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Family Activity Nights: Raising School Ready Readers Program

Feline Fine Dog Days Carnival Hosted by Stephen Memorial Animal Shelter

Family Activity Nights: Raising School Ready Readers Program

Feline Fine Dog Days Carnival Hosted by Stephen Memorial Animal Shelter

Main Street Sweet Corn Serenade

Southern Iowa Fair

Main Street Christmas in July

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Trick or Treat Events

Halloween

What: Raising School Ready Readers Cost: $5 per family When: Mondays September 27, October 4,11,18 & 25 Time: 5:30 p.m. Light Refreshments provided at each session Sibling Care Available Registration & Payment Due September 20 Click here for more Information The registration form is available at the Mahaska County Extension office, 212 North I Street,…

The Stephen Memorial Animal Shelter is excited to announce that they will be hosting a carnival to celebrate 45 years of serving the community. We started in 1976 with only a few hog pens, and in 2018 completed a brand new facility to better serve the community and care for the animals.We will be having…

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Trick or Treat Events
4:00 PM-8:00 PM
October 28, 2021
https://everythingmahaska.org/event/trick-or-treat-events/2021-10-28/
The following Trick or Treat Events are all taking place on Thursday, October 28:
Main Street is planning their annual trek around the Square starting at 4 p.m.
Main Street Trick or Treat parade around the square will not take place in 2021.
Mahaska Drug is planning their event from 4 to 8 p.m., rain date Friday, Oct. 29
Oskaloosa City-wide Trick or Treat is from 6 to 8 p.m.
Central Church is planning their Trunk or Treat event from 6 to 8 pm.
All events depend on COVID numbers in Mahaska County and subject to change.

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Halloween
All day
October 31, 2021
https://everythingmahaska.org/event/halloween/2021-10-31/
A Little History: Halloween 2019 (also known as Allhalloween, All Hallows’ Eve, or All Saints’ Eve) occurs on the day before All Saints Day. It is a day that is dedicated to remembering the dead, including saints (hallows), martyrs, and all the faithful departed. Halloween is celebrated annually on October 31 in the United States and throughout the world. It is “widely believed” that Halloween originated from the ancient Celtic harvest festival, Samhain, and that this Gaelic observance was Christianized by the early Church. It is believed that the celebration of Halloween only made its way to the United States in the 19th Century by immigrants from Scotland and Ireland. The commercialization of Halloween (as we know it today) began in the 1900s, when postcards and die-cut paper decorations were produced. Halloween costumes started to appear in stores in the 1930s and the custom of ‘trick-or-treat’ appeared in the 1950s.