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OCTOBER 20, 2018 | <strong>DISCOVER</strong>!<br />
MARK YOUR<br />
CALENDARS!<br />
12 | Halloween<br />
Spencer | Iowa<br />
KATE HARLOW | STAFF WRITER<br />
NIGHTMARE<br />
A T T H E F A I R<br />
The Spencer Jaycees are getting<br />
ready to scare your socks off.<br />
Their annual Nightmare at the<br />
Fair haunted house will take place at<br />
the Clay County Fairground’s Tower<br />
Gate Pavilion for two weekends including<br />
Oct. 19-20, Oct. 26-27 as well<br />
as on Halloween night Oct. 31.<br />
The event runs from 8 p.m.-midnight<br />
during the weekend and on<br />
Halloween night they are open from<br />
7 p.m.-10 p.m.<br />
They are not just using Halloween<br />
to scare people. They will be using all<br />
of the holidays.<br />
“The theme this year is ‘Haunted<br />
Holidays,’” said Andrew Colbert, who<br />
is a Spencer Jaycees member and is<br />
the chair of this event. “It is a tour<br />
through all of the typical fun, happy<br />
holidays throughout the year, but<br />
with a twist! Let’s just say the Easter<br />
bunny is not cute and cuddly like<br />
most people would think.”<br />
The Spencer Jaycees have been<br />
creating a haunted house experience<br />
for Halloween since the 1980s and<br />
this will be the fifth year that they’ve<br />
hosted the event at the Clay County<br />
Fairgrounds.<br />
It’s not something that comes together<br />
overnight either.<br />
The Spencer Jaycees and volunteers<br />
will work for about three weeks to create<br />
the “Haunted Holidays” structure<br />
and decorating for the event. Over the<br />
course of the event, they host upward<br />
of 700-800 people.<br />
Admission is $10 or $7 with a<br />
Spencer Jaycees host<br />
two weekends of<br />
haunted house<br />
donation of two nonperishable,<br />
non-expired canned food items for<br />
Upper Des Moines Opportunity, Inc.<br />
Proceeds support the Spencer Jaycees<br />
community efforts including the annual<br />
Tree of Joy.<br />
“The Haunted House is one of our<br />
biggest events and we raise a good<br />
portion of money to help us prepare<br />
for our Tree of Joy, where we deliver<br />
toys and food to families here in our<br />
community around Christmastime,”<br />
Colbert said. “We also take canned<br />
At a Glance:<br />
WHAT: Spencer Jaycees Nightmare at the<br />
Fair Haunted House<br />
WHERE: Clay County Fairground’s Tower<br />
Gate Pavilion, Spencer<br />
WHEN: Oct. 19-20, Oct. 26-27<br />
COST: Admission is $10 or $7 with a donation<br />
of two nonperishable, non-expired<br />
canned food items for Upper Des Moines<br />
Opportunity, Inc.<br />
ONLINE: Find them on Facebook<br />
food donation that we then donate to<br />
Upper Des Moines to help stock their<br />
shelves for the winter.”<br />
As much work as this event takes<br />
every year to do, the organizers really<br />
do enjoy participating in the event as<br />
well.<br />
“I think one of the best parts is<br />
hearing the excitement that our<br />
visitors have as they make it through<br />
the maze getting scared, of course,<br />
the scaring part is fun, too,” Colbert<br />
said. F
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