With Halloween falling on a Thursday this year, it was a long “Halloweek” all week long in the city of Menlo Park, starting with events the weekend of Oct. 26.
Below are some highlights:
The Hillview Middle School band performed at the Oak Knoll Elementary School Halloween parade in Menlo Park on Oct. 31, 2024. Photo by Anna Hoch-Kenney.
Students at Oak Knoll Elementary in Menlo Park paraded up and down Oak Knoll Lane in their Halloween costumes on Oct. 31, 2024. Photo by Anna Hoch-Kenney.
Teachers and students at Oak Knoll Elementary in Menlo Park paraded up and down Oak Knoll Lane in their Halloween costumes on Oct. 31, 2024. Photo by Anna Hoch-Kenney.
Students and teachers at Oak Knoll Elementary in Menlo Park paraded up and down Oak Knoll Lane in their Halloween costumes on Oct. 31, 2024. Photo by Anna Hoch-Kenney.
Jiayuan Chen, left, and Melody Liu, right, hold up their cell phones to take pictures during the Oak Knoll Elementary Halloween parade in Menlo Park on Oct. 31, 2024. Photo by Anna Hoch-Kenney.
Greg Buchheister surprises his daughter, transitional kindergartener Naia, as she parades down the street in her “unicorn ghost” costume for the Oak Knoll Elementary Halloween parade in Menlo Park on Oct. 31, 2024. Photo by Anna Hoch-Kenney.
Ori Paz, a management specialist for sustainability in Menlo Park’s city manager’s office, offers a set of colored pencils to a young resident attending the Trunk-or-Treat event at Belle Haven Community Campus on Oct. 29, 2024. Photo by Magali Gauthier.
Trunk-or-Treat at Belle Haven Community Campus on Oct. 29, 2024. Courtesy city of Menlo Park.
A mother and son bob for pumpkins at the Pumpkin Smash in Menlo Park on Oct. 27, 2024. Courtesy city of Menlo Park.
Menlo Park’s Pumpkin Smash on Oct. 27, 2024. Courtesy city of Menlo Park.
Menlo Park’s Pumpkin Smash on Oct. 27, 2024. Courtesy city of Menlo Park.