Good morning, Boise.

On Harrison Boulevard this October, neighbor Katie Saad is using a Wizard of Oz display to ask visitors to consider foster parenting or becoming CASA volunteers, with QR codes, info tables and partners Fostering Idaho and Family Advocates signing up interested people (resource mentors have already been collecting contact info).

Bogus Basin Ski Education Foundation's 75th annual Ski Swap runs today through Sunday, Nov.

1 at Expo Idaho, selling new and used skis, snowboards, boots, clothing, and winter gear; hours are 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday (admission $5; Sunday free with two canned food items for the Boise Rescue Mission).

Boise has no official trick-or-treat hours, so families choose when to start; with sunset at 6:36 p.m. (around 5:30–6 p.m. for little kids, 6–6:30 p.m. for older kids), most neighborhoods finish by about 8:30–9 p.m.

Chipotle will bring back its Boorito deal with a $6 entree available at all Idaho locations for customers in costume after 3 p.m. on Saturday, Oct.

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Boise State invested Dr. David W.

Hahn as its eighth president at the Morrison Center, and he pledged five commitments focused on student success, affordable degrees, expanded internships and research, and stronger athletics and philanthropy.

Boise asks residents to place real pumpkins, gourds, hay bales and corn stalks in compost carts as they come down, as long as items aren’t painted or modified beyond carvings (remove lights and decorations first); farms may accept pumpkins for animal feed, or consider reusable artificial pumpkins.

AC Boise will host its first-ever home playoff game this Sunday against One Knoxville SC; tickets went on sale Thursday, Oct.

29 at 12:00 p.m. (doors open 4:30 p.m., kickoff 6:00 p.m.).