Run for your life

Chest heaving, his tie fluttering in the breeze, Sean Frost slowed from a sprint to a dead stop, standing and panting while the contents of a water bottle streamed down his head.

How do I feel? Terrible, he quipped. I just ran a 5K.

Frost had just finished Saturday's West Side Zombie Escape Route – and in business attire, no less, one of many who trotted in dress clothes as they fled from costumed ghouls.

The event was a fundraiser for the West Scranton Hyde Park Neighborhood Watch. Karin Foster, the group's president, said about 100 people participated in the Oct. 20 event. The total raised was not immediately available Saturday morning.

-- Roger DuPuis II