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OCTOBER 21, 2023
It’s always just fun to see what people come up
with. Some of our volunteers — what they are
born to do to is scare the crud out of kids.
Lexie Ruter
MARK YOUR
CALENDARS!
A
HALLOWEEN
Hike full of
Walk through Fort Defiance State Park for delicious
scares on Oct. 28 — SEE PAGE 7
A fairy
Dickinson
County Nature
Center hosts
Halloween bash
— SEE PAGE 5
good time
Spencer Jaycees ready
again for “Nightmare at
the Fair”
— SEE PAGE 4
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Contents
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Halloween:
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Halloween:
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Other
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Halloween:
Spencer Jaycees
ready for “Nightmare at the Fair.”
Dickinson County
Nature Center hosts bash.
Happenings: Other
must-see area events to check out.
Estherville hosts
Fright Hike on Saturday, Oct. 28.
Screen
new at the box office
IN THIS ISSUE
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The Dickinson County Nature Center will be hosting Howlin’ Halloween at 5 p.m.
Friday, Oct. 27, to offer some family fun and to highlight some ‘creepy’ creatures.
Limited release movies are not included in “What’s New.” Only films that receive an average “C” or better rating by movie
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oil-wealthy Osage Nation, a string
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Doctor’s orders for one week of soft
food are what got us started on our
kitchen marathon last Saturday.
Our daughter has known for several
months that she needed to have her wisdom
teeth extracted,
but she didn’t want
the procedure to mess
up a summer weekend,
so she put it off.
Last Friday was the
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Knowing we wouldn’t likely be doing
much on Saturday as she recovered, a
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We took a divide-and-conquer approach
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meat browning, can organizing and opening,
measuring out spices and seasonings.
The 29-ingredient stew recipe requires
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years ago.
The chili, chicken and wild rice, creamy
potato and pumpkin soups all yield more
manageable batches.
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Halloween
This Weekend!
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RYLAN HOWE | STAFF WRITER
At a Glance:
WHAT: Spencer Jaycees “Nightmare
at the Fair”
WHERE: Tower Gate Pavilion, Clay
County Fairgrounds, 800 W. 18th
St., Spencer, IA
WHEN: 7-11 p.m. Oct. 20, 21, 27,
28
COST: $15 or $10 with donation of
two nonperishable, non-expired
food items
CONTACT: spenceriajaycees@
gmail.com
ONLINE: https://www.facebook.
com/spencer.ia.jaycees
It’s really dark in
there. We only
put lights in areas
where we want you
to have light. There
are lots of pathways
to get lost in the
dark, which is maybe
scarier than anything
— the fear of the
unknown.
Craig Neiderheiser
A FAIRY SCARY
good time
It will be dark. It will be scary. It
will be a frightfully good time for
family and friends this year during
“Nightmare at the Fair.”
The Spencer Jaycees have once
again transformed the Tower Gate
Pavilion at the Clay County Fairgrounds
in Spencer into a haunted
maze full of frights around every
corner.
Not that you can see any of the
corners.
“It’s really dark in there. We only
put lights in areas where we want
you to have light,” said Craig Neiderheiser,
Spencer Jaycees president.
“There are lots of pathways to get lost
in the dark, which is maybe scarier
than anything — the fear of the unknown.”
People can face their fears starting
this weekend as “Nightmare of the
Fair” will be open Oct. 20-21 and
Oct. 27-28 from 7-11 p.m.
Admission will cost $15 per person,
or $10 with the donation of two
nonperishable, non-expired food
items, all of which will be donated
to Upper Des Moines Opportunity,
Inc.
“With the cost of food going up
and more demand, they’ve been hit
hard this year, so this is a huge help
for them,” Neiderheiser said.
It’s an event that’s become a longrunning
tradition for the Jaycees and
the community of Spencer — closing
in on nearly 50 years.
