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Volunteers work all week to get festival grounds ready
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St. Anthony of Padua Church Pastor, Father Patrick Walker, left, and Father Camilo Garcia, assistant vicar, are pictured inside the Dog Pound. Sister Ann Venita demonstrates how this attraction will try to raise money by bailing the priests out of the Dog Pound. - photo by ROSE ALBANO RISSO
The mesh tents are up, and so are most of the food and game booths.A small crew of volunteers was hard at work all day Wednesday to make sure everything will be ready when the annual St. Anthony’s Harvest Festival wbegins Saturday, Sept. 15 at 10 a.m. The two-day food and games and auction extravaganza for the entire family will continue on Sunday when the grand prize winner of this year’s drawing will be held in the evening.The lucky winner could end up enjoying an eight-day, seven-night vacation in Palm Springs at a cost of just a few dollars. Ticket donations for the drawing are just $1 apiece, or six for $5, and 12 for $10. Tickets will be on sale both days of the festival held on the church grounds next to St. Anthony School.The other big-ticket items that will go to the lucky winners in the drawing include a bicycle, all kinds of gift cards, certificates for local restaurants, and a $500 gift card from Steve’s Chevrolet-Buick in Oakdale for Saturday’s drawing; and another bike, more gift cards, an iPad2, and a $500 gift certificate from Hafer’s Home Furniture in Manteca for the Sunday drawing.The drawing for the grand prize will take place at 8 p.m. on Sunday when the festival will conclude.