October 21, 2014
Halloween is next week, but Plymouth will begin celebrating this week.
This Friday, October 23rd, the Plymouth Park Department will hold their annual Haunted Grounds in Centennial Park from 6 to 8 p.m. There are lots of activities including games, candy, pumpkins, hot chocolate, popcorn, straw maze and a haunted hay ride. Everything is free for those attending at Freyman Shelter near the tennis courts. Costumes are optional.
Scott Michel, Recreation Director said, “Without the support of businesses like Blake’s Pumpkin Patch, Yellow River Farms and Bane-Welker Equipment and volunteers from the Boys and Girls Club of Marshall County, Boy Scout Troop 257, the Center Township 4-H Clubs and the Plymouth Optimist Club this couldn’t happen.”
The Plymouth Chamber of Commerce will sponsor the annual Halloween Parade and Trick-or-Treating this Saturday, October 25th from 1 to 3 p.m. Kids in costumes will parade down North Michigan Street with everyone lining up at Michigan and Washington Streets, beside the Brass Rail.
Michigan Street will be closed for the parade and for Trick-or-Treating to allow the kids with their costumes to travel safety as they move from merchant to merchant to gather their goodies.
Other town celebrations include the Culver Lion’s Club will be sponsoring a Halloween Party at the elementary school from 6 to 8 p.m. on Tuesday, October 27th.
Residential Trick-or-Treat will be held on Friday, October 31st in the local communities of Argos, Bourbon, Bremen, Culver, Lakeville, LaPaz, Plymouth and Walkerton. Ghosts and goblins will be seeking goodies from 5 until 7 p.m. Participants are asked to turn on their porch lights if you will be handing out candy.
Bourbon will hold a party for the community at the town park at 7:30 p.m., after Trick-or-Treat There will be a costume judging contest and games for the children.
Trick-or-Treat in Bremen’s is dependent on the outcome of the high school football game. If the Lions win in the first game of the football sectional this Friday night residential Trick-or-Treat will be held on Thursday, October 30th from 5 till 7. If the Bremen Lions don’t move forward in sectional play trick-or-treating will be held on the 31st from 5 till 7.
Bremen’s Community Cares organization will host a Halloween costume parade at 6:30. They will start at the fire station and end at the middle school. After the parade, the Bremen Kiwanis Club will sponsor a costume contest at the middle school gym at 7 p.m.