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Will Be a Drive-Through Event · Postcards • Flyers Reach over 15,000 homes in For the Hopewell Valley Arts Council (HVAC), turning the Amazing Pumpkin sey Park in Titusville, has become the organization’s major fundraiser. are just creative people. Every year, most of the same people come back. But we · Books Princeton and beyond! For additional info contact: • Menus Carve into a drive-through event was a challenge that had to be met. Now in its sixth year, the annual celebration of art, music, Thanks to social distancing restrictions of the pandemic, holding the event in the usual manner was not a possibility this year. “It was keep a certain number of spots for new people.” The 40 in this year’s competition will spend all day Wednesday, October 7, hard · Catalogues · Annual Reports • Booklets etc... Town Topics puts you in front of your target customer for less than what it would cost to mail food, dance, and all things a festival, where you’d come at work in their tents. “It’s so a postcard! Halloween, held at Woolin, walk around, listen to live interesting to watch them,” music, have food — more like coming to a fair,” said Carol Lipson, HVAC executive director. “We couldn’t said Lipson. “They put on their headsets and do their thing. They really don’t want us to bother them.” For additional info contact: melissa.bilyeu@ We can accomodate almost anything! do that. So we had to get creative. That’s how we got The festival begins October 7, from 7 to 9 p.m. On witherspoonmediagroup.com the idea for making the fesThursday and Friday, Octotival a drive-through event.” ber 8 and 9, viewing hours 609-924-5400 4438 Route 27 North, Kingston, NJ 08528-0125 Reach 11,000 homes in Princeton Reach 11,000 homes in Princeton and surrounding towns. Continued on Next Page TOPICS Of the Town Sunday, October 10 and 11, hours are 3 to 9 p.m. Tickets are $25 per vehicle with

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“We’ll have music piped Robbinsville: 19 Main Street (609) 772-4755 into cars while people are waiting in line to get in,” Kingston: 4581 Route 27 (609) 921-2778 said Lipson. “We’ll also have live music Friday and Saturday nights from 7 to 9 p.m. On Sunday all day, a DJ has volunteered to be here.” The oversized pumpkins the artists carve are from Princeton: 354 Nassau Street (609) 683-9700 Lancaster, Pa. “They are huge,” said Lipson, “about three feet tall and three feet wide. It was a really good year for pumpkins, for some reason, and there was a bumper crop.” Participating artists were Crosswicks: 2 Crosswicks Chesterfield Road (609) 291-5525 Pennington: 7 Tree Farm Road (609) 303-0625 asked to consider decorating not just the pumpkins, but their individual tents. The pumpkins are mounted on hay bales, so all will be visible from the vehicles. Several corporations and individual sponsors have Princeton: 3524 Route 1 North (609) 642-4770 help finance this year’s fesLambertville: 13 Klines Court (609) 773-0072 tival. As soon as word got out about the drive-through event, tickets started to sell. “The community is amazing,” said Lipson. “And the artists, too — we have a waiting list of carvers. So many want to take part. Half getforky.com professional artists, and half are 5 to 9 p.m. Saturday and