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Smashing pumpkins in Traverse City to reduce trash

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Smashing pumpkins in Traverse City to reduce trash

By Izzy Ross, Interlochen Public Radio

This coverage is made possible through a partnership with IPR and Grist, a nonprofit independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future.

Nine-year-old Gunner Vistisen was wearing goggles, a wooden mallet in hand, standing near a blue tarp lined with pumpkins on a lot in Traverse City.

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Lucknow Sentinel

More than 100 pumpkins donated to inaugural Jack-o-Lantern Trail event

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Cold and rainy conditions didn’t stop 90 attendees from taking part in the first-ever Jack-o-Lantern Trail at Bruce Botanical Food Gardens (BBFG) in Ripley. “The Jack-o-Lantern Trail was a successful community event because it offered a welcoming, family-friendly place for the community to connect and enjoy the season together,” Kristen Prentice, communications co-ordinator for the […]

Owen Sound Owen Sound Sun Times

Couple celebrate their love of the macabre

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Skeletons, graves and witches appear every year on Jamie and Shayna Kermer’s lawn.  That’s just how they like it because Halloween’s their favourite time of year, Jamie Kermer said, while untangling bunched up netting with his daughter, Kiera, Wednesday so it could be hung like a spider web.  There were two pumpkins with elaborately carved […]