(KNZA)--The 104th annual Hiawatha Halloween Frolic will be held Wednesday.
The activities will begin with the Miss Mary Children’s Costume Contest. Registration will start at noon at the Brown County Historical Society’s Memorial Auditorium at 611 Utah Street, with the contest beginning at 1:00. Infants through 6 grade are welcome to take part. All participants will walk in the afternoon parade.
Registration for the afternoon parade begins at 1:00 at 6th and Utah Streets on the corner of the courthouse square, with the parade kicking off at 3:00 through the downtown.
Following the parade there will be vendors, concessions and other activities around the courthouse square
Business Trick-or-Treating will be held from 3:30 to 5. You can pick up a map of participating businesses at Rainbow Communications.
The Hiawatha Fire Department will hold a chili feed and cook-off, with chili being served from 5:00 to 6:30 at the fire department at 411 Oregon prior to the evening parade. For $5 you can get a bowl of chili, homemade cinnamon roll and drink. Children 5 and under are free.
The Hiawatha High School marching band will perform, beginning at 5:45 in the 600 block of Oregon Street prior to the crowning of the Halloween queen.
12 area girls are vying in this year scholarship contest, with the crowning ceremony to take place at 6:00 on the north side of the courthouse square.
The grand evening parade will cap the day’s activities, beginnig at 7:00. Longtime Hiawatha educators, Lucille and B.H. Pennel, will serving as this year’s grand marshal’s.
© Many Signals Communications
MOST VIEWED STORIES
Holton woman killed in Jackson Co car-deer accident
Three injured in Thursday Jeff Co collision
Atchison Police probe car wash thefts
One injured in Jeff Co collision
KHP pursuit ends in Jackson Co
Whiting woman sentenced in theft of fire dept. funds
Jeff Co North USD 339 bond issue defeated
Atchison Co's Laurie seeks another term as Sheriff
Atchison's Amelia fireworks voted 3rd in nation
Atchison Co vets to honor comrades Monday
USD 415 board holds special meeting
Brown Co Commissioner files for re-election
HCF Match Day event this weekend
HCC hires new vice president of finance and operations
Paxico man arrested in Jackson Co on drug charges
Only minor flooding continues along Missouri River
Richardson County Board receives organization updates
LATEST STORIES
Kansans, Moran, honor fallen on Memorial Day
HCF Match Day event raises more than $230K
Plans underway for " No Summer Hunger" program
Whiting woman sentenced in theft of fire dept. funds
HCC hires new Vice President for Academic Affairs
One injured in Jeff Co collision
Holton woman killed in Jackson Co car-deer accident