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Celebrating 10-years!<br />

October 11-13, 2019<br />

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Pullout Map and Schedule of Events Inside!


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Welcome to the Great Highwood Pumpkin Festival 2019<br />

A letter from<br />

Mayor Charlie Pecaro<br />

As Mayor of Highwood, I want to welcome you and<br />

your family to our momentous 10th Annual Great Highwood<br />

Pumpkin Festival!<br />

The City of Highwood and Celebrate Highwood have<br />

once again partnered with Make-A-Wish Illinois to help<br />

grant wishes for kids with critical illnesses in Illinois.<br />

We know that a wish experience is a game changer for<br />

wish children and their families, and we are so pleased to<br />

support this cause. To date, we’ve donated $140,000 to<br />

Make-A-Wish Illinois and can’t wait to watch that number<br />

grow this year!<br />

When we held our first Pumpkin Festival 10 years ago,<br />

bringing community together was our main goal. Now I<br />

am proud to say that, as a 501(c)(3), Celebrate Highwood’s<br />

mission of raising funds for worthy non-profit organizations<br />

through its festivals and events has brought our City great<br />

partnerships with Make-A-Wish Illinois and other local<br />

charities.<br />

I’m so pleased to have witnessed how that goal has<br />

evolved from building strong community spirit and support,<br />

to establishing Highwood as the prime entertainment<br />

destination for dining, festivals and events on Chicago’s<br />

North Shore. It’s happened through inter-organizational<br />

collaboration, sharing resources and promoting the City<br />

as a wonderful place to live, eat and play. I’m so proud of<br />

our great community.<br />

The Great Highwood Pumpkin Festival is an integral<br />

part of our community and has helped put the City of<br />

Highwood on the map. Our entire community comes together<br />

to host this event and we love paying it forward.<br />

With that being said, The Great Highwood Pumpkin Festival<br />

is dependent on your participation. So, carve lots<br />

of pumpkins, sign up to volunteer, participate in the Superhero<br />

5K Run/Walk, and don’t miss our nightly lightings<br />

as the Fest goes dark while a Make-A-Wish family<br />

helps us light the grand jack-o-lantern walls. It will be<br />

the highlight of your Fall season, I promise.<br />

I’ll be out there all weekend, so look out for me on the<br />

festival grounds and be sure to stop and say hello.<br />

Thank you for 10 years of community building. Here<br />

is to many more!<br />

Charlie Pecaro<br />

Mayor Charlie Pecaro<br />

A letter from Make-A-Wish Illinois<br />

On behalf of the hundreds of children and their families<br />

who will experience the healing power of a wish this<br />

year, thank you for supporting the 10th Annual Great<br />

Highwood Pumpkin Fest.<br />

As you may know, together with volunteers and supporters<br />

like you, Make-A-Wish Illinois creates lifechanging<br />

wishes for children with critical illnesses. A<br />

wish experience can help a child cope with a critical<br />

medical condition, replacing fear with confidence, sadness<br />

with joy and anxiety with hope – helping children<br />

battling critical illnesses see the impossible as possible.<br />

Wish children are your neighbors, your children’s<br />

classmates, your friends and your relatives because unfortunately,<br />

critical illnesses happen in every neighborhood.<br />

Through Make-A-Wish, the community can rally<br />

behind these courageous children and their families, filling<br />

them with hope and giving them strength as they experience<br />

the joy of a wish.<br />

Make-A-Wish Illinois relies on the generous contributions<br />

of individuals, corporations, foundations and people<br />

like you who attend events that support the mission.<br />

Every day in Illinois, three families learn their child is<br />

diagnosed with a critical illness. Your support is greatly<br />

appreciated to help make sure that those children can begin<br />

