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CdM This Weekend: Five Great Things For Your To-Do List
posted: October 30th, 2009 11:05 am |
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1. Quick, grab your best Jack-o-Lantern and head to Roger’s Gardens before 4 p.m. today if you want to enter the Annual Pumpkin Carving Contest. Gift certificates will be awarded in three categories — Carved; Decorated or Painted; and Children, 12 and younger. Pumpkins can be simple, scary, funny, mechanical — but they must arrive before 4 in order to be judged. Also this weekend, Roger’s Gardens will host a free lecture at 9 a.m. Saturday. Landscaper Debra Ringler will present a seminar called “Unlocking the Interior Plant Maze” to help you figure out interior gardens — just in time for the cooler weather that’s forcing us all indoors. Roger’s Gardens is located at 2301 San Joaquin Hills Road. Call (949) 640-5800 for more information.
2. Are your little kids going crazy waiting for trick-or-treat time? Time to change the focus by heading to Family Storytime at the Newport Beach Central Library. Aimed for children ages 3 through 7, the free story time runs from 10:30 to 11 a.m. at the library at 1000 Avocado Ave.
3. Corona del Mar’s own ghost-filled restaurant will hold two Halloween events tonight and Saturday. Five Crowns’ Murder Mystery Dinner begins at 7 p.m. today and costs $96 per person, inclusive of tax and gratuity. And on Saturday, an “Eddie Munster” monster with pointy teeth and a powdered face will be serving drinks during the annual in-house Halloween costume competition. About a dozen members of the restaurant’s long-term staff create elaborate costumes, including the manager who has appeared as a Tootise Roll, a steak and a hot dog over the years. Five Crowns is located at 3801 East Coast Highway. Reservations are recommended; call (949) 760-0331 for more information.
4. Head to Crystal Cove State Park for the 2009 Halloween Night Ride, scheduled for 6 p.m. Friday. The event, sponsored by the Crystal Cove Interpretive Association and the SHARE Mountain Bike CLub, will head through the El Moro backcountry and into Laguna Coast Wilderness Park. Riders of different skill levels are welcome. For reservations and additional information, call (949) 497-7647. And at 9 a.m. Saturday, take a backcountry Creepy Crawler Hike. The hike will take about two hours and cover three to five miles. Meet at the El Moro Ranger Station; free, but requires a $15 day-use parking fee.
5. If Halloween’s a day for graveyards, Corona del Mar’s Pacific View Memorial Park sure is one of the more interesting ones: It’s the final resting place for more than a dozen celebrities from John Wayne to Kevin DuBrow. We suppose you could go and wander around, looking for markers. But we were content just reading about it on this website.
