Scout Field Day to include Halloween activities

October 27, 2020 at 5:05 a.m. | Updated October 27, 2020 at 10:17 a.m.

by Jeff Haldiman

FILE- In this June 25, 2016, file photo, Cub Scouts watch a race during the Second Annual World Championship Pinewood Derby in New York's Times Square. In January 2020, the Boy Scouts of America will increase its annual youth membership fee by more than 80% as it faces a potentially ruinous wave of new sex-abuse lawsuits. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)
FILE- In this June 25, 2016, file photo, Cub Scouts watch a race during the Second Annual World Championship Pinewood Derby in New York's Times Square. In January 2020, the Boy Scouts of America will increase its annual youth membership fee by more than 80% as it faces a potentially ruinous wave of new sex-abuse lawsuits. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

This Saturday is Cub Scout Field Day in Cole County, and this year's event will include some Halloween activities.

This free event will take place 8:30 a.m.-noon at Taos Country Side Park, 4909 Country Side Park Road.

Boys and girls in kindergarten- through fifth-grade who are interested in scouting along with current Cub Scouts are invited to attend.

Scheduled activities include archery, BB guns, fishing, cub mobile and invention lab, as well as information on campfire building and safety.

Costumes are encouraged, and participants need to check in the day of the event to fill out a COVID-19 form and a release to participate in the shooting sports.

Parents and scout unit leaders must be present.

For more information, contact Michelle Gabelsberger via email at [email protected].

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