2014 Sycamore Pumpkin Festival

Pumpkin Inventions

Sycamore Pumpkin Festival

53rd AnnualOctober 22-26, 2014

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Hundreds of “Pumpkin Inven-tions” entrants will be on display during Sycamore’s annual Pumpkin Festival at

the DeKalb County Courthouse near the intersection of State and Main streets in downtown Sycamore.

Activities are planned for every day of the festival, lasting from Wednes-day through Sunday, with shuttle buses planned for Saturday, the peak craft show day, and Sunday, the day of the parade.

Wednesday, Oct. 22

• The Wally “Mr. Pumpkin” Thurow Tribute Statue unveiling will be held at 4 p.m. at the southwest corner of Somonauk and Elm streets.

• Lions Club’s pumpkin check-in will take place from 4 to 9 p.m. on the courthouse lawn.

• The opening ceremony will start at 5 p.m. on North Maple Street, adja-cent to the courthouse. It will include the ceremony for the cutting of the giant cake donated by Hy-Vee.

• NIU STEM Outreach will present a Haunted Physics Lab from 4 to 6 p.m. at the Midwest Museum of Natural History, 425 W. State St. The event is free. For information, visit www.mmnh.org.

Thursday, Oct. 23

• Sycamore Kiwanis will host a prayer breakfast at 7 a.m. at Syca-more United Methodist Church, 160 Johnson Ave.

• Pumpkin displays can be viewed on the lawn of the DeKalb County Courthouse on State Street.

• A free Pumpkin Celebration will be held at Sycamore Public Library at 7 p.m. Children in kindergarten through fifth-grade can enjoy games, story time and treats.

• Entries close for the Sycamore Golf Club Pumpkin Scramble, which will be held Saturday. Call 815-895-3884 to register.

Friday, Oct. 24


• A craft show will be hosted from 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. by Sycamore United Methodist Church, 160 Johnson Ave. Food also will be available.

• The teen carnival will be open from 2 to 10 p.m. at Sacramento and State streets. A $25 unlimited ride special is available. Check for times at the carnival.

• The kiddie carnival for young chil-dren will be held from 2 to 10 p.m. at the parking lot at Somonauk and Elm streets. A $25 ride special is available. Check for times at the carnival.

Saturday, Oct. 25

• Rotary Pancake Breakfast will be served from 7 to 11 a.m. at the Feder-ated Church at 612 W. State St.


• The Sycamore Rugby Club will of-fer pork shanks from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. across from the courthouse.

• A craft show will be hosted from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. by Sycamore United Methodist Church at 160 Johnson Ave. Food also will be available.

• The Autumn Craft & Treasures Market, hosted by Sycamore Music Boosters, will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Sycamore High School Field House.

• The Lions Club giant pumpkin weigh-in will begin at 10 a.m. on the lawn of the DeKalb County Court-house on State Street.

• The Sycamore Golf Club Pumpkin Scramble will begin at 10 a.m. at the Sycamore Golf Club, 940 E. State St. Registration entries close the Thurs-day before.

• The Historic Homes Walk will be held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tickets cost $25 each or $40 for two. They are available at the Sycamore History Museum, 1730 N. Main St.; Sweet

Earth, 341 W. State St., and at each home on the walk. Children age 12 and younger get in free.

• The DeKalb County Shrine Club will offer pork chop sandwiches from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at a booth downtown.

• A beef burger luncheon will be served from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. by church members at Bethel Assembly of God at 131 W. Elm St.

• The teen carnival will be open from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. at Sacramento and State streets. A $25 ride special is available. Check for times at the carnival.

• The kiddie carnival for young children will be held from 11 a.m to 10 p.m. at the parking lot at Somonauk and Elm streets. A $25 ride special is available. Check for times at the carnival.

• Basically Bluegrass Band will play from noon to 3 p.m. at the court-house.

• Pumpkin Putt Mini Golf, a fundrais-er for the Sycamore Public Library, will take place from 1 to 4 p.m. in the library. Tickets cost $10 per person or $25 per family.

• The South Shore Drill Team will perform at 2 p.m. in the 100 block of Somonauk Street. Sponsored by KishHealth System, Hauser-Ross Eye Institute and ServiceMaster.

• The Kiwanis will host a pie-eating contest at 4 p.m. on the lawn of the DeKalb County Courthouse on State Street.

• A Creepy Crawly Halloween Party will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Midwest Museum of Natural History, 425 W. State St. Children can trick-or-treat, have a photo taken with live critters, visit the grossology lab, and enjoy games, candy and prizes. Tick-ets cost $6 for museum members and $8 for nonmembers. For information, visit www.mmnh.org.

