Pumpkin Pageant is Friday in downtown Camas

October’s First Friday event, held from 5 to 8 p.m. in downtown Camas, will include a “Pumpkin Pageant.”

Downtown merchants have carved pumpkins and attendees will get to vote for their favorite. There will also be crafts for kids, including toilet paper roll mummies, pipe cleaner spiders and pumpkin headbands, and a performance by the Rockaroos children’s band at Journey Community Church, 304 N.E. Fourth Ave., at 6 p.m. and 7 p.m.