Registration for Richardson Parks and Recreation's annual Adaptive Halloween Bash closes Friday, Oct. 23, the deadline the city set so it can place the catering order.
The bash runs from 7 to 9:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 30, at the Heights Recreation Center, 711 W. Arapaho Road. The city lists it in its adaptive and inclusive programs for adults, open to participants ages 14 to 79.
The $30 fee covers dinner, music, dancing and prizes, and there will be a costume contest. As of Thursday the registration page showed 11 openings left. It is activity No. 53091 on the city's online registration site, and the menu is to be posted two weeks before the event.
Library party at City Hall
The Richardson Public Library's Halloween program, Spookilicious: A Halloween Happening, is from 3 to 4:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 31, in the City Council Chamber at Richardson City Hall, 2360 Campbell Creek Blvd., Suite 525. Admission is free and the program is for all ages. The library plans haunted stories, crafts and trick-or-treating, and costumes are welcome.
A walk through the city's oldest burials
On Sunday, Nov. 1, the parks department leads a Día de los Muertos tour of Routh Cemetery from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. The cemetery sits inside the Reserve at Spring Creek Apartments at 2710 Routh Creek Parkway, and the city says its earliest burial dates to about 1850, well before Richardson was founded.