Downtown Sikeston will host the Scary Good Chili Cook-off, Ghouls Day Out and Haunted Ghost Tours Oct. 10. Shop downtown from 3 to 6 p.m. for scary sales and ghoulish treats. Vote for your favorite chili at the Scary Good Chili Cook-off from 4 to 7 p.m. at 215 N. New Madrid St. There will also be a Beer/Witches Brew Garden on site. Then from 4 to 9 p.m. take a Haunted Ghost Tour with the American Ghost Project Team of the old city jail building. The ghost tours are for ages 12-years-old and older, and children 12 years old to 15 years old must be accompanied by an adult. A limited number of overnight Ghost Hunt Tour tickets are available. Call (573) 380-3801 for tour information and tickets.
The Cape Girardeau Parks & Recreation department will host movie in the park, a fireworks show, activities and food trucks 4:30 to 9 p.m. Oct. 10 at Arena Park. Carnival games, vendors, inflatables by Knava's Rentals, SEEMA Model Airplane demo and Fingerprint Urban Dance Studio demonstration will be held from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. "Monsters, Inc." will be shown at 6:30 p.m. and a fireworks show at 8:30 p.m. There will be no grandstand seating -- enjoy the fireworks drive-in style.
Hand sanitizer will be placed throughout the park. Please practice social distancing and do not attend if you've been sick in the past two weeks.
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Riverside Regional Library will hold a pumpkin decorating contest. You can created your own fun, silly or scary pumpkins. Take a photo and enter it ino the library's contest. You can enter your photo on Facebook.com at #rrlpumpkincontest or email the photo to asmithey@rrlmo.org by Oct. 24 for a chance to win the Halloweek basket of goodies.
Riverside Regional Library will hold an adult craft do-it-yourself tutorial online 10:30 to 11 a.m. Thursday. You will be shown how to make a fun and creative Halloween decoration.
Available on the Riverside Regional Library Facebook page and YouTube channel. Materials sheets will be available at all Riverside library locations prior to the session.
--From staff reports
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