Parade, street dance and fair highlight festival LAT

Parade, street dance and fair highlight Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); Oct 7 ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Los Angele pg. OC_D24 The 62nd annual Anaheim Halloween Fall Festival, now through Nov. 3, offers a wide range of activities from puppet shows, a haunted house and a carnival to a street fair and street dance. Highlighting the festival is the annual parade at 7 p.m. Nov. 2. California Angel third baseman Doug DeCinces, accompanied by his family, will serve as the parade’s grand marshal. The festival gets into full swing this weekend with a children's Halloween costume contest Saturday at 1 p.m. at The festival gets into full swing this weekend with a children's Halloween costume contest Saturday at 1 p.m. at Reproduced with permission of the copyr dance and fair highlight Anaheim Plaza and a sidewalk sale at Anaheim Plaza Saturday and Sunday. The sale will feature a Halloween Costume fashion show, as well, at 2 p.m. Sunday. The annual haunted house, to benefit the March of Dimes, will be open nightly tonight through Nov. 2, also at Anaheim Plaza. It is Orange County's largest haunted house with 20 rooms encompassing some 15,000 square feet. Puppet shows are being staged regularly now through Thursday at Anaheim public libraries. The shows are free and each program will include three plays. For more informa- Puppet shows are being staged regularly now through Thursday at Anaheim public libraries. The shows are free and each program will include three plays. For more information, contact your local library. Halloween activities get under way next Thursday at 7 a.m. with a pancake breakfast, entertainment and adult costume contest in downtown Anaheim at Helena and Oak. The event sponsored by the Anaheim Rotary Club, is 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. Cost of the breakfast is $2 per person. A business decoration and employee costume contest will be 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday with judging by the Soroptimist International of Anaheim. Entry fee is $15 per business. For more information, call Don Lee at (714) 535-2322. The downtown Halloween carnival, sponsored by the Anaheim Breakfast Optimist Club, also gets under way Thursday and runs 5 p.m. to 10 The downtown Halloween carnival, sponsored by the Anaheim Breakfast Optimist Club, also gets under way Thursday and runs 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. Thursday night, to 11 p.m. Friday. Hours are 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. Nov. 2 and 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Nov. 3. Trick or treating in the city will be 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday. Next Friday, the downtown street fair gets under way at 5 p.m., featuring more than 40 arts and crafts, food and service booths. The street fair also runs all day Saturday and Sunday. The free street dance will be 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. next Friday night. The dance will be in the downtown area on Helena highlight festival California Angel star Doug DeCinces will be parade grand marshal for Anaheim's 62nd annual Halloween Fall Festival. Street between Lincoln and Broadway. Costumes are optional. Music will be provided by the five-piece soft rock group named Paradise Alley. The annual parade begins at 7 p.m. Nov. 2 and will feature Music will be provided by the five-piece soft rock group named Paradise Alley. The annual parade begins at 7 p.m. Nov. 2 and will feature bands, floats, equestrian units and celebrities in addition to DeCinces, his wife Kristi and their two children, Timothy and Amy. The parade will march west on Lincoln from Olive to Anaheim High School, concluding at Illinois. For information about and/or tickets to any of the festival events, contact the city’s department of Parks, Recreation and Community Services, 200 S. Anaheim Blvd., telephone (714) 999-5191, or the law offices of Robert D. Ricks, 727 S. Harbor Blvd., Suite A, telephone (714) 533-6600. phone (714) 533-6600. attention prohibited without permission.