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OCTOBER 21, 2023 | <strong>DIS</strong>COVER!<br />
4 |<br />
Halloween<br />
This Weekend!<br />
DON’T<br />
MISS<br />
OUT!<br />
RYLAN HOWE | STAFF WRITER<br />
At a Glance:<br />
WHAT: Spencer Jaycees “Nightmare<br />
at the Fair”<br />
WHERE: Tower Gate Pavilion, Clay<br />
County Fairgrounds, 800 W. 18th<br />
St., Spencer, IA<br />
WHEN: 7-11 p.m. Oct. 20, 21, 27,<br />
28<br />
COST: $15 or $10 with donation of<br />
two nonperishable, non-expired<br />
food items<br />
CONTACT: spenceriajaycees@<br />
gmail.com<br />
ONLINE: https://www.facebook.<br />
com/spencer.ia.jaycees<br />
It’s really dark in<br />
there. We only<br />
put lights in areas<br />
where we want you<br />
to have light. There<br />
are lots of pathways<br />
to get lost in the<br />
dark, which is maybe<br />
scarier than anything<br />
— the fear of the<br />
unknown.<br />
Craig Neiderheiser<br />
A FAIRY SCARY<br />
good time<br />
It will be dark. It will be scary. It<br />
will be a frightfully good time for<br />
family and friends this year during<br />
“Nightmare at the Fair.”<br />
The Spencer Jaycees have once<br />
again transformed the Tower Gate<br />
Pavilion at the Clay County Fairgrounds<br />
in Spencer into a haunted<br />
maze full of frights around every<br />
corner.<br />
Not that you can see any of the<br />
corners.<br />
“It’s really dark in there. We only<br />
put lights in areas where we want<br />
you to have light,” said Craig Neiderheiser,<br />
Spencer Jaycees president.<br />
“There are lots of pathways to get lost<br />
in the dark, which is maybe scarier<br />
than anything — the fear of the unknown.”<br />
People can face their fears starting<br />
this weekend as “Nightmare of the<br />
Fair” will be open Oct. 20-21 and<br />
Oct. 27-28 from 7-11 p.m.<br />
Admission will cost $15 per person,<br />
or $10 with the donation of two<br />
nonperishable, non-expired food<br />
items, all of which will be donated<br />
to Upper Des Moines Opportunity,<br />
Inc.<br />
“With the cost of food going up<br />
and more demand, they’ve been hit<br />
hard this year, so this is a huge help<br />
for them,” Neiderheiser said.<br />
It’s an event that’s become a longrunning<br />
tradition for the Jaycees and<br />
the community of Spencer — closing<br />
in on nearly 50 years.<br />
They’ve transformed buildings<br />
all around town during the those<br />
decades including several on the fairgrounds<br />
until they settled into the<br />
Tower Gate Pavilion the past several<br />
years.<br />
“We’ve been lucky to partner with<br />
the Clay County Fair. This spot has<br />
been very key for us. It’s well built,<br />
well insulated, which is key when it<br />
gets close to November and can get<br />
pretty cold,” Neiderheiser said. “We<br />
start transitioning to haunted house<br />
mode pretty much as soon as the fair<br />
is over — it’s quite a process.”<br />
And quite a few scares as well.<br />
“We’ll have a couple favorites that<br />
we always have — cars that wheel<br />
out at people in the dark which<br />
probably gets the most scares, and<br />
the gun chair that always gets quite<br />
a scare. But we’ll have always have<br />
new stuff too, that we’ll keep to ourselves,”<br />
Neiderheiser said.<br />
Find out for yourself this year during<br />
“Nightmare at the Fair.” F<br />
Spencer Jaycees ready again for “Nightmare at the Fair”<br />
Spencer | Iowa
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