Karina Gonzalez
This weekend Pierce College is proud to welcome back their annual Halloween Harvest Festival. This wildly popular event opens this friday, September 29 at 7pm. At the corner of De Soto and Victory for the next five weeks and everyone is invited.
Preparations for this fest seem to be going right on schedule, according Linda Carberry, the school’s farm center manager.
“So far we’ve only been working with a handful of people, including the students that work here. But we’re right on schedule with everything and we’re very proud of that.” said Carberry.
Many new features have been added to this year’s festival, as well as some old favorites like
Spookley the square pumpkin and his friend Jack the scarecrow at the all new Holiday Hill Farms stage show. Another popular of the fest are farm-grown pumpkins, which are always ready to be picked up to be taken home.
But this year the fest also promises to have slightlier “sinister” persona than the previous years, as the new FrightFair Scream Park comes to life. It features both the Factory of Nightmares haunted house, as well as the Creatures of the Corn haunted trail.
Another new exiting feature in this year’s festival is the Get lost in our five-acre Adventure Corn Maze. There will also be plenty of kid’s activities happening during day. Like the petting zoo featuring the farm’s very owned ponies, donkeys, sheep, goats. And then there is also hay rides and bungee bouncing, and other exciting games for older kids.
For the adults there will be plenty activities as well, such as group sales, class field trips, parties and corporate teambuilding activities. There will also be a wide variety of food sales throughout the days. These are yet to be announced and the food sales are more likely to change throughtout the days of the event.
The hours of the event will be from 10 am to 10 pm on Sundays through Thursdays and 10am to midnight on Fridays and Saturdays (the festival will be closed on Mondays however, as well as a few other dates during the week, check website for more updates). The entrance for the festival is $4.00, Children under 3 years of age enter Free.
People coming to the event using the Orange Line Metro can get off directly to the Halloween Festival by getting off at the De Soto Metro Stop. And if you bring your MTA ticket at the door you will receive free admission to the event(Ticket must be dated the same day when you go).
The Harvest Halloween Festival will be sponsored by the Foundation for Pierce College and all the proceeds will benefits will go to the Agricultural Education Center.
The Halloween Harvest Festival At Pierce College6498 De Soto Ave. at Victory Blvd., Woodland Hills, CA 91371
For more information you can visit the following website:
www.halloweenharvestfestival.com