Spend your weekend at For-Mar, Crossroads Village & Huckleberry Railroad! Starting Friday at 5pm, Crossroads Village hosts Halloween Ghosts & Goodies. This yearly event celebrates all things Halloween and is great for children. Visit the enchanted forest, laugh at musical comedy at the Colwell Opera House, get lost in the straw maze and be overloaded with treats, treats, treats! Don’t you dare leave without a ride on the Huckleberry Ghost Train Express. Halloween Ghosts and Goodies will take place all weekend at Crossroads so bundle up and join the fun.
Are ghosts for real? You can find out on Sunday at the Historic Holly Hotel. You and a team of professional ghost hunters armed with several types of sensors, detectors, cameras, thermal scanners, will together explore the dimly lit and admittedly haunted Holly Hotel.
Sara Shanning, is the author of the Chosen Angels series. Seal One releases October 1 (ebook), and print is available now on Amazon and at Faith Christian Store in Flint.
This weekend, running Friday and Saturday is Michigan’s Big Country Fest in Frankenmuth! Take a quick trip to that lovely Bavarian Village and enjoy the old west in a big way. The festival will be held in Harvey Kern Community Pavilion on Weiss Street and will take place rain or shine.
Enjoy this annual quilt festival featuring traditional, historical, contemporary and fiber art at a variety of unique locations in Flint’s downtown entertainment district.
Something wicked this way comes tomorrow in Fenton. Witches Night Out will take place downtown from 5-9pm. Dress as your favorite spellcaster as you wind your way through the streets of Fenton, visiting the merchants for great sales, prizes and treats. Support the Fenton Firefighter Charities by “stuffing the boot” before you end your night.
Tonight, starts the run of “Memphis: The Musical” at the New McCree Theatre. The show is loosely based upon real life Memphis disc jockey Dewey Phillips, one of the first white DJs to play black music for a radio audience in the 1950s.
In an effort to create awareness about breast cancer and raise funds for area women in need to receive 3D mammograms, the Flint Firebirds Hockey Club and the McLaren Flint Foundation are partnering for the fifth time. This year’s hockey game fundraiser, Pink Out for Mamms, will take place on Sat., Oct. 12. The puck drops at 7pm at the Dort Federal Event Center. There will be plenty of action both on and off the ice as the Firebirds host the Peterborough Petes in another exciting Ontario Hockey League battle. This year’s pink title sponsor is Pink Par-Tee of Warwick Hills Golf and Country Club Women’s Association.
It’s time to pack the kids in the car and visit Longway Planetarium in Downtown Flint to see The Ooky Spooky Light Show — a delight for the entire family. You will enjoy some favorite Halloween tunes such as “The Monster Mash,” “Ghostbusters,” “Thriller,” “Night on Bald Mountain” and more, which are brought to life with amazing graphics and lights.
