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Fairfield Downtown Association

A Fun Filled Family Event!
Saturday, August 14th, 2004
10 am - 8:30 pm
Texas Street
from Pennsylvania Avenue to Jefferson Street
Downtown Fairfield

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• Press Release 05/26/04
• Press Release word doc 07/20/04
Schedule Announced!
• Press Release word doc 07/27/04
Updates!
• Writeup in AAA's VIA Magazine

This celebration of Solano County's agricultural heritage features Tomato Alley where more than 50 varieties of heirloom tomatoes and gourmet tomato products can be sampled and purchased.

Nearly 200 craft and commercial vendors attend, and live music fills two stages.

All four "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" films are shown with free admission at Pepper Belly's Comedy and Variety Theater.

The West Coast Barbeque Championship joins the Festival this year. Jeff Jones of Jeff’s Classic Barbeque will bring up to twenty-five barbeque teams to the Solano Bank parking lot and Taylor Street between Texas Street and Empire Street.

The North Texas Street Business Association will share the date for its traditional summer celebration- the annual Chili Cook-off, Car Show and Walk-a-thon at Armijo High School- Texas Street at Washington Street.

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• GENERAL INFORMATION



TOMATO FESTIVAL ACTIVITIES
• FREE kids activities galore
• Gourmet tomato products to sample and buy
• Nearly 200 craft and commercial Vendors
• Farmers Market with fresh produce and fruit
• 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 _festival at Pepper Belly's - FREE _showings all day!

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



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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.

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2003 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 10:12am