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Hilmar festival celebrates dairy industry, community
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A breathtaking fireworks show will take place over the skies of Hilmar on Saturday for the Hilmar Chamber's annual Dairy and Farm Festival.
Kristina Hacker
Updated: Jun 23, 2016, 10:43 PM
Published: Jun 23, 2016, 10:44 PM
For over three decades the community of Hilmar has gathered at the end of June to pay homage to the community's agricultural lifeblood — dairy farming. The Hilmar Chamber of Commerce's Dairy and Farm Festival brings an estimated 2,000 community members together to celebrate the farming tradition and for a pre-Independence Day fireworks show. "People really look forward to it.
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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).
Kristina Hacker
Turlock Journal
Published: May 28, 2025, 6:55 AM
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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