Saturday, September 20, 2008

Flying Pumpkins-Mount Vernon Pumpkin Hurl


Pumpkin Hurl now has more than half-mile of room
MOUNT VERNON, Wash. - This year's Pumpkin Hurl in Washington state now has more than a half-mile of space after a squash was tossed 1,866 feet last year.

The Northwest Agriculture Business Center has moved the event from Burlington to a Snohomish County farm with a 3,000-foot gourd firing range.

The sky will rain pumpkins Oct. 4. The center says at least seven teams from the West Coast and Canada will compete this year for prizes and bragging rights.

Defending champion TreBarbaric with be there with its 78-foot-tall pumpkin-pitching machine...article

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