“Witches” will take to the streets of Homewood Oct. 30 for the 10th annual Homewood Witches Ride, benefiting the O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at UAB.
The event regularly draws hundreds of participants, who dress up as witches or in other Halloween costumes to throw candy as they ride their decorated brooms, er, bicycles, on a 2.5-mile route through Homewood that begins at Central Park. A free after party will be held at Little Donkey restaurant with live music.
The Witches Ride will start at 5:45 p.m., right after the Homewood Fall Festival, which is from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. That city event, presented by Homewood Parks and Recreation, will feature a DJ, inflatables, food trucks and the Homewood High School drumline.
“We didn’t think we’d still be doing this,” event co-chair Janie Ford Mayer said. “We thought we’d tap it out at 10 years, but people keep wanting us to do it.”
The Homewood Witches Ride began as a celebration of the spirit of the fighters and survivors who have battled cancer. It was inspired by Mayer’s mother, Paula Stringfellow Ford, according to its website, uab.edu/HomewoodWitchesRide.
