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This article originally appeared on Des Moines Register: When is Beggars Night 2024? Here are trick-or-treat times in Des Moines. Show comments. Advertisement. Advertisement. In Other News.
Most other cities have followed suit and will be moving Beggars' Night trick-or-treating to Thursday, Oct. 31, from 6 to 8 p.m., due to the weather forecast in the metro area. Those cities include ...
Beggars Night, or Beggars' Night, is a regional term for the practice of going "Trick or Treat" in the period before Halloween night. Beggars Night emerged to address security concerns over young children involved in unsupervised Trick-or-Treating. Instead, younger children were encouraged to Trick-or-Treat on another night, before Halloween ...
The tradition of Beggar's Night started in 1938 in Des Moines to curb vandalism after police received a record 550 calls. For over 80 years, the city of Des Moines and much of the metro have ...
In 2024, Beggars Night moved to coincide with Halloween for the first time since 1938, ostensibly due to severe thunderstorms; [11] other communities had occasionally done the same in that span by local resolution, either to accommodate weather or to avoid holding it on a Sunday. [12]
Beggars' Night for Pleasant Hill residents instead will be held from 6-8 p.m. on Halloween night. The city of Des Moines and most other metro communities also announced plans Tuesday morning to ...
William O'Neil McCurdy II (born April 16, 1988) is an American politician serving as a member of the Clark County Commission from District D. He was previously a member of the Nevada Assembly from 2016 to 2020 and chair of the Nevada Democratic Party from 2017 to 2021.
The city, which is the capital of Iowa, announced the decision to move Beggars' Night to Thursday from 6-8 p.m. "to provide a safe and festive trick-or-treating experience for Des Moines children ...