The "haunted" miniature golf course in Crafton was a big hit with customers during the Halloween season and a fundraising success for Carlynton High School student government representatives.

Revenues from Grim's Ghostly Golf totaled nearly $3,000. After expenses, students cleared about $2,300, which will be used to erect a bronze plaque and do landscaping around the school's new cougar mascot statue, which also was a student government project.

The students also will buy school spirit items for the new student store and donate money toward the purchase of a granite sign that will replace the yellow brick entrance sign currently on campus.

The former Crafton Putt Putt miniature golf course on West Steuben Street is on property owned by the borough. The golf course had not been used for more than a decade and was overrun by weeds and overgrown hedges.

Students chopped weeds, installed new indoor/outdoor carpeting on all the putting greens and decorated the course with witches, black cats, spiders and other Halloween symbols.

Student government President Julie Simon, a senior, scheduled student volunteers to staff the course on weekends and after school for the past two weeks of October.

A student committee chaired by junior Larry Wiegner has been formed to discuss plans for reopening the course in the spring. Tentative plans call for an amusement park theme, with the course opening weekends in May.

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