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2 | October 5, 2017 | 22nd century media the great highwood pumpkin festival
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Welcome to the Great Highwood Pumpkin Festival 2017
A letter from
Mayor Charlie Pecaro
As Mayor of Highwood, I want to welcome you and your family to our 8th Annual Highwood
Pumpkin Festival!
Every year this event gets better and better, and this year is no exception. The City of Highwood
has once again partnered with Make-A-Wish Illinois in the hopes of granting 100 wishes for children
diagnosed with a life-threatening medical condition. With the belief that a wish experience can be a
game changer, all proceeds from Pumpkin Festival will go to Make-A-Wish Illinois.
In line with our Make-A-Wish partnership, Celebrate Highwood has recently obtained 501(c)(3)
status with the mission of raising funds for worthy non-profit organizations through its festivals and
events. Our goal is to build strong community spirit and establish Highwood as the prime entertainment
destination for dining, festivals and events on the North Shore through inter-organizational
collaboration, sharing resources and promoting the City as a wonderful place to live, eat and play.
Pumpkin Festival is an integral part of our community and has helped put the City of Highwood
on the map. It takes a community to let us host this event and we love paying it forward and are
happy to make a difference. This event, unlike any other, is dependent on your participation. So
carve lots of pumpkins, sign up to volunteer, participate in the Superhero 5K Run/Walk, and don’t
miss our nightly lightings as the Festival goes dark while a Make-A-Wish family helps us light the
grand jack-o-lantern walls.
I’ll be out there all weekend, so look out for me on the festival grounds and be sure to stop and
say hello.
Thank you for joining us,
Charlie Pecaro
Mayor Charlie Pecaro
The 2nd Annual Superhero 5k Run/Walk Benefiting
Make-A-Wish® Illinois
Community comes out in costume to
give the gift of 100 wishes in memory
of Highwood’s own Superman Sam
Saturday, October 7 at 9 a.m.
The Great Highwood Pumpkin
Festival is excited to host its 2nd
Annual Superhero 5K Run/Walk
to raise money for a cause very
near and dear to the hearts of Highwood’s
residents, Make-A-Wish Illinois.
In 2013, Highwood’s hometown
hero Samuel Asher Sommer,
known to so many as Superman
Sam, died on December 13 of
acute myeloid leukemia at the age
of 8 years old. To honor Superman
Sam, a Make-A-Wish recipient,
event organizers are encouraging
all participants to come dressed in
their favorite super hero costume in
solidarity with the goal of surpassing
last year’s $60,000 donation
to Make-A-Wish Illinois and raise
enough funds to grant 100 wishes
to children with life-threatening
medical conditions in Illinois.
“In the months after Sam died,
I looked back at our Make-A-
Wish trip to Disney World often,”
said Sam’s mom Phyllis Sommer.
“Those memories are a gift that will
continue to shine as a bright spot in
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