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Oct 12, 2008 3:15 pm US/Mountain

Local Farm Brings Autumn To Children's Hospital

Reporting
Dave Aguilera
DENVER (CBS4) ― October is a great month for kids -- a time for Halloween costumes, corn mazes and pumpkin patches. But for children who are sick in the hospital, it's hard to enjoy the season. Now a local farm is bringing the fun back to fall at The Children's Hospital.

With a little help from the Aurora fire and police departments, May Farms in Aurora turned the front lawn of The Children's Hospital into a pumpkin patch.

"They're stuck in here at the changing of the season and we give them an opportunity to come out into the front yard and pick up a pumpkin and take it back to their room and do whatever they want with it," Gary May with May Farms said.

Middle school students from Blessed Sacrament Catholic School also helped bring over 200 of the smile-producing pumpkins.

"Somebody just handed it to me and I thought it was a very good pumpkin, and I had fun unloading the pumpkins too," 8-year-old Michael said.

"We hope to put some smiles on some faces," Det. Bob Friel with Aurora police said. "We hope they come out here and they just have a really good time."

So in a place where typically there isn't a whole lot to be happy about, all it took was a few pumpkins to turn a day around.

It was the third year May Farms has brought the traveling pumpkins to The Children's Hospital.

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