Anamosa wrestling team member Hudson Welton guides a pumpkin to the scale for pumpkin weigh-ins at the community center during the Anamosa Pumpkinfest in Anamosa on Saturday. (Elizabeth Wood/The Gazette) John Dirks, of Anamosa, brings in a pumpkin for the pumpkin weigh-ins at the community center during the Anamosa Pumpkinfest in Anamosa on Saturday. Dirks said he is known as the “Pumpkin Master” and has been volunteering at the Pumpkinfest for as long as he can remember. (Elizabeth Wood/The Gazette) Charlene George, of Anamosa, looks at the pumpkins inside the community center during the Anamosa Pumpkinfest in Anamosa on Saturday. George said she helped found the Pumpkinfest in 1990, a few years after the Ryan Norland Weighoffs began. She added that she’s always amazed when looking at

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