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Little pumpkin Kayla Nelson, 16 months old, joins the bigger kids in a healthy Halloween celebration at Hometown Elementary School on Friday, Oct. 30, 2009.
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Hometown Elementary Students celebrate a healthy Halloween on Friday, Oct. 30, 2009 with a costume parade, physical fitness games and nutritious snacks.
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Little pumpkin Kayla Nelson, 16 months old, joins the bigger kids in a healthy Halloween celebration at Hometown Elementary School on Friday, Oct. 30, 2009.
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Hometown Elementary students celebrate a healthy Halloween on Friday, Oct. 30, 2009 with a costume parade, physical fitness games and nutritious snacks.
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Hometown Elementary students celebrate a healthy Halloween on Friday, Oct. 30, 2009 with a costume parade, physical fitness games and nutritious snacks.
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Hometown Elementary Students celebrate a healthy Halloween on Friday, Oct. 30, 2009 with a costume parade, physical fitness games and nutritious snacks.
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Hometown Elementary students celebrate a healthy Halloween on Friday, Oct. 30, 2009 with a costume parade, physical fitness games and nutritious snacks.
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Eighth-graders at Hurricane Middle School gasp as one of the favorite contestants, Big Willy, fails to protect its pumpkin Friday during the school's 5th annual Halloween Pumpkin Drop. Teams of students compete each year to see who can build a contraption that will protect a pumpkin as it is dropped from over head onto the hard pavement.
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Eighth-graders at Hurricane Middle School watch one of their creations parachute to the parking lot Friday during the school's fifth annual Halloween Pumpkin Drop.
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A popular contestant, Tony the Tiger, protects his boxed pumpkin as it hits the ground Friday afternoon at the 5th annual Halloween Pumpkin Drop at Hurricane Middle School.
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A parachute-equipped contestant lands relatively lightly Friday afternoon at the fifth annual Halloween Pumpkin Drop at Hurricane Middle School.
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As Big Willy hits the pavement, its orange cargo bounces into the air at Hurricane Middle School's fifth annual Pumpkin Drop.
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A contestant that failed lies spread across the pavement Friday at Hurricane Middle School's fifth annual Halloween Pumpkin Drop.
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Members of the Big Willy crew ready themselves for their creation to drop Friday afternoon at the fifth annual Halloween Pumpkin Drop at Hurricane Middle School.
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West Teays Elementary School third-graders attack the obstacle course during their school's Heritage Day on Friday, Oct. 31, 2009.
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West Teays Elementary School third-graders attack the obstacle course during their school's Heritage Day on Friday, Oct. 31, 2009.
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West Teays Elementary School third-graders attack the obstacle course during their school's Heritage Day on Friday, Oct. 31, 2009.
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Pumpkin bowling was a popular event at West Teays Elementary School's Heritage Day on Friday, Oct. 31, 2009.
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Pumpkin bowling was a popular event at West Teays Elementary School's Heritage Day on Friday, Oct. 31, 2009.
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The gang was all there, at least two of them, Friday evening at the Hurricane Middle School Halloween Dance.
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Having fun at the Hurricane Town Elementary School Halloween Parade on Friday afternoon.
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Having fun Friday evening at the Halloween Dance at Hurricane Middle School.
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A coven of witches convenes Friday evening at the Hurricane Middle School Halloween Dance.
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A Strawberry Shortcake gal smiles Friday afternoon at the Halloween Parade at Hurricane Town Elementary School.
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Mrs. Holland's third-graders line up Friday morning as Hurricane Town Elementary School has some fun with Halloween festivities.
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Hurricane Town Elementary School cooks Phyllis Watson and Tammy Lovejoy get into the Halloween swing of things, arriving to work as Bacon & Egg.
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Friday at West Teays Elementary School's Heritage Day fun, Mrs. Daniels' second-grade class poses for a photo in the Pumpkin Patch.
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Mrs. Logan's first-grade class poses after listening to a few Read Aloud stories Friday morning at Hurricane Town Elementary School.
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Even Jason needs an education, which explains this student showing up at Hurricane Town Elementary School on Friday.
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Gathering for a class picture in the Pumpkin Patch, Mrs. Johnson's second-graders have fun during West Teays Elementary School's Heritage Day.
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Generals lineman Steven Hackleroad takes down a Red Dragons running back in St. Albans on Friday, Oct. 31, 2009.
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Hurricane defensive players chase Poca Middle's Jacob Payne out of bounds Saturday during a rain-soaked Mid-Valley Conference Championship Game at Hurricane.
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Poca Middle's Corey Jones tackles Hurricane's Nick Kirby Saturday morning during the Mid-Valley Conference Championship Game at Hurricane.
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Poca Middle's tight end Jay Richardson is tackled Saturday morning at the Mid-Valley Conference Championship Game in Hurricane.
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Last in the game Saturday at the Mid-Valley Conference Championship Game, Poca Middle quarterback Jacob Payne breaks through the middle Saturday for a touchdown.
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