By JACKIE HENRY
Managing Editor
jhenry@cherryroad.com

Did you hear the loud “BOOMS” on Saturday? Some say their house even shook. Those booms might have been exciting, but not as exciting as the place they were coming from!

There was “Punkin Chunkin” or pumpkin chucking going on in the county. Punkin Chuckin is the sport of hurling a pumpkin solely by mechanical means for distance. The devices used can include slingshots, catapults, centrifugals, trebuchets and pneumatic (air) cannons.

Punkin chunkin competitions, formal and informal, exist throughout the United States in the autumn, particularly in early November as a means to dispose of surplus pumpkins from Halloween.

This Punkin Chunkin event wasn’t for any competion. It was solely for a group of family and friends to get together for some fellowship and a lot of food!

This event took place at the home of Mitchell and Susan Sloan. Mitchell, his father, Ed Sloan and son, Quinton Sloan manned the the pumpkin shooting. The pumpkins were shot at an old RV and two old cars were destroyed.

Donations were collected for the food pantry. There were approximately 250 people attending.

Just some “good ole country fun.”