Scarecrow Festival will be virtual
Published 3:58 pm Thursday, October 8, 2020
- Jan Milheiser painted this Frankenstein scarecrow which was up for auction at the 2019 Scarecrow Festival at Beech Springs Farm Market. This year’s festival will be hosted virtually because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. (File photo)
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The Scarecrow Festival won’t be happening at Beech Springs Farm Market this year because of a real scare — the coronavirus.
Instead, the 15th annual festival will be an online auction Oct. 10-16 to raise money for STRIDE, a local organization that provides therapeutic recreation for people with disabilities.
There will be two categories — Traditional Scarecrow and Scarecrow Cutout. Entries must be brought to Beech Springs, 4776 Old Boonesboro Road, by 5:30 p.m. Monday along with registration forms and the $5 registration fee. (The deadline had been Friday at 6 p.m., but it has been extended.)
The cost of a scarecrow cutout, available at the store, is $25, of which $15 is refundable.
Although there will be no festival at the store this year, the scarecrows will be auctioned online on the Facebook page:
www.facebook.com/wccscarecrowfestival.
Bidders will bid in the comment section under the picture of each scarecrow. Winning bids will be paid to STRIDE via a PayPal link that will be sent to the winner after the auction concludes at 6 p.m. Oct. 16. The winning bidder will have 24 hours to remit payment or the scarecrow will go to the next highest bidder.
More details and rules are available on the Facebook page.