their wish journey when they need it most.<br />

If you know of a child with a critical illness, we invite<br />

you to inquire about Make-A-Wish for a child on<br />

our website at www.illinois.wish.org/refer or by calling<br />

312.602.WISH (9474).<br />

We are sure you will enjoy all of the wonderful things<br />

that the Highwood Pumpkin Festival has to offer. You<br />

can also feel very good knowing that your participation<br />

means hope and strength to wish children in our area!<br />

Best Wishes,<br />

Stephanie Springs<br />

Stephanie Springs<br />

Chief Executive Officer Make-A-Wish Illinois<br />

With Gratitude:<br />

Celebrate Highwood Thanks You!<br />

As we reflect on our past 10 years of The Great Highwood<br />

Pumpkin Festival and the 2019 season of Celebrate<br />

Highwood festivals and events coming to a close, it’s<br />

important to recognize the fabulous volunteers and<br />

Board members that makes this event, and all the<br />

Celebrate Highwood Events possible: Michael Goldstein<br />

(co-President), Ken Roberson (co-President), Jenny<br />

Esposito (Vice President), Melissa Mohan<br />

(Secretary), Charlie Pecaro (Treasurer), Michael Koenitz<br />

Hudac, Margot Hughes, Suzy Holzer, Mark Maresco, Don<br />

Roger Smith, Brad Slavin and Donna Walker.<br />

We would also like to recognize our local Highwood<br />

business community supporters:<br />

Friends of Celebrate Highwood: 210Live!, Brian<br />

Lock State Farm, M. Brad Slavin Farmers Insurance,<br />

Nite ‘N Gale, Performance Factory Training, The<br />

Toadstool Pub<br />

Patrons of Celebrate Highwood: Coffee Cup<br />

Productions, The Humble Pub, IC Signs & Graphics, La<br />

Plancha Loca, Legendary Wooden Nickel, Scotty’s on<br />

Sherican, The Performer’s School<br />

Associates of Celebrate Highwood:<br />

Beermiscuous, Chicago Mike’s Ice Cream Co. Marco’s<br />

Northside Grill, Santi’s Gardens<br />

As a 501(c)(3) non-profit public charity established<br />

in August 2016, Celebrate Highwood’s mission<br />

is to bring community together to raise funds for<br />

local and national charities. Managed and operated<br />

by volunteers, the organization produces events<br />

that cater to the citizens, businesses and visitors of<br />

Highwood, with a goal to give back, build strong<br />

community spirit, and establish Highwood as THE<br />

prime entertainment destination for dining, festivals<br />

and events on the North Shore.<br />

For more information on how to get involved in<br />

the 2020 Celebrate Highwood Season, please visit<br />

www.celebratehighwood.org, www.facebook.com/<br />

celebratehighwood or call 847-432-6000.


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When Pumpkins Stand for Wishes<br />

10th Annual Great Highwood<br />

Pumpkin Festival Returns.<br />

Benefitting Make-A-Wish Illinois.<br />

Join the official festivities October<br />

11-13 in Downtown Highwood.<br />

Organizers hope to break the<br />

world record of most pumpkins<br />

carved and lit at once AND raise<br />

enough funds to grant wishes to<br />

children with critical illnesses in<br />

Illinois.<br />

Kick off the fall season in the<br />

City of Highwood as Celebrate<br />

Highwood hosts the 10th Annual<br />

Great Highwood Pumpkin Festival,<br />

October 11-13, in Downtown<br />

Highwood, benefitting Make-A-<br />

Wish Illinois. The 2016, 2017<br />

and 2018 Fests raised $140,000<br />

total, with all proceeds donated<br />

to grant wishes to children with<br />

critical illnesses in Illinois.<br />

The 10th Annual Extravaganza<br />

hopes to raise even more money<br />

for Make-A-Wish Illinios. With<br />

a focus on the good will of the<br />

greater community, three local<br />

Make-A-Wish families serve as<br />

ambassadors to light the pumpkin<br />

walls lining the streets of the<br />

festival each night tying it all<br />

together for 70,000+ attendees!<br />

It’s an event not to be missed!<br />

Don’t miss them on the main<br />

stage<br />

Fri 10/11 Shrey & Family<br />

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Diagnosed with chronic kidney<br />

