Event: How to build a pumpkin person
POWTOWN
PUMPKIN Saturday, October 5 Townsite Mall at 11 am Upper foyer by the Climbing Gym. With Isabelle Southcott and Bill Hopkins.
How to Participate Beginning October 12, you’ll see Powtown Pumpkin People popping up on lawns and on porches throughout Townsite. This new festival, which runs til the end of October, features a variety of “people,” including musicians, athletes, men, women, children and maybe even some politicians. Hockey players, brides, farmers, and movie stars looking decidedly familiar but sporting large orange pumpkin heads will be sitting, standing or playing in the Townsite. Sponsored by Powell River Living magazine and supported by our many partners, this festival is another way to bring the neighbourhood closer together and to boost tourism in the shoulder season. A demonstration on how to build a pumpkin person will take place at 11 am on October 5 upstairs at the Townsite Mall with Powell River Living publisher Isabelle Southott and one of Townsite’s biggest supporters, Bill Hopkins. Townsite is already a hot spot at Halloween which is why this event is being launched there this year. Many Townsite residents decorate their homes and some get upward of 400 trick or treaters. It’s easy to make a pumpkin person. Heads are made out of a pumpkin, features painted on (not carved as carving leads to pumpkin rot). Bodies are made out of broomsticks, tomato or bamboo pole frames and stuffed with straw or leaves. Grab some old clothes (or buy some from a thrift store) and let your imagination run wild! Pumpkin festivals featuring people are popular in Eastern Canada and the United States. “We’re hoping Townsite will embrace our orange gourd heads and add another layer of excellence to Halloween,” said Isabelle. If you don’t live in Townsite, you can still build a Powtown Pumpkin Person however judging this year will be for Townsite only. “We had to start somewhere,” said Isabelle. “Next year we hope to expand this to include the entire city.” To enter your Townsite Powtown Pumpkin Person to be judged and have the chance to win great prizes and trophies, email contest@prliving.ca. Please include age if you are entering the children’s category. There are trophies and great prizes for Children, under 12; Funniest, and Most Original.
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• october 2019 • prliving.ca
PEOPLE
FESTIVAL Connect to your neighbours, young & old • Show off your skillz October 12 to 31 Win Prizes & Trophies Tour the Pumpkin People on foot or in your car Judging:
Trophies:
Prizes:
To have your entry judged (Townsite only), email your name, address and age (if 12 and under) to contest@prliving. ca. You could win a great prize!
Children Under 12
• A two-night stay in the off season for two guests at Stillwater Beach House. Donated by Jock and Christine McLauchlan.
Judges are:
Be sure to enter our Pumpkin Patch Photo Contest!
Tracey Ellis Tourism Powell River Joëlle Sévigny Townsite Heritage Society Pieta Woolley Powell River Living
Most Original Funniest
You could win a Fall photo session with Jenna Brownlee. See Page 13 for details.
• Family night movie passes for four to The Patricia, with popcorn and pop. • An orange Powell River T shirt and an orange water bottle donated by Tourism Powell River. • Pumpkin People book by Sandra and Ron LIghtburn • Paddle boarding for two people donated by Kat Richards of Stillwater Paddle Boards. • An Everything Pumpkin Gift Basket donated by Elaine Steiger at The Basket Case.
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