For the third year in a row, the Almaguer family of Guadalupe made sure every student at Mary Buren Elementary had a free pumpkin to take home.
On Monday, the family showed up with 1,000 pumpkins to the delight and smiles of the students. The kids wasted no time and rushed to the patch of pumpkins on the school lawn to select their favorite. Later, they decorated them.
“It’s perfect,” third grader Alexis Solis said in a press release.
Principal Jesely Alvarez praised the Almaguer family for taking the time to “give back” to the children and community.
“It’s beautiful to see four generations of the Almaguer family work together to provide students with such a generous donation of pumpkins,” Alvarez said.
This article appears in Oct 20-27, 2016.