For the first time, the Parks and Recreation Department will offer Family Boo Bash, a family friendly Halloween-themed event.
“Since the 1970s, the Parks Department offered a free Halloween carnival-type event,” said Recreation Superintendent Amy Epple. “Over the years it got to be so big, we’d have more than 1,200 people here, which is definitely over our max capacity at Convention Hall; it was really a safety issue.”
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