Happy Halloween NEK
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- Created on Friday, 31 October 2014 19:59
- Written by Brooke Devine
AROUND THE NEK-All Hallows eve is finally here and the NEK has been buzzing with informational, scary and festive events for people of all ages to enjoy. From the terribly frightening, to the fun and festive, to the sentimental, this sure won't be a quiet night for the North East Kingdom.
Last night Lyndon State College's outing club and community service club (ASSIST) held a spooky tour through "The Forest of Fear" raising money to benefit local orginzation, Hope. This event had more than double the amount of people attending than they did last year raising $1192.67.
Admission to the terrifying woods was $3.00, the trail walk lasted about 40 minutes and had ten unique scare stations to frighten everyone.
Pete Searls, a ten year old attending the Forest of Fear thought it was scary but "not too scary, and gets people into the holiday spirit."
The woods opened up at 6:30pm holding less scary tours for children and around 7:50pm the actors really got into their roles and upped the scare anti.
The Lyndon community really came together to make this event so great with volunteers from the Lyndon Institute, Lyndon State College's Community Service Club (ASSIST), The Ski and Ride Club and The Hockey Club.
There were food and drinks available by donation and the movie "Young Frankenstein" playing on repeat.
The Master mind behind the event was Louis Deangelis "I was really impressed by the turn out last year and the nights not even close to over and we have more people here than last year. It's just a great event to bring everybody in the community together and get LSC kids involved."
Deangelis would like this event to happen and grow every year, with the turn out being what it was this year expect even more in 2015!
The Lyndon Fire House is holding an event tonight in honor of Halloween to ensure that everybody has not only a fun but a safe holiday.
The event will start at 6 pm in the fire house and is geared towards younger kids. There will be many fun activities such as a haunted house, Halloween crafts, face painting and of course plenty of candy.The festivities will run until 8 pm tonight.
If you're looking for something a little more grown up and a bit more frightening you could check out the Altman House. The Altman house not only gets transformed into a super scary two floor walk through haunted house, it is rumored to be the dwellings of real spirits.
In the early 1800's the Altman's house was a Farm house to The Simpsons. The story is that one night Mr.Simpson was brutally murdered by his wife in an upstairs room.
The owners of the house now said that they remain unaffected by ghostly feelings in all rooms of the house…except for one.
According to Cameron Dwinell who lives in the house; the room of the murder will send a chill down your spine "It's just a room that's creepier than all the rest. Everyone has this weird feeling and can feel the hairs standing on the back of their neck, it's just really creepy."
Instead of fearing the spirits the house owners embrace it, Zollie Altman thinks it's "far out and the coolest thing."
The Altman house is located in Glover and is open every night from 6 to 9 pm.
The Forest of Fear isn't the only event for the community put on by LSC, Currently there are 400 pounds of candy in the Moore Community room waiting for kids of the North East Kingdom that live in neighborhoods where houses are too spaced apart for safe trick-or-treating.
Kay Mcisaac is coordinating the trick or treat with the help of Lyndon state student volunteers. She has been planning this event for a long time and is very excited to being helping out not only the kids but the parents of the community: "We have a couple of events going on, the biggest thing we found that parents were really excited about was that the trick or treating was inside, there's a bus to get them all away around where they need to go, the fee for getting on the bus is a canned good for the food shelf, so we're trying to help out the ASSIST program with their trick or treat so a kid can eat."
Along with candy there will also be a craft table, coloring book station, scary story time and a DJ for dancing. Being contentious of everybody's health there will also be an allergy free table for youngsters to trade in any candy they might be allergic to.
A bus will stop at the Whites market across from the bandstand park, the Lyndon town fire department, The Lyndon municipal building, Lyndon Institutes lower campus on Vail green and bring them all to Lyndon State College.
Three-hundred or more children are expected to show up via the "Ghoul bus" for all of the free Halloween fun they can handle.
If you were looking for something that didn't involve candy or being scared you could have gone to the Pearson funeral home pumpkin lighting. The Pumpkin showcase had been a tradition in the 'ville for nearly 25 years when Don Pearson died and the tradition came to a stop.
It had been ten years since the last pumpkin was lit at the funeral home until yesterday. Current director of the funeral home, Brian Martin has decided to bring back the pumpkin lighting in memoriam of Don Pearsons.
The pumpkins will also be lit tonight and will be a beautiful sight for anybody who is a fan of pumpkins, lights or both.
Martin hopes to continue on this special Halloween tradition until he no longer directs funerals in Lyndonville.
On behalf of everybody in the Vermont Center for Community Journalism we wish you a very safe and fun Halloween. With all the activity going on tonight it is sure to be a great ghoulish experience.
