The Eureka Scarecrow Festival will wrap up with costume events for children and women.
A Lil Monsters Halloween Parade is scheduled from 1-2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 28, for kids to march down South Central Avenue in their costumes. The parade, which is free to participate in, will end at a pickup spot for a hayride across Hwy. 109 to the Legends Parkway Plaza where Realty Executives Premiere will hold its fifth annual Trunk or Treat. That event, which is also free to the public, is scheduled from 2-5 p.m.
That evening, a Witches Night Out event, held for the second year at Brookdale Farms, is set for 4-10 p.m. The evening is part of the Witches Night Out-St. Louis group and put on by Events for a Cause STL, with proceeds from the $25 tickets going to low-income people who cannot afford to have their pets spayed or neutered.
The event is for women 21 years or older and is sold out. Brookdale Farms owner Jerry Kirk said about 700 women attended last year, and this year the organization sold 1,400 tickets.
“I know it sold out pretty fast,” Kirk said.
This is the first year the two events have been connected to the Scarecrow Festival, which is being organized this year by the Eureka Chamber of Commerce.
“This year, with the chamber taking over with the Scarecrow Festival, everything was to do these events bigger,” Kirk said. “We are looking to make it more of a regional thing. We want people to know in the fall they can come see all of the scarecrows and do all the other things.”
The Trunk or Treat event was started by Realty Executives Premiere owner Chuck Maher.
He said last year about 2,000 people attended with 40 vendors and businesses setting up booths. Fifty vendors have signed up for this year.
The day features free hot dogs, chips and sodas along with plenty of candy for the trunk-and-treaters.
“Each year it gets bigger and bigger,” Maher said. “It is just a lot of fun. The kids seem like they really enjoy it.”