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Wild Rumpus Parade launches new charity costume drive

A child and an adult, dressed in tuxedos on top hats an canes, with giant eyeballs as heads, stand in the street at an annual Halloween Parade.
Lara Dua-Swartz
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WUGA
Two festival-goers show off their costumes at Wild Rumpus 2023

Every Halloween, the Wild Rumpus parade floods downtown Athens with wacky costumes and spooky spirit. This year, the people behind the Wild Rumpus have launched a new initiative to make sure Athens kids have access to great costumes. WUGA’s Havivah Saltz sat down with Rumpus board member Tyler Stansky to find out more.

The Wild Rumpus is on Halloween this year, kicking off at the intersection of West Hancock Street and Pulaski Street in downtown Athens.

Havivah Saltz has been with WUGA since 2023 as an on-air host and the producer for African Perspectives. She got her start in radio on WOBC FM at Oberlin College (class of ‘23), and she’s also worked as an on-air host on Athens' Power 100.1 and Magic 102.1. She is currently the interim producer of Athens News Matters. Outside of work, you can find Havivah making art, writing fiction, practicing Japanese, petting her very round cat, and watching concerning amounts of TV.
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