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“If You Mess With The Bull ... :” Defensive Lineman Hakeem Allonce leads the Pierce College football team onto the field carrying a bull’s horns in a home game against Mt. San Jacinto. Pierce would go on to win the game 38-31. Saturday Sept. 14, 2013. Woodland Hills, Calif.

Farm festival features fun, food and frights

Halloween harvest has herecometh

Mike Washington Roundup Reporter

Entering its ninth year as a holiday tradition, the annual Halloween Harvest Festival at Pierce College officially opens its gates Sept. 27 at the Farm Center on Pierce College’s campus with activities designed with guests of all ages in mind.

Robert McBroom, director of the Pierce Farm Center, said the Halloween Harvest Festival is a six week, end of season event.

“The farm is harvesting their goods for the last harvest before winter so it’s always been a time when people come out. Other kinds of harvest festivals often have old family farms, barbecues, with community gatherings in rural environments with pumpkin patches and other commercial opportunities,” he said. “We have taken the commercial side and slowed it down a bit to the rural feel to what a harvest type festival is.”

Activities such as rides, stage shows, petting zoos, pumpkin patches and food venders of all kinds are just some of the attractions for guests to enjoy this year, with the park switching gears

9th Annual Halloween Harvest Festival

Where: Farm Center Admission: $5

Begins: Friday, Sept. 27 and hosting more Halloween type scare zones after dark.

Ends: Sunday, Nov. 3 Sun - Thurs: 10 a.m. - 10 p.m. Fri - Sat 10 a.m. - 12 a.m.

“We have 10 food vendors this year. Everything from Italian, barbecue, kettle corn, Peruvian chicken, corn on the cob, LA Ice and funnel cake,” McBroom said. “Everybody likes corn and funnel cake.”

“I’m mostly looking forward to the food booths,” said Nick White, a metal shop fabricator for the Farm Center. “Those caramel apples are killer. Especially the cheesecake and Oreo kind.”

For the last few years, the Halloween Harvest Festival has been centered around a theme that

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