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'Time Warp'
A performer from the Complex Performing and Creative Arts Centre helps get the Zombie Fashion Show off to a spooky start. More photos on page 4. Linda Lemmon photo.
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It was a record turnout both on stage and off at the PBA's spectacular Zombie Fashion Show.
top right: Flora Ruoppo, 7, and Juniper Kuivanen, 9, of Putnam, had their faces painted for the occasion by the Putnam Elementary PTO.
bottom right: Winners of the Youth Group: Killy Lily and Gorey Gracie.
By Linda Lemmon
Town Crier Editor
PUTNAM — Putnam was a zombie magnet Oct. 7 --- that drew in an exceptional crowd at Rotary Park and even the full Hunter’s Moon.
The 50 entries were a record, according to Zombie Fashion Show producer Jennifer Brytowski of Jennerate. She said each entry might have from one to eight members. This is the seventh or eighth rendition of the Putnam Business Association’s Zombie Fashion Show. Brytowski is also the chair of the Zombie Fashion Show Committee. It all started as a one-block event in downtown Putnam and has grown to a professionally produced extravaganza, fillling the park with people.
MC and PBA President Gary Osbrey said “Is Putnam a great town or what?”.
In the Youth Division, first place went to Killy Lilly and Gorey Gracie (soccer players with a big problem); second went to Irene from Griswold.
In the Adult Division, first place went to Long Live Queen Zombie. Always wondered what the queen had in her purse? Osbrey asked the queen. “Brains and a sword to knight Jenn”. In addition she had a couple Corgies with her. Second place went to Chewy, a very chewed-up bride. She said she did her own makeup.
In the Group Division, first place went to — for the third time in a row — the Hutchinsons Present Nurse Racheted. Asked how they came up with yet another winning idea he said “we started thinking about it on the way home from last year’s contest.”
In the new corporate division, Chubby Crawlers (Adam Rondeau of Chubby Dog Coffee and Tayler Shea of NOW) took home the gruesome throphy.
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