Downtown Sparks will be celebrating all things pumpkin the weekend of October 19-20, when the Northern Nevada Center for Independent Living kicks off PumpkinPalooza 2013.
Over the course of this weekend, families will be able to:

• Build and race a pumpkin in the Pumpkin Derby
• Participate in the children’s costume parade
• Enjoy storytelling in the Haunted School House
• Visit with fortune-tellers on the Ghost Train
• Play carnival style games from Circus Circus
• Compete in pie-eating, pumpkin seed spitting, and mummy wrapping contests
• Enter their pumpkins in the beauty contest
• Enjoy live music
• Finish their day with the official Lighting of the Pumpkins!