Halloween fun planned in Bloomfield

Are you looking for some Halloween fun?

Check out the annual Bloomfield parade Friday night. It will feature children, adults and families dressed for the occasion.

The yearly event -- sponsored by the Bloomfield Jr./Sr. High School band -- will start at the Bloomfield Public Library and proceed down Spring St. to the Bloomfield Jr./Sr. High School tennis courts.

At that point, the children and adults in costume will be judged.

The parade will start at 6 p.m.

"Weather permitting they'll go to the tennis courts and be judged. There will be several age categories, and there will be cash prizes," Angela Brown, Bloomfield Jr./Sr. High School secretary and band treasurer, explained.

"It's a community service. The Apple Festival Committee gives us the cash prizes and treat bags."

In case of poor weather, the event will be moved to the junior high school gym.

Brown said the event was conducted for many years, stopped, and then restarted.

"The way I understand it, it had been done years and years ago," she noted. "We started it back up about five years ago."

She added that it's good, clean fun for the entire family.

"Some of the costumes that come are pretty imaginative. Sometimes families will dress in themes. There are categories for adults, but we don't usually have very many.

"Last year we had (a family dress up as the characters from) the Wizard of Oz. It was really cute."

Jason Edwards will be the emcee again this year. Food concessions will also be available outside the school -- weather permitting -- starting at 5:30 p.m.

"We usually have about 150 (who take part). Last year it rained and it was in the gym, but it didn't seem to detour anyone," Brown recalled.

"We invite people to come out on Spring St. and watch."

Chris is the general manager/editor of the Greene County Daily World. He can be reached by telephone at 847-4487 or 1-800-947-4487 or by e-mail at cpruett79@gmail.com .