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DECA holding haunted house Friday

Jeremy D. Smith , , , , , , ,

The Demopolis High School chapter of DECA is reminding students that drugs are scary while simultaneously raising funds for the 17th Judicial Circuit Drug Task Force.

The initiative is the impetus behind the haunted house the club will host Friday night at the Greenhouse behind Demopolis High School.

“As DECA, we are choosing to do this as a community service project. DECA is co-curricular with our classwork. Everything goes hand in hand. We try to pull all of our Career Tech Student Organization functions into the classroom,” club sponsor Connie Davis said. “This class has decided that they’re going to tackle this project from the entrepreneurship aspect. That’s why we did market research. They did some cross tabulation questions and they went to the middle school.”

Among the questions asked of DMS students by DECA members were what type of beverage they would like to see offered at the haunted house, whether or not they would attend and whether they would bring a friend to the event.

DECA students also asked their younger counterparts what they found most frightening.

“We asked the seventh and eighth graders what scares them the most. The choices were vampire, clown, zombies and ghosts,” Kesean Bell, who was part of the DHS entrepreneurship class’s research team, said. “We had a total of 128 people to vote. Vampire was the least with three votes. Clowns had 35, zombies had 34 and ghosts had 56.”

“They identified that the reason vampires were the least scary was because of the Twilight series. They’re not scary and that’s who the youth of today identify vampires to be,” Davis added.

The haunted house will employ the initiative’s tagline, “Drug are scary” as it looks to raise funds and provide a pre-Halloween jolt.

The haunted house will have five rooms including a waiting area, a doll room, a zombie room, a clown room and a prison cell.

The event is Friday, Oct. 25 from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. Admission is $3 for one and $5 for two. Proceeds will go to the 17th Judicial Circuit Drug Task Force.