Pumpkins

Pumpkin seeds  and innards appear to be spewing out of the mouth of a carved pumpkin at the Kaysville city-sponsored Monster Mash & Dash on Saturday. About 100 pumpkins were available for painting. (NICK SHORT/Standard-Examiner)

They did the Monster Mash in Kaysville

KAYSVILLE -- Crowded around tables, children busily painting tiny pumpkins -- and as one child stood up to leave, another was there to take the vacated place.

Kacy Wilson attended the Monster Mash & Dash with two of her children -- Rafe and Ripley -- who sat at opposite tables, causing their mom to run back and forth to help each of them.

"The kids have enjoyed this a lot," Wilson said of the city-sponsored event Saturday evening at Heritage Park. "They have been begging me to paint pumpkins. They have seen signs around town (about the event) and have been looking forward to it."

(ANTHONY SOUFFLE/Standard-Examiner) Jack Sparrow comes to life in one of Ken Klinker's pumpkins.

Pumpkin masterpieces by Farmington artist

FARMINGTON -- For Ken Klinker, the cooling temperatures and falling leaves are a sign of only one thing ... pumpkins.

Carved Pumpkins at the home of Ken Klinker

Area grower sets pumpkin record

LEHI -- Matt McConkie of Mountain Green set a Utah record with his enormous pumpkin.

NICHOLAS DRANEY/Standard-Examiner
Frayne Spens and Matt McConkie watch as a giant pumpkin is lifted onto a trailer in Washington Terrace on Friday. The squash will be entered into the Utah Giant Pumpkin Growers Weigh Off at Thanksgiving Point today. Contest pumpkins will also be displayed in Golden West Credit Union branches to help solicit food donations for those in need.

1,300-pound pumpkin heads to state competition

WASHINGTON TERRACE -- Organizers hope a 1,300-pound pumpkin grown here turns into meals for thousands of hungry Utahns.

No, they aren't breaking out a dozen recipes for preparing pumpkin: Golden West Credit Union is asking the public to donate food equal to the weight of four giant pumpkins grown by Tyler Quigley and Matt McConkie.

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