They’ve transformed buildings
all around town during the those
decades including several on the fairgrounds
until they settled into the
Tower Gate Pavilion the past several
years.
“We’ve been lucky to partner with
the Clay County Fair. This spot has
been very key for us. It’s well built,
well insulated, which is key when it
gets close to November and can get
pretty cold,” Neiderheiser said. “We
start transitioning to haunted house
mode pretty much as soon as the fair
is over — it’s quite a process.”
And quite a few scares as well.
“We’ll have a couple favorites that
we always have — cars that wheel
out at people in the dark which
probably gets the most scares, and
the gun chair that always gets quite
a scare. But we’ll have always have
new stuff too, that we’ll keep to ourselves,”
Neiderheiser said.
Find out for yourself this year during
“Nightmare at the Fair.” F
Spencer Jaycees ready again for “Nightmare at the Fair”
Spencer | Iowa

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Halloween
KATE HARLOW | STAFF WRITER
A HOWLIN’
Halloween at the Dickinson tor with the Dickinson County Nature
Center. “Families will also learn Danika Cox, the environmental edustood
more and respected,” said
County Nature Center is sure
to be a howlin’ good time. about some of our ‘spooky’ animals cation coordinator. “They are not
The annual Howlin’ Halloween
event will take place at 5 p.m. Friday,
Oct. 27.
The program is geared toward
families with young children and
will feature some animals that fit
right in for Halloween.
“Experience a night of fall fun
by testing your knowledge with
pumpkin trivia! If you can answer
all questions correctly, you win a
prize. Kids will also get to make their
own trick-or-treat bag to take home
for Halloween, make a wreath with
colorful fall leaves, and test your aim
at the Acorn Toss,” said Amy Heibult,
the community relations coordina-
and their important ecological roles.
The take-away will be that these animals
do not need to be harmed because
we are scared of them, but that
they have their place in this world.”
It will be a fun and educational
event for family, and the organizers
are hoping that the spookiness of
Halloween will translate into increased
interest in some more sort of
creepy animals.
“I’m hoping families will learn
more about some of the animals
that have a bad reputation. While
those animals might be associated
with Halloween and seem scary, they
are animals that need to be under-
always these big, scary things that
we make them out to be. They are
always something much different.”
In addition to learning more
about animals they will also be
learning about a range of topics as
they relate to the holiday with a fun
game — pumpkin trivia.
“The Pumpkin Trivia will be really
fun for everyone; it will include
questions about history and animals
associated with Halloween,” said
Cox.
Whether you are looking for some
quality family time, an educational
event or just a fun way to have fun,
the Howlin’ Halloween event at the
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Nature Center should have you covered.
And they are excited, too.
“I love everything about Halloween,
so I’m excited for all of it,” said
Cox. F
Okoboji | Iowa
At a Glance:
WHAT: Howlin’ Halloween
WHERE: Dickinson County Nature
Center, 22785 Nature Center
Road, Okoboji, IA
WHEN: 5 p.m. Friday, Oct. 27
COST: Free and preregistration is
required
CONTACT: 712-336-6352
ONLINE: www.dickinsoncountyconservationboard.com
Dickinson
County
Nature
Center hosts
Halloween
bash

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Other Happenings
Trinity’s
Trunkity
Treat
Come dressed in
your costume
with your buckets.
There will be decorated
car trunks in the parking
lot of Trinity United
Church of Christ in
Hartley, IA, handing
out treats.
WHERE: Trinity United
Church of Christ, 140
5th Ave. E, Hartley, IA
WHEN: 11 a.m.-noon
Sunday, Oct. 29
COST: Free
CONTACT: 712-928-
4278
ONLINE: www.hartleyiowa.com
Candy in the Valley
Candy is a major part of Halloween. In fact,
Rock Valley has named their Halloween
celebration in its honor. Once again this
year, they’ll be hosting their annual Candy in
the Valley event.
Downtown Rock Valley will become a Halloween
paradise for kids and their families
from 3:30-5 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 25.