• Sycamore Public Library will host Scary Stories at 6 p.m. in the Elm-wood Cemetery, corner of Charles and Elmwood streets. Bring chairs, blankets and flashlights. Recommend-ed for middle-school age and older.

Sunday, Oct. 26


• The Sycamore Rugby Club will of-fer pork shanks from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. across from the courthouse.

• The Autumn Craft & Treasures Market, hosted by Sycamore Music Boosters, will be open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Sycamore High School Field House.

• The Sycamore Pumpkin Run 10K Road Race starts at 9:35 a.m. at the Sycamore Armory. For information, visit sycamorepumpkinrun10k.word-press.com.

• The teen carnival will be held from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Sacramento and State streets. A $25 ride special is available. Check for times at the carnival.

• The kiddie carnival for young children will be held from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the parking lot at Somonauk and Elm streets. A $25 ride special is available. Check for times at the carnival.

• The DeKalb County Shrine Club will offer pork chop sandwiches from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at a booth downtown.

• A beef burger luncheon will be served from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. by church members at Bethel Assembly of God at 131 W. Elm St.

• St. Peter’s Episcopal Church will host a food booth from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at 218 Somonauk St.

• A food booth hosted by St. Mary’s Catholic Church will be open from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Waterman and Somonauk streets.

• The Pumpkin Parade will begin at 1 p.m. A handicapped-parking area is located at the corner of Exchange and Main streets. A viewing area for the handicapped has been established at the intersection of State and Main streets. The parade route follows Somonauk, Elm, California, State and Main streets. All of these streets will be posted “No Parking.”

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SYCAMORE – In a sense, Mr. Pumpkin will attend this year’s Pumpkin Festival.

The 53rd annual festival will honor its founder, Wally “Mr. Pumpkin” Thurow, by dedicating a life-sized statue of him along the festival parade route. The ceremony will be at the southwest corner of Somonauk and Elm streets at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 22, the festival’s first day.

Thurow is credited with creating the festival and rode his penny farthing bicycle in many of the parades before his death in 2012, so a special committee formed to raise money for and create a likeness of Thurow in his top hat and Lions Club vest, positioned next to his bicycle. The statue will sit at the south-west corner of Somonauk and Elm streets in Sycamore.

Festival organizers are expecting more than 1,000 entries in the Lions Decorated Pumpkin display, two carnivals, a pair of indoor craft shows and a 90-minute parade. “Pumpkin Inventions” is this year’s festival theme, suggested by Southeast Elementary School fourth-grader Hannah Sebby. Sebby’s theme was chosen out of 137 submissions.

The Pumpkin Festival Committee plans to honor another local figure the first day of the festival. Sycamore resident Marlyn Burk-art, creator of Marlyn’s Majorettes, will be presented with an award during the cake-cut-ting ceremony at 5 p.m. Wednesday on North Maple Street near the DeKalb County Court-house, 133 W. State St. in Sycamore.

More than 100 majorettes are flying in from all over the country to walk one last time in the parade with Burkart, who is retiring the corps this year. Her parade corps of drum-mers, baton twirlers, color-guard members and more have marched in all 53 parades.

“I was going to quietly sneak out, but that didn’t happen,” Burkart said of her retire-ment. “I’m surprised, I’m stunned, and I’m elated. I’m just so happy to see all these kids coming back. They’re my family.”

Other events during the festival include teen and children’s carnivals downtown throughout the weekend, craft shows and pan-cake breakfasts. The entire list of events can be found at SycamorePumpkinFestival.com.

Bart Desch, Pumpkin Festival committee vice president, said he’s looking forward to another year of the parade, which start at 1 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 26. He said there are more than 100 entries for the parade, and a large number are political figures as it’s an election year.

“It will be a fun, long four days,” Desch said. “We’re looking forward to it.”

‘Mr. Pumpkin’ statue unveiling kicks off event

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The bronze statue of Wally Thurow stands in the workshop at the inBronze studio in Mt. Morris on Sept. 3. The life-sized statue of the man credited with starting Sycamore Pumpkin Festival will be unveiled on Wednesday, Oct. 22.

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Caroline Menzer (left) and Jaedyn Slutz carry a pumpkin entry to a designated spot on the DeKalb County Courthouse lawn during last year’s Sycamore Pumpkin Festival. This year’s festival begins Oct. 22.

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Landon Horton reaches for a small pumpkin handed to him at last year’s free pumpkin distribution at Ameri-can Family Insurance in Sycamore.



