Cedarburg's
Wine & Harvest Festival to launch giant squash...
Pumpkin Regatta!
Cedarburg Wine & Harvest Festival
Sunday, September 21, 2:00 p.m.
If you‚ve ever been up a creek without a paddle you will
feel some empathy for the intrepid entrants in Historic Cedarburg‚s
First Annual "Giant Pumpkin" Charity Regatta, sponsored
by Festivals of Cedarburg, Inc. and assisted by Cedarburg Parks
and Recreation Department. The regatta, at 2:00 p.m. Sunday
on Cedar Creek‚s Mill Pond, will be part of the 36th Annual
Wine & Harvest Festival, September 20 & 21. The fearless
competitors will have a paddle but their flotation device will
be a giant pumpkin, not a canoe. Paddlers‚ may be out
of their gourd but the event promises some wet and wild hilarity.
Pumpkin Carver Steve Dahlke says that growers have been babying
their special crop of grown-from-seed giant pumpkins (weighing
more than 500 pounds) all summer and the time is ripe to encourage
a new non-edible use by scooping them out, embellishing them,
floating them in the Creek and then paddling them furiously
to the finish line. The race course begins on the Mill Pond
at Boy Scout Park, then across to the opposite bank of Cedar
Creek Settlement.
Once launched, the navigators of these "personal vegetable
craft" (PVC) will race for a cause. There will be a $250
first prize, $150 second prize and $100 third prize donated
to the designated charity of the top three placers, plus trophies
for those finalists. Competition entry is free.
Pumpkins will be delivered, by forklift and sweat equity, to
the Boy Scout House on Sunday at 10:00 a.m. and entrant‚s
will have until 1:30 p.m. to carve and decorate their PVC, then
costumed racers will hit the water Sunday at 2:00 p.m. The mighty
gourds will be paddle-tested for race-worthiness and stability.
Area restaurants will challenge each other this year in an "iron
chef" fight to the finish.
CLICK
HERE for registration information.
Its sink or swim, so come help celebrate this inaugural launch.
262-377-9620 / 888-894-4001
Just 20 minutes North of Milwaukee, I-43
*What do you get when you drop a pumpkin? (Squash).
*What‚s the favorite food of mathematicians? (Pumpkin
pi).
*How did Mr. Hyde celebrate Halloween? (With a Jekyll lantern).
*Pumpkin puns: Richard Lederer, The Farmer‚s Almanac