Candy in the Valley is an event that has been
going on for a number of years and is always
a treat for both the families who come to the
event and for the businesses who participate.
WHERE: Downtown Rock Valley
WHEN: 3:30-5 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 25
COST: Free
CONTACT: 712-476-5707
ONLINE: www.cityofrockvalley.com
Rock Rapids Halloween
Parade
On Halloween Day in downtown Rock Rapids there will
be a sight to see.
Ghosts and goblins, pumpkins and princesses and
more will be on parade.
Rock Rapids will once again be hosting its annual Halloween
Parade at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 31. Kids of all ages from all over
N’West Iowa are invited to come to Rock Rapids and participate
in this fun tradition.
The fun starts in the Sunshine Foods parking lot at 4 p.m.
and then the parade of costumed little kiddies heads east down
First Avenue and then they cross it to the other side of the street
and come back to the parking lot where their cars are parked.
Parents are invited to come along for the parade to watch
their kids and help them cross streets and gather candy.
Businesses will have people to hand out candy outside of
their businesses. And they have to have a lot of candy on hand.
WHERE: Downtown Rock Rapids
WHEN: 4-5 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 31
COST: Free
CONTACT: 712-472-3456
ONLINE: www.rockrapids.com

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It’s always just fun to see what people
come up with. Some of our volunteers —
what they are born to do to is
scare the crud out of kids. Lexie Ruter
Hike FULL of
FRIGHT
Get scared in Fort Defiance
State Park on Oct. 28
Halloween is the one time of the
year when people are looking
to be scared just for the fun of it.
The Estherville Chamber of Commerce
has got you covered.
This will be the eleventh year that
Fort Defiance State Park will play
host to the Fright Hike hosted by the
Estherville Chamber of Commerce.
The spookiness will run from 6-9:30
p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 28.
The Fright Hike is a roughly halfa-mile
hike through the woods of
Fort Defiance State Park, which will
be studded with volunteer groups
acting out scary scenes as well as individuals
waiting in the shadows for
the chance to scare your socks off.
This one-night-only event requires
about 50-60 volunteers to pull together
as everything is set up and
torn down that weekend and then to
help coordinate the crowds as well as
the scares on the hike.
“A lot of our groups are volunteers
and some of those groups do the
same scare theme every year and
other try out new things,” said Lexie
Ruter, the executive director of the
Estherville Chamber of Commerce.
The hike is extremely popular and
has grown dramatically over the 11
years they’ve been hosting the event.
At the beginning they originally
held the Fright Hike on whatever
night Halloween was, but after
seeing the crowds explode when
Halloween happened to fall on a
Saturday one year, they decided to
host the event the Saturday before
Halloween.
“We had 1,200 people last year. We
had a little over that in 2021, but we
had about as much as we can handle,”
Ruter said. “It’s awesome. It’s
three-and-half-hours and fast-paced
but it’s a great experience.”
A few years ago, in an attempt to
add more capacity as well as reduce
the scare a bit, they added a “Lights
On” hour from 6-7 p.m.
“We just turn down the scare for
our Lights On hour. We tell people
that for this hour we’ll turn on the
chain saw and then after 7, we’ll
chase you with it,” Ruter said with a
laugh.
This is one of Ruter’s favorite
events that the chamber does every
year.
“It’s always just fun to see what
people come up with. Some of our
volunteers — what they are born
to do is scare the crud out of kids,”
Ruter said.
Scares aplenty will be waiting for
you in the dark woods of Fort Defiance.
F
Estherville | Iowa
At a Glance:
WHAT: Fright Hike
WHERE: Fort Defiance State Park,
175th St., Estherville, IA
WHEN: 6-9:30 p.m. Saturday,
Oct. 28
COST: $10
CONTACT: 712-362-3541
ONLINE: www.estherville.org/
fright-hike.html
KATE HARLOW | STAFF WRITER

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