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by a kidney transplant, Shrey<br />

wished for help in paying for<br />

his college education and now<br />

works to give back to Make-<br />

A-Wish Illinois.<br />

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THANK YOU TO OUR SPO<strong>NS</strong>ORS<br />

WITHOUT WHOM THIS EVENT WOULDN’T BE POSSIBLE<br />

Wish Genies<br />

and the generous support of:<br />

Christopher B. Burke Engineering<br />

M. Brad Slavin farmers Insurance<br />

Wish Supporters<br />

Wish gnomes<br />

Baird & Warner<br />

D&R Autoworks<br />

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wishes<br />

From Page 5<br />

born missing part of her immune<br />

system), eight-year-old<br />

Grace was granted her lifelong<br />

wish of “standing underneath<br />

the Eifel Tower” this past July.<br />

She credits her Make-A-Wish<br />

grantors as making her feel as<br />

if “she was the most important<br />

person in the world.”<br />

Sun 10/13 Kate & Family<br />

age 4.5, Rosemont<br />

Kate is a four and a half year<br />

old pre-schooler. When she<br />

was about 22 months old, she<br />

was diagnosed with a very rare<br />

autoimmune disease – some<br />

say it’s as rare as 1 person in<br />

10 million - called Opsoclonus<br />

Myoclonus Syndrome (OMS).<br />

Make-A-Wish granted Kate’s<br />

wish to go to Disneyworld<br />

on her 4th birthday, this past<br />

April.<br />

The official activity packed<br />

weekend will feature a full<br />

schedule of fun Friday through<br />

Sunday with: costume contests,<br />

pie eating contest, carnival,<br />

kids crafts, four stages of live<br />

music, food and beverage vendors<br />

galore, and the 4th annual<br />

Superhero 5k Run/Walk honoring<br />

“Superman Sam” Sommer,<br />

Highwood resident and Make-<br />

A-Wish child that lost his battle<br />

with cancer in 2013, and more.<br />

“Every year The Great Highwood<br />

Pumpkin Festival event<br />

organizers come together to create<br />

a memorable weekend for the<br />

greater community,” says Michael<br />

Goldstein, Co-President of<br />

Celebrate Highwood. “It’s amazing<br />

what we can do together<br />

when it comes to celebrating and<br />

rallying around a good cause.”<br />

In support of all past, present<br />

and future Make-A-Wish Illinois<br />

families, organizers of the Great<br />

Highwood Pumpkin Festival<br />

have created several ways for the<br />

community to come together and<br />

support this great cause to grant<br />

even more wishes for Make-A-<br />

Wish Illinois kids.<br />

Participate in the Superhero 5K<br />

Run/Walk<br />

Starting at 9 a.m. on Saturday,<br />

October 12, participants run and<br />

walk in full super hero gear from<br />

Waukegan Avenue and Walker<br />

Avenue, in front of The Bent<br />

Fork Bakery, while passing by<br />

walls of carved pumpkins to celebrate<br />

the season throughout the<br />

scenic route with mixed terrain<br />

through downtown Highwood<br />

and historic Fort Sheridan.<br />

Volunteer!<br />

It’s not too late to sign up to<br />

volunteer! Be a ticket taker,<br />

pumpkin carving station manager,<br />

parking attendant, bartender,<br />

food court manager, pumpkin<br />

mover, candle lighting crew and<br />

more – there’s a perfect job for<br />

everyone to do good while having<br />

fun!<br />

Bring Your Own Pumpkins<br />

(BYOP)<br />

Because EVERY SINGLE<br />

PUMPKIN COUNTS toward<br />

the grand total to break a world<br />

