Plenty of Halloween activities planned around area this weekend

There are plenty of activities for those wanting to celebrate Halloween this weekend.

Local residents can find trunk-or-treats, fall festivals and even a parade as events are scheduled for both Saturday and Sunday.

On Saturday Charleston will be bustling with activity on Oct. 30 as plans are being made for a Fall Festival from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in AD Simpson Park with musical entertainment, food, craft and antique vendors, a donut-eating contest and more. My Daddy’s Donuts will be celebrating its grand opening and Sandy Ruff, owner, would be happy to have others join in the festivities. For more information call 573-703-4442.

Also Saturday, the Charleston Economic Development Group is organizing trunk-or-treating downtown while the Southside Baptist Church is sponsoring a costume contest and the First Christian Church will be having hayrides.

The Charleston Chamber of Commerce will host its annual Scarecrow Contest and add to the fall display contest with a Scavenger Hunt on Saturday as well.

The Sikeston Public School Bus Drivers and Aides Fall Festival, 218 S. Ingram Drive, will be held from 1-5 p.m. Oct. 30 with games, prizes, candy and lots of fun planned.

The Sikeston House of Refuge will present a fall festival from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at Lincoln Park in Sikeston. There will be free food, games, prizes, bounce house, basketball tournament, costume and coat raffles, pumpkin and face painting and more. A $50-gift card will be given with vaccinations.

The First United Methodist Church Fall Festival, 1307 N. Main will be held from 3-5 p.m. Saturday with fun for the whole family.

The First Baptist Sikeston 1101 N. Main, will also hold a Fall Festival from 5-6:30 p.m. Saturday with games, popcorn, face painting, cake walk, bounce house and candy.

The VFW Post 7183 in Lilbourn will host a Fall Festival from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday. Admission is free with a trunk or treat planned as well as prizes for all events. There will be free chili, local vendors, a dunking booth, bounce houses, cake walk and games and events for all ages. Some events will take tickets and tickets will be $1 each or 6 for $5. A corn hole tournament will be held at 11 a.m.

“The Halls Have Eyes,” a benefit haunted house for the Morehouse Park Board Committee, will be from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday at the former Morehouse School building in Morehouse. There will also be hayrides. Admission is donations. Hot dogs, chips and a drink for $3 and with a cookie $4.

There will also be plenty of trunk-or-treats on Saturday. Those are:

• Boost Mobile & Sikeston Nutrition Trunk or Treat, 520 S. Main St. will be held 4-7 p.m. Saturday with candy, prizes, giveaways, Boost swag and Sikeston Nutrition Swag.

• The Scott County Children’s Division Trunk or Treat, 106 Arthur Dr., will be held from 4:30-6 p.m. Saturday with free and safe events for all ages.

• Sikeston Little Theatre Trunk or Treat in the north parking lot, 506 S. Kingshighway will be from 5-7 p.m. Saturday.

The events continue on Sunday with a Halloween parade planned for 7:30 p.m.

The parade will begin at Lincoln Park to Westgate then cross Malone and head south on Branum Street to Murray Lane. Then the parade will continue west on Murray Lane to Malcolm Street and then north on Malcolm to Ruth.

The parade will continue east on Ruth to South West Street and end at the Scott Manor Apartments.

One Church, 405 Lynual St. will hold an evening of free fun, fellowship and candy at 5 p.m. Oct. 31.

There will also be more trunk-or-treats Sunday. Those are:

• Grace Bible Fellowship at Dancler Field, Sunset Drive 3-5 p.m.

• Open Door Fellowship, 204 Jackson St. 4-6 p.m.

• Fellowship Baptist Church, 1801 Ables Road 4-6 p.m.

• Emmanuel Missionary Baptist Church, 2001 Ables Road 4-7 p.m.

• The Sanctuary of Southeast Missouri, 338 Matthews Ave. 4:30-7 p.m.

• Concordia Lutheran’s Annual Trunk or Treat, 836 Park Ave. 5-7 p.m. - If weather is bad, it will be in the Family Life Center

• Murray Lane Baptist Church, 807 W Murray Lane 5-7 p.m.

• Miner Fire Department, 103 State Highway H 5-8 p.m.

• The Riverbend Pentecostals will host trunk-or-treat from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Oct. 31 in their Family Center, 1031 Mill St., in New Madrid.