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Published November 01, 2012, 12:00 AM

Hilltop Pumpkin Party

The annual event organized by the I-94 Business Alliance drew an estimated 3,000 people to YMCA Day Camp St. Croix.


Children dressed in their Halloween costumes parade through the Hilltop Pumpkin Party at noon Saturday. Prizes were awarded for the best costumes.

  • Children dressed in their Halloween costumes parade through the Hilltop Pumpkin Party at noon Saturday. Prizes were awarded for the best costumes.
  • Jadyn Hartwig of Hudson came to the party dressed as a cupcake.
  • Jacob Koss of Hudson picks his pumpkin from the patch. Several hundred pumpkins, grown by UW-River Falls soil and crop students, were given away.
  • Ned Whitney of White Bear Lake, Minn., aka Batman, feeds the goats in the petting zoo.
  • First American Bank sponsored horse-drawn wagon rides.
  • Megan Flaska of Woodbury, Minn., left, and her mother Karen Eno of the town of Troy, entered their dogs Riley and Lucy in the pet costume contest. Riley placed second, earning a $25 gift certificate from Angel’s Pet World.
  • Isabel Isaac of Hudson, a little angel, paints a pumpkin.
  • Hudson police officer Bob Larson and his dog, Officer Brisco, visit with Richard Schutte, Jason Radunz and Matthew Radunz, all of Hudson.
  • Tyler Sauer of River Falls sits at the steering wheel of a U.S. Army Humvee. Sgt. Puente is in the background.
  • Ron Revere of Thunder Country 95.7 FM radio emcees the costume contest awards program. An estimated 3,000 people attended this year’s Hilltop Pumpkin Party held at YMCA Day Camp St. Croix, just south of Hudson on County F/Carmichael Road.