Get your masks and bottles of hand sanitizers ready because events are starting to pick back up in San Joaquin County. The county is still in the red tier so events are limited to outdoors with 20% capacity. Be safe and have fun.
1. San Joaquin County Asparagus Days
The celebration of asparagus returns for another year of fun and food. There will be carnival rides, entertainment and more delicious asparagus dishes than you can count. Plus, $1 of every admission ticket sold during the festival will be given to the family of Stockton police Officer Jimmy Inn.
When: 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Sunday
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The Rossmoor Spring Garden Tour and Outdoor Marketplace returns Sunday, May 16. Hours for the event are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Masks and social distancing will be required.
The self-guided tour will showcase landscaping, pools, outdoor kitchens and other design elements in five private yards in Rossmoor, an unincorporated enclave between Seal Beach and Los Alamitos. The event is sponsored by the Rossmoor Woman’s Club.
A marketplace will offer plants and outdoor decor, other wares and refreshments.
Tickets may be purchased in advance for $15 from any Rossmoor Woman’s Club member. Tickets will also be sold the day of the tour at the Outdoor Marketplace set up in the parking lot behind Farmers & Merchants Bank in the Shops at Rossmoor, 12535 Seal Beach Blvd., Seal Beach.
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DIXFIELD Norine Clarke, chairperson of the Select Board, died Tuesday at age 81, according to Town Manager Dustin Starbuck.
“The town is going to feel her loss,” Starbuck said. “Norine has volunteered her time and efforts to the town for the last 40 to 50 years.”
“She has been on the board for a long time or has served in other capacities for the town, whether it be on the Planning Board, taking the minutes of the meetings, or doing the Outdoor Market…all those things,” Starbuck added. “And of course, she also worked with her (late) husband on things for the town before Ralph was quite a force, too.”
Here come the farmers markets.
They begin May 1 with the West Allis, Brookfield, Delafield, New Berlin, Waukesha and Oconomowoc farmers markets. Then they start opening fast and furious, more than three dozen of them in and around Milwaukee. The last debuts come in July.
Not all the markets will be back yet, however. The Westown Farmers Market, for example, will be on hiatus again this year. Organizers cite reduced foot traffic downtown because of the pandemic, as many office workers continue to work from home.
Expect to still find precautions taken against COVID-19, although there is some easing of rules made last year as the pandemic gained its foothold. Some markets are resuming live music, for instance, or considering resuming music later in the season.
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