Each year, The Green Earth organization hosts the Pumpkin Glow event, where they line a trail in the Oakland Nature Preserve with jack o’ lanterns from October 16th to October 18th. In previous years, Green Earth has asked CCHS clubs to help carve pumpkins. This year, Green Earth extends another invitation to CCHS for clubs that want to help out. 

Key Club will be hosting a pumpkin carving event for Green Earth, where students who volunteer will gut and carve pumpkins for the trail. Volunteers will be meeting in the courtyard near the cafeteria after school on Tuesday, October 14th, after checking in with their club sponsors. According to LeAnne Gaydos, the Key Club sponsor, about six to eight clubs will be participating, some including: Key Club, Tabletop Gaming, Student Council, CCHS cycling, and FBLA.

Ten members of the Tabletop Gaming club alone will be participating, which is seven participants more than last year. Two of which are high school seniors Isaiah Price, the Tabletop Gaming janitor, and Marjion Henry, the Tabletop Gaming treasurer. When asked what they would carve into their pumpkins, they had this to say. 

“Oh, I’ll wing it,” Price said. “I don’t know what to do and I can’t be bothered to plan. I think it’d be fun to wing it, or make it up on the spot.”

“Do you know Kevin the minion?” Henry said. “That.”

Reka Nabes, the Key Club treasurer, will also be participating in carving pumpkins, and she has already started planning ahead of time.

“I’ll probably be carving multiple, but I know that for at least one, I want to do a key symbol since I’ll be there on behalf of Key Club,” Nabes said.

Carving tools will be provided by club sponsors and given out once the event starts. Out of about 750 jack o’ lanterns, CCHS will be carving nearly 200 for the trail this year. Participation in the pumpkin carving event is considered community service. Last year, there were more than enough pumpkins for volunteers to carve, so feel free to ask Gaydos or your club sponsor about participating.