Businesses in downtown Gastonia are hosting a bar crawl on Saturday evening, Oct. 18. The crawl will start at 6 p.m. at Durty Bull Brewing and will continue to Cavendish Brewing, The Rooster, Gaston Pour House, Aura Cocktail Lounge and Citycade, said Michael Carpenter, the owner of The Rooster.

Participants will pick up a punch card at Durty Bowl Brewing and are encouraged to make a purchase at each location, turning in the punch card at the last location.

"You can get a soda or something to eat or whatever. You don't have to buy alcohol," Carpenter said.

The purpose of the crawl is to showcase the businesses in downtown Gastonia.

"We all decided to do this as a way to kind of promote the social district in downtown Gastonia. That's kind of one layer of it. It's also to highlight all o

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