If you’re an event planner a weather day such as last Saturday’s could cause you to reconsider your profession. For the first time in memory a steady, cold rain put the kibash on both the kids’ and pet Halloween parades. After that regrettable but necessary decision, sponsors and organizers were in constant contact throughout the…
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Halloween in the CWE 2018: The Family Parade Part I
The weather couldn’t have been prettier Saturday morning when neighborhood families and visitors from all over the St. Louis area gathered at The McPherson’s parking lot for the annual CWE Halloween parade. Led by Shriners’ parade cars and Cinderella in a horse-drawn carriage, they paraded down Euclid to the Main Stage at Maryland Plaza where…
Halloween in the CWE 2017: Kids’ Parade: Part 1
In spite of the weather, spirits were high among the large numbers of people who participated in Saturday’s Halloween events in the Central West End. Morning dawned cold and grey and remained that way throughout the day. Nevertheless, there were still hundreds who participated in both the kids’ and canine costume parades at 11 a.m….