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Enjoy Halloween Williams-style<br>

• On Friday, parents and kids alike can enjoy the Williams Elementary-Middle School’s Halloween carnival from 5:30-8 p.m. Admission is free and the carnival will be host to a wide variety of events and treats such as caramel apples, balloons, “scary-feely boxes,” face painting, ring toss, duck and fishpond, and more. Also available will be a bake sale, a cake walk, spook house, and loads of games such as sack races, a bucket toss, a basketball shoot, football toss, pin the nose on the scarecrow, squirt gun activity, and golf.

• Weather permitting, local residents Janice Shipman and Jennifer Price will host an all-out Haunted House Maze for families in Williams at their home — the large white house on the northeast corner of Sherman and Ninth —on Sunday from 3-10 p.m.

Admission is free, and all participants have to do is wander through a Halloween horror maze in the property’s front yard to get to the house and receive Halloween candy. Youngsters that may be too scared to enter can ask for candy up front.

The maze will feature mummies, zombies, vampires — complete with coffin — and other frightening figures accented with fog machines, strobe lights, and more.

Most of the Williams Jack in the Box crew, where Shipman is manager, will be playing the parts and she says it’s something her and Price have done to benefit the city and its residents.

“We’re new to the community. With the old house that we bought, we figured somebody had to do something with it for the neighborhood, and that’s us,” Shipman explained, adding that the haunted maze is something they’ll try to do every year.

• Businesses who encourage their employees to dress up for the holiday will be eligible to win trophies once again this year through the American Cancer Society/Williams Relay for Life’s 2004 Business Halloween contest. As in years past, businesses can sign up with WRFL representatives, who will then judge each business.

The judging is scheduled to be done Friday between the hours of 1-5 p.m., and will encompass categories such as best costumes as a group, best individual costume, best theme, best inside and best outside decoration.

• For adults, the Canyon Club on Route 66 in Williams will host a Halloween costume contest for cash prizes starting at 10 p.m.

• Denny’s Restaurant will also be holding a costume contest both for the scariest and most original get-ups. Each winner gets two free dinners and the fun starts Saturday at 9 p.m. with the costumes being judged at midnight. In addition, the Denny’s lounge is offering well drinks at $2.25, import pints for $3 and domestics for $2.

• The Rack and Bull Restaurant in Parks is offering drink specials and live entertainment throughout the whole Halloween weekend, Friday through Sunday.


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