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707-POUND NIKISKI PUMPKIN SETS RECORD


	Driving by the front of the Tuboscope shop in Nikiski this summer, you'd never suspect anything unusual was tucked away behind the metal building off Old Nikiski Beach Road near the high school.

	It would seem likely there would be the usual assortment of industrial-related items stashed out of view  some tools; a forklift or two; maybe some scrap metal and a junk pile  but certainly not what is likely to be the largest pumpkin in state history.

	Yet that was home sweet home to a 707-pound giant gourd from the time it was planted in April until it was cut from its tangled sea of vines, loaded on a truck and taken to the Alaska State Fair in Palmer for a weigh-off Wednesday. As of 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, the pumpkin was by far and away the largest entered in the competition.

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