Olivia Yandel, assistant director of the J.R. Holder Wellness Center, passes a pumpkin to Joslyn Clem, a freshman speech communication major from Cherokee. Northwestern students and athletes helped unload pumpkins from a semi truck on Oct. 1 at the Alva Pumpkin Patch. The pumpkin patch, 2101 College Blvd., offers a variety of pumpkins for locals to buy. The pumpkins are grown in Farmington, New Mexico, on the Navajo Native American reservation. Paul and Deb Corr have operated the pumpkin patch for 17 years. They donate the proceeds from the pumpkin patch to the university and local schools. Members of the Alva High School women’s basketball team and members of the high school football team were also on hand to help.
Students pass pumpkins down a line to unload the semi truck carrying the pumpkins on Oct. 1.
A group of volunteers, including members of the Corr family, sort a box of white pumpkins at the local pumpkin patch.
Pumpkins sit on pallets at the Alva Pumpkin Patch after students unloaded a semi truck on Oct. 1.
A boy carries a pumpkin on his head while unloading a semi truck at the Alva Pumpkin Patch.
