The local recreation

departments are out to do something for the kids this Halloween season.

Peachtree City

is offering its first Halloween fall festival, while Tyrone and Fayetteville

are hosting annual activities.

The Peachtree

City Recreation Department's Halloween fall festival will have games,

prizes, a costume contest, entertainment and a haunted house. The event

will take place at the Kedron Fieldhouse in Peachtree City, Saturday,

Oct. 27 from noon to 7 p.m. Proceeds will benefit the Luther Holt Memorial

All Children's Playground.

The Recreation

Department is going all out for the event, creating a haunted house entitled

"The Caverns of Kedron," and creating an entire mythology for

it.

The premise

is that during the Civil War, an opera house stood on the grounds where

the new outdoor multipurpose rink is being built. During construction,

caverns leading underground were found where the opera house once stood.

Rumor has it that an old caretaker still lurks in the caverns.

The story will

be explained between noon and 12:30 p.m. with a live stage performance

blending music and song. The presentation will be performed by Peachtree

City's Maria Pia Ugarte and Howard Burch from East Point.

Admission to

the haunted house is $3.50 and games at the fall festival are 50 cents

each. The costume contest will take place from 2-4 p.m.

Party City

is sponsoring this event through its Newnan and Fayetteville stores. The

haunted house is being designed and operated by Impact Design Group and

the stage presentation is being produced by Latin Eyes Productions. For

event information phone the Kedron Fieldhouse at 770-631-2525.

Tyrone is saving

local activities for Halloween itself. The annual Pumpkin Walk will take

place at Tyrone Town Hall's pumpkin patch from 8:30-11 a.m. Children from

area schools and church preschools bring their carved or decorated pumpkins

to be judged. Certificates for participation, awards and prize money will

be presented.

Trick-or-treating

will take place from 3-5 p.m. as toddlers to 11-year-old children can

trick-or-treat from business to business.

Main Street

Fayetteville will have its pumpkin walk Friday morning, with the trick-or-treat

beginning at 6 p.m. Friday at Heritage Park in Fayetteville. More than

2,500 costumed children are expected to participate in the pumpkin walk,

which places decorated jack-o-lanterns around downtown Fayetteville.

Also taking

place on Halloween will be the Flat Creek Baptist Church fall, from 5:30-7:30

p.m. There will be food, fun and games and fellowship. Admission is free

and all-you-can-eat hot dogs are $2 for adults and $1 per child. Phone

770-487-4890.

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