Mortimer's first ever Scarecrow Trail started on October 9th. The weather has been kind with many sunny days and not much rain. Over the two weeks of the competition there have been groups of all ages walking and cycling round the village, enjoying the scarecrows (and the exercise) and collecting the clues for the trail map quiz.
After much deliberation the judges, Sir William Benyon, Mr. Tom Shorrock and PCSO Steve Innes, chose Mortimer Toddler Group's Superman and Clark Kent, as 1st prize winners (£100), Dad's Shop with Bob The Builder second (£50) and St Oswald's Roman Catholic Church with Charlie Chaplin third (£25). The correct answer to the trail walkers was the sentence "Go to Mortimer Library and write down the day of the storytime sessions on the bottom of your map" and the answer "Friday"! A family in The Avenue were drawn from the many correct answers.
Beautiful photographs of the scarecrows taken by Nancy Nisbet were displayed in the Community Centre on October 24th at the prize presentation ceremony which was attended by a good crowd. The same photographs can be seen here.
There has been much enthusiasm expressed for this event to become part of the regular annual village programme of events and MVP certainly intend this to be so. Perhaps you would like to help organise it next year!
You can see a video about the scarecrows here.
