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Downtown businesses looking forward to shopping weekend
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Natalie Schlenker practices for Black Friday by shopping at Treasure Hunters on Tuesday (ANGELINA MARTIN/The Journal).
Black Friday has historically been reserved for the wait-in-line worthy deals at big box department stores throughout the nation while its counterpart Small Business Saturday is known for encouraging shoppers to spend locally, but in recent years downtown Turlock has turned Main Street into a shopping haven that celebrates a weekend of deals — and success — in the days following Thanksgiving thanks to its loyal customers.
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Remembering a ‘fierce defender of freedom’
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During a Memorial Day ceremony held on Monday at Turlock Memorial Park, Marsha Gonsalves, with the support of her husband Larry, shares memories of their son, Sgt. 1st Class Chad Gonsalves, who died on Feb. 13, 2006, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his Humvee north of Deh Rawod in central Afghanistan (KRISTINA HACKER/The Journal).
Every Memorial Day, locals put on their red, white and blue attire, maybe don a red poppy in remembrance of the fallen, and make their way to Turlock Memorial Park cemetery.
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