Kirkmere third-graders take 1st place in Scarecrow Festival
YOUNGSTOWN -- A class of third-grade pupils at Kirkmere Elementary School were named winners of the Scarecrow Festival sponsored by Inglis Greenhouse in Boardman last month.
Festival-goers voted on scarecrows by donating canned goods and cash for the Second Harvest Foodbank of the Mahoning Valley.
Kirkmere's "Frankie Stein" scarecrow collected 12,000 canned goods and $87. The green-faced, green-cloaked creation was crafted by youngsters in Katherine Paull's class. They won a $100 Inglis certificate and a pizza party from East of Chicago Pizza.
Second-place winners in the event were Sami Winick's class at Youngstown's Paul C. Bunn Elementary School.
Third place went to the third-grade class of Missy Kountz at Poland Union Elementary School.
Fifty local elementary-school classrooms and scouting groups made scarecrows for the weekend-long festival at Inglis, which is on Southern Boulevard.