The winner of the Prince and Princess of the Patch will each receive a $50 savings bond, courtesy of Bancroft State Bank.

There are two ways things are going to happen. There will be professional courtesy that says, 'There is an issue, let's find out where it is.' But there will be smaller shops -- not as professional -- that will whip out the finger. We are already working with our partners so that the way things get handled is by us. There will be people that do it very dirty, but we are setting ourselves up to do it cleanly. I'm going to give you a solution or find out where the solution lies.

Things sort of went down from there.

The biggest drop before would be 800 pounds, I believe.

Children 12 and younger are invited to come dressed in their harvest attire.

We generally have about 60 different growers that bring pumpkins each year.