Events Clare Main Street and Clare Parks & Recreation have teamed up again to produce a fun-filled family Halloween event to be held downtown Clare. On Saturday, October 22nd from 10 am-12 pm join us for the Main Street Spook-Tacular: “Something to Howl About”. Bring your little ghouls and boos for a morning filled with pumpkin painting, hay rides, Trunk-or-Treat, clowns, skeleton search, police, a costume parade and so much more!

Let your little goblins show off their best Halloween attire during our Kid’s Costume Parade at 12 noon (meet outside McEwan Street Subway at 11:45 pm to participate). We will tour your mini monsters around the sidewalks of downtown so all of Main Street can view their Halloween spirit.

Did you know that Main Street is filled with skeletons? Spookers of all ages will enjoy the Skeleton Search in our downtown businesses. Contest forms will be available at the event during the Main Street Spook-Tacular and at the Pere Marquette District Library until 1 pm. All completed forms must be returned to the PMDL before 1:30 pm to be entered into a drawing.
As part of this year’s Main Street Spook-Tacular on October 22nd, the committee is again organizing a “trunk or treat” from 10 am – 12 pm. What in the world is a trunk or treat, you say? A trunk or treat is when people gather and park their cars in a large parking lot (In this case, the 5th street lot). They open their trunks or the backs of their vehicles and decorate them. Then they pass out candy from their trunks. The event provides a safe family environment for trick or treaters.

If your family, sports team, church group, business, civic club, etc. would like to participate by decorating a vehicle and handing out treats, please contact Clare Main Street. Award given for the most creative trunk!

Call or email Clare Main Street at 386-9190 – lschuh@mainstreetclare.com to reserve your space today!

Mark your Halloween calendars now; you won’t want to miss this Spook-Tacular event! All activities are free and open to the public. For more information please contact the Clare Main Street at 989.386.9190, Clare Park & Recreation at 989.386.7541, ext 213, or visit www.mainstreetclare.com.

Events Get ready to fly in for food! The 14th Annual Clare Municipal Airport Chili Cook-Off is set for Sunday, October 23rd. Co-sponsored by the Clare Area Pilots' Association and Clare's Guys and Dolls Photography, this event will see competitors going pepper-to-pepper for the first-place prize of $50 in hot cash!

The Clare Airport Terminal Building is the place to be for all the action, and the samples. Competitors should have their masterpiece chili ready for tasting by 3pm, with judging by popular vote at 3:30. This event is free and open to the public.