10/14/2025
2025 Pumpkin Stroll was a perfect night for us. It was beautiful. We had approximately 3244 people and
328 jack o lanterns lighting the way!! We’re exhausted and I’m still going through pictures, my feet and back hurt but my heart is full. ❤️🎃
We gave out 1200 glow necklaces to the kids. We are a free event that survives on donations and volunteers. I like to thank all involved for your hard work and dedication. My insane idea 4 years ago that’s turned into a monster!!
WOW!! This years stroll topped them all with creativity and magic.
Here I go….
Thank you first of all to my husband Brad, he puts up with my crazy ideas, he builds things, he carves incredible pumpkins, he puts on a pirate costume and arrrrrgggg he’s a pirate 🏴☠️. He says…here’s another box from Amazon as he rolls his eyes 😄. He’s there for me when I’m panicking and saying I can’t do all of this in one day!!! Because do you all realize we do all of this in one 24 hour period?!?! We setup and take down basically one day!!! Not kidding. To my son Oliver who figures out all of the stuff going on at the lighthouse and the lasers, fog, ghosts and pumpkin shows, and helps me figure out where we should put stuff. He’s my right hand man. His wife loren for keeping their kids happy while we do all this and for cooking food for us or else I’d just eat cheese and yogurt and try to drink water to hydrate during stroll week!! To my daughter Aubrey, she carves such beautiful pumpkins! It’s insane that they just wilt away afterwards 😞 to the rest of my family coming to carve or listen to me go on and on about pumpkins….Chelsea, Mac, and our 5 grandkids. ❤️
Huge thank you to:
Tim (Edgar Allen Poe) Trelfa
Floyd Selves-generator expert and lighting!!
The Shooks for the music!!, the ambiance up front, their pirates and support.
Vickie and Larry Fields for helping at the entrance and counting!!and niece Kimmie.
Terry Grochola for her beautiful mermaid, witches and ghost lady on the beach and she was the lighted winged twirler! And Mike for helping.
Sue and Randy kowalski and family
The Whole Mathis family
The whole Dege family and Adam too.
Dave wolfs lights, Dave Kowalski’s tables, the PI Sheriff, the Grand lake Fire Department!!
Jen & Bill Bolyard!!the Portage store for working their butts off and ALWAYS being there for me too.
Colin Gohl!
My BFF Nancy Spaller (scarecrow)and she did scare quite a few people who thought she was a prop!😆and helping me setup all my skeletons in the trail and take it all down too, plus feed and cook and help me stay sane!!
Peltz farm!! 🎃c’mon, they let us pick pumpkins for free!! When no one else does or even answers me back, Terry just says yep when do you want to come. 🧡🎃
To people that drop off money like Sandy and Harv Wilson
Candy which I don’t really do at the stroll but ‘Holly’ I will donate that to the trunk or treat on Halloween.
Karen Cermak & Lynn Drew
Beth Matzke
Gifts from;
The Beach’s (Martha)
Deb Mathis
Karen Meyer
William Gohl
Melanie Meyer
Michael Rehling WOW
Anna Skowornek
JG
Paula & Kevin Curtis
Kathy Hutton
Tom Couvreur
Tammy Purol
Unknown
And I Hope I got everyone!!
Thank you from the bottom of my heart. 🧡🎃😘
