BERRY FUN TIME FOR ALL; OXNARD FESTIVAL CELEBRATES FRUIT.Byline: Daily News California's strawberry growers are going to be mixing margaritas and dipping their berries in chocolate this weekend in Oxnard. The 15th annual California Strawberry Festival A Strawberry Festival is an event and celebration in many towns in North America. In most instances, areas around these towns are, or have been, deeply involved in the production and marketing of strawberries, and the festivals are usually held in late spring around the time of the runs from 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at the 80-acre Strawberry Meadows site off South Rose Avenue. The weekend festival will feature nonstop music, dancing and 301 arts-and-crafts booths. Strawberry games will include a friendly but messy tart-toss contest, a shortcake-eating contest and a strawberry relay race relay race Race between teams in which each team member successively covers a specified portion of the course. In track events, such as the 4 × 100-m and 4 × 400-m relays, the runner finishing one leg passes a baton to the next runner while both are running within , where teams are timed through an obstacle course obstacle course n. 1. A training course filled with obstacles, such as ditches and walls, that must be negotiated speedily by troops undergoing training or participants in an obstacle race. 2. carrying bowls of strawberries. All this food and fun will be accompanied by live bands belting out blues, pop, reggae, swing, country, bluegrass bluegrass, any species of the large and widely distributed genus Poa, chiefly range and pasture grasses of economic importance in temperate and cool regions. In general, bluegrasses are perennial with fine-leaved foliage that is bluish green in some species. and rock. Headlining the strawberry entertainment will be legendary rock acts John Kay A number of people have been called John Kay:
flew King Solomon and his court wherever he commanded the wind to take it. [Moslem Legend: Brewer Dictionary, 177] See : Magic Ride'') and Tower of Power (``You're Still a Young Man,'' ``So Very Hard To Go''). John Kay plays from 3:30 to 5 p.m. Saturday. Tower of Power will perform at the same time Sunday. Festival tickets are $7 each day for adults and $4 for children 2-12 and people 55 and older. Proceeds from the food sales, which last year totaled more than $100,000, will benefit more than 30 area charities. CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO Juan Sepulveda stacks strawberry crates in Oxnard. An annual festival honors the fruit. Gus Ruelas/Daily News |
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