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I run inside just to grab the sugar skull I made last night.

My shoes are almost soaked through with leftover rain droplets by the time Gram and Grandpa’s grave comes into sight, still clutching my sugar skull to lay against their stone.

SAT-SUN Honor the departed in a celebration with community altars, sugar skull making, processions and festive music, 11 a.m.-7 p.m.

A few hours later, another group of activists gathered in the same room to discuss engagement in Latino communities, with some suggesting volunteers could hand out sugar skull candies at Mexican Independence Day events to improve outreach.

On Friday, mourners and well-wishers gathered at his Oaxaca cultural center, where a flower-bedecked shrine featured a photo of Toledo alongside an ear of corn and — in a nod to Mexico’s Day of the Dead customs — a sugar skull.