Photo Gallery: 2025 ‘Mess Fest’

Volunteers Hannah Kubacki and Alexia Mitchell at the facepainting tent

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Volunteer Gabby Kolovick

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Franklin Square resident Gretchen Time checks out the giant Slip & Slide.

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Brooks Abish, from North Salem, gets soapy on the giant Slip & Slide

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Mahopac resident Ava Ioele, 4

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Carmel resident Mauro Moreira

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People got a bit of color on the obstacle course.

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Carmel resident Noel Kaczmarkiewicz, 4

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The muddy fun begins

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Members of the Time family took a major plunge at the Dirty Dunk.

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Team Valley Pediatric Dentistry dove right in

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Team Never Give Up

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Josie and Natalie came all the way from the Finger Lakes to participate in this fundraiser.

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Team Jumping for JuJu

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The Campbell family, founders of the Ty Louis Campbell Foundation, do the last Dirty Dunk in the giant muddy puddle.

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Mahopac Volunteer Fireman Joe Munch with T.J. Nachman, 3, from Poughkeepsie, help hose down the Dirty Dunkers.

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Olivia Gisser, 9, from Wappingers, participated in her seventh Dirty Dunk with her mom.

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Yorktown residents Katherine Schulman, 9, and her sister Angela, 7, had a great time playing in the muddy puddle.

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Brooklyn residents and cancer survivors Peyton General, 9, and Giovanna Wilson, 9, have made this event a tradition.

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Hawthorne residents Michelle Walsh and her daughter Emma, 11

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Co-founder Lou Campbell poses with a couple Stormtroopers.

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MAHOPAC, N.Y. — Children and their families flocked to Mahopac’s Kiwi Country Day Camp for its 12th annual Mess Fest on Saturday, Aug. 2. The event drew thousands of attendees for a day filled with messy, family-friendly activities. Mess Fest is part of the Muddy Puddles Project — a campaign that encourages parents to “stop sweating the small stuff” and embrace the joy of childhood. The project also serves as a fundraising platform for the Ty Louis Campbell Foundation in support of childhood cancer research.