By Oliver Lazenby
Make sure your Halloween costume is ready early, because Rocktoberfest starts at 3 p.m. on Saturday, October 27.
The Blaine Pizza Factory and the Blaine-Birch Bay Healthy Youth Coalition are hosting Rocktoberfest, a concert and fall festival for all ages that goes until 10 p.m. at the Pizza Factory, at 738 Peace Portal Drive.
Rocktoberfest activities range from trick-or-treating in the haunted Pizza
Factory to a beer garden and concerts under a tent in the parking lot.
Trick-or-treating (with ghouls passing out candy), pumpkin painting and a walk through the haunted maze with cupcakes at the finish line take place from about 3 to 5 p.m.
The beer garden, stocked with local beer from Blaine’s Atwood Ales and Menace Brewing of Bellingham, is open from 4 to 10 p.m.
Native American singer-songwriter JP Falcon Grady takes the stage at 3:30 p.m. with the JP Falcon Band. Then Exit 266, a ’90s rock hits cover band, starts at 6 p.m. A raffle for Seahawks gear will benefit the Healthy Youth Coalition.
Food options from local vendors include pie, hot chocolate, cider, kettle corn and of course, Pizza Factory pizza. The event doubles as an anniversary party for the Pizza Factory, said owner Laura Massaro, who took over the business two years ago.
Massaro threw a Halloween party last year, but is stepping it up this year.
“This year we just went big,” she said. “We’re really excited. It’s going to be a huge event.”
Event sponsors include the city of Blaine and the Blaine and Birch Bay chambers of commerce.
“We’re super excited for Rocktoberfest and for connecting our youth with our community,” said Jesse Creydt, Healthy Youth Coalition co-founder.
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