Kids can get started with the Halloween fun with trick-or-treating and costume contests Saturday — five days early — in downtown Tracy.
The Downtown Tracy Business Improvement Association will run the parade from 10 a.m. to noon, with trick-or-treating, carnival rides and costume contests for kids and pets.
“It brings a lot of families to downtown,” said organizer Diana Koron, adding that this year there will be more entertainment with the addition of a stage. “We’ve really expanded the venue this year and will have a lot more performers.”
Entertainment will include a local bluegrass band, Polynesian dancers, martial art demonstrations and other local musicians.
As many as 3,000 children are expected to show up and trick-or-treat at downtown stores.
The Photographic Art Studio on Central Avenue will offer Halloween portraits for kids in costume for $19.95, which includes a 5-by-7 and four wallet-size photos.
The pet costume parade costs $10 to join, and the money benefits the Lucky Pet Fund, which pays to spay and neuter stray cats and dogs at the Tracy Animal Shelter.
The parade will start at Sixth Street and Central Avenue and end at the Tracy Press, at 10th and A streets.
The Press will serve free hot dogs, while they last, for parade participants.
For information: Diana Koron, 831-4170.
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