PLEASANT HILL, Iowa — The City of Pleasant Hill announced on Tuesday night that Beggars’ Night would be rescheduled to Thursday.

Every community within the Des Moines metro area rescheduled their Beggars’ Night from Wednesday evening to Thursday evening due to potential severe weather. Despite this, Pleasant Hill originally said on Facebook that the city would not be rescheduling Beggars’ Night because an emergency proclamation was needed in order to reschedule, and the city had not received a notice from the National Weather Service.

Pleasant Hill Mayor Sara Kurovski defended the city’s decision in a Facebook post, writing “unless you’re made of sugar, you won’t melt.” She also said that if parents were worried about trick-or-treating on Wednesday they could take their children to a neighboring community on Thursday instead.

Shortly after 8 p.m. on Tuesday the city announced that Beggars’ Night would be rescheduled to Thursday from 6 to 8 p.m. due to the forecasted severe weather. The city’s announcement reads in part:

Pleasant Hill received an official notice from Polk County Emergency Management at approximately 5 p.m. on Tuesday, October 29 of potential severe weather. This formal notice provides the City of Pleasant Hill the ability to issue an Emergency Proclamation to change the date for this year’s Beggars Night in the best interest of the community. The change legally needed to follow this process since the date had previously been set permanently through a resolution passed in 2013.

City of Pleasant Hill

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