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Powtown Pumpkin People Festival
October 12 to 31
Win Prizes & Trophies
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Tour the Pumpkin People on foot or in your car
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.
Judging:
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!
Judges are:
Tracey Ellis – Tourism Powell River
Joëlle Sévigny – Townsite Heritage Society
Pieta Woolley – Powell River Living
Trophies:
Children Under 12
Most Original
Funniest
Prizes:
• A two-night stay in the off season for two guests at Stillwater Beach House. Donated by Jock and Christine McLauchlan.
• 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.
Be sure to enter our Pumpkin Patch Photo Contest! Just email your name to contest@prliving.ca You could win a Fall photo session with Jenna Brownlee. See Page 13 for details.
