Witches, goblins, ghouls greet crowd at Downtown Fremont's Harvest Happenings

FREMONT - On Saturday, Downtown Fremont had scary characters filling the streets — including princesses, witches, dragons, ghosts, and ghouls at the Harvest Happenings farmer’s market event.

This event combines trick-or-treating with the Downtown Fremont farmers market. The event again included free pumpkins from Polter Berry farm.

Families invited to stop at craft booth

The festivities included crafts such as dipped pinecones in peanut butter and birdseed for the birds, and other activities at different booths.

“I love coming down to this event cause it’s mostly for the children, you know, the little ones, to have fun collecting candy from each vendor and the local business safely,” Janet Ryler said. “We know where the candy comes from.” Ryler said she brings her grandkids to the downtown event each year.

The Strand hosts costume contest

At The Strand Theater, the 7th Annual Haunted Hydro Costume Contest also was held.

The categories included babies, ages 5 to 9, ages 10 to 15, family, and pets.

Each winner received a plaque, a ticket to Haunted Hydro, and an award medal.

Myla Tucker, 20 months, won first place for her costume as Pebbles; Juliette Ollman, age 9, won for her skunk costume; Salem Sprenger, age 10, won as Violet Beauregarde (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory); Andi and Amara Moya won as Edward Scissorhands and his bush, and Rosie the dog took home best pet honors for her bumblebee costume.

River Green was the second runner-up for his costume as a fox, and his stroller was also decorated with leaves.

This was also the first downtown chicken fry hosted Jimmy G’s. Each food vendor had different chicken options and food.

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