Fall Festival and Zombie Walk Benefit Fairborn Community Center

Fairborn, Ohio - Normally, Fairborn is a typical, quiet suburb but on Saturday October 15, the city will come alive with family fun, great entertainment and a stroll through town by the walking dead. The fun begins at 12PM at Central Park, 222 S. Central Ave., where the entire family can enjoy live entertainment, face painting, food vendors and more as the Fairborn Community Center presents the first annual Fall Festival. Several community organizations will be on hand offering snacks, games and more. In the park pavilion, from 3PM until 5PM, there will be a free performance by The Brothers & Co. Music and Variety Show.

Later, those 16 and up who are looking for a more gruesome good time can head down to the Fairborn Community Center in the Skyway Shopping Plaza, 1076 Kauffman Avenue, to join the pre-party for the Second Annual Zombie Walk beginning at 5:30PM. Cousin Vinnie's Pizza and The Inside Scoop will be selling food and beverages, face painting is available for $3, and dancers will be teaching Michael Jackson's "Thriller" while makeup artists and their undead minions will be around to help walkers look their worst. Walkers take to the streets, with full police escort, beginning at 7PM, with 0.5-mile and 1.5-mile routes available for the undead to shamble, groan, and be generally creepy. Both routes end at Central Park for the Afterlife Party, which will feature live music by RaZrs Edge, a costume contest, food and drink vendors, and a raffle with a grand prize from Foy's Halloween Stores.

Fall Festival activities are provided by various community vendors with different costs for food and games. Registration for the Zombie Walk is $5 per person, or $4 with a canned food item. Information is available on the community center website, www.fairborncommunitycenter.org, by email at info@fairborncommunitycenter.org, or call (937) 878-6061. Raffle tickets are available at the Fairborn Community Center and all Foy's Halloween Store locations. All proceeds benefit the programs of the Fairborn Community Center.

The Fairborn Community Center is a 501(c)3 non-profit resource, referral, advocacy, and educational facility that serves a community in which 40-percent of the population lives in poverty. With both programming and population served ever growing, the Fairborn Community Center is a necessary support of a vital community service.