Why worry about Halloween plans when you can just read The Sacramento Press' guide to Halloween events? Remember these Halloween safety tips, click each title for more information and enjoy: Boo at the Zoo Who: 10 and under, parents. What: Trick-or-treating, magic shows, kid's haunted house, crafts, food, spooky train, creepy carousel. $9 general admission, $5 zoo members, free for children 2 and under. When: Oct. 30 and 31, 4:30 - 8 p.m. Where: Sacramento Zoo, 3930 West Land Park Drive. Pink Toupee Collective Halloween Eve Festival of Music and Merriment Who: All ages. What: Concert featuring Draw Pinky, Hell Toupee, Kelp, Marty Cohen and The Sidekicks. When: Oct. 30, 7:30 p.m. doors,

Old Sacramento in the fall would be a little more lifeless without its scarecrows. Every year for at least a decade, the scarecrows have turned up on balconies, wooden sidewalks and a spooky-looking park to enchant visitors. But the scarecrows fell apart as they grew older. Business owners have become reluctant to adopt them for storefronts in recent years. So six Sacramento artists -- most who live in the grid -- were recruited to breathe new life (death?) into more than two dozen scarecrows in time for Halloween. Melissa Martinez, the Old Sacramento Business Association's new leader, is playing up Halloween in the business district this year to draw more visitors and shoppers. "This