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Russell Elementary building is haunted by the ghost of its namesake, John Russell.</p></div><div class="subscriber-preview" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">On Halloween night, Principal Marianne Sletteland may find out for herself.</p></div><div class="subscriber-preview" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">She made a deal with her students: If they meet their annual fundraising goal to benefit school activities, she will spend Halloween night inside the oldest Moscow school building.</p></div><div id="tncms-region-article_instory_top" class="tncms-region hidden-print" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box;"></div><div class="subscriber-only" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Russell and West Park Elementary students participated in the Otis Spunkmeyer fundraiser to sell cookie dough and other baked goods to the community. The fundraiser is organized by the schools’ Parent Action Teams. Sletteland said their goal was to raise $2,700. They have since raised more than $5,000.</p><div class="subscriber-only" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">“I don’t even know how, but they’ve blown it completely out of the water,” Sletteland said about the students’ efforts.</p></div><div class="subscriber-only" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">Money from the fundraiser will go toward $1,000 in grants for teachers, as well as funding school activities like field trips, pizza parties and the back-to-school swim night.</p></div><div class="subscriber-only" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">It also means Sletteland will have to keep her promise to her 147 students and spend a night in the halls of Latah County’s oldest school on the spookiest night of the year.</p></div><div id="tncms-region-article_instory_middle" class="tncms-region hidden-print" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"></div><div class="subscriber-only" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">“Some people say our building is haunted,” she said. “We always tease how we have the ghost of John Russell in our building.”</p></div><div class="subscriber-only" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">This was confirmed by fifth-graders Khalid Aboubacar, Grayson Bailey and Cristian Blanco. They have noticed weird noises, flickering lights, doors closing on their own and random toilet flushes as signs that a ghost may be roaming the school.</p></div><div class="subscriber-only" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">Bailey wants the principal to raise the stakes and lock herself in the school until morning. Aboubacar said he wants her to complete a dare, like stacking the desks on top of each other.</p><div class="subscriber-only" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">Russell Elementary has been in Moscow since 1889, but the existing building was built in 1927. It is the oldest school in Latah County, Sletteland said.</p></div><div class="subscriber-only" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">On Halloween night, Sletteland will bring an air mattress and a couple lanterns loaned to her by another staff member. She plans to post photos and videos to share her experience with the students.</p></div><div class="subscriber-only" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">“It’s been fun to see them get excited about it,” she said.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">____________________________</p></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">http://www.MoscowCares.net</span></div><div><br></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><br></div><div>“A stranger is just a friend you haven’t met.”</div><div>- Roy E. 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