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SYCAMORE – The DeKalb County community might know Sean Frazier as the man in charge of athletics at Northern Illinois University, but to his 5-year-old daughter Marcella, Frazier is the pumpkin king.

Frazier, NIU’s associate vice president and athlet-ic director, will serve as the parade marshal for the 2014 Sycamore Pumpkin Festival Parade, an honor that earned him the unofficial moniker from his daughter.

“This is really a special honor,” Frazier said. “I’m overwhelmed.”

A DeKalb resident, Frazier, 47, has been in charge of the Huskie athletic program for more than a year. He attended the festival for the first time last year, where he said he was astounded by the amount of community support for the annual event.

This will be the first year his children, Marcella, 5, Max, 10 and Marina, 12, as well as his wife, Rosa, will experience the festivities. A self-professed “Halloween guy,” Frazier said the fall spirit kicks in a little earlier in DeKalb County than in the other places he’s lived,

including Long Island, New York, where he grew up.“I’m going to make sure the house is extra spooky

and decorated with pumpkins,” Frazier said. “From the pumpkin fest, of course.”

Based on his history and work with NIU, Frazier was a clear choice for parade marshal, said Jerry Malmassari, the president of the Pumpkin Festival Committee.

“His job is to inspire young men and ladies to ex-cel at everything they do,” Malmassari said. “That’s kind of the goal of the Pumpkin Fest.”

Frazier was a student-athlete at the University of Alabama. He came to DeKalb in July 2013 after seven years with the University of Wisconsin’s athletic department, the last two as the director of athletics.

Since arriving in DeKalb, Frazier has taken several initiatives to improve the Huskie experience. Those improvements include the new Coaches Club at Huskie Stadium, Huskie Athletic Fund and the Huskie Summer Circuit.

Under Frazier’s tenure as the 11th athletic direc-tor in NIU history, the NIU football team claimed the MAC West Division crown and competed in its sixth consecutive bowl game, and the Huskie men’s tennis team earned the MAC regular season championship.

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Past Parade MarshalsThis is a list of parade grand marshals compiled

from Sycamore Pumpkin Festival history. There is no information available about the parade’s first 12 years before the current Pumpkin Festival Com-mittee was created.

1974 Chicago Cubs’ Rick Monday1975 Chicago White Sox shortstop Bucky Dent1976 Ronald McDonald1977 Cooky the Clown from “The Bozo Show” and

Ronald McDonald and the McDonaldland characters

1978 No grand marshal this year1979 None recorded1980 None recorded1981 Chicago White Sox mascots Roobarb and

Ribbie1982 None recorded1983 Illinois MDA poster child Jenny Fontecchio1984 Chicago Sting player Rudy Glenn1985 None recorded1986 Wally “Mr. Pumpkin” Thurow1987 Chicago sports announcer Jack Brickhouse

1988 Green Bay Packers’ Jim Grabowski1989 Illinois MDA poster child Myles Craglow1990 Bugs Bunny and Sylvester1991 Memorial tribute to late Sycamore Mayor

Harold “Red” Johnson1992 Former Sycamore High School principal Pete

Johnson1993 Wizzo the Wizard from “The Bozo Show”1994 Smokey the Bear1995 Miss Wisconsin Armaine Purdy1996 Retired firefighters Les Johnson and Merlin

Schultz1997 Sycamore resident Ray Puentes, owner of

Soft Water City1998 Miss Illinois Amanda Meadows1999 Wally “Mr. Pumpkin” Thurow and Granny

Clark2000 Northern Illinois University President John

Peters2001 Tony the Tiger2002 Five branches of the armed forces and the

American flag Army: Tim Timmer

Navy: Steven Mason Marines: Leon Keutzer Coast Guard: Buddy Myska Air Force: Bill Mason2003 Minnie Minoso of the Chicago White Sox 2004 WTVO-TV meteorologist Scott Harbaugh2005 NIU football coach Joe Novak2006 DeKalb Municipal Band director Dee Palmer2007 Longtime Sycamore resident Tom Oestreicher2008 Longtime Sycamore physician Dr. John W.

Ovitz Jr.2009 Marlyn Burkart of Marlyn Majorettes and

Drum Corps2010 Rockford mascots RiverHawks’ Rocko and

IceHogs’ Hammy2011 Sycamore City Manager Bill Nicklas 2012 Sycamore High School state wrestler Austin

Culton2013 DeKalb County Swim Team coach Brian

Bickner

Source: Sycamore Pumpkin Festival historian Jerry Malmassari

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Friend of the FestivalBrian Bemis Auto Group recognized for providing parade cars

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SYCAMORE – Amy Bemis remem-bers helping officials at the Sycamore Pumpkin Festival for as long as she can remember, which is at least 30 years.

