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Halloween activities offered

Social Issues and Health | Thu, 10/29/2009 - 9:33 am | Read 1472 | Commented 0 | Emailed 1
Tags: haunted houses planned, Trick-or-treating

By Starla Pointer

Trick-or-treating events, haunted houses and other activities are planned this weekend as children and the young at heart celebration Halloween.

Friday, Oct. 30

-- Linfield College students will host their annual trick-or-treat tour of campus, Friday, Oct. 30. Children, accompanied by parents, may trick-or-treat in participating residence halls from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

Youngsters and their parents need to meet in the Fred Meyer Lounge in Riley Hall to start the tour.

The event is sponsored by Resident Life and the Residence Hall Executive Council. For more information, contact Joelle Cheek, resident life assistance, at jcheek@linfield.edu; or Rachel Rickinger, area director for residence life, at rrickin@linfield.edu or 503-883-5390.

-- Clayton Homes in McMinnville will host its fourth-annual “Fright Night” from 6 to 8 p.m.. Friday, Oct. 30. Children can trick-or-treat free, although they are asked to donated canned or boxed food for the Yamhill County Food Bank. Adults must accompany kids.

Clayton Homes is located at 1120 Old Sheridan Rd., McMinnville, across from Walnut City Lanes on the southwest edge of town. For more information, call 503-435-1155.

Saturday, Oct. 31

-- McMinnville’s popular Downtown Safe and Sane Trick or Treat event will take place on Third Street Saturday, Oct. 31.

Halloween activities will be offered starting at 3 p.m. with free hay rides provided by Heiser Farms. Linfield College students will host free games on the U.S. Bank Plaza from 3 to 4 p.m.

The News-Register will offer Halloween photos from 3 to 4:30 p.m. Photos cost $1, which will benefit the Yamhill County Food Banks.

Businesses will be open for trick-or-treating from 4 to 5:30 p.m.

Third Street will be closed to motorized traffic from 2 to 6 p.m. that day due to the event, which is sponsored by the McMinnville Downtown Association.

-- In Lafayette, the fifth-annual free haunted house will run from 5 p.m. to midnight Halloween night at 1282 Third St., Lafayette. The location is in front of Pioneer Park mobile estates.

-- The Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum will host its annual Trick-or-Treat in Outer Space event from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 31. Cost is $5 for young people 5 to 16; for adults, the cost is $11 prior to Thursday, Oct. 29, and $13 thereafter.

The family event will include a petting zoo, a parade and safe trick-or-treating in the Evergreen Space Museum. The Museum Education Department will also offer Halloween crafts and a reading of “Fright Night Flight” by Laura Krauss.

For more information, call the Museum Events Department at 503-434-4185 or email events@sprucegoose.org.

-- At Linfield College, sorority and fraternity are teaming up to sponsor a haunted house Halloween night.

“Fear on Every Floor” will be open to the public from 6 to 10 p.m. Saturday at the Delta House, 369 S.E. College St. Admission is $2 for Henderson House or two cans of food for the Yamhill County Food Bank.

Delta Psi Delta fraternity and Zeta Tau Alpha sorority are once again working on the Halloween benefit. Last year, it raised more than $300 for charity.

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