Windsor Pumpkin Festival – October 5 , 1996
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GIANT PUMPKIN raiser SET FOR twelfth ANNUAL WINDSOR PUMPKIN FESTIVAL
WINDSOR – A Giant Cucurbita pepo growers from the Atlantic Provinces , and
perhaps a few from outside the realm , will be trucking their swag specimens
to Windsor ’s Exhibition Park on Saturday , Oct. 5 , for the twelfth annual House of Windsor
Pumpkin Festival .
be one of 19 locations in Canada and the United States for the
Great Pumpkin Commonwealthweighoff , which is offering
a top prize of $ 3,000 for the heaviest pumpkin vine , and $ 500 for the heaviest
squeeze .
Those prizes are in addition to the $ 1,000 for the leaden pumpkin and $ 500
for the heaviest squash vine to be awarded to Windsor competitors .
House of Windsor will be the only Nova Scotia weighoff internet site for giant pumpkin , this
come down , because the Atlantic Winter Fair has decide not to contain a disjoined
competition . alternatively , the Winter Fair will tender the Windsor champions cash
awards to display their prize winner at the Halifax fair site on the two
postdate weekend .
Danny Dill , Windsor ’s site co - ordinator , say that Nova Scotia businesses
have again plight their supporting to the Festival , get it potential to award
prizes for the top 10 pumpkin vine and squash ; the three heaviest watermelons ; and
the three expectant field pumpkins .
The magisterial title-holder in the Great Pumpkin Commonwealth could also be worth $ 10
per pound , and a trip to California for its grower , compliment of The Nut Tree
Complex in that state . The sensation pumpkin vine will be showcased as the
centrepiece for Nut Tree ’s fall festival .
event at the Windsor Pumpkin Festival bulge at 8 ante meridiem , when registration
open up for pumpkin entries , and Windsor and District Lions Club holds its annual
pancake and sausage balloon breakfast .
elephantine pumpkins will be weighed at 10 ante meridiem , and awards will be presented at 2
post meridiem Stable Country will entertain before and after the weighoff , which will be
held in Exhibition Arena .
Windsor ’s town crier , Lloyd Smith , will host an International Town Criers
foregather at 1:30 p.m.
The festival will hold contests to guess the weight of a gargantuan pumpkin ; to
guess the number of ejaculate in a gargantuan pumpkin ; and to take the salutary pumpkin
dessert .
Hants West Ground Search and Rescue will hold a Chinese auction in the
O’Brien Building at 1 p.m.
marine autumn pumpkin growers were challenged by a wet July , watch by visits
by a couple of hurricanes in August and September , as they entertain their prize
specimens .
But competitors in other regions faced even more difficult conditions , so
challenger could be boisterous for this twelvemonth ’s pumpkin crown .
While Maritime growers have held world championships for a turn of years ,
the push is on to beat the record of 990 punt set by Ontario grower Herman
Bax in 1994 .
In summation to Windsor , Great Pumpkin Commonwealth weighoffs will be held
this twelvemonth in Ottawa and Rockton , Ont . ; Roland , Man . ; Smokey Lake , Alta . ;
Topsfield , Mass. ; Amagansett and Oswego , N.Y. ; Canfield , Ohio ; Altoona , Pa. ;
Monroe and St. John ’s , Mich. ; Lockport , Ill. ; Oconomowoc , Wis. ; Anamosa , Iowa ;
Republic , Mo. ; Carnation , Wash. ; and Nut Tree and Santa Barbara , Calif.
Contact : Danny Dill , Windsor , N.S. 902 - 798 - 2728 or 902 - 798 - 1082
Home of Dill ’s Atlantic Giant ™ Cucurbita pepo
Atlantic Pumpkin Growers ’ tie
Danny Dill
PO Box 901
Windsor NS B0N 2T0
902 - 798 - 2728 or 902 - 798 - 1082
Fax 902 - 798 - 0842
webmaster :
Logo courtesy of Al Kingsbury
Last Updated : Fri Sep 27 10:30:00PM CST 1996
