Haunted Palouse will return for 18th edition

Palouse Chamber of Commerce announced the 18th annual Haunted Palouse, a four-night Halloween haunting, will be Friday and Saturday, Oct. 18 and 19, and Friday and Saturday, Oct. 25 and Oct. 26.

Haunted Palouse is rated in The Daily Evergreen as among “200 things every Cougar absolutely, positively, without a doubt must do before graduation.”

For those, ­­­12 and up, who are brave enough, the two haunted buildings will wind the unsuspecting through the Newspaper and Printing Museum and the Old City Fire Station and Jail for an authentic night of fright. Continuing this year will be the haunted hay ride.

The buildings will creak and howl from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Ticket sales will close at 10 p.m., but the event will continue for ticketed patrons. With a $25 admission fee the soon-to-be-scared get into both buildings and the haunted hay ride.

Returning this year is “20 for 20” group sales for the first night. For groups of 20 or more there is a 20 percent discount for tickets sold in a bundle with prior arrangements. Call 509-595-1129.

The popular fortune telling continues with $1 per person benefiting the Garfield-Palouse-Oakesdale-Plummer swim team.

Freaky food vendors will offer hearty witch cider potions, hairy scary hamburgers and sickly sweet treats.

For more information about this event go to http://www.visitpalouse.com/haunted-palouse/ and Haunted Palouse’s official Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/groups/167304590616/ or call 509-330-0353.

This event benefits the Palouse Community Center, Palouse Skatepark and Tony Kettel Skate Gardens, SciBorgs Palouse Area Robotics Team (4H), the Roy M. Chatters Newspaper and Printing Museum, the VIKotics Garfield Palouse High School Robotics Team, Garfield Palouse Athletic Club, Gar-Pal FFA, and the Palouse Chamber of Commerce.

More than 30 years ago, a group formed the Palouse Community Center Board. With help from Haunted Palouse proceeds, after many years of working and planning, the grand opening of the Community Center was in the spring of 2012. A focal point of the Palouse Community Center Board is to provide a welcoming and accessible place for community members of all ages to gather for the person-to-person connection that truly makes a community a community.

The Roy M. Chatters Newspaper and Printing Museum houses much of the equipment used to print pioneer newspapers, including the two quarter-ton flatbed press purchased by the Palouse Republic in 1890. There is 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 Colton.

The Garfield Palouse Athletic Club supports and sponsors a variety of local youth sports. Gar-Pal FFA has a tradition of preparing and training students through a wide range of leadership activities.

The SciBorgs Palouse Area Robotics Team (4H), and GarPal High School’s VIKotics Robotics Team promotes and encourages the sport of Science and Technology through FIRST international competitions, supports interest in STEM education and brings some creepy high-tech to Haunted Palouse.