The City of Stockton will host a big finale to Stockton Arts week on Saturday, Oct. 19, 2019, with the Collide Festival at Weber Point Events Center, 221 N. Center Street, from 4 – 9 p.m. The event is free and open to the public and will offer live music, entertainment, cultural performances, free makerspace workshops, life-size sculptures, exhibitors, art market, food trucks, a community live art competition and more!

On Tuesday, October 8, 2019, the City of Stockton Municipal Utilities Department will hold a groundbreaking for the Regional Wastewater Control Facility (RWCF) Modifications Project. The ceremony will take place from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., at 2500 Navy Drive.

The Agricultural Hall of Fame honors those individuals who have contributed to agriculture and to their community in significant ways. The honorees will then be recognized at our annual Agricultural Hall of Fame Banquet on Thursday, October 17, 2019 at the Robert J. Cabral Ag Center, 2101 E. Earhart Ave, Stockton, CA. Tickets are $45 each, prepaid reservations only. 

The City of Stockton’s Community Services Department is hosting the seventh Annual Spooktacular Movie Night at Weber Point Events Center on Friday, October 11, 2019. This is the final event of the Movies at the Point summer series. The gates of Weber Point Events Center open at 5:30 p.m., and the free feature film, Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween, begins at dusk. In addition to the featured film, enjoy free activities for kids of all ages including trunk or treat stations, costume contest, face painting, life-size bubble fun, food trucks, concessions, games, crafts, and more.

University of the Pacific, a leader in preparing aspiring teachers and educational leaders and delivering quality continuing education, is merging a school and college to enhance the learning experience for students.

Councilmember Jobrack Community Office Hour has been rescheduled from Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2019, to Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2019, from 5:30 – 6:30 p.m. Councilmember Sol Jobrack will host his monthly office hour at Starbucks, 4103 E. Morada Lane. Talk with Councilmember Jobrack one-on-one about topics of interest or concern.

The San Joaquin County Superior Court will hold its Veterans Treatment Court graduation on Monday, October 7, 2019 at 10 a.m. in Department 10-D at the Stockton Courthouse, 180 E. Weber Avenue. The Honorable Barbara A. Kronlund will preside over the ceremony. A mission of the Veterans Treatment Court is to identify eligible veterans in the criminal justice system and place them into treatment and court supervision as an alternative to incarceration. This is San Joaquin’s eighth ceremony since the Veterans Court was founded in 2015.

The California Endowment today announced that Jasmine Dellafosse, a Senior Regional Organizer with Gathering for Justice working to close youth prisons in California, and Harold Grigsby III, who worked for Stockton Mayor Michael Tubbs to help establish the city-wide scholarship program Stockton Scholars, were selected by their community to serve on the health foundation’s President’s Youth Council (PYC). The PYC is an advisory body of youth leaders that provide authentic youth perspective, thought leadership and candid feedback on The California Endowment’s strategies in pursuit of health and justice. Created by The Endowment’s President & CEO Robert K. Ross, MD, seven years ago, the 12-member PYC is a genuine effort to integrate youth input and decision making into The Endowment’s current 10-year Building Healthy Communities plan and its next strategic plan to launch in April 2021.

For the past twelve years, Jeff Dunham and his somewhat-inappropriate-proteges, Peanut, Walter, José Jalapeño, Bubba J. and Achmed the Dead Terrorist, have filled arenas across the U.S. and the world with their multiple, blockbuster tours. This fall, Dunham and his cohorts will set out on their brand-new international tour, "JEFF DUNHAM: SERIOUSLY!?" Dunham and his guys will be hitting cities, crisscrossing North America, Canada, and, not long after that... the world! Coming to Stockton Arena on May 2, 2020. Tickets on sale Monday, October 7 at 10AM at Ticketmaster and Stockton Arena box office.

The 28th annual Festival of Trees at the San Joaquin County Historical Museum is a unique Christmas celebration with more than 60 decorated trees, entertainment, children’s activities and make-and-take crafts, Santa visits, rides on a tractor-driven wagon, historical exhibits and food available for purchase.