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Article: Zucchini Festival attracts big crowds
Oakland Tribune;  August 20, 2006 ;     550 words ... ... every year to get support for the Zucchini Festival. "People aren't joiners anymore ... somewhere and support a cause." The Zucchini Festival raises money for local charities ... Hayward, you think of the Hayward Zucchini Festival." Mellen said. Her daughter and ...

Article: The BIGGEST ZUCCHINI festival of 'em ALL
Oakland Tribune;  August 18, 2005 ;     609 words ... ... city fixture known as the Hayward Zucchini Festival celebrates its 23rd year this weekend ... 000 people, remains the largest zucchini festival in California and probably the world ... County, had the country's first zucchini festival, Essi said. But Hayward's zucchini ...

Article: Good gourd almighty: Zucchini Festival returns for ...
Oakland Tribune;  August 19, 2005 ;     593 words ... ... city fixture known as the Hayward Zucchini Festival celebrates its 23rd year this weekend ... 000 people, remains the largest zucchini festival in California and probably the world ... County, had the country's first zucchini festival, Essi said. But Hayward's zucchini ...

Article: Good gourd almighty: Zucchini festival returns
Oakland Tribune;  August 18, 2005 ;     591 words ... ... city fixture known as the Hayward Zucchini Festival celebrates its 23rd year this weekend ... 000 people, remains the largest zucchini festival in California and probably the world ... County, had the country's first zucchini festival, Essi said. But Hayward's zucchini ...

Article: Zucchini festival at Hayward's Kennedy Park Popular ...
Oakland Tribune;  August 16, 2003 ;     670 words ... ... this weekend at the annual Hayward Zucchini Festival. The man behind the zucchini, festival General Manager Rich Essi, has worked ... of course, zucchini." The Hayward Zucchini Festival will be this weekend at Kennedy Park ...

Article: Mayor may want to fry zucchini festival
Oakland Tribune;  September 3, 2005 ;     699 words ... ... potentially replace the city's Zucchini Festival in future years. Cooper, now in ... about the impact that the Hayward Zucchini Festival, which marked its 23rd year last ... nonprofits to participate, as the zucchini festival does, but the nonprofits would sell ...

Article: Hayward mayor may want to bid Zucchini Festival ...
Oakland Tribune;  September 7, 2005 ;     699 words ... ... potentially replace the city's Zucchini Festival in future years. Cooper, now in ... about the impact that the Hayward Zucchini Festival, which marked its 23rd year last ... nonprofits to participate, as the zucchini festival does, but the nonprofits would sell ...