By Barry Villamil | MyPearlCity.com
Due to the closing last year of Chuck E. Cheese Restaurant, and decline in participation, the Pearl City Shopping Center Merchants Association will no longer hold its annual Halloween Costume Contest and Trick or Treat Parade. The Pearl City Shopping Center Merchants Association has presented and sponsored the annual event for a few decades. At its height of popularity, the annual Halloween Costume Contest and Trick or Treat Parade hosted over three hundred keiki and their ohana per event while offering great prizes, fun and lifelong memories. Last year’s event fell to fifty keiki participants while being held outdoors on the upper level of the shopping center near Bank of Hawaii.
Photo by Barryu Villamil | MyPearlCity.com
Mahalo to the thousands of keiki and their ohana who participated and enjoyed the annual Halloween Costume Contest and Trick or Treat Parade through the years and also had an opportunity to win fantastic cash prizes as a costume contest contestant that were generously donated by the Pearl City Shopping Center Merchants Association.
Mahalo to all of the volunteers who put their Heart and Soul each year into making sure everyone had a great time from costume contest check-in registration, judging, awards ceremony, and Trick or Treat Parade around the shopping center visiting participating Pearl City Shopping Center merchants for special treats.
Also, mahalo to Sheri Rolf from Rolf Advertising who coordinated the annual Halloween Costume Contest and Trick or Treat Parade for many years. Mahalo to Irwin Santos, Events Coordinator, Pearl City Shopping Center, who took over Sheri’s role after she stepped down due to illness. We miss Sheri dearly. We are in good hands with Irwin leading the shopping center’s events coordination team.
Here’s a link below to coverage posted on MyPearlCity.com from the final annual Halloween Costume Contest and Trick or Treat Parade held on Saturday, October 25, 2025:
PEARL CITY SHOPPING CENTER MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION SUPPORTS THE SPIRIT OF HALLOWEEN IN THE PEARL CITY COMMUNITY
In 2026, the Pearl City Shopping Center Merchants Association will expand its financial outreach into the Pearl City community in the spirit of “Halloween Fun” by supporting Highlands Intermediate School’s HAUNTED HOUSE 14, NEO NIGHTMARES Event, and the Pearl City Foundation’s ANNUAL HALLOWEEN BASH.
The PCSC Merchants Association will sponsor the following for the Highlands Intermediate School HAUNTED HOUSE 14, NEO NIGHTMARES Event:
- $1000.00 check donation
- 2 event banners
- Walking Magicians
- Balloon Twisters
- Neon Glow Sticks
The HAUNTED HOUSE 14, NEO NIGHTMARES Event, is closed to the public, but offers the Highlands Intermediate School ohana a fun, exciting, and very scary time together leading up to Halloween Night. I have a link below to coverage posted on MyPearlCity.com from the Highlands Intermediate Haunted House event held in 2024.
Where’s the Scariest Haunted House in Pearl City? Highlands Intermediate! | MyPearlCity
The Pearl City Shopping Center Merchants Association will also sponsor the following for this year’s Pearl City Foundation Halloween Bash that will be held on Halloween Night, Saturday, October 31 at the Momilani Community Center in Pearl City.
- $500.00 check donation in support of the purchase of Halloween Trick or Treat candy and Halloween Costume Contest prizes
Here’s a link below to coverage posted on MYPearlCity.com featuring the Pearl City Foundation Halloween Bash in 2024:
Pearl City Foundation Halloween Bash unites the community for Trick or Treat Fun! | MyPearlCity
Mahalo to the Pearl City Shopping Center Merchants Association for their annual commitment and support of the Pearl City community and their ohana.
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
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