Scary fun for all ages at Halloween
Last updated 22:54, Thursday, 06 November 2008
YOUNG and old celebrated Halloween in style across West Cumbria.
Staff at Workington’s Tony Marks hairdressing salon dressed up on Friday for the culmination of a month of fund-raising activities for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. They raised about £280.
The town’s Helena Thompson Museum, on Park End Road, held a scarecrow competition at the end of a week of spooky activities.
The winners were Annalisa Brown, six, Brandon Duncan, five, Jamie Kenyon, nine and Kurt Sandylands, all from Workington.
Residents and staff at Harrington’s West Winds residential home dressed up for a party.
Maryport’s Riverside Rest Home got into the swing of Halloween to raise cash for its adopted charity Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Research and for the home.
A party for residents was followed by a fund-raising fancy dress party for staff and friends in the King’s Arms on Saturday night.
At the Kirkgate Centre in Cockermouth, youngsters were able to make root vegetable instruments and carve pumpkins.
