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Giant 550 pound pumpkin on display at Pine Point School during Open House Sat. 10-2

Giant 550 pound pumpkin on display Saturday at the Pine Point School in Stonington, CT during our Open House and Barber Sports Tournament from 10-2pm.  The pumpkin was donated by the Pesarik family.  You might be wondering what will happen to a 550 puns pumpkin after Halloween?   All will go to a good cause:   it will be brought to  to Grasso Tech where the environmental program will be harvesting the seeds and then carving up the pumpkin for compost.  They have a compost powered water heater that provides heat to their greenhouse, and the compost used as fertilizer in the spring.  Nothing will be going to waste.

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