Great pumpkin

Dawna Krause and her husband Loren find that Dawna’s winning giant pumpkin measured 169 pounds on a spring scale from a small tractor scoop. Dawna was a first-time winner in the giant pumpkin contest conducted each year at the Evergreen Country Estates neighborhood on Goss Road south of Port Angeles. Hers was the only pumpkin over 100 pounds from the dozen or so entries. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)

Dawna Krause and her husband Loren find that Dawna’s winning giant pumpkin measured 169 pounds on a spring scale from a small tractor scoop. Dawna was a first-time winner in the giant pumpkin contest conducted each year at the Evergreen Country Estates neighborhood on Goss Road south of Port Angeles. Hers was the only pumpkin over 100 pounds from the dozen or so entries. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)

Dawna Krause and her husband Loren find that Dawna’s winning giant pumpkin measured 169 pounds on a spring scale from a small tractor scoop.

Dawna was a first-time winner in the giant pumpkin contest conducted each year at the Evergreen Country Estates neighborhood on Goss Road south of Port Angeles. Hers was the only pumpkin over 100 pounds from the dozen or so entries.

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