2014 PumpkinPalooza in Victorian Square in Sparks, NV, October 26 from 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM.

Last year we informed you about the PumpkinPalooza in Sparks at Victorian Square. It was a great time and the various carnival games and free walk throughs of the train and readings at the Glendale Schoolhouse (built in 1864) managed through the Sparks Heritage Museum kept our kids busy and we had a lot of fun. Overall, the PumpkinPalooza is a great event to attend each year with friends and family of all ages.

Here’s what you can expect if you decide to attend this year:

Sunday, October 26 – 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM

• Build and race a pumpkin in the Pumpkin Derby
• Participate in the children’s costume parade
• Enjoy storytelling in the Haunted Schoolhouse
• Play carnival style games
• Compete in the pie-eating, pumpkin seed spitting, and mummy wrapping contests
• Enter their pumpkins in the beauty contest
• Enjoy live music

And so much more!

Last year, more than 5,000 people attended the 2nd annual event and this year the event appears poised to grow exponentially. And it’s all benefiting the Northern Nevada Center for Independent Living. For more information, visit www.pumpkinpalooza.org.

Will you be attending the PumpkinPalooza this year? What are you looking forward to during this year’s PumpkinPalooza event? Please leave us a comment below and let us know.

About Independent Living for People of Disabilities

As a former employee of a large national organization that serves people with disabilities, this event means a lot to me, personally. The disability movement is one of the last movements fighting for civil rights in much the same ways that people of color did back in the 50s and 60s and women did in the 20s. There is push today for people with disabilities to live in an inclusive environment, within their communities and not in an institutional setting. Please notice that I make the choice not to call people with disabilities, “disabled people”, “handicapped” or going to the extreme of using the word “retarded“. People with disabilities are just people, like you and me. They just happen to have a disability and are fully entitled to respect, dignity and equality like any other person. Many people with disabilities can learn life skills that can enable them to live in our communities and give back in ways that are meaningful and benefit the communities we live in. The Northern Nevada Center for Independent Living is “dedicated to improving the quality of life for people with all disabilities by promoting independence through self empowerment, choice and community involvement” and “each person, regardless of the severity of his or her disability, has the potential to grow, develop, and share fully the joys and responsibilities of our society.” That is something that I can stand behind and gladly donate to by attending this event.

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The Summit’s Pink Pumpkin Festival & Sidewalk Sale

Farmers Market, sales and activities support breast cancer awareness

Our friends over at The Summit shared some great information with us here at Windy Pinwheel about a great fall event happening this Saturday to support the effort to find a cure for breast cancer. As October is nationally known as Breast Cancer Awareness Month, this is a great cause to get behind. Please come out and support this event this weekend and be sure to spread the word to everyone you know.

The Summit and Renown Children’s Hospital invite families to come out for a day full of autumn harvest fun on Saturday, Oct. 4, 2014 from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM in the center plaza. The Pink Pumpkin Festival and Sidewalk Sale will support breast cancer awareness and will benefit the Renown Health Breast Cancer Patient Assistance Fund. The event is free and open to the public. Donations for breast cancer patient assistance are encouraged.

Event activities that day will include a sidewalk sale, live entertainment, fall farmers market vendors, pink Porcelain Doll pumpkins for sale, face painting, activities for children, health information booths, contests and recyclable bag/gift card giveaways.

Participants can enjoy food and drinks from various vendors at the market, which will feature fresh, local fall produce including grapes, apples, corn, potatoes, garlic, onions, squash, eggs, local honey and more. Also, all guests can enter to win prizes from The Summit, Renown Health and the farmers market.

The pink pumpkin patch, sponsored by Moana Nursery, will feature decorative gourds and pumpkins, including the popular Porcelain Doll pumpkins. Moana Nursery has partnered with The Pink Pumpkin Patch Foundation, an organization created in 2012, to aid in the fight against breast cancer. A percentage of proceeds from every pink pumpkin sold this year will go towards organizations involved in breast cancer research.

In conjunction with the event, The Summit will also host its first-ever, center-wide Sidewalk Sale. From 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., shoppers will enjoy the one-day, one-time only sale where exclusive retailers will display racks with sale items in front of their stores. The sidewalk sale will also feature stores including but not limited to Ann Taylor, Claire’s, GAP, Old Navy, Orvis and Talbots.

“This event and sidewalk sale are designed to kick-off breast cancer awareness month in Reno,” said Dan Davis, marketing manager at The Summit. “Many stores and restaurants will provide special pink products and offers, as well as showcase sale items from the Summer. My hope is those interested in spreading awareness will find that perfect ‘pink’ item to wear or display throughout the entire month.”

Benefitting from much of the event activities, the Renown Health Breast Cancer Patient Assistance Fund helps to ease the financial and emotional burden on uninsured and under-insured breast cancer patients throughout northern Nevada.

