Entrants sought for Milford Pumpkin Festival Talent Show

MILFORD – The eighth annual Milford Pumpkin Festival Talent Show needs singers, dancers, amateur comedians, jugglers, tumblers and anyone with an unusual talent. Individuals and groups are welcome!

Entries are open for the show, which will be held at the Amato Center for the Performing Arts on Saturday, Oct. 11. Four prizes will be awarded: $500 for first, $200 to first runner-up,$100 to second runner-up and $100 to audience favorite.

Auditions will take place from 1-8 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 28, at the Amato Center, 56 Mont Vernon St. Interested performers can sign up at www.milfordpumpkinfestival.org.

You must be 12 or older to audition. The closing date for entries is Tuesday,Sept. 23.

The festival is organized each year on behalf of the town by the Milford Improvement Team, a nonprofit whose mission is a public-private partnership working to promote, revitalize and enhance the historic, natural, social and economic vitality of Milford.

The talent show is sponsored by Family Dental Care of Milford, Hurst and DeGraffenried Wealth Management, and Apple Therapy Services.

Presenting sponsors of the 25th annual festival are St. Joseph Hospital, Centrix Bank, Odd

Fellows Lodge 23 Milford, Blase Electric, Kokko Realty and Atlas Pyrotechnics.

For more information about the festival or talent show, call Wendy Hunt, Executive

Director, at the MIT office at 249-0676, email director@milford

improvementteam.org or visit www.milfordpumpkinfestival.org.