Downtown Pottstown's 'Haunts on High'

Pottstown's "Temple of Terror" opens Friday, Oct. 9 and runs every Friday and Saturday night in October.

If you’re looking for Halloween fun this month, you need look no further than downtown Pottstown.

A variety of local organizations have teamed up to create “Haunts on High,” a month-long calendar of activities that will put a shiver in your step.

It begins with the downtown merchants window decorating contest, which starts on Saturday. Voting

The Pottstown Halloween Parade will be Oct. 28.

begins on Oct. 24.

The Temple of Terror, the haunted attraction in the Masons lodge at the corner of King and North Franklin streets starts Oct. 9 and continues every Friday and Saturday night throughout October.

That attraction, in its third year, is staged by P.O.S.T., which stands for Pottstown Organizations Serving Together and is comprised of the Masons, the Elks, the AMBUCS and the Order of the Eastern Star.

They have joined forces with ArtFusion 19464, which is helping with the window decorating, as is the Pottstown MOMS Club.

On Friday, Oct. 16, a scarecrow contest will be held at the Manatawny Green mini-golf between King and High Streets and the next day, it will hold a workshop on how to build your own.

On Sunday, Oct. 18, the annual Monster Dash 5K run will be held in Riverfront Park, with registration starting at 7:30 a.m.

A example of last year's window decoration.

The YMCA Safehouse Trick or Treat will be held 6 p.m. Friday, Oct. 23.

That Friday and Saturday, Manatawny Green will hold its “Spooky Golf” from 6 p.m. until midnight.

The Pottstown Downtown Improvement District Authority is helping to coordinate downtown businesses which will host a “Safe Trick-or-Treat” event on Saturday, Oct. 24 from 12 to 8 p.m.

It will feature face painting, caramel apples, movies and other Halloween fun.

That will also be the day voting begins on the downtown window decorating contest.

Finally, Pottstown’s signature Halloween Parade will be held on Wednesday, Oct. 28.

Pottsgrove Grads Added to Honor Roll

From left, James L. Frymoyer Sr., Maurice H. Saylor, Lynn Amnescu,
a colleage of the late Donna Webber, and Sybil Genther Williams.

Four members of the Pottsgrove community were recently inducted to the Pottsgrove School District Honor Roll.

It was the 12th annual luncheon, sponsored by the Pottsgrove Retired Educators and the Pottsgrove Education Foundation, and held at the Elk's Club in Pottstown.

This year's honorees were Maurice H. Saylor, James L. Frymoyer Sr., the late Donna Webber and Sybil Genther Williams.

Saylor, a graduate of Pottsgrove High School, is a magisterial district judge and is active in the community coaching and referring.

Frymoyer, a graduate of Pottsgrove High School, has spent his entire life serving the community in charitable ways, mainly through the local Moose Lodge.

For 25 years, Webber taught reading at Lower Pottsgrove Elementary School and, to this day, her estate provides a sizeable scholarship to a graduating senior each year.

Williams, also a graduate of Pottsgrove High School, is a senior research biologist for Merck Cancer Research Laboratories in Maine.

Charles Yohn was the master of ceremonies, and he was assisted by Kenneth Harclerode, James Basile and Lynn Manescu in introducing the honrees. Jane Conley offered the invocation.

In addition to Basile and Yohn, the Honor Roll Committee is comprised of Linda Cole, John Meko, Joseph Dori, Arlan Bukert, Addison Davidson, Barbara Clayton, Earl Boehmer, Thomas Roberts and Robert Rheel.