“Our patient assistance funds benefit those in our area who are battling cancer while struggling with financial hardships,” Joel Muller, vice president of the Renown Health Foundation, said. “These dollars help to cover desperately needed prescription, care and travel expenses for our patients. Renown Health is grateful to The Summit for its help and to be a part of this event once again this year.”

October is “Go Pink” month at The Summit.

Go Pink at your favorite stores and restaurants in October! Join The Summit and Renown Health Breast Cancer Patient Assistance Fund in a month-long celebration of hope, strength and survival. Plus, for every Facebook “Like” for The Summit during the month of October, The Summit will donate $1 to the Renown Health Breast Cancer Patient Assistance Fund, up to a total of $1,000 and each “Like” must be a new “Like” to be counted.

Garden of Hope in the Pink Plaza throughout the month of October

Write a message of hope, love and healing to honor someone you know touched by breast cancer. Then tie your note to the branches of the plants and trees in the Garden of Hope located in the Plaza between Vans and Tilly’s. Visit the garden throughout October for reflection or encouragement. Sponsored by Moana Nursery.

For more information regarding events happening at The Summit, please visit TheSummitonline.com/Reno

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2013 PumpkinPalooza in Victorian Square in Sparks, NV, October 19-20.

Last year we helped inform you about the PumpkinPalooza in Sparks at Victorian Square. Even though it was a bit windy and chilly (the first cold snap of the fall season), we still had a great time and the various carnival games and free walk throughs of the train and readings at the Glendale Schoolhouse (built in 1864) managed through the Sparks Heritage Museum kept our kids busy and we had a lot of fun. Overall, the PumpkinPalooza is a great event to attend with friends and family of all ages.

Here’s what you can expect if you decide to attend this year:

Saturday, October 19 – 6:00 – 10:00 p.m.

• Watch zombie cheerleaders
• Enjoy the official Lighting of the Pumpkins
• Dance the night away at the Zombie Prom (high school students)

Sunday, October 20 – 11:00 – 5:00 p.m.

• Build and race a pumpkin in the Pumpkin Derby



• Participate in the children’s costume parade
• Enjoy storytelling in the Haunted School House
• Visit with fortune-tellers
• Play carnival style games from Circus Circus
• Compete in pie-eating, pumpkin seed spitting, marshmallow shooting and mummy wrapping contests
• Live music

And so much more!

Last year, more than 1,500 people attended the inaugural event and this year the event is expected to grow exponentially. And the event benefits the Northern Nevada Center for Independent Living. For more information, visit www.pumpkinpalooza.org.

Will you be attending the PumpkinPalooza this year? What are you looking forward to during this year’s PumpkinPalooza event? Please leave us a comment below and let us know.

About Independent Living for People of Disabilities

As a former employee of a large national organization that serves people with disabilities, this event means a lot to me, personally. The disability movement is one of the last movements fighting for civil rights in much the same ways that people of color did back in the 50s and 60s and women did in the 20s. There is push today for people with disabilities to live in an inclusive environment, within their communities and not in an institutional setting. Please notice that I make the choice not to call people with disabilities, “disabled people”, “handicapped” or going to the extreme of using the word “retarded“. People with disabilities are just people, like you and me. They just happen to have a disability and are fully entitled to respect, dignity and equality like any other person. Many people with disabilities can learn life skills that can enable them to live in our communities and give back in ways that are meaningful and benefit the communities we live in. The Northern Nevada Center for Independent Living is “dedicated to improving the quality of life for people with all disabilities by promoting independence through self empowerment, choice and community involvement” and “each person, regardless of the severity of his or her disability, has the potential to grow, develop, and share fully the joys and responsibilities of our society.” That is something that I can stand behind and gladly donate to simply by attending this year’s event.

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Start your child’s academic year off right with our free Back to School printable lunch box love notes.

It is that time of year again… the smell of freshly sharpened pencils and erasers is in the air. The mornings are beginning to become a little crisp and the sounds of students heading off to school with their brand new backpacks is filling my heart with happiness. I have always said that you can spot a teacher a mile away because they are the people getting excited in the stores when all the school supplies come out and fill the aisles. I am one of those people. This year, our daughter, the oldest in our household, started Kindergarten and I am sure I was more excited than anyone else about school in our family.

In honor of my favorite time of year, “Back to School” we are thrilled to share our September Back to School printable lunch box love notes…

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Star Spangled Sparks, music at Bartley Ranch or Wingfield Park in Reno, or head up to Lake Tahoe? You decide for this year’s July 4th, Independence Day celebration.

The July 4th Independence Day holiday is next Thursday and with it comes a great many opportunities for food, fun, family, and celebration. Reno and/or Lake Tahoe is a great place to spend the Independence Day holiday.

