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Lake Hills Witches Kick Off Halloween
The ladies donned their witch costumes and hopped aboard the paddle boards to create a spooktacular scene.
The Ladies of Fairfield's Lake Hills Association really know how to bring in Halloween. The 11 women traded their broomsticks for paddles and hopped on their paddle boards to usher in the association's Fall Festival and Halloween.
The Lake Hills Spirit Committee, that plans events for the association got the idea from an annual event held along the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon. Spirit Committee Member Jessica Roffe shared a picture of the Portland event with other Committee members on their Facebook Group. A few comments on the post later, and Lynn Hartigan and Spirit Committee Chair Shana McHugh were rallying the troops to create their own witch flotilla on the association’s Samp Mortar Lake.
The ladies decided last minute that the floating witches would kick of the association's third annual Fall Festival. They scrambled to get all of their costumes and gather enough paddle boards for the 11 women to create the scene that they envisioned. Mind you, doing so all while finishing planning for their association’s Fall Festival, which included a live band, donut-eating contest, bounce house, corn hold tournament, corn pit, photo booth and potato sack race, to mention a few of the moving parts of the event.
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“Lake Hills member Julie Finneran always says, ‘Many hands make light work.’ And that’s the motto we always keep in mind here. When we band together, we can make anything happen,” said Lake Hills Spirit Committee Chair Shana McHugh.
The festivities also included a silent auction where you could win a pontoon boat tour of Samp Mortar Lake’s best bass fishing spots with Blue Lagoon star Christopher Atkins.
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The sentiment was unanimous as more than 250 people enjoyed the October 19th event on the association’s Beach Four.
“Lake Hills is a very special place that hasn’t changed since the 1950s. We all share the responsibility of maintaining our lake and its five beaches. And we band together whenever someone is in need. All while carrying on decades old traditions of Samp Mortar Lake, and creating some new ones,” said Lake Hills Vice President Myke Hartigan.
