A Nightmare on Main Street

Things are coming together very well for our first ever attempt at a haunted house. We have been kicking around making a haunted house for a few years and this year I met a couple of amazing people who were a huge help during Harry Potter this summer. So now I am cob-web deep in making a haunted house.

The response from the community has been wonderful. We have collected over $800 in sponsorships from area businesses so we could afford to purchase things we need to make this haunted house the best ever. We also have a couple of businesses who have donated materials and in-kind items for the haunted house.

So far we have 7 rooms designed, built and almost finished. My favorite thing to do is to "decorate" scenes when we do shows. So I am in my element decorating these haunted rooms. We are still looking for some more actors and safety people to be in the haunted house during its four night run. If this is successful I am pretty positive that this will become an annual event.

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Time on your hands?

When you are part of a non profit totally volunteer run organization THANK YOU isn't enough but it's all we can afford.I am not sure how many people think about what it takes to keep our Community Theatre thriving. Money, yes- we can always use money.

But what is worth more to me than your money is your time. With just 6 people and three hours of solid work we were able to accomplish so much at the CAC/CCT Studio Building on Main Street. A wall came down, piles of stuff were sorted through and organized and a large commercial dumpster was filled. Costume donations that have been sitting in boxes and bags for months were sorted through. Floors were swept and weeds were pulled. At the end of the afternoon all I could say was THANK YOU!

Please, consider donating a couple of hours of time once in awhile to causes where you live. Time isn't something we can save for a rainy day and you can't buy it on a shelf. But time can make a huge difference in so many ways.

THANK YOU to everyone who volunteers their time to causes. YOU keep us going.