On Saturday, October 11, 2003 the Guadalupe River Park & Gardens hosted the 8th annual Pumpkins in the Park, an environmental harvest festival for young families designed to create awareness of the Guadalupe River and celebrate the fall season.  10,000 people attended Pumpkins in the Park to learn about the Guadalupe River, make scarecrows, decorate pumpkins, taste apples and cider, listen to great music, eat great food and  partake in countless other activities.

We Needed Volunteers, and we got them!

We had more volunteers than ever.  Lucy Perez and all of the event planners would like to thank the countless volunteers who made this event possible.

We celebrated
National Fire Prevention Month
with the San Jose Fire Department

Thanks to everyone who brought a can of food for
Second Harvest Food Bank!

Thanks to these
Participating Companies & Organizations

Home Composting Education Program of SCC San Jose Adopt-A-Park Fishing in the City Anti-Graffiti and Litter Program Twist & Shout The San Jose Fire Department Registrar of Voters - Santa Clara County Water-Wise Gardening - SCV Water District Watershed Watch Community Child Care Council of Santa Clara County McKee Injury & Rehab Center Sand & Candle Art Conservation Corps Village Harvest	Safe Place Household Hazardous Waste Preservation Action Council First 5 Santa Clara County Plant a Row for the Hungry Master Gardeners of SCC Glenna Harris Weavers Guild Walden West Outdoor School Bay Area Bears Norcal Waste Systems of SJ National Art Honor Society of Lincoln HS - Face Painting Silica Valley Glass Pumpkins Martinelli's Fitness USA Supercenters Buttons On The Go Children's Discovery Museum The Mercury News
Food & Beverage Peggy Sue's Free Apple Cider Friend's of GRPG Pizza Booth Mai Tai Skooter's Ice Cream Tony's Kettle Korn Entertainment Doug Jones MC Nancy Cassidy Children's Songs 10:00 - 10:45 Los Mestizos Children's Dance Group 10:45 - 11:15 Zun Zun Children's Music, lots of instruments! 11:30 - 12:15 Second Harvest Food Bank Millionth pound of Plant-a-Row Weigh In 12:15 - 12:30 Short Attention-Span Circus Juggler 12:30 - 1:00 Raffle 1:00 - 1:15 Banana Slugs Environmental Children's Music 1:15 - 2:00 Raffle 2:00 - 2:15 Zun Zun   2:15 - 3:00 Banana Slugs   3:00 - 3:45 Raffle 3:45 - 4:00
The Banana Slug String Band	Zun Zun
Nancy Cassidy	Twist & Shout (Balloon Twisting) Cosmo the Clown Briarwood (Bluegrass Music) Motion Maker Puppeteers

Donation Drawing
Proceeds benefit the nonprofit Friends of GRP&G

White Cane Awareness Day Walk-A-Thon
10/11/03 | 9-Noon
Plaza de Cesar Chavez Park with a loop through Pumpkins in the Park.

Treat your children, grandchildren, or some special little guests to an exciting evening of Disney on Ice! Wednesday, October 29 is opening night for Mickey & Minnie's Magical Journey at HP Pavilion. The performance begins at 7:30 PM.

Thanks to a generous donation from Disney and NBC11, the Friends of Guadalupe River Park & Gardens have a number of tickets to sell for the opening night performance at a discounted price of $10.00 each. The entire proceeds from the sale of these tickets remain with the Friends and will be used for our children's education programs.

These tickets will be on sale at Pumpkins in the Park, but are also available by calling Kathleen Muller at 408-277-5998. Tickets will be sold on a first come-first served basis.

Sponsors

Cortese Brothers

		Rob Bettencourt
Office of Public Education San Jose Fire Department

Partners & Contributors
Bogey’s Pizza
Robert Bettencourt
City of SJ Park Rangers
Cortese Brother Farms
Jake’s of Willow Glen
Doug Jones
Logitech Ice
Lou’s Donuts
San Jose Beautiful
San Jose Conservation Corps
Starbuck's Coffee, San Pedro Square