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Since
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Fairfield Downtown Association

A Fun Filled Family Event!
Saturday, August 9th, 2003
10 am - 8:30 pm
Texas Street, Downtown Fairfield
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CALL 707-422-0103 FOR ENTRY FORMS AND GENERAL INFORMATION

TOMATO FESTIVAL ACTIVITIES
• FREE Kids Activities Galore
• Gourmet Tomato Products to sample
_and Buy
• Over 120 Craft and Comercial Vendors
• More than 50 Heirloom Tomatoes to
_Taste and buy
• Tomato Costume Contest - CASH _PRIZES
• Tomato Eating Contest - CASH PRIZES
• Tomato Cook-Off - CASH PRIZES & free _apron for all contestants
• Tomato Tasting-Gourmet Products
• Attack of the Killer Tomatoes film _festiva at Pepper Belly's - FREE _showings all day!

Musical Entertainment

Start	End	Band / Performer	Sound
TEXAS / TAYLOR STREET STAGE
10:30	12:00	Silver Spur	Country Western
12:30	2:00	Souled Out	R & B
2:30	4:00	Papa Joe & the Bouncers	Rock
4:30	6:00	Jackie Payne/ Steve Edmonson Band	Blues
6:30	8:30	Julio Bravo	Salsa
6 - 6:30 and	7:30 to 8pm	Del Campo Dance Troup	Latin/ Salsa Dancing
TEXAS / JEFFERSON ST. STAGE
11:00	12:30	Kafe Riko	R&B w/ Latin Flavor
1:00	2:30	The Contenders
3:00	5:00	Dejavu	70's & current

FREE Children's Entertainment/Activities
• Commercial Rides
• Hands on Arts and Crafts

Crafts Show & Vendors
• Arts and Crafts Vendors on Texas Street from Madison • to Jefferson
• Food Court at Texas and Madison Streets
• Beer and Wine-adjacent to stage area

FREE Shuttle Bus Service
Provided by the Fairfield Transportation Authority will run from Armijo High School parking lot (824 Washington St.) & the Fairfield Community Center (1000 Kentucky St.) to Festival Central every 10 minutes from 9:45am until 5:15pm!

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Pronunciation: ta - maa - toe; chiefly British, eastern New England, northeastern Virginia, and sometimes elsewhere in cultivated speech -'m[a']- or -'mœ-; chiefly Northern -'ma-
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural -toes
Etymology: alteration of earlier tomate, from Spanish, from Nahuatl tomatl Date: 1604
1 : the usually large rounded typically red or yellow pulpy berry of a tomato
2 : any of a genus (Lycopersicon) of So. American herbs of the nightshade family; especially : one (L. lycopersicum syn. L. esculentum) that is more or less perennial in its native habitat but is widely cultivated as an annual for its edible fruit
3 : any fruit of the numerous cultivated varieties of Lycopersicon esculentum, a plant of the nightshade family (Solanaceae); also, the fruit of L. pimpinelli folium, the tiny currant tomato.

For more info on the web about tomatoes:
Do a search on google or webster




Tomato Festival Results
"The Tomato Festival was a huge success. The website was a huge part of that. We had a woman come from Chico, and she used our site to plan her trip!"
Emily Low Fairfield Downtown Association -
Main Street Program Coordinator 8/15/03 10:12 AM

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As per Daily Republic Newspaper Best of Solano poll.....
2003_02/28
Tomato Festival Is Tops
What is the best community festival?
Winner: Tomato Festival

Runner-ups:
2. Candy Festival (Fairfield)
3. Fourth of July (Suisun)
4. Fiesta Days (Vacaville0
5. Festival of the Winds (Fairfield)
6. Harbor Days (Suisun)
7. Tie: May Fair (Dixon)
..........Christmas Concert (TAFB)