The Portsmouth Halloween Parade is receiving support from a new quarter. The Portsmouth Brewery has enrolled the parade in its Community Pint Night fundraiser. For each beer customers buy on Tuesdays, they’re invited to drop a wooden token, worth 25 cents, into a box with partitions for four charities. Participating charities earn about $25 to $40 each week.

That support will help defray costs for the annual Halloween night event, which has grown since 1993 into much-anticipated community celebration with an estimated 800 costumed marchers parading before onlookers along downtown streets.

“As a non-profit organization, the Portsmouth Halloween Parade Committee’s goal is to provide a grassroots, creative and all-inclusive alternative to contemporary Halloween,” says committee member Kiarna Boyd. While dwntown businesses and individuals typically contribute to meet the costs of the parade, “Due to the recent increases, the committee is waking up early this year.”

To pay for this year’s required police detail and insurance, the volunteer organizers must raise about $4,000.
 The Portsmouth Halloween Parade committee is calling its first general meeting in the Brewery’s Jimmy LaPanza Lounge on Tuesday, Aug. 8, from 6 to 8 p.m. The Portsmouth Brewery is located at 56 Market St. in Portsmouth. To find out more about the Parade, visit www.spookyportsmouth.com.