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SpookyWagon Ride finishes for the season
Spooky Wagon Ride continues to be famous all over Eastern Ontario and WesternQuébec.In19yearsofoperation, owner Dennis Taylor has added to the
frights, with more buildings, staff, volunteersandwagons. It’saterrifyingride. Childrenunder10are warnedthat theymightbe tooscared.Older children are encouraged to take the afternoon ride. The night ride is for older teensandadultsandhasmorespecialeffects… and complete darkness. Anything can happenand it cancome fromanydirection. The tricks look so real it is hard to resist theurgenot toattempt rescuingsomeof the young people acting out the scenes. But everything is but illusion. For example, an apparent noose isheldbyvelcro, not aknot, explains wagon driver Jane Galbraith of Winchester. Besides the ride there is also a House of Terror, thisyearpresentedby theSt. Francis XavierHighSchoolBandfromHammond; a Kid’s Spooky House, FogMaze, DarkMaze andSpookyVillage, completewithaneerily
accurate village fortune teller. Theorchard’s thrillsandchillshave filled part of the void left in Halloween agro- tourismwhenPatterson’sBerryFarmstopped doingtheirhauntedhouse,mazesandother Halloweenactivities several years ago. CannamoreOrchardowner Taylor, who wasmakingcottoncandyat the time, said it hadbeen a good season, but hewas looking forward to that night’s (October 29) final wagon ride and winding down next week. They expectedover 1000visitors that night. “It’s beenagood seasonoverall,” he said. “Wehadareallygoodappleseasonhere.The pumpkin crop was enough, not like some yearswhenwehavethousandsofextras,and thestrawberrieswerebelowaverage.Butthe plants for next year look really good. ” The orchard was planted in 1982 and selling its first apples in 1985. Tourismcame later and now their fall weekend activities
C ANDICE V ETTER candice.vetter@eap.on.ca
CANNAMORE | Cannamore Orchard’s
Ottawa 613-830-5050 Embrun 613-443-7242 www.castorhomecomfort.ca Serving the Greater Ottawa Area for over 16 Years. TSSA #0076482215
photo Candice Vetter Benjamin Hébert of Hull was locked in the stocks by his brother, just in time to provide anice snack for the vampire unlivingnext door inCannamoreOrchard’s Spooky Village on October 29.
areverypopular. It isopen toactivities from mid-Junetomid-Julyduringberryseason,in the summer opens for occasional camps or school trips, then reopens to the public August 15. They have a cow train, a duck race, a paddle race, and lots of fluffy and feathered creatures.SaysTaylor,“Anytimeyoucanget kids interactingwithanimals it’s funand it’s good for them.” They have also just opened seven green mazes. A flower maze contains 2500 perennials. Cannamore Orchard is best known for its spookiness, though. Said two mothers who were visiting from Aylmer, “The dark maze is the most amazing. It’s pitch black; you feel your way. We had to form a human chain. We were pushing the kids to get out. The best part was the Exit sign.” Other visitors described being terrified again and again, and fromthe looks of their faces and the sounds of screams in the distance they weren’t exaggerating. Next year will be the orchard’s 20 th anniversary.
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