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Show SPRINGVILLE HERALD Thursday, Ortober 25, 2007 10 An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied. - Arnold Glasow Aibend in the road is ot theind of the road, unless you fail to make the turn. vT7 mtftw 8I.S0, BREWING UP HALLOWEEN FUN SINCE 1990 . v. - immz, wmm,fmm shoes 170 fsQSTH MAIN SPANISH FOBK UIMIV mint, Jtoteted by; Imimvt A nf W V. J W w i r s r ci: o j i i ! Safety with purchase of Emmissions Test I.;-.'. Expires 10-31-07 SMARTPHICE GUARANTEE: If you can find a smarter advertised price pi any vehicle Uat is comparably equipped and has passed an equally rigorous inspection, inspec-tion, SmartPrice will beat it and give you a free home DVD player. - Author Unknown Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find out how to do it. - Theodore Roosevelt "1 If" 4 MainSfcSprinqvillh leal Estate If J tat in "' custom stairway elevator tmir rhnia mmnulnn vi fuui wiuivo, louiuvniy ii ic piiyoiwjl ULIUIIBIiytJS HIipUSBU Uy SlUllS. Stairway elevator features include: Battery backup for use during a power failure Easy fold-up leaving the stairway clear for use by others Swivel seat for ease and safety when getting in and out of the chair :fvr Call toll free 1-800-735-0408 the ELEVATOR company. m Li L Come see Spring resident re-creates Disney Cody Clark STAFF WRITER Instead of the hassle of arranging a trip to Disneyland Dis-neyland in Anaheim, California, Cali-fornia, to experience the Halloween-y vibe of the Haunted Mansion, why not put the kids in the family wagon and drive over to the Pete Widtfeldt home in Springville? No, Happy Valley hasn't been annexed by the Happiest Place on Earth. (Yet.) There is a little piece of the Disney magic right here in Springville, thanks to the holiday spirit of Widtfeldt. On every night of the week except Sundays, Sun-days, through Oct. 31, you can commune with the spirits of the Haunted Mansion simply by pulling up to the curb in front of Widtfeldt's home and tuning tun-ing your car radio to 106.7 FM. Widtfeldt has taken care of everything else. "I've always kind of been enamored of Halloween, since I was a kid," Widtfeldt Widt-feldt said. He remembers turning the front hallway in his parents' home into a spook alley for trick-or-treaters. So turning the entire street-facing exterior exte-rior of his own home into a three-dimensional companion com-panion piece to the Disney album "A Spooky Night in Disney's Haunted Mansion" Man-sion" is only his latest celebration cel-ebration of the season. Widtfeldt's festive display dis-play is like a drive-in movie mov-ie - you don't even get out of your car. All along the front of Widtfeldt's house, life-size (and life-like) models, mod-els, lighting and decorations decora-tions flash and sway while inn, .mlninln fi'lln Mt1n VALUE - 'i -jr.,, i' ,.rjiwf( fi Hi1! f-J't mwm in iff l?7 1 .3 i i.1 allows FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT in the home thn nkimiinl AkxlU. j i x! BRAKE SERVICE Includes new disc brake pads or shoes. Inspect rotors & drums, turning additional. Offer includes most vehicles. See store for details Expires 10-31-07 "w - Smartprice Auto Center 1715 W. 500 S. Springville 801-005-9500 ONE PRICE - SMART-PRICE Had a bad experience? and feel the difference! . . Epjesl03l"7 I it t i 7 r ; . . f i 1 "I've always kind of been enamored of Halloween, since I was a kid," said Pete Widtfeldt, Springfield resident who invites you to experience the terror of Disney's Haunted Mansion from the comfort of your car. Just pull up outside the front of his home, tune your radio to 106.7 FM and off you go. door.v Instead, there's a fake corpse that hangs from the front gable. And there's a little bit less privacy for the family. "You walk out your own front door and there are 15 or 20 cars parked in front of the house and that's a little strange," she said. Because it's fun for her husband, however, and fun for the couple's three children, ages 5, 8 and 16, Kristine Widtfeldt plays along. "I just sort of close my eyes and wait until October Oc-tober is over," she said. Besides, other people love it. Kim Jepperson, a neighbor neigh-bor of the Widtfeldts and a stay-at-home mother of four, said that the whole neighborhood was excited to see the special Halloween Hallow-een display again this year. And she said that parents and children will both en-' joy the atmosphere. "It's a little bit spooky, a little bit funny, a really entertaining en-tertaining family activity," Jepperson