Medina Lions Club, Forrestel Farms team up for scarecrow festival
Photos by Tom Rivers
MEDINA – Isabel Casewell, 12, of Medina makes a scarecrow on Saturday at Forrestel Farms, which hosted the scarecrow festival. The Medina Lions Club organized the event. For the first time in 10 years, the event was hosted by Forrestel.
The new venue allowed the Lions to offer more activities and games, and for participants to also tour the horse farm and see other animals.
The Shelby Volunteer Fire Company served chicken barbecue dinners. Other agencies were part of the event, including the United Methodist Church at the food booth, Boy Scouts, the Sheriff’s Department offering child IDs, Cornell Cooperative Extension, and GCASA.
Chance Sochia, 11, of Medina works on his scarecrow.
Pete Kaiser of the Lions Club helped with the assembly of many of the scarecrows.
Many of the clothes come from the MAAC Thrift Shop.
Students in Medina High School art classes painted the faces on the scarecrow heads. Iroquois Job Corps students made the stakes for the bodies, with the wood for the stakes is donated by Matt Mundion.
A scarecrow is put together on one of the operating tables.
Skye Rotoli, 15, of Medina welcomed the public to meet this llama named Peaches.
Kim Smith of Barre had many baked goods available at the festival. She has a commercial kitchen out of her home on Eagle Harbor Road.
