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Archive Home > 2006 > October > 29 > Kids grow pumpkins to earn cash

Kids grow pumpkins to earn cash

Tumalo family plants patch to let siblings run seasonal business on weekends

By Laura Moss / The Bulletin
October 29, 2006

TUMALO - Running around the field in flip-flops and bare feet, the Helikson children are not afraid to get their feet - or their hands - dirty.

More than half of the roughly 920 pumpkins planted by the six children have already been sold. The rest remain on the vine, waiting for somebody to come....

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