FRIGHTENING FOR A GOOD CAUSE FUN FEAR PROCEEDS OF PALMDALE HAUNTED HOUSE GO TO PRO-CARE HOSPICE IN LANCASTER.Byline: CHARLES F. BOSTWICK Staff Writer PALMDALE -- Dozens of teens will offer scares for a good cause next weekend through Halloween. The brainchild brain·child n. An original idea or plan attributed to a person or group. brainchild Noun Informal an idea or plan produced by creative thought Noun 1. of 19-year-old horror movie fan Nigel Collins, a 5,000-square-foot haunted house A haunted house is defined as building that is believed to be a center for supernatural occurrences or paranormal phenomena.[1] A haunted house may contain ghosts, poltergeists, or even malevolent entities. erected in a west Palmdale neighborhood puts Freddie Krueger, Leatherface, vampires, clowns and other teen movie nightmares into a maze running through hundreds of feet of plywood- walled corridors. ``I'm excited. I want to scare some people,'' Collins said as he directed a dozen teen volunteers recently in where to spread mulch mulch, any material, usually organic, that is spread on the ground to protect the soil and the roots of plants from the effects of soil crusting, erosion, or freezing; it is also used to retard the growth of weeds. or plant posts. An Antelope Valley College Antelope Valley College is a comprehensive community college located in Lancaster, California, USA. It is operated by the Antelope Valley Community College District, with a primary service area of 1,945 square miles covering portions of Los Angeles and Kern counties. student, he has built haunted houses at his home for years. ``Twisted Torment'' will be open Friday through Halloween night at 1751 W. Ave. O-8, at the corner of 18th Street West and Avenue O-8. Hours are 6 to 10p.m. Friday, 6 to 11:30p.m. Saturday, and 6 to 10p.m. Sunday, Oct.30 and Oct.31. Special tours for children age 12 and younger will run 3 to 6p.m. Sunday. Cost is $10 on Halloween night, $5 on other days. The children's tour is $5. Proceeds go to Pro-Care Hospice in Lancaster. Friends, friends of friends and Highland High School Highland High School or Highlands High School may refer to: In the United States:
Nigel expects the horror cast to number 25 to 60, depending on the night, with Halloween's show to expand outside the maze. The haunted house is not recommended for children younger than 13, he said. The kids' day on Sunday will tour them through without scaring them, Collins said. ``We walk them through and tell them what we're doing. It's really like a workshop,'' he said. Collins' Halloween productions started nine Halloweens ago with decorating his front porch and lying on the lawn pretending to be a dummy Sham; make-believe; pretended; imitation. Person who serves in place of another, or who serves until the proper person is named or available to take his place (e.g., dummy corporate directors; dummy owners of real estate). . He would sit up and shout as trick-or-treaters walked up. ``I couldn't scare anybody,'' he said. The decorations expanded to the garage, then took over the backyard, then the front yard. Last year, about 500 people came through his haunted house. This Halloween, his uncle Jim Sanchez loaned him the use of the open space behind his home on 2 1/2 acres north of the Antelope Valley Mall The Antelope Valley Mall is an enclosed shopping mall in Palmdale, California. Opened in September, 1990, its buildings take up around 1 million square feet (90,000 m²). Its physical main building, parking lots, and ring road businesses encompass an area a bit less than 0. . ``We have a lot more area to be creative. My mom's not going to let me dig holes in her front yard,'' Collins said. Collins and friends began setting up in September. ``I think we're going to start earlier next year,'' said Jack Muns, a 17-year-old Highland High School student who has helped with Collins' haunted houses for five years or more. Muns is this year's producer, responsible for begging, scrounging and buying the materials for the haunted house. Props include a ``Bombing Range'' warning sign, torture table and 8-foot-tall plywood plywood, manufactured board composed of an odd number of thin sheets of wood glued together under pressure with grains of the successive layers at right angles. Laminated wood differs from plywood in that the grains of its sheets are parallel. tunnel discarded dis·card v. dis·card·ed, dis·card·ing, dis·cards v.tr. 1. To throw away; reject. 2. a. To throw out (a playing card) from one's hand. b. from movie studios and other objects rescued from Dumpsters. ``Most of my paychecks are going to this,'' said Collins, who works for Palmdale's parks and recreation department as a program leader. ``I really want to be in Hollywood: director, actor, whatever I can.'' IF YOU GO ``Twisted Torment'' hours are 6-10 p.m. Friday; 6-11:30 p.m. Saturday; 6-10 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 30 and Oct. 31. Children's tours will run 3-6 p.m. Sunday. CAPTION(S): 7 photos, box Photo: (1 -- color in Verb 1. color in - add color to; "The child colored the drawings"; "Fall colored the trees"; "colorize black and white film" color, colorise, colorize, colour in, colourise, colourize, colour AV edition only -- ran in AV and SAC Sac: see Sac and Fox. SAC - 1. An early system on the Datatron 200 series. [Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959)]. editions) Makeup artists, from left, Danielle Thieman, Margaret Dluzak, 18, and Bridgette Collins, 21, turn 16-year-old Brandi Hares into a swamp witch for the Twisted Torment haunted house at 1751 W. Ave. O-8 in Palmdale. (2 -- color) Jack in the Box gets ready for the Twisted Torment haunted house in Palmdale, which opens Friday and runs through Halloween. (3 -- 4) Nigel Collins, above, sets up a skeleton in the maze. Below from left, Jack Muns, as Scarekill, Collins as Bubba bub·ba n. Slang 1. Chiefly Southern U.S. Brother. 2. A white working-class man of the southern United States, stereotypically regarded as uneducated and gregarious with his peers. Joe and Drew Smith as the chain saw killer guard the sign of the Twisted Torment haunted house at 1751 W. Ave O in Palmdale. (5) Jack Muns, 17, from left, as Scarekill and Nigel Collins, 19, as Bubba Joe go through a maze in the Twisted Torment haunted house in Palmdale, which opens Friday. (6 -- 7) Nigel Collins, above, sets up a dummy on the torture table, while Jack Muns, below left, and Brandon Fletcher set up a scene for the haunted house. Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer Box: IF YOU GO (see text) |
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