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FOOD MORE THAN FAIR Lockeford Sausage popular staple for street faires FOOD

By J A SO N C AMP BEL L The Bulletin

LOCKEFORD – Pete Peterson knows sausage.

Well, he knows a lot about a lot actually. He can chat with you about how bountiful the walnut harvest has been in recent years and how farming the 10 acres of cherries that he had on his property was hell on earth.

When a couple from Baltimore stopped by his Lockeford Meats counter on a Tuesday afternoon to pick up sausages for the road, he carried on a brief conversation about how he loves flying in to that part of the country and driving to check out all of the Civil War-era battlefields within a few hours of Photo contributed the Atlantic seaboard.

These ‘Smoked Dakota’ bratwursts serve as their own draw to events like the upcoming But mostly he knows sau- 18th Annual Crossroads Street Faire on Saturday and Sunday in Downtown Manteca. sages. For more than four decades Peterson has turned taste of summer on a sweet are piled high that day. erations. Rain or shine, peothe old-fashioned shop at the roll.

There are, of course, the ple will make special trips to corner of Highway 88 and He credits his success with staples – Wisconsin brat- fairs and festivals just to get Cotton Street in the quaint keeping things simple. wursts, smoked Dakota brat- a sausage. hamlet into Lockeford into “It’s the most talked about “As with anything, you wursts, apple bratwursts. a destination for grillers who have to do the best that you A lot of different wursts. and the most popular. Their are serious about what they can and work at it just as Prepackaged food is awesome put over their coals on a hard as you did when you franks sit in – their sausage Sunday. awesome,” said first started,” he said, a base- a bin at the You know that long line ball cap pulled low over his far end of the CVB customer that snakes down and around eyes and a white apron show- counter, and service and volthe corner unteer coordinaing just traces of containers full at the street tor Donna Shanthe secret pro- of jerky and faire? That’s non. “It’s really, cess that goes sticks sit atop for a Lockreally big. They into every link. everything. A eford Sausage put the sausage “You’ve got snack for the – a “Smoked into a large to take care of road. A little Dakota” that’s bun and you your customers sample of the made with can have sauerand you have to family recipe. beef and pork Peterson kraut, mustard care about what and precooked or whatever you it is that you’re founded the so that all you c o m p a n y like. doing. really have “The taste is “I’ve been when his first to do is heat so awesome.” doing this for son was born it up, slap it Lockeford 42 years now, and today they on a bun and Meats and Sauand that’s really employ seven — PETE PETERSON, sages is located serve it to the what has been people – most LOCKEFORD at 19775 Cotmasses. the secret to us of whom are SAUSAGE ton Street at Yes, Peter- — DONNA SHANNON, succeeding.” family. The son is a sauthe corner of The com- guys that’ll be MANTECA CVB sage titan. mercial space behind the grill this weekend Highway 88. The shop is And come at Lockeford making sure that the onions open Monday through Frithis weekend – when the Meats isn’t plentiful. Stacks and sauerkraut are just right day from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., sun finally breaks through of links sit behind a curved to complement that smoked Saturday from 8 a.m. to 5 the cold and the clouds and glass counter and there’s sausage? Family. p.m. and Sunday from 9 a.m. blesses the 18th annual Man- enough room on one side Everything that goes into to 5 p.m. teca Convention and Visitors for two men to cater to the the process, Peterson said, is Bureau Crossroads Street demands of the customers of course a secret and that’s To contact reporter Jason Faire with sunshine – his and just enough room for part of what has been bring- Campbell email jcampbell@ fans will once again make two or three shoppers to ing customers back from mantecabulletin.com or call trips specifically to get a browse what fresh offerings throughout the area for gen- 209.249.3544.

“It’s the most talked about and the most popular.

Their food is awesome – their sausage awesome.”

“I’ve been doing this for 42 years now, and that’s really what has been the secret to us succeeding.”

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MacDoogles Old Time Kettlekorn will be back for this weekend’s Crossroads Street Faire event.

VANILLA POPCORN

MacDoogles keeps popping up at Crossroads event

By VINCE REMBULAT T he Bul l et in

No one mixes kettle corn better than Doug Cromwell.

He’s the owner and operator of the MacDoogles Old Time Kettlekorn, a fixture at many of the local events including this weekend’s Crossroads Street Faire.

Cromwell, who is from the Merced County town of Snelling – he’s also a vendor at many of the UC Merced events – is in his 21st year of making kettle corn, a sweet-and-salty variety of popcorn mixed or seasoned with sugar, salt and oil.

Since acquiring the business way back when, he has tweaked the concoction to include a variety of flavors.