record, festival organizers are inviting<br />

the community to BYOP<br />

(Bring Your Own Pumpkin) for<br />

free entry to the fest, and come<br />

out early to help carve and fill the<br />

walls for the Prelude to Pumpkin<br />

Fest, October 7-9 from 3:30–9<br />

p.m., at City Hall (17 Highwood<br />

Ave.).<br />

Recognizing the amazing<br />

community members and businesses<br />

that are an integral part<br />

of pull this event off, Celebrate<br />

Highwood is once again hosting<br />

a Community Appreciation<br />

Night on Thursday, October 10th<br />

from 5–10 p.m. With a relaxed<br />

atmosphere, this preview night<br />

features free admission, $25 all<br />

you can ride carnival rides from<br />

5-9 pm, live music, a full bar and<br />

more. Celebrate Highwood welcomes<br />

the community to come<br />

out, carve pumpkins and help fill<br />

the scaffolding before the event<br />

officially kicks off. The Highwood<br />

restaurants and bars will<br />

be open and many festival vendors<br />

will be open for business as<br />

well.<br />

In addition to these fundraising<br />

and record-breaking efforts,<br />

there is also a $5/day per person<br />

admission that includes all-youcan-carve<br />

pumpkins. All children<br />

6 and under are free. All the<br />

proceeds from The Great Highwood<br />

Pumpkin Festival will go<br />

to Make-A-Wish Illinois.<br />

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Community<br />

Appreciation Night<br />

Thursday, October 10, 5-10 p.m.<br />

• Free Admission<br />

• Pumpkin Carving<br />

• Live Music<br />

• Cash Bar<br />

• Carnival & More!<br />

2019 Event Schedule<br />

Thursday, October 10<br />

5 pm – 10 pm Community Appreciation Night - Free<br />

Admission, Pumpkin Carving, Live Music,<br />

Cash Bar and More!<br />

Friday, October 11, FESTIVAL BEGI<strong>NS</strong><br />

4 pm Festival Opens - Rides, Vendors<br />

Activities, All-You-Can-Carve Pumpkin<br />

Stations (while supplies last), Carnival and<br />

More<br />

4 pm-11 pm Stop by the Forest Orthodontics<br />

& Pediatric Dentistry Kid Zone for some<br />

family fun!<br />

4 pm - 9 pm Your Vote is Your Voice! Register to Vote<br />

with Indivisible Evanston at the Info<br />

Booth!<br />

4 pm - 6 pm Trick-or-Treating Throughout Festival<br />

Grounds<br />

5 pm – 9 pm Unlimited Carnival Ride Special - ONLY<br />

$25 per person sponsored by Demuth<br />

Inc. and Radio Flyer<br />

7:45 pm Make-A-Wish Family Presentation<br />

Xfinity Main Stage and Wall Lighting<br />

11 pm Festival Close<br />

Saturday, October 12<br />

9 am Superhero 5K Run/Walk<br />

11 am Festival Opens - Rides, Vendors Activities,<br />

All-You- Can-Carve Pumpkin Stations<br />

(while supplies last), and More!<br />

11 am-11 pm Stop by the Forest Orthodontics<br />

& Pediatric Dentistry Kid Zone for<br />

some family fun!<br />

11 AM - 7 PM DIYs, Kilz Lounge & Photo Booth<br />

at HGTV Magazine Tent<br />

12 pm – 4 pm Unlimited Carnival Ride Special - ONLY<br />

$25 per person sponsored by Demuth Inc.<br />

and Radio Flyer<br />

12 pm – 8 pm Your Vote is Your Voice! Register to Vote<br />

with Indivisible Evanston at the Info<br />

Booth!<br />

2 pm - 4 pm Dark ‘n Stormy’s with Tom Petty and the<br />

Heartbreakers! $2 off all Gosling’s Rum<br />

Drinks at the Pumpkin Fest bars during<br />

the performance of Petty Kings, a Tom<br />

Petty and the Heartbreakers tribute band.<br />

3 pm Pumpkin Pie Eating Contest at the<br />