Bemis, of the Brian Bemis Auto Group, said the automotive group pro-vides as many vehicles as the festival needs each year. The company will be this year’s Friend of the Festival, a title that goes to a company or organization that has helped Sycamore Pumpkin Festival in some capacity for free.

“It’s fun for everyone in the com-munity,” Bemis said. “It brings in the holiday season. Everybody is just so happy that time of year.”

Brian Bemis was recognized with the honor for providing cars and con-vertibles that are used for the parade’s grand marshal every year for the past 10 to 12 years, said Sycamore Pumpkin

Festival Committee President Jerry Malmassari. They typically provide three or four vehicles and drive the grand marshal through the parade before dropping them off somewhere within city limits, Malmassari said.

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people the festival committee wants to name Friend of the Festival, Malmas-sari said. They give more credence to those who have helped for longer rather than newcomers, he said.

Brian Bemis Auto Group will receive a small plaque on Wednesday,

Oct. 22, recognizing them as a Friend of the Festival. Their names already are etched onto a permanent display case at the Sycamore Public Library, 103 E. State St., which has a history of the festival theme winners and Friends of the Festival.

Typically someone is named Friend of the Festival only once, Malmassari said.

“There’s so many people who have helped us out on things that we just like to say thank you,” he said.

Bemis said she has served as driver in past years and has also helped out with floats. Her favorite part of the Sycamore Pumpkin Festival is seeing the pumpkins that children decorate in downtown Sycamore.

She said Brian Bemis Auto Group will continue to help out at the Syca-more Pumpkin Festival.

“We’re always willing to help when they ask us for any favors,” Bemis said.

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Brian Bemis Auto Group (various members pictured above) were named the Friend of the Festival for the Sycamore Pumpkin Festival this year. Brian Bemis Auto Group provides numerous vehicles each year for the festival parade.



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Six Sycamore students will receive a free ride during this year’s Pumpkin Festival Parade.

The students have been selected as junior marshals by the Sycamore Kiwanis Club. Winners are chosen from students who participate in the Kiwanis Club’s an-nual writing contest, which is divided into poem, story and theme categories. The top two finishers in each category are selected as junior marshals and have an opportuni-ty to ride in the Kiwanis Club’s float during the Oct. 26 parade.

Students who entered the contest were asked to write about the festival’s theme of Danielle Guerra - [email protected]

The winners of the 2014 Kiwanis Pumpkin Junior Parade Marshals are (from left) Sergey Uzunyan, 12, Andrea Ocelotl, 12, Gavin Anderson, 12, Rebecca Biarnesen, 12, Maddie Landsteiner, 11, and Zoe Zemanek, 11.

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“Pumpkin Inventions,” or about Hal-loween in Sycamore. The winners also receive a cash award.

A total of 74 students from Syca-more Middle School and St. Mary’s School submitted entries. Winners were treated to lunch at Culver’s, followed by a picture-taking session at Johnson’s Corn Maze and Pumpkins on Route 64 in Sycamore.

In addition to the Junior Marshal writing contest, the Kiwanis Club of Sycamore sponsors a pie-eating contest. In this contest, the contes-tants must eat a wedge of pumpkin pie without using their hands. The contest is open to the public, with age brackets of 5 and younger, 6-10, 11-15 and 16 and older. Prizes are $5 for first place, $4 for second place, $3 for third place and $2 for fourth place in each division. The contest will be held at 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 25, on the court-house lawn.

On Oct. 25 and 26, Sycamore Kiwan-is Club will host a booth serving roast-ed nuts to support Kiwanis projects in the community.

The Kiwanis will host the 15th annual Pumpkin Prayer Breakfast at 7 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 23, at the Syca-more United Methodist Church, 160 Johnson Ave. Tickets cost $7 for adults

and $5 for students.Following are the winning entries.

FIRST PLACE – POEMRebecca BiarnesenSeventh grade, Sycamore Middle School

Pumpkin Fest is backPumpkin Fest is backand the theme is Pumpkin Inven-

tions.The lawn will be full ofpumpkin creations.Pumpkins of all shapes,colors, and sizeswill be transformedfor the chance to win prizes.Planes, trains,and automobilescarved and paintedwith gourds for wheels.Pumpkins wired up totransmit Morris Codeand pumpkins doctoredto look like smart phones.With this themethe choices are endless ...Do I carve out a light bulbOr make a pumpkin farm sur-

rounded by barbwire fences?I can’t wait to seeall the pumpkin surpriseswith first, second, and third placesnext to their signage.

