Attendees Enjoy Treats And More During Rochester’s Boo Fest
People walk in line to grab candy during the Rochester Downtown Partnership’s 2023 Boo Fest on Friday, Oct. 27, in Rochester.
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By Leah Sander
InkFreeNews
ROCHESTER — Attendees enjoyed treats and more during the Rochester Downtown Partnership’s 2023 Boo Fest.
Kids dressed as TV and movie characters and animals among other things and collected candy from businesses and organizations along Main Street.
Boo Fest also featured a costume contest with prizes for winners in categories from infants to age 15 as well as those in group costumes.
Winners were the following: ages 0-3, Journey Coffing; ages 4-7, Blaine Pitts, with runner-up Paisley Zehner; ages 8-11, Katelyn Conliff, with runners-up Annie Ault and Kenzie Utter; ages 12-15, Aiden Davis, with runners-up Audrey Ault and Cerenity Meisner; and group, Jamie Wallace and Khristian Sebastian, with runners-up, the Deardorff and Hanson families.
Winning in the ages 0-3 category at Boo Fest’s costume contest was Journey Coffing.
Blaine Pitts won the ages 4-7 category of the costume contest.
Runner-up in the costume contest’s ages 4-7 category was Paisley Zehner.
Katelyn Conliff was first in the ages 8-11 category of the costume contest.
Annie Ault was one of the runners-up in the ages 8-11 category.
Kenzie Utter was a runner-up in the ages 8-11 category.
Winning in the ages 12-15 category was Aiden Davis.
Audrey Ault was a runner-up in the ages 12-15 category.
Cerenity Meisner was one of the runners-up in the ages 12-15 category.
Jamie Wallace, left, and Khristian Sebastian won the group category of the costume contest.
One of the runners-up in the group category was the Deardorff family, consisting of from left: Ann Deardorff, Ava Deardorff, Cole Deardorff, Dane Deardorff and Aria Deardorff.
The Hanson family was a runner-up in the group category. From left are Buffy Hanson, Josh Hanson and Abby Hanson.
Gunner Lee, center, gets treats from Rochester Fire Chief Tom Butler, second from right, and Rochester firefighter Steven Shook, right. Lee’s great-grandmother Joan McClellan, partially hidden at left, and mother Jichaela Flook are also shown.
Mini police officer Callahan Manwaring, bottom left, and his grandmother Amy Prater interact with Rochester Police Officer Catherine Diveley.
Oliver Baker, left, and Brynlee Baker enjoy the event. Photo provided.
Ursula, left, and King Triton, also known as Corinna Summers and Mike Summers respectively, pose for the camera.
Getting candy as a group were from left: Olivia Rude, Brantlyn Brubaker, Jay Gonzalez, Audrey Sehstedt and Alan Sehstedt.
Colten Bradley, left, gets candy from Flirt employee Brylee Elliott.
