By TORY DENIS
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CHESTER — Local residents, families and visitors headed out to the Pinnacle and other locations on the weekend to take part in the 2018 Chester Winter Carnival.
The Chester Recreation Department hosted several outdoor activities.
With mild weather over the weekend and music in the air, the Pinnacle was a busy spot as outdoor enthusiasts of all ages took part in sledding and tubing, ice skating, and lined up for horse-drawn sleigh rides with Peter Hudkins and Donna McNeill-Hudkins, provided by Smokeshire Hilltop Farms on Saturday.
The farm’s two Suffolk Punch Draft horses, Sara and Betsy, pulled the sleigh on trips around the Pinnacle and also visited with dozens of local children who came up to say hello.
At the recreation department’s Snack Shack, third- and fourth-grade teachers Kathy Cherubini and Sara Abbott sold baked goods to raise funds for student activities on Saturday. All proceeds from the baked goods sale were going to support student participation in the Weston Playhouse Early Stages Program.
Other weekend Winter Carnival activities included face painting, a bonfire and skating party, a self-guided Tiki Torch Snowshoe Hike with the Chester Conservation Committee, pie tasting at Southern Pie Co., a dinner-and-movie night for kids at Chester-Andover Elementary School, and a Broom Hockey Tournament and 35-mile Poker Run and Polaris demo rides on Sunday with the Chester Snowmobile Club.
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