GAMETI/RAE LAKES
Jean Wetrade Gameti School students are hard at work this week getting ready for the school's first Fright Fest fundraiser.

Bradley Zoe and Allison Apples are hard at work on Oct. 22 as members of the publicity team for the Fright Fest fall carnival at Jean Wetrade Gameti School. - photo courtesy of Shannon Longtin

It's scheduled to take place on Friday in honour of Halloween, said teacher Shannon Longtin.

Fright Fest events will take place at the school from 1:30 p.m. until about 3:10 p.m. and will feature a bake sale, hay bale rides and a variety of Halloween-themed activities, including giving out temporary tattoos.

Students signed up for four teams in charge of various events, Longtin said. Students on the social recreation team are responsible for games and activities while another team is focusing on charitable donations, where students ask businesses and organizations to donate items for a raffle draw.

The hospitality services team is in charge of the bake sale and the publicity team is responsible for sharing information about Fright Fest throughout the community, Longtin said.

Organizing and carrying out the events count toward the community service credits required to graduate.

"Rather than them do their own individual community service hours, we do it as a group," Longtin said. "It's basically one big fundraising event that includes the whole entire community."

Last year, Longtin and another teacher organized a similar event called the Winter Carnival. But Longtin said it fell on a busy time of year, so staff decided to switch the theme for this year's events.

"We decided to turn it into a fall carnival, a Halloween carnival," she said.

Grade 12 student Kelsey Bekale said she is a member of the hospitality services team and is going to help bake the treats needed for the bake sale.

"I'm really good at baking cake and cupcakes," she said.

Other items will include cookies and Jell-O cups with gummy worms.

Bekale said she expects many community members will attend Fright Fest.

"There is going to be face painting," she said. "There is lots of stuff we're going to be doing for kids and adults."

The hay bale rides are also expected to be popular.

"We're going to hitch a trailer to either the school quad or the school van and we're going to take kids on a path throughout the community," Longtin said. "The people running it are going to be telling ghost stories."

Entry to Fright Fest will cost $5 and includes a drink or a ticket for a baked good item.

All money raised will be put toward the school's graduation ceremonies in the spring, Longtin said.

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