At a time of year when many people are putting Halloween decorations on their lawns, Jason Chester and Mylene Layno have hung a string of socks in front of their Transcona home.

There’s an argyle sock with bright yellow and blue patches, a plain black athletic sock and a purple stocking. One sock bears the green, red, yellow and indigo stripes synonymous with the Hudson’s Bay Company, and another is checkered in yellow and black.

The socks — 10 of them in total — show the stylistic choices Chester and Layno’s son, Justice Chester, made from the time he was a teenager until his untimely death at the age of 23.

The display draws attention to Socktober, the annual Main Street Project campaign that aims to collect 30,000 pairs of new socks during the month of October. The downtown non-profi

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