SECOND PLACE – POEMMaddie LandsteinerSixth grade, Sycamore Middle School

Boo!‘Twas the night before Halloweenin a small little town.All the pumpkins were nestled.Most with no frowns.On the courthouse lawn,there sat such a sight.Pumpkin Inventions stood tall and

so bright.This town was called Sycamore,and it was that time

for the great Pumpkin Festthat is never second best.Me and my brother,we sat with such splendor,as we watched a baby pumpkinbe eaten by a blender!When out of the shadows,there sprung such a soul.It was the Sycamore Pumpkin Fest

spirit,so mighty and bold.It said, “Now dear children,do not be scared for what you

behold.It’s just the pride of Halloween

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FIRST PLACE – STORYZoe ZemanekSixth grade, Sycamore Middle School

My Pumpkin InventionAdd a little more of ghost slime,

same goblin boogers, and a witch’s mole. Ahh just what I needed ... a weird pumpkin invention. I had just made the scariest, weirdest, coolest pumpkin invention ever! I called it the scardomaticweirdnesscoolanater! It was quite small, looked like toot-sie roll with tiny speakers and had a big red button right in the middle. It could say many scary things and would scare people, it was weird and it looked cool while doing its job.

I was pretty nervous to test out my scardomaticweirdnesscoolanater, but I was going to do it anyway. It was Halloween night. I looked out the window and saw all my friends. They were dressed as butterflies and fairies. Ewww gross, who wants to be a butter-fly or a fairy! I was dressed in the best costume ever, a mad scientist! Bwha-hahaha! I grabbed my candy bag and walked outside with my scardomat-icweirdnesscoolanater behind my back. When we got to the first house, which to me did not look scary at all, I slid my scardomaticweirdnesscoola-nater on the stairs and when this nice looking lady opened the door I pushed the big red button. Shreeeeeeek! My scardomaticweirdnesscoolanater made a scary and weird noise that sounded like a crackling witch. It was pretty scary! The nice looking lady dropped her candy bowl with full-size candy bars and ran away screaming! Score! Full-sized candy bars for me! We went to the next house and this time a grumpy old man with just his underpants on answered. He told us to go away and that he hated Hallow-een! Who hates Halloween, I mean seriously! I pressed the button and all I heard was clickity-clack. The old man ran inside and all I could see was his false teeth sitting on the porch! So we went to the next house and a lady answered. I put my scardomaticweird-

nesscoolanater in place, checked to see what kind of candy she had, which was the “fun” size, and pushed the big red button. Wooooooooo! This time a ghost noise came out. The lady didn’t drop the candy bowl. She slammed the door as fast as she could and she didn’t even give us candy. Dang it! We start-ed to go down the stairs and I looked at all the other houses and all the lights were off. I looked at the sidewalk. We were the only trick-or-treaters left.

So I said goodbye to all my friends and left with scardomaticweirdness-coolanater. It took me about five minutes to get home. When I got home, I put my scardomaticweird-nesscoolanater in my lab, put on my Halloween pajamas, and nestled into bed. Eeeeeekkkkk! I quickly jumped up and realized my scardomaticweird-nesscoolanater could even scare me! I closed my eyes and fell fast asleep. I dreamt about Halloween next year and how wonderful it will be.

SECOND PLACE – STORYSergey UzunyanSixth grade, Sycamore Middle School

What Should We Do?Long ago, there lived a native

American boy named Ayashe, which means little one. One day he was walk-

ing in the forest looking for medical herbs for his tribe. As he walked, the leaf flooring of the forest crunched underneath his feet. It was almost the time when trees turned to many colors, and dropped their leaves. He walked for a long time, but he could not find any herbs. It was almost sun-set so he turned about to come back. Ayashe was saddened that the elders would be disappointed in the fact that he did not find anything, but just as Ayashe turned around, he saw some-thing strange under a tree in the light of the setting sun. The object was or-ange. As the boy walked closer to the mysterious object, seeing that it was a big round sphere, with indentation lines running vertically, the orange blob was attached to the green colored outline of what was a plant stem. Ayashe now knew this was a plant of some sort! Maybe a giant fruit? The little one pulled out his stone knife and skillfully cut the discovery off the stem.

