(Spencer)– It’s time to get your scare on with Halloween just a couple weeks away. The Spencer Jaycees are again putting on their “Nightmare At The Fair” haunted house this Friday and Saturday, October 18th and 19th and again next Friday and Saturday, October 25th and 26th. It will be open those evenings from 7:00 to 11:00 pm at the Tower Gate Pavilion at the Clay County Fairgrounds. Jaycee member Jason Jacobs says admission will be $15 per person, or $10 per person if you bring two non-perishable food items with you…
“That’s a huge part of it for us. UDMO always needs help and always needs food, but for us this year we’re like really stressing, please bring two canned food items for Upper Des Moines and we’ll let you in for 10.”
Jacobs says you’ll notice a few changes in this year’s haunted house…
“A much different maze than what we’ve had in the past. That’s really kind of the change to it this year. We’ve got a few new rooms. I don’t want to spoil too much. A certain childhood doll will be a part of it. I think it’s going to be a lot of fun. One question we always get is okay, how old should my kid be to come to this? So I always say if you have a middle schooler like a 10 or 11-year-old who you think can make it through, probably going to be fine. Maybe mom and dad go through with the first time. But yeah, I think by the time they’re in middle school they’re probably okay. You’ve just got to know your own kid. High school age kids, usually they’re in a group of friends, they’re okay, so. And usually I think we limit those groups to four people.”
Jacobs adds the haunted house project is no small undertaking…
“What we’ve done in the past is now we’ve found groups to come in and help build. Midwestern Mechanical, Dakota Goodman and a crew from Midwestern Mechanical put it all up for us this year as far as the walls and everything, and man, they’ve been a super help and they also bring the big trailers and all the moving equipment to help us get all the plywood and the props from our storage units, which were unaffected by the flood. They were about a block away from the water, but we were able to avoid that and so thanks to them and of course the fair for letting us be out there because they use that building for storage and everything else, so for them to rent it out to us is really awesome.”
More information on “Nightmare at the Fair” can be found at the Spencer Jaycees Facebook page.
