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L L O W E E N Wednesday November 4 2015 11 By DALI CARMICHAEL Whats creepier than hanging out at a jail on Halloween A whole lot it turns out. Every year the River Ridge Correctional Centre in Fort Smith welcomes young ghouls and goblins to haunt its front lawn while noshing on hot dogs hot chocolate and - of course - Halloween candy. This is the eleventh year weve run this said warden Warren Gillis. Over the years weve built different parts of the setup. The guys like it the staff like it the community appreciates it - its a lot of fun. A spooky stand houses the main food prep operations while a wall tent is posted next door allowing cold kids and their families to get warmed up. A sprawling series of snow-covered graves decorated with styrofoam headstones and perhaps a ghost or two add to the eerie ambiance A history of Halloween at the River Ridge Correctional Centre ARTS CULTURE EXHIBIT as do flashing lights from the bylaw offi- cers truck. Its great lots of people get involved said James Toko MacDonald a staffer with the facility. Weve had to get an ofcer to direct trafc because it gets so busy. The effort also receives support from local businesses. Both the Northern store and Kaesers supermarket conjure up supplies to make the happening possible. Its just one small element of the restorative justice and volunteer initiatives inmates at the centre participate in Gillis said. Its good for the guys. A lot of them have their own kids in the community or outside the community he noted. They dont get to see them very often so this is one way for them to kind of get out and celebrate. The volunteers handed out more than 300 hot dogs and even more cups of hot choco- late this year organizers said. PhotosDaliCarmichael L L O W E E N Top above Kids of all ages enjoyed the annual open house at the River Ridge Correctional Centre Halloween night in Fort Smith. Zoey McNab Jordan Panter Lydia Newman Henry Thorne Josie Turner and Kai Clubine got in the costume spirit without ever leaving the couch.llowknife