MacLaomainn’s scares up a bundle for Food Bank, Food Shelf

Wendy Hayward and Mr Pumpkin at Scottish Pub. Photo by Shawn Cunningham.

MacLaomainn’s Scottish Pub raised $1,510 for the Vermont Food Bank and three boxes of food for the Food Shelf at Chester-Andover Family Center in its two-day Halloween Haunted House event held last Friday and Saturday.

Admission was $1 for children 10 and under, $5 for others or cans of food.

In an interview on Saturday afternoon, volunteer Wendy Hayward said she and 11 other volunteers had spent the past month helping MacLaomainn’s to assemble the elaborate Haunted House in the Great Hall of the Chester restaurant.

The hall was divided into a number rooms, including a living room that would make the Addams Family proud and a surgery outfitted to creep out the hardiest soul.

A charming couple greeted guests at MacLaomainn’s Haunted House. Photo by MacLaomainn’s.

Spines tingled to the dangling skeletons, evil automated dolls and fiendish clowns. But it wouldn’t have happened without the cadre of volunteers.

And, according to an email from pub owners Deb and Alan Brown, 32 volunteers helped out on freaky Friday while a total of 38 pitched in to put a little fright in the holiday during both the afternoon “kid-friendly” event and the Halloween night scream-fest.

The Browns extended a “huge thank you to everyone for the help in building the house,  working in it and dismantling it afterwards.”

MacLaomainn’s volunteers gather for freaky group photo. Photo by MacLaomainn’s.