Imperial Beach Library Hosts ‘Boulevard Boo’ Family Carnival and Costume Contest
All ages can enjoy music, prizes, and entertainment at the Imperial Beach Boulevard Boo family carnival. The event is taking place this Saturday, October 27 from 12-4 p.m. at Veterans Park, 1075 8th St., with the annual costume contest taking place at 1 p.m.
The Boulevard Boo will also feature local food for purchase, carnival games, a candy hunt and cake walk, fortune telling, face painting, and a photo booth. Community organizations will host information booths on public safety and wellness.
Tower of Terror Haunted House & Costume Contest
October 31, 2012 (5 – 9 pm)
The National City Fire Fighters Association Local 2744 (NCFFA) and the City of National City are proud to host the 5th Annual Tower of Terror. This year’s event will kick-off at 5:00pm at National City Fire Station 34 (343 East 16th Street) on October 31, 2012.
The NCFFA will have a haunted house located in the drill tower, static displays, and community education trailer will be open to residents. National City’s Community Services Department will be hosting a costume contest throughout the entire event with contests taking place every half an hour with prizes for each winner. A local non-profit; A Reason to Survive (ARTS) is coordinating an art crafting area for children that may otherwise be too frightened to enter the Tower. There will be plenty of candy for all those little ghosts and goblins that come in costume.
The Tower of Terror is designed for the residents of National City to have a safe place to enjoy free pre-Halloween festivities and get to meet their local public safety employees. So come out and prepare to be scared out of your skin, as your off-duty firefighters take you on a trip through torture chambers, deadly caves, and all sorts of Halloween mayhem.
So mark your calendars for Wednesday, October 31st, dust off your broom and fly on over to this great event.
8th Annual Boulevard BOO! Parade and Carnival 2012
Halloween never looked so good! The Blessed Sacrament Parish School Boulevard BOO! Parade & Carnival, San Diego’s only Halloween Parade, is returning to the College Area on Saturday, October 27th. Join us at this celebration of community spirit and cultural diversity sponsored by Campus Plaza Shopping Center. The fun begins at 10 am with the BOO! Parade, come early and take a front row seat on the Boulevard. The Parade starts at 59th street and creeps down El Cajon Boulevard heading east to Aragon Drive.
After the parade the party moves to the BOO! Carnival, located at Clay Park, just one block south of El Cajon Blvd. on Art Street. Enjoy family-friendly fun, great prizes, kids rides, delicious food, craft and merchandise booths and a beer garden from 11 a.m. until 5 p.m.
Dracula at the San Diego Civic Theatre
California Ballet Company will present the full length Dracula. Deliciously scary and passionately danced, Dracula will keep the audience in the grip of Charles Bennett’s danced conception of the Bram Stoaker story of fiction’s most notorious vampire.
The Victorian era is prominent through period furniture, prop pieces and costuming as worn by the main characters
Dracula will appear at the San Diego Civic Theatre October 27, 2012 at 8:00pm and October 28, 2012 at 8:00pm. Ticket prices range from $25 to $60. Children’s discounts available for ages 12 and under. Dracula is appropriate for ages 8 and up.