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CONTENTS General information and schedule of events Lodi Grape Festival honors nation with patriotic theme, ‘America the Beautiful’ Mural captures festival’s patriotic theme Fair talent guaranteed to rock Lodi with funk, alternative, blues Don and Jean Phillips head this year’s parade as grand marshals Festival parade comes from months of planning, effort Patriotic festival theme turns Grape Pavilion into a hall of flags Festival presents chance to taste fine local wines Good eats, from snacks to desserts, can be found at the festival Bobbie Norton: Invaluable behind-the-scenes person Answers to Grape Festival trivia questions Butler Amusements brings fun, games to Grape Festival Step right up and win a stuffed bulldog! Talented people make murals with grapes Hewlett-Packard brings technology exhibit to town Swan Brothers bring comedy circus to festival once again Don’t forget to visit the petting zoo Grape Festival features tobacco-free zones for fair-goers Festival Web site tells what to see, do 2002 president Caroline Lange has years of festival experience Board of directors plans for four-day event all year 2001 Grape Festival carried on despite terrorist attacks in New York, Washington, D.C. From Tokay to today: Evolution of the Grape Festival |
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Festival parade comes from months of planning,
effort
By News-Sentinel staff On Sunday, Sept. 22, the Grape Festival’s parade day, Senior City Engineer Wes Fujitani will not be out examining the streets, or planning construction for the city of Lodi. Fujitani, who was born and raised in Lodi, instead will be viewing his handy work as the Grape Festival’s parade chairman, a job that he has held for the last four years. Fujitani has taken suggestions made from the last parade and added them to the next year’s “to do” list. Fujitani started planning the parade the minute the last parade ended. The actual organization of each year’s parade often starts in June for the parade committee. Fujitani and the committee look into getting more musical and entertainment entries and would always like to find ways to mix the horses into the parade route rather than keeping them all at the end. The parade route will follow the same route as last year, although there will be a difference in the scenery because of the continual opening of new businesses on School Street and the completion of construction on Stockton Street which was still going on during the 2001 parade. The winner of the Kiddie Parade, held the Saturday before the Festival Parade, will also be a participant in this year’s grand parade. Fujitani has followed in his mentor Stan Geiszler’s footsteps as parade chairman. Geiszler was parade chairman for many years before his death. The morning of the parade, Fujitani will make sure all of the entries are present, lined up and ready to go. He will then let the announcers know of any no shows along with any reorganizing that needs to be done to ensure the gaps in the parade stay to a minimum. “We don’t want people sitting on the side while the rest of the parade is a block away,” he said in an interview for the 2001 parade. Once the parade is over, Fujitani’s work is far from done. He will get together with the judges to help with the scoring. He will then meet with the parade committee to ask the question: “What could be done different next year?” The Grape Festival Grand Parade begins at 12:30 p.m. Home | News | Sports | Business | Features | Opinion | Obituaries |Classifieds | Archives |
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