First place, The Laundry Basket.

SYRACUSE — Judges came out Oct. 24 to judge the many creative lamppost displays produced by local businesses and organizations for the Syracuse-Wawasee Chamber of Commerce’s annual contest. Winning this year’s contest was The Laundry Basket with its tidy scarecrow. As the winners, The Laundry Basket will receive a free quarter-page ad in The Mail-Journal.

Crossroads Bank’s lamppost display, featuring a face-planted witch and the warning not to text and fly, claimed second place. The bank’s prize will be a free year membership with the Syracuse-Wawasee Chamber of Commerce.

Third place went to Syracuse-Wawasee Trails with their humorous, bike-riding witch. The trails will be able to pick any level of chamber membership and receive a half-price discount on it.

Dr. Rod Kaufman’s optometry office’s lamppost display, with its pumpkins sporting fashionable eye wear, was given honorable mention.