Volume 19, Number 35
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Thursday, October 29, 2015
Scarecrow festival livens up Farmington Avenue By Ashley Kus
The Berlin Citizen
Eighteen funny, scary, and smiling creations lined Farmington Avenue this month in the hopes of being chosen as Berlin’s best scarecrow. The 11th annual Scarecrow and Fall Foliage Festival kicked off its street display at the beginning of October with businesses, organizations, and families from throughout town contributing their best scarecrow creations. This year’s big winner was a Cinderella themed scarecrow from Dance Legacy-Caroline’s Dance Center LLC. The scarecrow display, set up at T.D Bank on Farmington Avenue, consisted
of Cinderella in her signature blue gown, a giant pumpkin, a fairy godmother, and a banner reading “Bibiddi Bobiddi Boo.” Terri Noyes, a co-chairman of the festival and Berlin Parks and Recreation event coordinator, said the annual fall festival is a great way to get the community involved. “It’s nice to see what people come up with,” she said. “It takes a lot of hard work to create them.” This year’s scarecrow judges consisted of four people, one being the mayor, Rachel Rochette. Creations were placed in one of four categories: “A” being a scareSee Scarecrows / Page A10
For the 11th year, this month, a variety of scarecrow creations lined Farmington Avenue, including this recreation of the Burger family from TV’s “Bob’s Burgers” family, as part of the Scarecrow and Fall Foliage Festival.
Dog owners do their part for cancer research Dirty Dog raised money for Bark for Life with these unique dog cookies.
By Ashley Kus
continue to come in. More than that though, she said the event lifted the spirits of attendees. “It’s a fun family event and it’s nice Tails were wagging at Berlin’s third annual Bark for Life, Saturday, Oct. 17, to see the relationships of the canines as dozens of canines and their owners and their owners,” Kipphut said. She said the driving force behind the walked to benefit the American Cancer Society. The air was cold but the atmo- benefit are the volunteers. Also, Bersphere was positive at the Berlin fair- lin businesses teamed up this year to grounds on this day. From noon until 3 donate to the cause. Dirty Dog, a dog p.m. people and their pooches enjoyed grooming business on the Berlin Turncanine demonstrations, Halloween pike, was one of the local places that costume contests, dog dancing, and lent a paw. Owner Janet Leitao was on the committee this year and helped some exercise. ACS Relay for Life Community raise money at Dirty Dog with unique Manager Lynn Kipphut said the benefit raised nearly $4,000, and donations See Cancer / Page A2 The Berlin Citizen
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