Youth Parties Set to Replace Trick or Treat

Mayor Tom Bradley has announced a citywide schedule of activities Thursday designed as an alternative to Halloween trick or treating.

“Every year, we hear more and more real horror stories that threaten to mar this wonderful celebration,” Bradley said. “It is no wonder that parents think twice about letting their children participate in the traditional trick or treat.”

Kids’ Day will consist of supervised parties at 10 locations throughout Los Angeles. The event is being paid for by local businesses and organizations including Warner Bros. Records, Pepsi Cola, Burger King, the Los Angeles Dodgers and the mayor’s corporate Challenge for Youth Inc.

Pros to Take Part

Members of the Dodgers and Los Angeles Raiders will go from site to site to visit with children. Activities will include musical stage shows, haunted houses, costume parades, storytelling and pumpkin decorating.

Most of the events will last for two to four hours in the late afternoon and early evening.

Locations and times are are:

- Challengers Boys Club, 5029 S. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, 4-7 p.m.

- Denker Recreation Center, 1550 W. 35th Place, Los Angeles, 4-8 p.m.

- Harvard Recreation Center, 1535 W. 62nd St., Los Angeles, 4-8 p.m.

- Hollywood Boys Club, 5619 De Longpre Ave., Hollywood, 5-8:30 p.m.

- Hubert Humphrey Recreation Center, 12560 Filmore St., Pacoima, 6-8 p.m.

- Laborers Local 300 building, 2005 W. Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, 4-7 p.m.

- Olvera Street, Los Angeles, 4-7 p.m.

- Salesian Boys Club, 3218 Wabash Ave., Los Angeles, 6-8:30 p.m.

- Sherman Oaks Galleria shopping center, 15303 Ventura Blvd., Sherman Oaks, 4-7 p.m.

- Westside Pavilion shopping center, Samuel Goldwyn Cinemas, 10800 W. Pico Blvd., West Los Angeles, 4-7 p.m.