Eighth ‘Haunted Palouse’ will run for four nights

The eighth annual Haunted Palouse will run for four nights, Oct. 23-24 and Oct. 30-31. The event benefits the Palouse Community Center, Palouse Arts Council, the Roy M. Chatters Newspaper and Printing Museum, the Little People’s Playground Project in the park, and Palouse Lion’s community programs.

For those brave enough (12 and up), the two haunted buildings will wind the unsuspecting through the Newspaper and Printing Museum and the old city fire station for an authentic “Night of Fright.” from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Other chilling attractions will await on the eerie streets of Palouse. New this year will be a wagon ride through the Haunted Hay Ride. For a $15 admission, the soon-to-be-scared (12 and older) get into both buildings, the haunted hay ride, and fortune telling.

Back by popular demand, the fortune teller will intrigue the inquiring mind each night.

On Halloween night, Oct. 31, Palouse Lion’s Club will sponsor a party for young goblins starting at 6:30 p.m. Costume judging will be at 7:30, at the Palouse Legion Hall on Main Street.

Palouse Community Center Board is undertaking a comprehensive project to build and operate a new center.

In 2003, the Palouse Arts Council was formed to promote theater, music and art of all kinds. The council is a membership-based organization that maintains and operates the long-time Palouse Grange Hall.

The Roy M. Chatters Newspaper and Printing Museum officially opened in 1976. Through the Whitman County Historical Society, a matching funds grant was awarded from the Washington State Historical Society Capital Projects fund. The grand re-opening was in 2003. The museum houses much of the equipment used to print pioneer newspapers, including the two ton flatbed press purchased by the Palouse Republic in 1890. It also houses a nearly complete set of Palouse newspapers dating back to the 1880s. The collection includes newspapers from Endicott, Rosalia, Tekoa, Palouse, LaCrosse, St. John, Uniontown, Garfield and Colfax.

Little Peoples Playground project started in 2006 to provide safe playground equipment for children up to seven years old in the park.

Palouse Lion’s Club has a long-standing tradition of community support through building projects, highway clean-ups and scholarships.