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Whidbey Xtra! WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2015 | Vol. 1, No. 22 | WWW.WHIDBEYNEWSTIMES.COM | FREE
Haunting of Coupeville offers month of Halloween fun Ghosts and goblins will be out in full force as the Haunting of Coupeville starts Saturday, offering a month of hauntingly fun activities. Community par tners throughout Central Whidbey have been preparing Halloween and harvestinspired events and activities, offering a month of fun for all ages. Starting Saturday, visitors may again explore a corn maze daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. New this year will be a children’s corn maze, said Lynda Eccles, executive director of the Coupeville Chamber of Commerce. And for the truly brave, the haunted corn maze will be back this year the last three weekends of the month, 5-8 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays. The Coupeville High School drama club will once again be haunting the maze, Eccles said. Fort Casey State Park is also getting on the Halloween bandwagon, offering a haunted fort Oct. 16-17 and Oct. 23-24. Activities at Fort Casey will include a children’s maze, games, ghost stories in the
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The Halloween Torchlight Parade is one of many activities Coupeville will host in October, during the first annual Haunting of Coupeville. lighthouse and the haunting of Battery Reuben Turman. Sherman Pioneer Farms will once again offer trolley rides through the pumpkin patch, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesdays through Sunday.
Tickets include trolley ride and a pumpkin from the patch. There will also be several opportunities for competition this month with HarvestFest on Saturday, Oct. 10. This marks the last Coupeville
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farmers market of the season and the widely popular relay races, which raises funds for Gifts From the Heart food bank. Also on Oct. 10, try your hand at growing the biggest pumpkin. The Giant
Pumpkin Contest will be on display with weigh-in 11 a.m. to noon at the market. Saturday Oct. 24 will be an event-packed day with the Fall Festival at Coupeville Elementary School running from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. and a
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Halloween Costume 5k and one mile run/walk sponsored by the Coupeville Boys and Girls Club. Then the Halloween Torchlight Parade will take over downtown Coupeville with costume judging starting at 4:45 p.m. at Cook’s Corner Park, with the parade beginning at 5 p.m. On Sunday, Oct. 25 Coupeville’s Great Pumpkin Race will take over Alexander Street between Coveland and Front streets. Sponosored by the Coupeville Historic Waterfront Association, the race will feature handcrafted festive pumpkin racers. There are also opportunities to get creative painting pumpkins, decorating scarecrows and carving pumpkins. The month will end with a Halloween Dance to benefit Central Whidbey Hearts and Hammers. The dance will be held 8 p.m. at the Nordic Hall on Jacobs Road. For more information about times, dates and locations of Haunting of Coupeville events, go to http://minref.wix.com/coupeville-halloween