Pumpkinfest Party Lounge<br />

4:30 - 5 PM Mina Starsiak, HGTV’s Rock The Block on<br />

the Main Stage<br />

5:30 - 6 PM Meet & Greet with Mina Starsiak, HGTV’s<br />

Rock the Block at HGTV Magazine Tent<br />

7:30 pm Make-A-Wish Family Presentation by<br />

Mina Starsiak on Xfinity Main Stage<br />

and Wall Lighting<br />

11 pm Festival Close<br />

Sunday, October 13<br />

11 am Festival Opens - Rides, Vendors<br />

Activities, All-You-Can-Carve Pumpkin<br />

Stations (while supplies last), and More!<br />

11 am-9 pm Stop by the Forest Orthodontics<br />

& Pediatric Dentistry Kid Zone for some<br />

family fun!<br />

12 pm – 4 pm Unlimited Carnival Ride Special - ONLY<br />

$25 per person by sponsored by<br />

Demuth Inc. and Radio Flyer<br />

12 pm - 6 pm Your Vote is Your Voice! Register to Vote<br />

with Indivisible Evanston at the Info<br />

Booth!<br />

12 pm Pet Costume Contest sponsored by Pet<br />

People at the Party Lounge Stage<br />

sponsored by M. Brad Slavin Farmers<br />

Insurance<br />

12- 2:30 pm Bloody Mary’s with the Beatles! $2 off all<br />

Tito’s Handmade Vodka Bloody Mary’s at<br />

the Pumpkin Fest bars during the<br />

performance of The Love, a Beatles tribute<br />

band.<br />

1pm Kids Costume Contest at the Party Lounge<br />

Stage sponsored by M. Brad Slavin<br />

Farmers Insurance<br />

2 pm Teens to Adult Costume Contest at the<br />

Party Lounge Stage sponsored by M. Brad<br />

Slavin Farmers Insurance<br />

7 pm Make-A-Wish Illinois Family Presentation<br />

on Xfinity Main Stage and Wall Lighting<br />

9 pm Festival Closes<br />

live music schedule<br />

Friday, October 11<br />

Main Stage | sponsored by Xfinity & Banner Kitchen and Bath<br />

5:30pm - 7:30 pm . Cirrus Falcon<br />

8pm - 10:30 pm . . Catfight<br />

North Stage | Sponsored by School of Rock<br />

5 pm - 6:30 pm . . School of Rock Highwood House Band<br />

6:45 pm - 7:45 pm Grapefruit<br />

8 pm - 10 pm . . . . Reality Bites<br />

Party Lounge Stage | sponsored by M. Brad Slavin Farmers Insurance<br />

5:30 pm -7 pm . . . Black Diamond Sessions<br />

7:30 pm - 9 pm . . Crooked Moon<br />

9:30 pm - 11 pm. . Roger That<br />

Saturday, October 12<br />

Main Stage | Sponsored by Xfinity & Banner Kitchen and Bath<br />

2 pm - 4:30pm . . . Petty Kings<br />

5 pm - 7:30 pm . . Davidson County Band<br />

8:30 pm - 11 pm. . Clayton Mann Band<br />

North Stage | Sponsored by School of Rock<br />

12 pm - 1:30 pm. . School of Rock Evanston House Band<br />

1:45 pm - 3:15 pm School of Rock Arlington Heights House Band<br />

3:30 pm - 5 pm . . School of Rock Oak Park House Band<br />

5:15 pm - 6:15 pm Exeter<br />

6:30 pm - 7:30 pm Viridian<br />

8 pm - 11 pm. . . . Where’s Maggie<br />

Party Lounge Stage | sponsored by M. Brad Slavin Farmers Insurance<br />

12:30 pm - 2:30 . . pm DJ Hegemony<br />

3 pm - 3:45 pm . . Cover to Cover Band<br />

4 pm - 4:45 pm . . The Racket<br />

5 pm - 6 pm . . . . Nickel Blues<br />

6:30 pm - 8 pm . . Saved By The Bundy’s<br />

8:30 pm - 11 pm. . Funk It Let’s Jam<br />

Sunday, October 13<br />

Main Stage | Sponsored by Xfinity & Banner Kitchen and Bath<br />

12 pm - 2:30 pm. . The Love<br />

3 pm - 5:30 pm . . Mike Zabrin’s Funktastic<br />

6 pm - 9 pm . . . . Unity the Band<br />

North Stage | Sponsored by School of Rock<br />

12 pm - 1:45 pm. . School of Rock Evanston and Highwood House Bands<br />

2 pm - 3 pm . . . . F.L.A.M.E.<br />

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A History of The Great Highwood Pumpkin Festival<br />

