Kirkmere third-graders take 1st place in Scarecrow Festival
YOUNGSTOWN -- A class of third-grade pupils at Kirkmere Elementary School were 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.
Pupils who helped make Frankie are April Arquilla, Paul Benson, Lauren Bevan, Justin Brue, Brandon Capretta, James Davis, Teon Daye, Amanda Durkin, Bradley Dustman, Stacey Eubanks, Emily Felleti, Troy Fitzwilliams, Dominic Fonce, Cali Gialousis, Chelsey Hofus, Sharlynn Hopkins, Anthony Lucente, Christina Morales, Darien Townsend and Tiffany Williams.
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.