In fact, some of my happiest memories happened on July 4th. Sitting on Nevada Beach and watching a happy face made of fireworks appear before my eyes; not my own, but an actual firework going off in the sky that made the shape of a happy face. I even started dating my wife in 2003, shortly after my undergraduate years at University of Nevada, Reno by running into her at Zephyr Cove on the day of July 4th that year. Now parents be warned, Zephyr Cove is no place for a young child on July 4th, but I just wanted to put it in perspective and illustrate the point about it being a happy memory mine.

Here’s Nevada Beach on Labor Day; the other time of the year that there is a fireworks display on Lake Tahoe.

The Reno/Sparks area also hosts an event for those who do not want to drive up/down from Lake Tahoe. You can attend Star Spangled Sparks at Victorian Square where fireworks are lit on the rooftop of John Ascuaga’s Nugget. This is a very joyous occasion. The best spot for viewing, in my opinion, is in front of the Century Theaters in Sparks. That is absolutely a great spot. There are also some festivities going on at the Sparks Marina that day as well starting as early as 6:00 AM PDT.

Also happening the weekend of July 4-6, 2013 is the The Biggest Little City Wing Fest presented by The Silver Legacy. If you’re into chicken wings, this may be a great stop for you.

Whatever you are doing this July 4th Independence Day holiday make sure that you are with the ones you love and call family and friends.

Here are some more activities happening in the area on July 4th and throughout the year at VisitRenoTahoe.com in case you want to plan out your next special event attendance.

What are your plans for July 4th? Be sure to leave a comment below and tell us about it. We’d love to know.

Featured image attribution: Mike Lienhard, Nevada Magazine

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Personalize an eCard or note and deliver it digitally via Facebook or even text message for that special someone in your life using the Red Stamp Android and iOS apps.

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We are busy parents. In fact, we don’t know any parents who aren’t busy. We all wish there is at least one extra hour in the day regularly. Our hope, with this website, is entirely focused to help busy parents find great things to do with their children and make life just a little bit easier.

Today, we are reviewing an app that is sure to do just that… make your life easier.

When was the last time you noticed all your friends wishing another friend “Happy Birthday” on Facebook and thought, I can’t believe I forgot their birthday? Or you realized it’s now over two months since your daughter’s birthday party and the thank you cards you lovingly picked out are still sitting on your kitchen counter.

Red Stamp is the answer to your prayers. The Red Stamp app designers call it “Modern Correspondence”. Red Stamp is really easy to use and I find myself sending cute cards to friends and family more often now because it’s right at my fingertips. I love that I can post on someone’s wall, or just send them a text message with the image right in it. I also love how many options it has for types of cards and includes photo and non-photo cards. Many of the cards have several color options as well.

We love the Red Stamp App and use it all the time. Since its free, give it a try and let us know how you like it.

Where: Free on the App Store.

What: Modern correspondence. Send a digital eCard and note to friends and family for birthdays, holidays such as Christmas, Valentine’s Day, Halloween, etc. and just about any other special occasion or for no occasion at all. This app is “[v]oted Best Of the Web by InStyle Magazine and featured in the New York Times, on The Today Show, MSNBC, CBS Early Show, and more.“

Need to know:  Easy to sort by event and uses your photos to easily include a personalized touch.

Extra Extra: Purchase “collections” for even more selection and fun.

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Music, carnival games, pumpkins, pumpkin pie eating contest, pumpkin seed spitting contest, steam engine locomotive tours and book readings for kids. A great time had by all standards at the PumpkinPalooza.

Recently we posted about the PumpkinPalooza at Victorian Square in Sparks, Nevada. Yesterday, both Windy Pinwheel families attended the PumpkinPalooza event. This was the first annual PumpkinPalooza hosted by the Nevada Center for Independent Living. It was a good showing for a first annual event just before the Halloween holiday.

We arrived around 3:00 PM and the affair ran from noon to 7:00 PM, so the festivities were already in full swing. Pumpkin-designed balloons as well as black and orange plain balloons were in many places and we could even see the balloons as we were driving in on the freeway near John Ascuaga’s Nugget when arriving to attend the PumpkinPalooza event.

The weather, I’ll admit was a factor in attendance yesterday. The first cold snap of the season decended upon the Truckee Meadows yesterday and it really impacted the event. The wind was a force to be reckoned with as it pushed the tents covering the carnival games that were held down by sand bags and by the time we were leaving the event around 4:30 PM, the volunteers, mostly from the University of Nevada, Reno, ROTC, Delta Delta Delta sorority and Phi Delta Theta Fraternity were taking them down.