This “fruit” was really heavy, therefore he couldn’t carry it. So instead he used two hands to roll it on the ground. It was now turning dark so he had to hurry!

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running, bright red flames flashing in the night sky, bursting into tiny sparks flew gently as if they were the feathers of an eagle.

As the boy showed the members of his tribe his discovery, they ooh’d and ahh’d as he described what he thought it was, and how he found it.

Flo the hunter rose from the ring of tribe members whittling around the fire. “Maybe we can eat the plant!” he announced. A nod went around the circle. “Here, I’ll go grab the knife.” Flo cut a piece off the orange ball and put it in his mouth. Two seconds later he spit it out and was wiping his tongue with his hands. “Maybe we can cook it?” said Demothi, another hunt-er. Flo put a chunk of the thick matter on a stick and held it over the fire. In a few minutes it started smoking, the liquids evaporated with a hiss. Flo took a bite out of the now prepared meal. Five seconds later, he spit it out in disgust, and with a frown on his face he took a sip of water, which he also spit out. Grunts of disappoint-ment appeared in the circle of 30. “lf we cannot eat it, perhaps could we use it for something else,” said Chapu, another gatherer like Ayashe.

“Good idea Chapu,” croaked Koko the elder.

“But what can we do with it?” pro-claimed another member.

“Maybe we could just use it as a decoration!” said Ayashe. “Decora-tion?!” exclaimed a member. “Why would we need that?” “Weil you know, just to make it took appealing!’ replied Ayashe. People shook their heads in disagreement. But then the shaman Howabkan rose, “I think that is a great idea!” and people agreed. It was decided, the plant will be put out as a decoration outside of the shaman’s teepee!

Time passed, and the plant, or as we know it, the pumpkin, started to dry out. Then all of a sudden people started coming up with lots more Ideas for Ayashe’s discovery! One said, “We could hollow it out, and use it to hold water!” Another said, “May-be we could use it as a drum!” and lots more!

Perhaps the pumpkin wasn’t so use-less after ail! But this taught Ayashe’s tribe a much greater lesson: To never look at one thing less than one way.

FIRST PLACE – THEMEGavin AndersonSeventh grade, Sycamore Middle School

Pumpkin Festival in Sycamore is great because it is not only about the candy during Halloween in Sycamore;

the festival allows neighbors, friends and family a time of togetherness. The Pumpkin Festival allows all to see the pumpkins on the courthouse lawn, ride carnival rides, enjoy the food, and see the Pumpkin Parade.

On the first night during the cake-cutting everyone gets a chance to trick-or-treat the downtown stores and from that moment forward the city is really in the festival spirit.

This year’s theme is Pumpkin Inventions, which can be traced to the beginning. The festival was “invent-ed” by a man named Wally Thurow in 1956 when he placed a small display of decorated pumpkins on his lawn. And now 53 years later it still stands strong even though Wally is gone. This year will be extra special when his statue is placed on the parade route for all to remember him as the inventor of Pumpkin Festival.

The memories shared and inven-tions created are some of the reasons why the Pumpkin Festival not only brings Sycamore together, it allows anyone from other towns around Syc-amore to come see what “we” invented

from pumpkins and that is what I love about the Sycamore Pumpkin Festi-val.

SECOND PLACE – THEMEAndrea OcelotlSeventh grade, Sycamore Middle School

Halloween in SycamoreHalloween in Sycamore is magical

to me. I go every year because I love to look at the pumpkins. I look at them because I like to see people’s creations and how creative people in Sycamore could be.

I just love to see the whole city of Sycamore gather together and bring their families. Sycamore is always beautiful.

One of my favorite parts of the fes-tival is the parade. So many people are very creative with their floats.

I’ve always wanted to be in a pa-rade because I know that it’s so much fun.

I just can’t wait for this Pumpkin Festival!


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SYCAMORE – Hannah Sebby is patient-ly waiting for Pumpkin Fest, so she can wave to her family along the parade route.

Sebby, 10, said her family visits from Philadelphia to see the Pumpkin Festival each year, which is her favorite part of the entire festival, but this year will be dif-ferent. Sebby, a fifth-grader at Southeast Elementary School, will be riding in the parade because she won the 2014 theme contest with “Pumpkin Inventions.”

“It’ll just be really fun,” she said. “It’s a great community event.”

The Sycamore Pumpkin Festival Com-mittee announced the 2014 festival theme contest winners May 21 for the 53rd annu-al event. Sycamore students could submit an idea for the theme to be considered, and Sebby’s entry was chosen out of 137 submissions. Sebby received $50 and her school received $100 for school enrichment

for being the theme winner.Emma Winters of St. Mary’s Catholic

School and Avery Huml of West Elemen-tary School were named as honorable mentions.