said. A childhood nightmare come to life " It was Widtfeldt's parents par-ents who started all of this, when they gave their young son a copy of "The Haunted Mansion LP' (later (lat-er reissued as "A Spooky Night in Disney's Haunted Mansion"). The album, recorded re-corded in 1969, tells the story of two kids who seek shelter in the Haunted Mansion during a storm, with narration from Thurl Ravenscroft (the original voice of Frosted Flakes spokes-'toon Tony the Tiger Ti-ger and the performer of Winterization Check 29 Point Inspection i t i I ! Full Service Premium ! ! Oil Change ! j Up to 5 qt. Premium Oil Oil Filter ! i "Lube Top Fluids 29 Point Inspection -Vacuum i Check Tire Pressure . . "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" on the 1966 cartoon car-toon adaptation of "How the Grinch Stole Christmas!"), Christ-mas!"), as well as the voice acting talents of filmmaker Ron Howard. "I wore the grooves out on that thing," Widtfeldt said. "I listened to the record re-cord over and over again." In 2005, he tracked down a cassette copy of the reissued reis-sued version at about the same time that he'd begun be-gun to fiddle" with Light-O-Rama, a home-display-lighting computer program popularized by the nationally nation-ally famous home Christmas Christ-mas lights display done by Ohio resident Carson Williams. Wil-liams. After copying the cassette to CD, he realized his cherished childhood memory was now compatible compat-ible with Light-O-Rama. "I kind of went, 'Wow, this would make a really cool Halloween display,' " Widtfeldt said. Already a habitual browser of day -after-Halloween sales at stores like Wal-Mart and Partyland, Widtfeldt had piles of seasonal sea-sonal decorations. He photographed pho-tographed the front of his home and then used Adobe PhotoShop to design his display. Then it was just a matter of getting every thing hung and stringing all of the lights. "The first time it was probably a good month spent on ladders," Widtfeldt Widt-feldt said, "and at least two weeks before that creating the audio track." Widtfeldt used computer software to "slice up" the recording and rearrange it Visit the Dreaded Grove For a haunting good time, you can visit the Dreaded Grove in Springville. Spring-ville. The Dreaded Grove is open Monday through Saturday until November 3 from dark to 10:30 p.m. weeknights and until midnight mid-night on Friday and Satur- lto--j-l ntsal Expires 10-31-07 j Hi 1 attraction to fit his display. Because his home display is free, he's not worried about hearing from Disney's attorneys. at-torneys. "I took a business law class at BYU. One of the things they mentioned is that money is the key issue is-sue in all things. If you're not making money, generally gen-erally speaking, nobody cares what you do." You'd think the neighbors neigh-bors might complain, but Widtfeldt solved the biggest big-gest potential problem by having his display be silent si-lent ... except in people's cars. "We don't hear a thing," said Jepperson. When the display went up for the first time, last year, she didn't even realize, at first, that her neighbor was up to anything different than his usual Halloween decorations. deco-rations. And Widtfeldt said, that streets are wide enough that traffic congestion hasn't been a problem. Kristine Widtfeldt said that the family has; gotten got-ten so much positive feedback that she almost didn't flinch at the thought of Halloween this year. Widtfeldt said that he probably won't keep doing do-ing the display indefinitely - but for now, he's happy to be passing out the coolest cool-est Halloween treat on the block. the display can be seen nightly from 7:30 tol0:30 p.m. (except. Sundays), through Oct. 31 at 498 E. 1050 North, Springville. For more information go to www.drivebyhaunted-house.com. www.drivebyhaunted-house.com. day. The grove is located at the 1-15 exit 261 in Springville. Spring-ville. Tickets are $16. Tickets Tick-ets can be pre-purchased online at www.thedread-edgrove.com. www.thedread-edgrove.com. The Dreaded Grove has 66 acres of horrific scenes, a fortune teller, live bands, bonfires, zip line, death jump, haunted hay ride, Halo 3 tournaments, food, scary movies, swamp rides and the spooky woods for kids ages 3-12. Proceeds from the Dreaded Grove benefit the Rocky Mountain Candle Lighters and is sponsored by Pepsi, Richter7, Craig Secrist Artwork and Andrew An-drew Ehninger Artwork. " For information go to www.thedreadedgrove. com. 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