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Rochester Posed winners announced
ROCHESTER — Downtown Rochester held its 11th annual Rochester Posed event Oct. 5. During the event, 20 participating businesses turned their storefront windows into live mannequin displays. This year’s theme for Rochester Posed was Heroes vs. Villains. Event attendees were able to cast a vote for their favorite live mannequin displays through phone polling. There was also a selected panel of judges that scored each window for the Judge’s Choice winner.
The top three windows with the most texts for the People’s Choice are, in first place, “Local Heroes”/At Home Furniture; second place, “Mario vs. Bowser”/The Spice & Tea Exchange; and third place, “Mean Girls”/Kimi K Salon & Spa. The top three windows with the most votes from the panel of judges are, in first place, “The Witches of Wizard of Oz”/South Street Skateshop; second place, “Ariel vs. Ursula”/Rochester Bike Shop; and third place, “Alice vs. The Queen of Hearts”/Haig’s of Rochester.
For more information, call the DDA at (248) 656-0060.
Free trees offered to Rochester Hills residents
ROCHESTER HILLS — The city of Rochester Hills is offering its fall 2023 Community Canopy program to promote and guide homeowners in planting trees on their private property to maximize all the benefits that trees offer. The city will provide up to two trees per household this fall. The 1-inch to 3-inch trees will be mailed directly to residents’ doorsteps, and they can then plant them in the location that they identify. The program is made possible by the city of Rochester Hills and the Arbor Day Foundation.
For more information, contact the Rochester Hills Parks and Natural Resources Department at (248) 656-4673.
Trick-or-treating on Main Street
ROCHESTER — Watch the streets of Rochester come to life with ghosts, ghouls, superheroes and more as children trick or treat with the downtown merchants 3:30-5 p.m. Oct. 21.
Trick-or-treating will be one way only on each side of Main Street. The east side will run north and the west side will run south.
Children can then meet at the corner of East Street and E. University for a costume parade at 5:15 p.m., followed by a Halloween Fest 5-6:30 p.m. in the farmers’ market lot, at the corner of E. Third and Water. There will be Halloween-themed photo opportunities and prizes. The Little Donut Factory will sell hot, fresh doughnuts. There will be a photo opportunity with Ecto 1 and The Metro Detroit Ghostbusters, and The Linda Rea Team will be donating pumpkins to the first 100 trick-or-treaters who stop by their pumpkin patch. For more information, email jenna@downtownrochestermi.com.
Museum hosts Halloween Masquerade
ROCHESTER HILLS — Step into a world of glitz, glam and mystique for the Rochester Hills Museum Young Leaders Club Halloween Masquerade at 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 21, at the Rochester Hills Museum at Van Hoosen Farm.
All guests are asked to don masquerade masks. For those who wear glasses or prefer not to wear a mask, the museum will provide free Venetian-style masks on sticks, available at the check-in counter. Guests will dance the night away to everything from the Beatles to Whitney Houston performed live by the band Sonic Freeway.
To join in on the fun, you must be 21 or older. Tickets cost $100 per person and can be secured at tinyurl.com/MuseumYL. All tickets will be processed through the Community Foundation of Greater Rochester and will be recognized as a charitable donation. Guests should expect a follow-up email from the museum team with additional event details and ticket confirmation.