Celebrating 10 years<br />

of community<br />

building in 2019!<br />

In it’s momentous 10th year,<br />

The Great Highwood Pumpkin<br />

Festival has helped put the<br />

City of Highwood on the map<br />

and raised over $260,000 for<br />

charities over the past five years,<br />

$140,000 of which was raised<br />

over the past three years for<br />

Make-A-Wish Illinois.<br />

In 1998, Highwood Alderman<br />

Eric Falberg was living on the<br />

east coast when he and his wife<br />

attended the original Pumpkin<br />

Festival in Keene, New Hampshire.<br />

He was so enthralled by<br />

the spectacle of the walls of lit<br />

jack-o-lanterns he had a vision,<br />

years later as the head of Highwood’s<br />

Special Events Committee,<br />

to bring The Great Highwood<br />

Pumpkin Festival to his<br />

hometown. He helped launch the<br />

‘Prelude to Pumpkin Fest’ that<br />

piggybacked the popular weekly<br />

Wednesday night Highwood<br />

Evening Market in October 2009<br />

and with only three weeks to<br />

promote, the community pulled<br />

together and carved out over<br />

1,200 jack-o-lanterns that lit up a<br />

wall of pumpkins on Highwood<br />

Avenue in just four hours. The<br />

rest, as they say, is history!<br />

The Inaugural Great Highwood<br />

Pumpkin Festival in 2010<br />

brought tens of thousands of<br />

people together from all around<br />

the Midwest and the world, to<br />

break the Guinness World Records<br />

for most jack-o-lanterns lit<br />

at one time. Highwood’s official<br />

count was 26,287l, just shy of<br />

the record of 30,128 set in 2016<br />

by Boston, MA.<br />

In 2011, Mayor Charlie Pecaro<br />

and Falberg were on a mission<br />

and extended a friendly competition<br />

invite to the mayor of<br />

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The 4th Annual Superhero 5k Run/Walk<br />

