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Food Wanted At Haunted House

Pat Kondas Correspondent

Hunger is scary. But a Halloween haunted house will again help to alleviate hunger in the Cheney area.

Sponsored by the Cheney Parks and Recreation Department, the haunted house is staged as a community service project by the Sigma Nu fraternity and the Alpha Omicron Pi sorority at Eastern Washington University.

Admission is one can of food, said Parks Director Jerry Unruh.

Last year’s house brought in about one ton of food, Unruh said.

The haunted house is open 6-8:30 p.m. next Wednesday and Thursday at the Wren Pierson Building at Third and D streets in Cheney.

Also on Halloween night, the Cheney Kiwanis Club will host its annual children’s party at the Parks and Recreation building at Fifth and D streets. Third-grade and younger children are invited from 6-7 p.m.; fourth-graders through eighth-graders are invited from 7-8 p.m.

Area Boy Scouts will conduct a major food drive Nov. 2 for the food banks in Cheney, Medical Lake and Airway Heights. Last year’s drive produced about 3,000 pounds of food for each food bank.

Norma Smith, co-director of the Cheney Food Bank, said more than 150 Thanksgiving food baskets will be distributed. Joe Neuss said the Medical Lake Food Bank will distribute about the same number, and Tim Noon of the Airway Heights Food Bank said that organization will distribute 50 or more Thanksgiving food baskets.