Photos: St. Charles Natural Resources Commission hosts Green your Halloween
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Volunteer Heather Goudreau of St. Charles throws a pumpkin in the dumpster during the Green Your Halloween pumpkin composting event at the St. Charles Public Works Facility in St. Charles on Saturday Nov. 5, 2022.
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Evelyn Rice, 9, of Geneva throws a pumpkin into a dumpster during the Green Your Halloween pumpkin composting event at the St. Charles Public Works Facility in St. Charles on Saturday Nov. 5, 2022.
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Pumpkins await composting in a dumpster during the Green Your Halloween pumpkin composting event at the St. Charles Public Works Facility on Saturday Nov. 5, 2022.
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Volunteer Megan Bockenhauer of St. Charles places a pumpkin on top of the dumpster during the Green Your Halloween pumpkin composting event at the St. Charles Public Works Facility in St. Charles on Saturday Nov. 5, 2022. Volunteers displayed pumpkins that they found cool or interesting.
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Volunteer Lauren Benson, 17, of Geneva throws a pumpkin into a dumpster at the Green Your Halloween pumpkin composting event at the St. Charles Public Works Facility in St. Charles on Saturday Nov. 5, 2022.
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One of two dumpsters filled pumpkins sits at the St. Charles Public Works Facility in St. Charles during the Green Your Halloween on Saturday Nov. 5, 2022.
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Volunteer Megan Bockenhauer of St. Charles throws a pumpkin into a dumpster during the Green Your Halloween pumpkin composting event at the St. Charles Public Works Facility in St. Charles on Saturday Nov. 5, 2022.
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