It brought a sense of pride to see a local soroity and fraternity volunteering at this event, as the Windy Pinwheel authors were all Greeks during our undergraduate college experience. We are each SigEp (University of Nevada, Reno), Delta Gamma (University of Nevada, Reno) and Alpha Chi Omega (San Diego State University) alumni.

We started off by touring the area. There was a lot to see and do that we wanted to scope it out first. We headed over by the Sparks Heritage Museum that hosts “a vintage steam locomotive, cupola caboose and Pullman executive car… displayed along with a depot replica, the restored one room Glendale Schoolhouse and a monument to the Chinese rail workers.” (Source: Sparks Heritage Museum website). The train was open and free to walk through. However, there were no guided tours, they were self-paced. My son absolutely loves trains so it was an experience we couldn’t pass up.

Next, we headed over to the Glendale Schoolhouse (built in 1864). It was a very rare occasion because in all my 30+ years on this Earth living in the Reno/Sparks area, minus a couple when my wife and I were in Las Vegas for a year and Washington, DC for five more, I have never seen this one-room school house open to the public. I couldn’t pass up this opportunity. We all went inside. While in the schoolhouse, a local educator was present and reading books to children. This was too cool. It was an experience I will never forget, seeing my kids sitting in those old antique desks listening during story time. When the teacher was done reading her book, she gave away some books to those listening. We chose Ox-Cart Man. This experience truly made my day and a memory for me with my family.

When storytime was over, we headed back over to the carnival games and played a couple. “Tip the Troll” and the softball toss into the milk can were my kids’ favorities. Each of the kids got a reward of a Dum Dum sucker or a plastic spider ring for playing. They also had the game where you take a hammer and hit a button with it and it is supposed to fling the chicken into the pot and they had a ring toss over some Coca-Cola bottles. These games were also fun to watch my kids play.

We stopped and listened to The Note-Ables play on the stage next to the Great Basin Brewery and I have to admit, they were really, really good. The Note-Ables are a band of varying abilities as some are people with disabilities. In fact, the Note-Ables are not just a band, it is also a “nonprofit organization with a primary purpose of providing inclusive music programs and music therapy services for children and adults of all ages and abilities.” All-in-all, I found it to be a great time and I hope to see the band again at another local event.

About Independent Living for People of Disabilities

As a former employee of a large national organization that serves people with disabilities, this event meant a lot to me, personally. The disability movement is one of the last movements fighting for civil rights in much the same ways that people of color did back in the 50s and 60s and women did in the 20s. There is push today for people with disabilities to live in an inclusive environment, within their communities and not in an institutional setting. Many people with disabilities can learn life skills that can enable them to live in our communities and give back in ways that are meaningful and benefit the communities we live in. The Northern Nevada Center for Independent Living is “dedicated to improving the quality of life for people with all disabilities by promoting independence through self empowerment, choice and community involvement” and “each person, regardless of the severity of his or her disability, has the potential to grow, develop, and share fully the joys and responsibilities of our society.” That is something that I can stand behind and gladly give to by attending this event.

I can only hope that this event gets bigger and better every year. Also, I hope that the weather will cooperate next year as well.

Thank you to the Northern Nevada Center for Independent Living for putting on such a great event and I’ll be looking forward to next year.

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Pumpkin derby, pumpkin show-n-shine, pumpkin pageant, pumpkin pie-eating contest… it’s a PumpkinPalooza!

This Sunday, October 21, 2012, from 12:00 PM to 7:00 PM PDT, at Victorian Square in Sparks, Nevada, the Northern Nevada Center for Independent Living, a local nonprofit organization that works to improve the quality of life for people with disabilities by promoting independent living is hosting its first annual PumpkinPalooza. All proceeds will benefit the nonprofit and that makes this nonprofit professional very happy to know that a nonprofit organization is benefiting from the festivities. “Event organizers also will benefit from support from the city of Sparks and several businesses on Victorian Avenue, including Great Basin Brewery, Cantina Los Tres Hombres and John Ascuaga’s Nugget” writes Michael Martinez of the Reno Gazette Journal.

There will also be live musical entertainment at this event. “We’ve got mostly rock ‘n’ roll and a jazz quartet in the middle of the day, but it starts with rock ‘n’ roll, dance music, then mellower music and finishes with rock ‘n’ roll,” said Kat Wilson, who organized the PumpkinPalooza’s entertainment and will perform with her band, Pocket City (Source: Reno Gazette Journal). Cicus Circus will also provide various carnival games during the event.

With so many things to witness and do as a part of the event festivities, this sounds like a great experience in the making. As a fan of all things Fall and Halloween, this sounds like the perfect event for my family to attend. I am really excited that we have another event in the community where we will showcase why living in Northern Nevada is the best place on Earth. Why would we want to live anywhere else?

Will you be attending this event? What are you most excited about seeing/experiencing?

For more information, please visit PumpkinPalooza.org.

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