Benefiting Make-A-Wish® Illinois<br />

Community comes out in costume<br />

to give the gift of wishes in memory of<br />

Highwood’s own Superman Sam<br />

Saturday, October 12 at 9 a.m.<br />

Now in its 10th year, the Great Highwood<br />

Pumpkin Festival is excited to host<br />

its 4th Annual Superhero 5K Run/Walk<br />

sponsored by Midtown Athletic Club<br />

and the U.S. Marines to raise money for<br />

a cause very near and dear to the hearts<br />

of Highwood’s residents, Make-A-Wish<br />

Illinois.<br />

In 2013, Highwood’s hometown hero<br />

Samuel Asher Sommer, known to so<br />

many as Superman Sam, died on December<br />

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superhero<br />

From Page 12<br />

to come dressed in their favorite<br />

superhero costume<br />

in solidarity with the goal<br />

of surpassing the past three<br />

year’s $140,000 donation<br />

to Make-A-Wish Illinois<br />

and raise enough funds to<br />

grant more wishes to children<br />

with critical illnesses<br />

in Illinois.<br />

“In the months after<br />

Sam died, I looked back at<br />

our Make-A-Wish trip to<br />

Disney World often,” said<br />

Sam’s mom Phyllis Sommer.<br />

“Those memories are<br />

a gift that will continue to<br />

shine as a bright spot in<br />

the sadness. To spend time<br />

together, in a sweet and<br />

happy place, was so much<br />

more of a blessing than<br />

we’d ever though possible,<br />

and for that we are so very<br />

grateful.”<br />

In addition to Sam, the<br />

race is also honoring the<br />

more than 700 wish children<br />

from communities<br />

all across Illinois this year.<br />

This annual race will bring<br />

participants together in an<br />

effort to raise awareness<br />

and support for Make-A-<br />

Wish Illinois.<br />

Kicking off at 9 a.m. on<br />

Saturday, October 12th,<br />

registrants will run or walk<br />

from Waukegan and Walker<br />

Avenues, in front of The<br />

Bent Fork Bakery, through<br />

Downtown Highwood and<br />

historic Fort Sheridan,<br />

while passing the thousands<br />

of carved jack-o’-<br />

lanterns which will be lit<br />

later that evening.<br />

Participants are encouraged<br />

to register online for<br />

the race. It is $35 for the<br />

run/walk. Online registration<br />

closes at 7 a.m. on<br />

October 12, 2018. https://<br />

www.highwoodpumpkinfest.com/run/<br />

Midtown Athletic Club<br />

invites all registered runners<br />

to sign up for a VIP<br />

experience at their Bannockburn<br />

location. To<br />

schedule a visit to the club<br />

or to reserve a class spot,<br />

email Wilemina.Nelson@<br />

midtown.com.<br />

Packet pick up will<br />

take place on The Great<br />

Highwood Pumpkin Fest<br />

grounds at the Midtown<br />

Athletic Club booth on<br />

Thursday, October 10,<br />

from 5-8 pm and Friday,<br />

October 11, from 4-8 pm.<br />

On-site registration and<br />

packet pick up will begin<br />

on race day at 7:30 a.m.<br />

In addition to these fundraising<br />

efforts, there will<br />

be a $5/day admission<br />

to The Great Highwood<br />

Pumpkin Festival with all<br />

proceeds going to Make-<br />

A-Wish Illinois. People<br />

can also donate online to<br />

support Make-A-Wish Illinios.<br />

“As a grassroots organization,<br />

community<br />

members and fundraising<br />

efforts are key in making<br />

sure that we can reach<br />

every eligible child with a<br />

wish,” said Ashley White,<br />

Gift Officer with Make-<br />

A-Wish Illinois. “The<br />

generous people who are<br />

participating in The Great<br />

Highwood Pumpkin Fest<br />

and race on behalf of<br />

Make-A-Wish can feel really<br />

good about bringing<br />

hope, strength and joy to<br />

critically ill Illinois children.”<br />

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If we can spread the<br />

message and give other<br />

communities the opportunity<br />

to say ‘you matter,<br />

your pumpkin counts,<br />

come join us’ it doesn’t get<br />

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This friendly challenge<br />

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great family-friendly festival,<br />

while his brother,<br />

Drew Scott, was in Keene,<br />

at their Pumpkin Festival.<br />

The Keene festival won<br />

the contest with 29,381<br />

jacko’-lanterns, and in<br />

2013, Keene claimed the<br />

Guinness Book of World<br />

Records for 30,581 lit<br />

jack-o’-lanterns. The big<br />

aim to break a record has<br />

waned due to a bigger<br />

emphasis on community,<br />

but the two cities remain<br />

friendly in the spirit of participation<br />

and pride.<br />

There is still time<br />

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The original Pumpkin<br />

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of communications<br />

and public relations professional<br />

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who states, “The magic<br />

of the Pumpkin Festival<br />

is not about setting the<br />

World Record, but it is that<br />

record that enables us to<br />

bring deeper meaning and<br />

enthusiastic participation<br />

to the event.”<br />

Sporborg was so inspired<br />

by pumpkin festivals<br />

that she wrote a book<br />

featuring a photographic<br />

journey through 25 years<br />

of the Pumpkin Festival<br />

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with proceeds going to<br />

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The original Keene<br />

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pumpkin festivals in Highwood,<br />

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and has been a source of<br />

much pride for the entire<br />

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of good will and<br />

strong community spirit,<br />

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