(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.
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