Halloween hoopla
Pity the poor folks trying to run errands in downtown Menlo Park on Saturday morning who were overrun with tiny costumed children instead. The annual Halloween parade drew mobs of pirates, wizards, super heroes, princesses, mermaids, zoo animals, and at least one tin-foil covered Swiss guard.
The kids paraded from Burgess Park to Fremont Park, then trick-or-treated at downtown businesses on the way back to the Recreation Center for a carnival. Swarms of spangled and painted candy-seekers mobbed the doorways of banks, boutiques and thrift shops, ebbing and flowing around the legs of unsuspecting adults trying to deposit a check or pick up their dry cleaning.
Back at the Rec Center, a more orderly chaos reigned, as kids slopped glitter paint onto pumpkins, watched a magic show and wended their way through a mildly spooky glow-in-the-dark haunted house.
For trick-or-treaters on Halloween night, the Atherton Police Department is once again handing out free glow necklaces — ask an officer or stop by the station at 91 Ashfield Road.
Oh, baby!
You’re never to young to check out the Woodside Library. A list of activities for November includes musical story time each Wednesday at 10 a.m. for babies age 0 to 24 months. “Older kids,” toddlers ages 18 to 36 months, have their own story hour on Wednesdays at 11 a.m.
The library is also sponsoring “mom, dad, and baby yoga” for tots five to 18 months (with no age limit for the parents). The free yoga class takes place at 9 a.m. Friday mornings, Nov. 2 and 9.
Woodside Elementary School students are crossing the street to the library to meet children’s book author Jon Agee at 1 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 8. Other children who aren’t busy in their own classrooms are also welcome to attend.
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