet of Halloween decor.

Over five weekends, the city’s Spirit of Halloweentown event draws an estimated 90,000 people to this city of 14,000 residents. The celebration pays homage to the 1998 Disney Channel movie “Halloweentown,” which was primarily filmed in St. Helens .

City crews used heavy machinery to unload several towering scarecrows, a massive raven statue and a 10-foot-tall metal pumpkin, then trucked them about a mile away to downto

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