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Where to bring your used Jack O’Lantern (please remove candles and dripped wax, toothpicks, and other non-pumpkin flesh items before dropping off).
🎃 10th Annual Byron Path Pumpkin Parade
🎃 Bicycle Craft Brewery is taking used Jack O’Lanterns from Friday November 1 to Sunday November 3. Enjoy a tap room illuminated by flickering pumpkins on Saturday, when the brewery lights them up.
🎃 The Alameda in Almonte
🎃 Pumpkin Parade at Fisher Heights Park
🎃 Check the Ottawa South Eco-Action Network for a list of other drop-off sites.
▪️ If you’re on the very outskirts of the city of Ottawa and find yourself needing lunch, check out the Rocking Dock food truck. It opens its winter residency in Woodlawn today with a menu offering fish & chips, burgers, fries, and other yummy offerings. 3798 Dunrobin Road (at the Nicholls Esso gas station).
▪️ Discover more than 100 Ontario wines at Savvy’s best event Outstanding in their Fields.
▪️Shop Montréal brand Rightful Owner’s new season at the Victoire Boutique pop-up from 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm.
▪️ Here’s a late addition to yesterday’s list of pumpkin drop-off locations. Starting today, Stanley’s Olde Maple Lane Farm will have a wagon in the parking lot, ready to collect used Jack O’ Lanterns.
▪️ Broadway Nights Ottawa: Halloween Extravaganza. Your favourite showtune sing-a-long visits Overflow Brewing for a special spooky season edition.
🆓 Halloween may be over, but scary stories never go out of season. The Spaniel’s Tale bookstore presents a book launch of Most Likely to Summon Nyhiloteph, by Ottawa author Madison McSweeney. RSVPs highly recommended.
▪️ Guelph Storm visit Ottawa 67s at TD Place.
▪️ Listen to rare funk and soul vinyl while you enjoy a four course dinner at the Baked Goods record store Listening Night, at Image Unlimited Art Gallery.
▪️ This weekend’s Day of the Dead Festival kicks off in the ByWard Market.
▪️ ByTowne Cinema: Lee, Conclave, The Substance
▪️ Mayfair Theatre: The Outrun, Emilia Pérez, Alien: Romulus
Gigs
▪️ Jagged Little Thrill - the Alanis Experience. The Brass Monkey
▪️ Blingo Night. Pour Boy
▪️ Ok Naledi. The Laff
▪️ Capital Professionals. Rainbow Bistro
▪️ The Sink, Outlier, Halfway There, In Passing. Dominion Tavern
▪️ Ed Lister. Irene’s Pub