Enormous thanks to everyone that made it out to Spooky Town at Steve Cox Memorial Park on Saturday, October 28th from 2-5pm!

White Center Teen Program staff and volunteers had a blast bringing the 2023 Outdoor Halloween Carnival back to the community. Families played carnival games, made arts and crafts, kept it moving through an “Underground Spooky Town Maze” in the basement of the Historic WC Fieldhouse, enjoyed concessions (Courtesy of Dub Sea Fish Sticks), picked up pumpkins (Courtesy of DLS, the Participatory Budget Team, and KCP Greenhouse) challenged themselves to the Fall SCMP Scavenger Hunt, and snapped photos at several step and repeat displays including epic Spooky Town Balloon Columns (Courtesy of Happy Balloon Decorations.)

PUMPKIN CONTEST WINNERS

Thank you to each and every one of you that contributed your artistic talents to the 2023 Spooky Town patch! You all demonstrated great creativity and vision, and we were blown away by all the clever entries. Thank you also to everyone that helped out with the judging, we counted 1,387 votes in total!

2023 Spooky Town Pumpkin Adult Winners

1st – Brandy

2nd – Thomas

3rd – Allison

Peoples Choice – Nikoli

2023 Spooky Town Pumpkin Teen Winners

1st -Jazzy

2nd – Taumaoe

3rd – Leon

2023 SPOOKY TOWN COLORING SHEETS

Thank you also to the 50+ WCTP Teen Volunteers for all the hard work running carnival games, decorating Spooky Town, mixing dozens of batches of slime, and creating the Official 2023 Spooky Town color sheets:

ENORMOUS GRATITUDE TO EVERYONE THAT MADE SPOOKY TOWN POSSIBLE

• White Center’s own favorite Mural Artist, Paz hosted another packed family friendly painting workshop!
• King County Local Services Participatory Budget Program sponsored the Pumpkin Patch Giveaways (sourced from a local Boulevard Park Produce Stand.) 
• WC Community Members Justin Cox and Pat Thompson tabled on behalf of Participatory Budgeting day of the event!
• The Dub Sea Fish Sticks once again provided in kind FREE hotdogs, popcorn, water, coffee and cider to attendees.  
• Happy Balloon Decorations once again provided four balloon columns in kind for the Photo booth.
• Shoutout to KCSO and Deputy Glen for all the fun games and prizes!
• Continued thanks to both the WC Blog and White Center Now for sharing all the Spooky Town News fit to print.
• Parks own Greenhouse Program provided pumpkins this year (with several grown by the teens from starts in the WCTP Learning Garden.)
• The Crafts Crew and Sunset Crew graciously provided support once again; we could not build Spooky Town without both teams.
• King County Parks teammates including Parks Patrol, Restoration Crew, Archeology Team, KCAC, Volunteer Program, Communications Team, and the Mobile Engagement Team.
• The entire WCTP crew dedicated the month of October to bringing the carnival back to the park.
• And the WCTP Rec Aides created craft tutorial videos, packed grab and go crafts, and dropped the comic version of the Story of Spooky Town.

STORY OF SPOOKY TOWN COMIC BOOK PREMIERE

And finally, congrats to all of the artists that contributed to the The Story of Spooky Town Volume 1 Graphic Novel! Spooky, Sunny and all of their friends are now available in full color at a little free library near you. (Assuming you happen to be near SCMP.)

In other Story of Spooky Town breaking news, Volume 2 How to Catch a Dragon was recently selected as an notable mention in the King County Library System 2023 Terrifying Tales Anthology.

For additional Carnival Information, please contact Vana Danh at 206.477.2105