by Lisa Schauer
Local children competed in a pumpkin derby at Widmeyer Park on a picture-perfect Sunday afternoon, October 13.
The Town of Hancock Parks and Recreation sponsored the pumpkin derby, set up in the parking lot at Hancock War Memorial Library.
Martha’s House held a pumpkin derby workshop and dinner the night before, and helped run the pumpkin derby heats on the tarmac.
Pairs of colorfully decorated pumpkins affixed to wheeled axles were perched atop a wooden ramp. One after another, they careened onto the course, bumping and running, or kissing the wall in the soap box-style derby.
“We love stuff from Miss Debbie at Martha’s House, and we love Halloween,” said Eden Frashure of Hancock, with daughter Hazel, 3, dressed as a fairytale princess and attending her first pumpkin derby.
