Catalina Kid Ventures is about to embark on a new tradition for our community.  CKV's Fall Festival: children bringing our community together, will be held on Thursday, October 15th from 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm along Crescent Ave and Front Beach.  This family friendly event has many great activities planned.  There will be live music on the stage from Hot Off the Range to help set the right atmosphere. The food booths should be a highlight: C.K.V. will be offering a taco plate, Catalina Mat Club is preparing BBQ Beef Sandwiches, ICES is going to pop up some kettle corn, AVID will be serving up fresh gumbo in a bread bowl, and Boy Scouts will be dipping corn dogs, cheese sticks and caramel apples.  Don't worry; there will be plenty of hot and cold drinks, not to mention sweets and treats to enjoy while you stroll the streets. 

There will be games of chance and luck and an old fashioned hay ride in the back of a truck.  You'll have an opportunity to get your face painted, get an airbrushed tattoo, or walk around the fountain and win a pie or two.  This year's Pumpkin Patch will be right down on the beach with several sized pumpkins to choose from.  Speaking of the beach, Beach Bingo will also be played for great local prizes!  The Paper Bag Mask Contest entries will also be displayed near the stage, with pumpkin prizes being award to the scariest, prettiest, ugliest, and most creative masks.

Have you always wanted to win a blue ribbon?  Now's your chance!  Enter the Apple Pie Bake Off, just $10 to participate if pre-registered and $15 the night of the event.  Also, try your skill in our Bag-O Tournament, similar to horse shoes but with a twist, teams of two - $40 registration.  Last but not least, the Wacky Wait Staff Races is returning to Avalon, where local restaurants will compete in some fun and wacky wait staff/bartender related task.  Each of these competitions will be for bragging rights and great prizes.

If you have any question about this fun event, would like to pick up applications, would like to volunteer, or sign up your organization to participate, don't hesitate to stop by the Recreation Department or call us at 310-510-1987.  Hope to see you and your family out participating in our community's newest tradition, CKV's Fall Festival: children bringing our community together.

Fall Festival Recap

Apple Pie Bake-Off Contest
Judges: Cook Joanna Arnold, Chef Gregory Wenger, Chief Boss Steve Hoefs, Councilmember Michael Ponce

1st Place:  Lisa Saldana with her "Captain's Apple Crumb Pie"
2nd Place:  Charity Hancock for "The Sour Apple"
3rd Place:  Carol Herbst for "Helen's Old Fashioned Pie"

Blue Ribbon "Captain's Apple Crumb Pie" Recipe:
1 basic pastry recipe for single pie crust

Crumb
11/2 cups flour
3/4 cup packed brown sugar
3/4 tsp ground cinnamon
1/4 tsp salt
Large pinch of ground cloves
3/4 cup unsalted butter, cut into pieces & chilled
1/3 cup chopped walnuts

Filling
6 golden delicious apples or gala or your favorite
peeled, cored, and cut into 1/2 inch cubes
3/4 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup flour
1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
Large pinch of ground cloves

Arrange a rack on the lowest spot of your oven.  Heat oven to 375?.  Make pastry for one crust pie.  Roll out pastry and fit into 9 inch pie plate, pinch edges and refrigerate until ready to add filling.

Crumb: Combine flour, brown sugar, cinnamon, salt, and cloves in a bowl. Rub in butter with fingertips until crumble. Stir in nuts.

Filling: In a large bowl, toss together apples, brown sugar, flour, cinnamon and cloves.  Spoon filling into pie shell, mounding slightly in the center.  Top filling with crumb topping.  Place on foil lined baking sheet.

Bake at 375 for 30 minutes, then reduce temperature to 350, bake 30 minutes more, until fruit is tender.  Loosely tent pie with foil during last 20 minutes.  Let cool for at least 1 1/2 hours.  Cover pie and store at room temperature.

Paper Bag Mask Contest
Scariest
1st Place: Allyson Wiley's "Jack Skellington"
2nd Place:  Brittany Evans
3rd Place:  Amy Rodriguez
Prettiest
1st Place: Ani Richey's "Nancy the Triceratops"
2nd Place: Eryn Cassidy's "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds"
3rd Place: Alexi Serafin's "Prettiest"
Freakiest
1st Place: Guilliana
2nd Place:  Melanie Bastida's "Hairy Pumpkin"
3rd Place:  Chrystal Chavoya's "My Daddy"
Funniest
1st Place: Cory Phelps
2nd Place:  Georgina Carrillo
3rd Place: Camila's "Brown Dog"
Most Creative
1st Place: Katie Johnson
2nd Place: Beatriz Pedroza's "Queen Bumble Bee"
3rd Place: Yuliana Vega's "Frankenstein"

Other groups that participated in CKV's Fall Festival were:
ICES with Shaved Ice and Pie Throw
AVID with Jambalaya and a Cookie & Cupcake Decorating Booth
CHOICES with Popcorn
AHS Senior Class with a King & Queen Booth
AHS Junior Class with a Guitar Hero Booth
AHS High School Football Team with a Football Tire Toss
AHS High School Boys Basketball Team with a Basketball Free-throw Booth
Catalina Mat Club with BBQ Beef Sandwiches hot off the grill
Cub Scouts Pack 400 & Boy Scouts Troop 400 with Hand-dipped Caramel Apples and Hand-dipped Corn Dogs
Moana's Farmers Market
Catalina Island Performing Arts Foundation's Festival of World Music Booth
CERT with their Emergency preparedness buckets
Avalon Fire Department

CKV Parents & Staff ran the following booths:
Taco Plates
Hot & Cold Drink Booth
Baked Goodie & Pies
Glow Sticks & Necklaces
Hay Ride
Art Booth (paint-your-own tote bags & t-shirts)
Face Painting
Paper Bag Mask Contest
Grilled Apples over Ice Cream
Balloon Darts
Apple Toss
Pumpkin Patch
Apple Pie Contest Check-In & Judging

CKV also provided all the decor (hay bales for seating, pumpkins and scarecrows, tent booths, and lighting) and live music by "Hot Off The Range" on the Wrigley Stage.