LITTLE BIT OF COUNTRY AREA RESIDENTS GREET AUTUMN AT SAUGUS RANCH.Byline: Eugene Tong tong 1 tr.v. tonged, tong·ing, tongs To seize, hold, or manipulate with tongs. [Back-formation from tongs. Staff Writer SAUGUS - A homemade Ferris wheel Ferris wheel, amusement park ride. It consists of a power-operated wheel that is about 50 ft (15 m) in diameter. It has two rims that are parallel to and equidistant from the shaft about which the wheel rotates. - with a crow at the controls - was waiting for eager onlookers after taking top prize at Lombardi Ranch's 15th annual scarecrow Scarecrow goes to Wizard of Oz to get brains. [Am. Lit.: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz] See : Ignorance Scarecrow can’t live up to his name. [Am. Lit.: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz; Am. contest Sunday. The Scare-us Wheel, built by Carla Hunt Smallwood and her students at Dance Studio 84 of Valencia, won the $1,000 grand prize in an event that has become a local fall tradition. ``It's a little bit of country ... in what's becoming more of a city,'' said Smallwood, who has entered the contest now and then over the past decade and also took the prize three years ago. The contest is part of a larger harvest celebration complete with a country-music band, a pumpkin pumpkin, common name for the genus Cucurbita of the family Cucurbitaceae (gourd family), a group that includes the pumpkins and squashes—the names may be used interchangeably and without botanical distinction. C. patch and pony rides. ``Halloween can't come till we have the scarecrow contest,'' said Joann Lombardi, 58. ``It's just been a community staple for a lot of people. It's just the way to kick off the fall season.'' Lombardi and her husband, Bob, who have lived on their ranch since 1966, received 42 entries for their contest this year. Entries ranged from a trio of scarecrow Olympic athletes to Terminator (1) A character that ends a string of alphanumeric characters. (2) A hardware component that is connected to the last peripheral device in a series or the last node in a network. Scarecrow, inspired by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger (German pronunciation (IPA): [ˈaɐ̯nɔlt ˈaloɪ̯s ˈʃvaɐ̯ʦənˌʔɛɡɐ] when he was still battling men and machines on the silver screen. A sign hanging off Terminator Scarecrow's rifle muzzle muzzle 1. the part of the face supported by the maxillae and nasal bones; the part of a dog's head anterior to the stop and cheeks, containing the nasal passages and bearing the nosepad. Longer in dolichocephalics and practically nonexistent in brachycephalics. reads: ``Join Arnold as he terminates the girly girl·y adj. Variant of girlie. crows!'' In addition to the $1,000 prize, there were prizes of $500 for first place, $250 for second and $150 for third in each of three age divisions: 10 and younger, 11 through 17 and 18 or older. Siblings Spencer and Carlie Hochberg of Saugus took second place in the 11-17 division with their scarecrow clown riding a unicycle on a high wire. ``I'm a unicyclist,'' said Spencer, 14. ``I was trying to win enough money to buy a unicycle.'' ``We wanted him to jump off the cliff,'' said Carlie, 15, describing their initial concept. ``But that was a little too much.'' Eugene Tong, (661) 257-5253 eugene.tong(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): 3 photos Photo: (1 -- color) Haily Bernard, 4, approaches a scarecrow Sunday at Lombardi Ranch's annual harvest celebration. (2) Carla Hunt Smallwood and her dance students show off their Scare-us Wheel that won the $1,000 scarecrow grand prize Sunday at Lombardi Ranch. (3) Noah Buffman, 4, gets his face painted Sunday by Don Lutes at Lombardi Ranch in Saugus. Tom Mendoza/Staff Photographer |
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