Creative pumpkins on parade at Silicon Valley nonprofit event

It used to be enough to just carve a couple triangles for eyes and a gap-toothed mouth into a hollowed-out pumpkin and — poof! — you had your Halloween jack o’lantern.

But that just doesn’t cut it at the Silicon Valley Council of Nonprofits’ Be Our Guest luncheon, which was held Thursday afternoon on the field at a sunny and warm Excite Ballpark in San Jose.

There were plenty of attendees in costume — Sunnyvale Mayor Larry Klein went all out as Willy Wonka and Los Altos City Councilmember Neysa Fligor made a fantastic Queen Charlotte from “Bridgerton” — but the decorated pumpkins were the stars.

San Jose City Councilmember Pam Foley’s office created a pink box of frosted donuts out of pumpkins for the Be Our Guest luncheon held by the Silicon Valley Council of Nonprofits at Excite Ballpark in San Jose on Thursday, Oct. 24, 2024. (Sal Pizarro/Bay Area News Group)

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Source:: The Mercury News – Entertainment