How many?

“I have nine or 10 (flavors) now. Many are made-up recipes,” Cromwell said.

This includes his original recipe along with cheddar cheese, strawberry, apple, caramel, apple caramel, butter, raspberry, and now vanilla.

He’s curious to see how his new vanilla flavor will do at the Street Faire, which is open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.

MacDoogles – Cromwell indicated that the name came about from a nickname he had growing up – can be seen at the Manteca Farmers Market, the Fourth of July celebration at Big League Dreams, and the Pumpkin Fair, to name a few.

As a Street Faire regular, Cromwell likes his familiar downtown location next to Athens Burgers.

“Everyone looks forward to seeing him,” said Donna Shannon, customer service and volunteer for the Manteca Convention and Visitors Bureau. “He’s been involved with our Farmers’ Market for quite a while. “(MacDoogles) is a highlight on Tuesdays.”

To contact reporter Vince Rembulat, email vrembulat@ mantecabulletin.com.

STEPPING UP: Runners, walkers help feed a critical need CHARITY B y G L ENN K AHL Th e Bu lletin

Runners and walkers on Saturday are helping fight hunger.

The 5K Walk/ Mile being staged on Saturday, April 5,along the Tidewater Bikeway in conjunction with the Crossroads Street Faire benefits the Second Harvest Food Bank.

All ages and families are welcome with registration beginning at 7 a.m. The one mile race will kick off at 8 a.m. and the 5K event is set to begin 30 minutes later at 8:30 a.m. The two races travel north up the bike path from Center Street to Northgate Avenue and reverse their direction when they reach Northgate Avenue after crossing Louise Avenue and Alameda Street.

The starting line is at the corner of Elm Avenue and Center Street.

Top three finishers in each category will be awarded medals on the gazebo stage in Library Park following the race. Race day registration is $25 and will include a T-shirt. Family registration is $50.

The non-profit Manteca-based food bank has a long history of battling hunger in San Joaquin, Stanislaus, Calaveras, and Tuolumne counties. A $1 donation allows the staff to purchase $5 worth of nutritious food for people in need.

The food bank distributes foods to more than 200 communitybased organizations throughout the region.

“A gift of food to us is a gift to families, to children and to seniors

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Run for Hunger participants take off during a previous fun run.

who rely on local pantries, shelters and soup kitchens,” said Second Harvest CEO Mike Mallory.

Roughly three out of every 10 residents in the region receive food from Second Harvest. More than half of those are children and senior citizens.

The food supply effort provides some 13 million pounds of supplemental groceries each year to those needing it most throughout the region. Some 60,000 hours of volunteer labor last year was valued at $1.14 million, which is

equivalent to some 30 full-time staff members.

About half of the food going to schools and senior citizens is made up of fresh produce.

Volunteers are essential at all levels of the food bank’s operations.

The non-profit highlighted one volunteer Gwen Speckman from the Del Webb area in their brochure saying, “My favorite part of volunteering is the feeling of giving back! And, I love working with the other volunteers – it’s fun!”

The volunteers work Monday, Tuesday and Thursdays in some three-hour shifts sorting and labeling cans and sorting produce.

Second Harvest has a semiannual newsletter available on line to keep community members informed on how they can feed people in need throughout the region and learn about current food bank efforts to end hunger as well.

Those wishing to volunteer may call 209.239.2091 or visit the website at www.localfoodbank.org.

Located in the Manteca Indus-

trial Park, Second Harvest first launched the Senior Brown Bag Program in 1979.

There are seven brown bag distribution sites throughout San Joaquin County with each serving 50 to as many as 250 senior men and women.

Volunteering seniors make the program possible by distributing the bags of food. To locate a brown bag site call 209.239.2091.

To contact Glenn Kahl email gkahl@mantecabulletin.com or call 209.249.3539.

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CRAFTERS CORNER CVB moves crafters to Maple Street for this weekend’s faire

By J A M ES BURN S The Bu lletin

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Those that spin tutus, tie bows and stuff teddy bears at the Crossroads Street Faire won’t have to worry about getting lost in the crowd this weekend.

In her first official act as a coordinator, Donna Shannon, a longtime volunteer with the Manteca Convention and Visitors Bureau, has answered the cries for consolidation by many local crafters and artisans.

Her solution: Move ’em all to Maple Street, creating a crafters corner.

For the first time in Crossroads Street Faire history, crafters and artisans will be culled together on a popular side street once home to car shows and other vendors when the 18th annual street faire gets underway Saturday.

The street faire attracts tens of thousands of visitors to Manteca’s downtown corridor each year with promise of food and fresh-squeezed lemonade, games and vintage cars, music and shopping.

