For Kachina, of all the streets in Ahwatukee, to have fast and reckless driving is just sad. I should add littering, for at the southern end of Kachina Drive one can often see cans and bottles as well as fast-food packaging tossed out to the side of the road.

The Ahwatukee Swim and Tennis Center is about to get a little spookier.

It’s that time of year to get out and enjoy an entire day picking your favorite pumpkin, eating caramel apples, visiting a petting zoo and ending the night with fireworks and a haunted house. Or, to just take stroll through the pumpkin patch to snap a few photos with your family. Either way, the Valley has it all, and this is your one-stop guide for fall festivities in the East Valley.

Forget blowing things up or building a skyscraper.

Everyone knows Schnepf Farms is the place to go for chili and pumpkins in the fall and peaches in the summer.

Everyone knows Schnepf Farms is the place to go for chili and pumpkins in the fall and peaches in the summer.

You know what they say about Arizona’s weather: It’s paradise, except for the three months when we languish mercilessly in the triple digits. Options for getting out and about do dwindle in the summertime, but we more than make up for it the rest of the year — when we pick peaches, race ostriches, dance at outdoor concerts, browse arts festivals, run foot races and navigate corn mazes.

You know what they say about Arizona’s weather: It’s paradise, except for the three months when we languish mercilessly in the triple digits. Options for getting out and about do dwindle in the summertime, but we more than make up for it the rest of the year — when we pick peaches, race ostriches, dance at outdoor concerts, browse arts festivals, run foot races and navigate corn mazes.

Clowns, zombies, aliens, loose killers, and the Bates Motel are all coming to Ahwatukee Foothills tonight for the 10th Annual Haunted House and Hayride at the Ahwatukee Community Swim and Tennis Center.

Ahwatukee Community Swim and Tennis Center's 10th Annual Haunted House and Hayride will take place Oct. 28-30, from 6 to 10 p.m. (closes at 9 p.m. on Sunday). A time slot 6 to 7:30 p.m., is designated as a "less scary" time for the younger goblins.