Pacific Beach/Mission Beach/Mission Bay • The Pacific Beach Recreation Center will hosts its annual Halloween Carnival (rain or shine) on Friday, Oct. 28 with a night of activities that include a fire engine ride, games, a free costume contest, giant slide, food, cake walk and free arts and crafts. All games and rides cost 1-2 tickets and tickets are sold four for $1. Costume contests are grouped by age and times are staggered. The event is sponsored by the Santa Clara/Pacific Beach Recreation Council and takes place at the rec center, located at 1405 Diamond St. For more information, call (858) 581-9927. • Crown Point Junior Music Academy’s PTA will hold its annual Trunk or Treat Halloween Festival on Friday, Oct. 28 from 4 to 8 p.m. at the school, 4033 Ingraham St. For more information, call (858) 273-9830, or visit www.sandi.net/crownpoint. • The annual Kate Sessions Elementary School Halloween Carnival will take place Oct. 28 from 2 to 5 p.m. at the school, located at 2150 Beryl St. The community is invited to attend and enjoy games, food, pony rides and a spooky haunted house. Celebrate the fall season with the staff and families of Kate Sessions Elementary. For more information, call (858) 273-3111, or visit www.sandi.net/sessions. • SeaWorld San Diego will hosts its final weekend of the “Halloween Spooktacular,” in which children can meet some spooky and not-so-spooky animals, pose for pictures with mesmerizing mermaids and trick-or-treat in a sea-inspired atmosphere. Festivities are geared for kids 12 years and under, who are invited to come in costume and enjoy animal meet and greets, special Halloween shows and colorful costumed characters from 1 to 6 p.m. For more information, call (800) 25-SHAMU or visit www.seaworldsandiego.com. Ocean Beach/Point Loma • It’s time to harness the imagination and create that special doggy Howl-O-Ween costume for the Kiwanis Club’s Ocean Beach Canine Carnival and costume parade. The canine caper features a costume parade led by Chopper the Biker Dog and an array of contests for doggies and humans on Sunday, Oct. 30 at Dusty Rhodes Park on the west side across from Robb Field at Sunset Cliffs and Nimitz boulevards. The activities get under way about 10 a.m. with the canine carnival and street fair, featuring vendors offering canine-related merchandise and services. For more information, call (619) 225-8705, or visit www.oceanbeachkiwanis.org. La Jolla • The La Jolla Recreation Center has planned three hours of free kid-friendly fun for its annual Halloween Festival on Saturday, Oct. 29 from 1 to 4 p.m. The festival will include pony rides, an inflatable jump and slide, carnival games, a balloon artist, cakewalk, face painting, music and free arts and crafts for kids. Halloween prizes will be awarded for carnival game winners and a traditional costume contest will award a total of 25 children — five children from each of five 10 and under age groups — with prizes including a trophy and Target gift card. Tickets are four for $1. Carnival games are one or two tickets apiece. La Jolla Recreation Center is located at 615 Prospect St. For more information, call (858) 552-1658.
