Trunk or Treat in Seymour

Seymour Trunk or Treat Moved to Oct. 28

SEYMOUR - The annual Seymour Trunk or Treat event has been moved to Sunday Oct. 28 due to the rainy weather forecast.

 

Set-up times are between 5 and 6 pm (come earlier if you like)  The event is from 6 pm to 8 pm at Seymour Middle School. See flyer below for event details. 

 

We hope people can still join us for this great fun family event!

 

Please feel free to contact Rich Kearns at 203-888-2561 ext. 1003 if anyone needs additional information.

  

Fall Festival on the Farm

Shelton farm slates UNICEF festival for kids

27th annual event to be held this weekend

SHELTON - Families dressed in costume are invited to Jones Family Farms’ annual UNICEF Family Festival from 10 a.m.- 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at their Pumpkinseed Hill farm, 120 Beardsley Road.

Games and crafts for kids will help raise money for UNICEF.

Activities (Proceeds directly to UNICEF) include:
Temporary Tattoos
Bean Bag Toss
Fortune Telling
Gourd Creature Making
Button Making

This year marks the 27th anniversary of the Jones' family selling pumpkins at their Pumpkinseed Hill farm at 120 Beardsley Road. Over the years, they have been able to donate more than $100,000 to UNICEF thanks to this yearly festival.

Guests to the pumpkin fields will join farmers in celebrating one of our favorite pumpkin themes: The World of OZ! You may even see some of your favorite characters working in the pumpkin patch that weekend!

Entertainment will take place on the Munchkin-land stage and includes a musical performance from Shelton’s Center Stage Theater Teen Cabaret at 2 p.m. Saturday. Also, pig and chicken feeding demonstrations and story-times will be held throughout both days.

As usual, guests will be able to choose from more than 50 varieties of pumpkins, squash and gourds grown on the Jones farm.
The hayrides will be running and weather permitting the corn maze will be open too.

The ever-popular All-You-Can-Carry special is also in place. Guests will pay only $33 for all the pumpkins they can carry across the finish line. This year, the Jones Farmers have included white pumpkins, specialty pumpkins and even their eye-catching GIANT pumpkins in the deal. It’s always fun to stand by the line and cheer on the strong men and women at the pumpkin patch.

Jones Family Farms is open daily through Halloween, 10 a.m.- 5:30 p.m.; 4 p.m. close on Halloween.

Jones Winery is open 11 a.m. -5 p.m. Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays. 
Directions and information about Jones Family Farms may be found on JonesFamilyFarms.com or by calling Farmer Jones’ crop report number 203-929-8425. 

This information is taken from a release from Keith Padin, Marketing and Hospitality Manager, Jones Family Farms.

Harvest festival contest winners announced

Scarecrows, pumpkins get prizes

ANSONIA - Cultural Commission Chairwoman Judy Nicolari today announced the winners of the scarecrow making and pumpkin decorating contests held Saturday at the ninth annual harvest festival.

Valley Arts Council members Greg Karas and Steve DiRienzo judged the artwork.

In the scarecrow competition, first place ribbons went to My Sister's Place; AT Bay; Stauffer Real Estate; L2 Innovate Computers; second place went to the Friends of Ansonia Library; PM Lounge and Michele's Alterations took third place. 

Pumpkin-decorating contest winners are listed below.

First Place, Ansonia Middle School:

Ashely Ambrose

Victoria Gold

Payton Westine

Melissa Healey

Sean Morales

Anthony Valez

Second Place, Ansonia Middle School:

Christopher Waugh

Jason Edwards

Krystal Pellegrino

Dan Bedoya

John C. Mead and John G. Prendergast elementary schools:

First Place:

Karyme Serrano

Jaxon Anderson

Mya Zayas

Second Place:

Matthew Lundeen

Victoria Gavin

Third Place:

Marissa Pelligrino

Jackie Finney

Ardit Gjonbalaj

Symone Finney

Jackie Finney

Faith Alteri

Prize goes to pink 'girl' at Ansonia Harvest Festival

This is one of the prize-winning scarecrows in a contest held Saturday during the ninth annual Ansonia Harvest Festival. Members of the Valley Arts Council judged the competition. 'Miss Pinky' is the creation of Christine Stauffer, owner of Stauffer Real Estate, 258 Main St., Ansonia. The scarecrow is promoting National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, which is October. Photo by Patricia Villers

Ansonia Nature Center plans Autumnfest

Event will feature 'haunted trail,' hay bale maze

ANSONIA - Pumpkin carving, horse-drawn wagon rides and a hay bale maze will be some of the highlights of an annual fall fest sponsored by the Friends of the Ansonia Nature Center, Inc.

The event will run from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Oct. 20 at the Center, 10 Deerfield Road. Admission is free.

This year, visitors will once again get a chance to enjoy horse-drawn wagon rides provided by Maple View Farm in Orange.
As the horses clip-clop over hill and meadow, riders will learn the history of the park and perhaps hear a scary story or two.

Visitors may follow a "haunted trail" created by the Junior Rangers and try to make their way through a hay bale maze.

Carve a pumpkin, and visit the nature center store where the youngest family members will be able to decorate a pumpkin with no carving or scissors provided.

Learn about the animals associated with All Hallows Eve, through a program on bats, owls, and tarantulas.

The Friends will hold a tag sale and a bake sale, featuring homemade apple and pumpkin goodies to take home.

Enjoy fresh-squeezed apple cider and cinnamon doughnuts. Ranger Marty Wigglesworth is planning to hold his popular doughnut-eating contest.  

All proceeds from the celebration will benefit the center's educational programs and wildlife rehabilitation.

This information was provided by the nature center.

Ansonia getting ready for 9th annual Harvest Festival

Vendors sought for Oct. 6 event

ANSONIA - It may still be summer, but members of the Cultural Commission are busy preparing for an onslaught of scarecrows, pumpkins, hay bales, mums, and more on Main Street.

That's because the city's Harvest Festival is only a month away.
The ninth annual event will be held from 10 a.m.- 4 p.m. Oct. 6 along Main Street. Rain date is Oct. 13. 
There will be a lot of new arts and crafts vendors along with the "old reliables" who have participated since the festival began, Cultural Commission chairwoman Judy Nicolari said.

"This year we've added a new attraction featuring Chris Clark who will be showing  the audiences fantastic stunts on his bicycle," she said. "It's an act not to be missed."
The time and location for Clark's performance will be announced at a later date, Nicolari said.

A scarecrow-making contest will also be held. The contest is open to all who register their scarecrows with the Valley Arts Council at its booth, Nicolari said. Winners will be based on workmanship and skill effort.

There will be a pumpkin-carving contest held in the Ansonia school system. Participants are asked to bring their carved pumpkins to Veterans Park next to City Hall by 12:30 p.m. at the latest for judging by the Valley Arts Council.

There also will be music performances on two stages throughout the day.  Programs will be available at the festival listing the scheduled times for all the performances.

Car show, chalk art

A classic car show will take place on Bridge Street, and amusement rides will be set up behind the River Valley Baptist Church.
A free moon walk bounce for kids will be provided by TEAM, Inc. throughout the day.
A chalk drawing event, which was very popular last year, will again be held on Water Street. Chalk will be provided.

Anyone interested in signing up as a vendor may visit www.cityofansonia.com or contact Nicolari, 203-732-1040, or Cultural Commission member Mary Gibson, 203-734-2484.

The above is taken from a press release from Judy Nicolari.