Squash Time
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Little 7-year-old Jonny Lee had a glint in his eye Friday evening. The boy watched as the machete hacked the pumpkin in half, spilling its orange seedy guts all over the Grand Sierra Resort parking lot. He knew once the pumpkin’s remains were loaded into the slingshot, it was destined for a gory end.
The second grader from Lincoln Park Elementary School was one of many who gathered at the GSR to send pumpkins hurling to their pulpy place in the parking lot. For a $5 donation, locals can get in touch with their rebellious side and smash their share of $4,000 worth of locally purchased pumpkins.
The opportunity for Halloween mayhem is open from 3 to 6 p.m. today in the hotel casino’s parking lot. Of the $5, $1 goes to the Food Bank of Northern Nevada.
The destructive fun ramps up as participants try to hit a clunker car for a raffle ticket.
“If you hit the car, you get entered in a drawing, we are blowing up the car Saturday night (and the winner gets) to be the one who pushes the ignition button,” said GSR entertainment director Chris Christiansen.
Others will try to plunge a spike through their pumpkin’s spongy shell. One of the two slingshots is aimed at a large X with a spike in this middle. Christiansen said it took a little trickery to get the slingshot positioned just right, but event producers were eventually able to stick a pumpkin onto the sharp, wooden point. Winners get a two night stay in the GSR’s Summit suites and dinner at Charlie Palmer’s Stake House.
“We have been engineering the slings for two weeks now,” Christiansen said.
Jonny and his siblings, Maggie, 7, Kenzie, 7, and Jacob, 10, tried their hand at both slingshots. But they said it wasn’t the first time they had sent a Halloween pumpkin to its doom.
“My parents let me smash my pumpkin if I clean it up,” said Jacob Lee, a student at Juniper Elementary School. This year, Jacob said he had carved a “not too scary” face into his front porch pumpkin.
“It’s actually a little funny,” he said, adding that the pumpkin’ s funny face had a post-Halloween date with the sidewalk.
The event continues today in the GSR’s south-west parking lot. Cookies, cupcakes, cider, hot chocolate and other treats will be for sale with proceeds benefiting the Food Bank of Northern Nevada.
The second grader from Lincoln Park Elementary School was one of many who gathered at the GSR to send pumpkins hurling to their pulpy place in the parking lot. For a $5 donation, locals can get in touch with their rebellious side and smash their share of $4,000 worth of locally purchased pumpkins.
The opportunity for Halloween mayhem is open from 3 to 6 p.m. today in the hotel casino’s parking lot. Of the $5, $1 goes to the Food Bank of Northern Nevada.
The destructive fun ramps up as participants try to hit a clunker car for a raffle ticket.
“If you hit the car, you get entered in a drawing, we are blowing up the car Saturday night (and the winner gets) to be the one who pushes the ignition button,” said GSR entertainment director Chris Christiansen.
Others will try to plunge a spike through their pumpkin’s spongy shell. One of the two slingshots is aimed at a large X with a spike in this middle. Christiansen said it took a little trickery to get the slingshot positioned just right, but event producers were eventually able to stick a pumpkin onto the sharp, wooden point. Winners get a two night stay in the GSR’s Summit suites and dinner at Charlie Palmer’s Stake House.
“We have been engineering the slings for two weeks now,” Christiansen said.
Jonny and his siblings, Maggie, 7, Kenzie, 7, and Jacob, 10, tried their hand at both slingshots. But they said it wasn’t the first time they had sent a Halloween pumpkin to its doom.
“My parents let me smash my pumpkin if I clean it up,” said Jacob Lee, a student at Juniper Elementary School. This year, Jacob said he had carved a “not too scary” face into his front porch pumpkin.
“It’s actually a little funny,” he said, adding that the pumpkin’ s funny face had a post-Halloween date with the sidewalk.
The event continues today in the GSR’s south-west parking lot. Cookies, cupcakes, cider, hot chocolate and other treats will be for sale with proceeds benefiting the Food Bank of Northern Nevada.
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