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Act III
This year’s event was called Act-3 and the theme was “Come out and play” and that is what people did, including the band “DnR” who rocked the rap and kept everyone motivated. “DnR” generously donated their time, talent and tunes and filled the air with timeless classics including Stevie Wonder’s “Superstitious”. The goal of this year’s RAP was to carve and illuminate 2000 pumpkins and to raise $2000.00 dollars for The Children’s Wish Foundation. John and Cynthia are pleased to announce that they achieved and exceeded both of these goals. A combined effort from Mark Sanders and his family along with Jake by the Lake’s team amazed everyone including themselves this year. As the rain danced upon the massive pile of shiny orange pumpkins it looked like the pumpkin mountain might never be conquered by this optimistic group. The orange pumpkins seemed quite content to stay in formation where they were; and appeared to be laughing and having as much fun as the volunteers. Weather, obstacles, challenges and naysayers would all be silenced as this group of dedicated volunteers carve and place the last smiling pumpkin upon a flatbed trailer. Spirits were not broken nor were any actual known records broken, but here are this year’s stats: 2400 Pumpkins were brought to the village of Westport, 2350 of them were carved and 2000 of them were illuminated. Mark Sanders cleaned and carved a pumpkin in 39 seconds flat.

To rap this up, even though it drizzled and it looked like things couldn’t get worse, the following day, the October air turned bitter cold and Westport saw it’s first snowfall of the year. “The weather clearly demonstrates that things could always be worse, but life is not about stopping and waiting for the storms to pass, it is about learning to dance in the rain”, says John Pringle. For three years Jake by the Lake’s team of optimists has successfully doubled the number of pumpkins carved and they realize that to achieve next year’s goal of 4000 pumpkins is going to be just shy of a miracle. Cynthia’s comment is “obstacles are what we see when we take our eye off of our goals” I can’t wait to see what Jake by the Lake has up their sleeves for next year.