The inventions theme will be an in-spiration for many pumpkin decoration designs that will arrive on the courthouse lawn Oct. 22 as part of the annual decorat-ing contest. Although Sebby hasn’t figured out what her pumpkin design will be, she’s starting to play with ideas in her head.

Bart Desch, Sycamore Pumpkin Fes-tival Committee vice president, said he expects a lot of goofy and fun pumpkin designs to come out of this year’s theme.

In the parade, Desch said along with the car for theme finalists, there will be more than 100 entries in the parade, which will include floats, bands and political fig-ures. Desch looks forward to a good crowd.

“This is going to be a good year,” Desch said. “We can’t wait to see everybody come out.”

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Hannah Sebby, a fifth-grader at Southeast Elementary School in Sycamore, will be riding in the Pumpkin Festival Parade because she won the 2014 theme con-test with “Pumpkin Inventions.”

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Market, sponsored by the Sycamore Music Boost-ers, is part of the Sycamore Pumpkin Festival weekend Oct. 25 and 26. This event will be held at the Sycamore High School Fieldhouse from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday.

More than 200 vendors will sell a variety of quali-ty crafts, handmade wood products, specialty items such as wool products, candles, spices, candies, antiques, ceramics and much more. Student music groups will perform on Saturday.

Admission is $2 for adults, $1 for seniors and stu-dents in kindergarten through 12th grade, and free for children younger than 5. Parking is free, and handicapped parking is available on the north side of the fieldhouse. There will be golf cart shuttles operating between the parking lot and the market. No animals, other than service animals, allowed.

Thousands of visitors from around the region attend the sale each year, which is staffed with more than 200 adult and student volunteers who keep everything running smoothly. Vendors may still apply; if space fills up, remaining ap-plications will be put on standby and admitted if space becomes available. For vendor information, contact Amy Cuthbert at 815-899-0401 or [email protected]. For more information, visit www.sycamoremusicboosters.com.

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Sycamore Music Boosters volunteers Ken Olson, Bob Atkins and Riley Lohse sell homemade pies at the 2013 Autumn Craft & Treasures Market, part of the Sycamore Pumpkin Festival weekend.

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Chamber’s 36th annual 10K race steps off SundaySYCAMORE – The 36th annual Syc-

amore Pumpkin Run 10K Road Race, presented by the Sycamore Chamber of Commerce and KishHealth System, will be held at 9:35 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 26, at the park just east of the National Guard Armory on Route 64.

Race registration forms are available online at sycamorepump-kinrun10k.wordpress.com and Eventbrite.com. Also available on the race website is a detailed route map, photos of past races and 2013 race results.

The first 1,800 registered runners will receive a long-sleeved chili-pepper red “dry-release” race shirt.

The entire race is staffed by experi-enced race crew presented by Illinois Community Credit Union. There are three water stations and six visible mile markers that have visual display clocks for this 6.2-mile race.

This year the race will use Chrono-Track timing by Lakeshore Athletic Services. Results will be provided to all runners immediately following the race.

The race is sanctioned by USA Track and Field and the course is USATF certified.

The route starts at the corner of Kishwaukee Drive and heads west on Route 64 past the historic DeKalb County Courthouse. Runners will continue through the downtown Syca-more business district and then south on Somonauk Street to Bethany Road

where the route turns east. The route turns north at Airport Road where runners cross the winding Kishwau-kee River and run up a slight hill past Chapel in the Pines. The final mile-and-a-half winds through Sycamore’s park complex.

After crossing the finish line, rac-ers are welcomed by volunteers who have prepared post-race refreshments, which are located in the National Guard Armory. Racers age 21 and older are treated to Oktoberfest beer. Northern Rehab Physical Therapy Specialists will provide post-race stretching as they have done in the past.

Awards will be given to the top three male and female finishers in 13 age divisions and the first male and female finishers from Sycamore. Age divisions are: 14 and younger, 15 to 19, 20 to 24, 25 to 29, 30 to 34, 35 to 39, 40 to 44, 45 to 49, 50 to 54, 55 to 59, 60 to 64, 65 to 69, 70 to 74, 75 to 79, and 80 and older.

The entry fee is $30 online until Oct. 23. Registration on race day is $35 and is from 7:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. at the National Guard Armory in Sycamore, 516 E. State St.

