Pumpkin Carving Contest at Hicks Nurseries

Long Islanders are invited to bring their home-carved pumpkins to Hicks Nurseries to compete in the Hicks Nurseries First Annual Pumpkin Carving Contest. Registration is at 10am. Judging begins at 11 am.

Categories are Best Carved Pumpkin, 
Best Decorated Pumpkin, Scariest Pumpkin and Funniest Pumpkin and Best Pumpkin Carved by a Child (12 and under). The winner of each category will receive a $20 gift certificate to the store. The judge is artist and sculptor Andy Gertler 
of the Travel Channel reality TV Show “Sand Masters.”

Rules: One entry per person. All pumpkin decorating must be done at home prior to the contest. Use of candles is prohibited and no power will be provided. Hicks Nurseries reserves the right to deny participation to entries considered to be offensive or done in bad taste. By entering the contest, entrants accept and agree to these rules and the prize judging process, which shall be final. Entrants allow Hicks Nurseries to use images of the pumpkins for publicity and promotion.