The Lawson Haunt

09/30/2025

For those who would love to donate towards our local scholarship program you now have a chance to do so!

09/27/2025

THE LAWSON HAUNT GOES DARK IN 2025

After an exhaustive search for new committee members, the Lawson Community Foundation and Haunt committee have announced that the Haunt will not take place this fall due to a lack of volunteers. The Haunt was started 9 years ago in Dale Stark’s garage and grew to take over an entire building with the support of a hardcore group of volunteers that ran it for the past 8 years. We had a successful year last year with the Haunt with a huge group of new volunteers, unfortunately this year the Haunt committee and Foundation was tasked with finding 10-12 volunteers to build the scenery and serve as characters over the course of 3 weekends and Halloween night. Although we had several people step up and volunteer time and energy towards the Haunt, we just didn’t have enough to pull off all nights of the Haunt. While we love the true meaning behind the Haunt and raising money for scholarships, we didn’t want to tarnish the legacy of the original Haunt crew. They did such an excellent job building and creating this legacy.

Haunt committee chair and Community Foundation board member Andrew Faulkner shares, “While it’s disappointing that the Haunt won’t take place this year, we thank the volunteers past and current for the time and effort into the Haunt. The Lawson Community Foundation board is determined to keep offering our scholarships to our local seniors.”

The Haunt has always been a funding mechanism for scholarships to local graduating seniors. Over the past 9 years, the Haunt has generated enough revenue to give out $40,000 in scholarships. Without the Haunt, the Foundation is now turning its attention to putting together a way to replace the income for the scholarships so they can continue. During our next meeting, the Foundation will meet and discuss a new way to raise funds for these scholarships. The Lawson Community Foundation board is open to suggestions from our community on ways to raise funds to keep continuing the scholarships. If you have suggestions please message us on our page or reach out to scholarship chair Andrew Faulkner.

We thank you for the support over the years and we can’t wait to continue to impact our community in the years to come.

The Lawson Community Foundation Board

09/22/2025

We are still looking / needing a few more characters to make the Haunt happen! If you’re interested in helping please message us so we can chat!

We’d love to have you join us this year!

08/04/2025

Come one, scream all. This event can't happen without our generous volunteers to help plan, build, decorate and scare people. We need all hands on deck for this to fully happen!

If you are interested in helping in any capacity please fill out the form below so we can contact you! We'd love to have you join us!
All proceeds raised from the Haunt goes towards scholarships for our local seniors. It takes a village to make this so successful!
Join us on August 11th for our next planning meeting. Great opportunity for those needing community service hours or A+ hours! Please come so we can make this event a reality. If you can make this meeting please fill out this form so we can contact you!

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/141bcPf9L3AcxfyVlirH-evQ0sd-_qpKdR9w45oQSrMU/edit

07/30/2025

We are excited to announce our 2025 Haunt theme! This year we will be doing Freak-Show. Come one, scream all.

This event can't happen without our generous volunteers to help plan, build, decorate and scare people. We need all hands on deck for this to fully happen!

If you are interested in helping in any capacity please fill out the form below so we can contact you! We'd love to have you join us!

All proceeds raised from the Haunt goes towards scholarships for our local seniors. It takes a village to make this so successful!

Join us on August 11th for our next planning meeting. Please come so we can make this event a reality. If you can make this meeting please fill out this form so we can contact you!

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfUNwpCpQm-rkeopsAJScdJr7YMT16oJyLDqPsD7c93mTnpAw/viewform

07/10/2025

Mark your calendars! We’re having our next planning / interest meeting July 17th at 6:30 at City Hall!

Please join us if you’d like to be a character, help build, help decorate.

We’d love to have you join us this year!

If you can’t make the meeting, message us here to get on our email list!

04/21/2025

Join us tonight @ 6:30 in the Community Room at City Hall for our first planning meeting for our Haunted season!

If you can’t make it message us to get on our email list for updates!

04/09/2025

Mark your calendars! We’re having our first planning / interest meeting April 21st at 6:30 at City Hall!

Please join us if you’d like to be a character, help build, help decorate.

We’d love to have you join us this year!

03/17/2025

Friday is the last call for Scholarship Applications!

LAWSON HAUNT NOW ACCEPTING SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS
Any graduating senior from the Lawson School District is welcomed to apply, regardless if they plan to attend a 2-year, 4-year or vocational/trade school. Winners will be selected on the basis of academic achievement, school and community involvement, as well as employment and other honors.
The Haunt committee will be awarding up to $6,000 in scholarships, making it the highest scholarship available from a local organization. Applications are due March 21st!

The application is available online:

Access Google Forms with a personal Google account or Google Workspace account (for business use).

02/15/2025

LAWSON HAUNT NOW ACCEPTING SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS
Any graduating senior from the Lawson School District is welcomed to apply, regardless if they plan to attend a 2-year, 4-year or vocational/trade school. Winners will be selected on the basis of academic achievement, school and community involvement, as well as employment and other honors.
The Haunt committee will be awarding up to $6,000 in scholarships, making it the highest scholarship available from a local organization. Applications are due March 21st!

The application is available online:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/16MbZzTaIzHjb6hXvHZMGfuskMoZ8vV0c2DyVI93-YzU/edit

02/01/2025

LAWSON HAUNT NOW ACCEPTING SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS
Any graduating senior from the Lawson School District is welcomed to apply, regardless if they plan to attend a 2-year, 4-year or vocational/trade school. Winners will be selected on the basis of academic achievement, school and community involvement, as well as employment and other honors.

The Haunt committee will be awarding up to $6,000 in scholarships, making it the highest scholarship available from a local organization. Applications are due March 21st!

The application is available online:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSef1AXwC5LJPnYSfzF2LfmU66aDnTc-6uglz7o7op9q9Hyn2A/viewform?usp=share_link

11/14/2024

Whew, that election was SCARY, right!? 😳 Glad that's over with!

Now you're probably wondering what to do with all the political signs you have laying around your yard. Well, we can't help you with the sign itself, but if you have any sturdy sign brackets that are not broken or bent, we would like to have a few to replace ours that were broken over the years. We could use about 10 of these. If you have some to donate, please drop them off at City Hall during regular business hours. We will update this post when we have received enough.