Visit sycamorepumpkinrun10k.wordpress.com or call the Sycamore Chamber at 815-895-3456 to learn more about this year’s event. The race has a Facebook fan page where participants can share photos and comments with other runners.

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The 36th annual Sycamore Pumpkin Run 10K Road Race will be held Oct. 26, starting at 9:35 a.m. at the park just east of the National Guard Armory on Route 64.



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Museum’s annual Pumpkin Fest Historic Homes Tour will celebrate the life of General E.F. Dutton and his influence on Sycamore, paralleling the SHM’s current award-winning exhibit, “General Dutton’s America.”

The tour will run from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 25. It will include seven locations this year, giving fes-tival-goers a glimpse into how Sycamore changed and grew over three eras: the early set-tlement years, the Civil War years, and the Gilded Age.

Special features include a two-hour opportunity to see the beautiful, historic DeKalb County Courthouse, from 10 a.m. to noon only, and special talks by book authors Clint Cargile, who wrote “Five-Mile Spur Line: a Railroad History of Sycamore, Illinois,” and Nancy Beasley, author of “The Underground Railroad in DeKalb County, Illinois.” Both stories are closely associated

with the life of E.F. Dutton. The tour’s featured properties are all part of the story of General Dutton.

The tour starts at the beautiful and historic DeKalb County Courthouse. Thanks to Judge Robbin Stuckert, DeKalb County Circuit Clerk Maureen Josh, and the court-house staff, visitors will get a unique insider’s view of this building that is central to Syc-amore’s history. E.F. Dutton served as a county clerk in the second courthouse, which this building replaced, and he was instrumental in the move to build the grand structure we now enjoy. Tours will include the historic courtrooms as well as the atrium and the 2012 addition, which blends seamlessly with the original building.

Central to the tour is the Engh Farm and the Sycamore History Museum, including a guided tour of General Provided photo

The Historic Homes Tour celebrates General E.F. Dutton’s Sycamore with tours of the J.H. Rogers House, and other private homes and public buildings in Sycamore.See HOUSE WALK, page 21



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Dutton’s America. Many of the arti-facts in this exhibit are more than 100 years old and tell an incredible story of the strength of Sycamore. Included with the exhibit viewing will be tours of the historic farm gardens and our archives building.

Another special location, connect-ed to the story of E.F. Dutton and the Illinois 105th is the Old North Grove School on Brickville Road. This restored one-room schoolhouse that is on the National Register of Historic Places is beautifully preserved and well worth a stop. Tour guides will tell the stories of the families who built this strong, Swedish school commu-nity and made it a vital part of the history of Sycamore.

The tour also will feature the historic Chicago & Northwestern Depot, current home of the DeKalb County Community Foundation. The whole town has watched as the once-proud building has been restored to its former glory. The original freight room, now a stunning community room, available for local group meet-ings and events, will showcase Clint Cargile’s and Nancy Beasley’s talks at three times throughout the day and photo displays will tell the story of the history of the depot as well as its

restoration. The homes included this year start

with the David Syme house, located at 420 Somonauk St. This classic Queen Anne-style mansion is a showplace of the architecture of George O. Garnsey. Syme was a leading grain merchant who helped put Sycamore on the map as an important hub for agriculture in its early days. The current owners

have collections of art and objects from around the world. As the family is always working on updating the living areas and building their col-lections, even those who have toured before will find new touches.

The tour then turns next door to 432 Somonauk St., the J.H. Rogers house. Rogers was a prosperous dry goods merchant whose stores occupied the

historic Central Block in downtown Sycamore for many years. Showcas-ing the Gilded Age of Sycamore, this imposing mansion has been lovingly restored from its years as divided rental property to today’s warm and inviting family home. It still has the original stained glass windows and much of the original woodwork. This home is a real treat not to be missed.

The tour finishes at the Daniel Dustin home at 423 S. California St. One of the oldest homes in town, it has been renovated several times but retains the character of the origi-nal. Dustin was a commander of the Illinois 105th and a life-long friend of E.F. Dutton. He also served as County and Circuit Clerk for DeKalb County. This home sports beautiful inlaid wood floors in the dining room and wonderful porches on both the front and the back. The narrow servants’ stairs are definitely reminiscent of a different era.

Tickets for the walk will be avail-able at the Sycamore History Museum, the Sycamore Chamber of Commerce, and Sweet Earth Gifts or on the day of the walk at any of the House Walk locations. The cost is $25 per person or $40 for two tickets bought together. For more information, contact the Sycamore History Museum at 815-895-5762, visit www.sycamorehistory.org, or like the museum on Facebook.

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