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Manteca going out of its gourd
It's time to once again do the Pumpkin Promenade. It's the annual two-day Manteca celebration that brings more than 35,000 people into downtown Manteca to savor Lockeford Sausage, try on a toe-ring or two, and interact with vendors selling everything from paintings and boutique blouses to collectibles and crafts. And if you have kids this Saturday and Sunday when the 27th annual Sunrise Kiwanis Manteca Pumpkin Fair takes place then it is all the more ...
Fonseca Farms: Pumpkins & more
The cousins are hard at work, oblivious to the drone of zipping front loaders and forklifts around them. Hands and fingers fly in blurrying speed, folding the corners of the thick corrugated cards that would be the lids of the giant boxes where dozens of the colorful gourds are packed and then loaded into waiting delivery trucks.
How good are you making pumpkin desserts & carving pumpkins?
The 28th annual Manteca Pumpkin Fair is seeking entrants for three contests - baking/cooking with pumpkin, pumpkin carving and making a scarecrow.
Mataga Cadillac Buick GMC joins Pumpkin Fair as sponsor
Yosh Mataga started out working at his local grocery store in the produce department. Being young and starting a family of his own, he later decided to further his education and go into computer programming. Yosh got an office job helping with the computers and accounting for an auto dealership in the Los Angeles area. The Sales Manager of the dealership saw that Yosh was an intelligent, hard working person so he asked Yosh to ...
Try to squash the competition with pumpkin trivia
Got pumpkins? Ask that question in Manteca this time of year and you're liable to get inundated with tons of them. Manteca - contrary to the well-oiled propaganda machine out of Half Moon Bay - is the true pumpkin capital of the West Coast if not the entire United States. Half Moon Bay is essentially celebrating a gathering of garden pumpkin growers - call them elitist - from up and down the West Coast who ...
Pumpkin Fair discount carnival tickets on sale
More than $540,000 has been pumped into community non-profits thanks to the Sunrise Kiwanis Manteca Pumpkin Fair that returns the weekend of Oct. 1-2 to downtown Manteca.
Sunrise Kiwanis mark 27th year of staging Manteca Pumpkin Fair
By DENNIS WYATT Managing editor of the Manteca (Calif.) Bulletin Pumpkins and people – it's been a Manteca tradition for 42 years. What better way to spend a warm fall weekend than meandering through downtown Manteca with family and running into friends and neighbors as you browse the various booths, enjoy pumpkin bread baked by the Manteca Junior Women's Club or some other street fair-style creation, listen to home-grown entertainment, watch kids spit pumpkin seeds ...
Groups that benefit from Pumpkin Fair
A partial list of organizations that have benefited from Pumpkin Fair funds raised by the Sunrise Kiwanis during the past 27 years:
Pumpkin wine anything but a smash hit
Don't expect to see pumpkin wine again anytime soon at a Sunrise Kiwanis Manteca Pumpkin Fair.
A special event for special people Friday
There is an event that is as much a part of the Manteca Pumpkin Fair as the street fair but is not as high profile.
It’s about having fun & helping community
The 27th annual Sunrise Kiwanis Manteca Pumpkin Fair is not just about having a good time. The event helps the service clubs raise funds for a wide range of community activities it underwrites from the Fourth of July parade and free fishing day for kids and a free community Thanksgiving dinner. The club disperses checks to various non-profits each year in addition to three major benefactors. The three this year are the Manteca Youth Focus ...
Boy Scouts keep fair clean & raise funds at same time
Manteca Sunrise Kiwanis has been helping out other local non-profit organizations through the Pumpkin Fair by hiring them to help out with the Pumpkin Fair.
Sunrise Kiwanis staging free community Thanksgiving dinner; seeks assistance
The Manteca Sunrise Kiwanis will host their 2nd Annual Community Thanksgiving Dinner this year.
Contests: From pumpkin carving to scarecrows
The search is on for Manteca's Great Pumpkin carver. The Sunrise Kiwanis are conducting a pumpkin carving contest - among other competitions - as part of this year's annual Manteca Pumpkin Fair in downtown Manteca on Oct. 1-2 You can also enter a scarecrow contest, a baking/cooking pumpkin contest, and a car show. A pumpkin carving contest takes place on Saturday, Oct, 1, at 1 p.m. at the Community Stage at Library Park. You have ...
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