Bounty at Boyce Mayview Park fall festival returns to Upper St. Clair
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From left, Julie Johnston and Tracy Volpatt welcome guests to Bounty at Boyce Mayview Park.
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Sophia Himme feeds a friend at the event’s petting zoo.
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Havey Morgan contemplates starting along an obstacle course set up at Boyce Mayview Park.
Carlyn Morgan climbs over a bale of hay as part of a Bounty at Boyce Mayview obstacle course.
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Melanie and Evelyn Santoline attempt to build a Jenga-like tower provided as one of the Bounty at Boyce Mayview Park activities.
Visiting a Tri-Community South EMS vehicle are members of the Taormina family: from left, Alina, Roman, Amelia and Aria.
Representing Tri-Community South EMS at the event are, from left, Chief Christopher Matek, Jennifer Pungitore and Susan Walton.
From left, Maddox and Merritt Chornack sit in the driver's seat of a township maintenance vehicle on display at Bounty at Boyce Mayview Park.
Ivy Wienand is photographed against a fall bounty type of backdrop.
Emma Mattiello and Chase Gibson have their photograph taken as part of an old-fashioned rural scene.
Shannon Lacayo tends to a customer at the Smokin Ghosts BBQ food truck.
Certain activities at petting zoos may make certain humans wonder.
Many of his one-liners may have gone over the heads of the younger audience members, but magician Chuck Caputo wowed ’em with his rapid fire sleights of hand, producing sights that just shouldn’t be possible.
With an act that he’s been honing for 38 years, he produced plenty of “oohs and ahs,” and guffaws from the long-in-the-tooth crowd, as the featured performer during Upper St. Clair’s Bounty at Boyce Mayview Park fall festival.
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During his magic show, Chuck Caputo mystifies a young volunteer and other audience members.
Perhaps Caputo brought a bit of magic from his North Versailles Township home as far as the weather was concerned. With not a cloud in the sky, the temperature rose to the mid-50s by mid-afternoon, which is not bad at all for early November.
The family-oriented event featured a slew of activities outside the Upper St. Clair Community and Recreation Center, along with a prime selection of food trucks that received ample attention as the festivities proceeded.
Activities include arts and crafts, an obstacle course, gigantic Jenga and a “corn pool,” featuring more than 600 pounds of kernels, in which children could play. Representatives from the Upper St. Clair police and volunteer fire departments, along with Tri-County South Emergency Medical Services, were on hand to greet guests in a “local heroes” section of the event.
And perhaps the most popular attraction was a petting zoo, with plenty of friendly denizens of the barnyard present to the delight of young and old, alike.
Bounty at Boyce Mayview Park returned for 2021 after a year’s hiatus because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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From left, Felicity and Reagan Lalley take photos amid bales of hay and stalks of corn representing the fall bounty.