Halloween
display
torched

ALL HELL broke loose in a
Tempe Heights Halloween pum-
pkin patch Tuesday night when
malevolent pranksters armed with
fire crackers torched a seasonal
front yard display just completed
by 41 neighborhood kids and 16
parents.

“We wanted to show the fun
side of Halloween, not the
ghoulish side,’’ said Barb Gerrett.

Gerrett and family had just
recently moved from Victoria into
a new home on Munday Place and
decided, along with next-door-
neighbor Vicky Robertson, to set
up a carved pumpkin patch display
complete with a friendly scarecrow
as a way to bring together the
neighborhood.

The patch was set for the arrival
of the Great Pumpkin and a
fireworks display Saturday night.

“Most of the people left by
about 6:30 p.m. and we went in
for dinner. By about 7:30 p.m.
some neighvors noticed fire on the
ground. The scarecrow was burn-
ing and they said flames shot up as
high as the garage roof,’ Gerrett said.

Alert neighbors managed to
douse the fire with nearby hoses by
the time North Vancouver City
firefighters arrived.

But said Gerrett, ‘“‘The Great
Pumpkin will still arrive.”

A new pumpkin patch will be up
for Saturday night. And North
Vancouver City Fire Department
firefighter Andy Schmidt will be
volunteering his time to supervise
the fireworks display.

The friendly scarecrow took the
brunt of the fire damage with little
more than the soles of his rubber
boots remaining among the char-
red shells of the jack-o’-lanterns.

NEWS photo Mike Wakefield
DISAPPOINTED TEMPE Heights neighborhood children display the
ruined remnants of a Halloween pumpkin patch and scarecrew torched
by vandals armed with fire crackers. Julie Gerrett, 5, clutches the charred
hand of the scarecrow. Behind her stand some of the approximately 40
children who carved pumpkins for the display.

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