“I love to have the people come and enjoy the Manteca area,” said Shannon, who will welcome and check-in about 300 vendors on Saturday morning at 4 o’clock. “They get to see where we are and what we do here.”

In researching her new role as a coordinator, Shannon visited craft shows and spoke with the people behind the home-grown goods.

“Every crafter that I spoke with, and I went around to craft shows in town and outside of town, they expressed to me that they wanted to be by themselves with their crafters in one particular area,” Shannon said. “We never had that in the past. My goal this year was to set up a street for the crafters, so they

could be with their friends, still make money and enjoy the faire.”

Instead of being sprinkled amongst the crowd of commercial vendors, crafters and artisans will collect on Maple Street near the heart of downtown, with booths running as far north as the post office.

The move, Shannon says, will alleviate the pressure for crafters to compete for attention and sales in a marketplace dominated by commercial vendors, who can attract large crowds by marking down their wares.

Crafters and artisans, who invest heavily in their product, don’t often have that luxury. Their prices are fixed to cover cost and a small profit.

“They felt that commercial vendors can order their products, sell them much cheaper and still make money,” Shannon said. “Their items are less of cost than that of the crafters. When you’re a crafter, you spend a lot of time and money on your craft. So they want to make that up, but they get lost in the commercial crowd because people crowd around their booths.”

Not this year.

Maple Street will be home to quilters and those that make oil candles. Visitors can shop for hand-painted wine glasses, wood signs by Corky’s Signs, bars of soap and lotions made from goat milk, hair bows and tutus, blankets by Blanket 4 U, and silk flower arrangements bunched together by Bubbles, Flowers and More’s Lisa Gumm.

“Everybody has different tastes,” Shannon said.

“There are a lot of people, like myself for instance, who prefer something someone

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Lisa Gumm’s Bubbles, Flowers and More will be one of the many crafters and artisans re-located to Maple Street this weekend for the 18th annual Crossroads Street Faire, creating Crafters Corner.

makes rather than something bought in a store. It’s so unique – and a lot of people feel that way, too.”

The move isn’t being celebrated by everyone in “Crafters Corner.”

Gumm said she enjoyed her spot on Yosemite Avenue, near Athens Burgers, and expressed some disappointment in being moved.

A handful of customers, she says, expect to find her there.

However, she’s willing to give the move a trial run.

“I was disappointed. I’ve always been in the same

spot,” Gumm said. “I’m hoping I’ll do OK. I’m going to give it a try. I don’t mind moving, but I hope I’ll get the business that I’m used to. Everyone knows where I am at.”

Gumm has combatted the move by commissioning workers to pass out fliers, directing them to her booth on Maple.

A fixture at the street faire and Pumpkin Fair, Gumm hopes to someday grow her business into a store-front operation.

Maybe this move to Maple

Street, she wonders, will be a springboard. Or maybe not.

“I’m hoping I blow it out of the water. I’m hoping I get all kinds of customers.”

Shannon hints at more changes to come.

“Crafters Corner” is the first of two proposed additions to the faire that will take place in the next few years, she said. Starting with the 2015 event, the CVB will introduce “Gourmet Lane,” which will be home to vendors separate from the street faire’s traditional food booths.

“I’m very excited about

(crafter corner). Everybody asks me what I like. It would be the vendors,” said Shannon, who for nearly two decades now has volunteered for the 4 a.m. vendor check-in on Saturdays. “This is something we’ve never down. It’s a trial, but I think they’ll be excited to be in an area by themselves and not have to worry about the competition.”

To contact Managing Editor James Burns email jburns@mantecabulletin.com or call 209.249.3542.

ROCK OUT: Street faire features up & coming bands MANTECA STREET FAIRE Entertainment times and listings: Saturday, April 5 u 10 a.m., Lexi Braun u 10:30 a.m., Second Harvest u 11 a.m., Second Harvest u 11:30 a.m., Zephyr u 12 noon, Holly Rochelle u 12:30 p.m., Neon Strings u 1 p.m., K-9 Units u 1:30 p.m., Boys & Girls Clubs karate u 2 p.m., Matt Vaughn u 2:30 p.m., MVP Tae Kwon Do u 3 p.m., Timeframe u 3:30 p.m., Sierra High Combo A u 4 p.m., Brennna Lay u 4:20 p.m., Dreama Diaz Saturday, April 6 u 10 a.m., Laura Serrone u 10:30 a.m., TBA u 11 a.m., Rain Dance group u 12 noon, Michael Regalo u 12:30 p.m., Ashlea Green u 1 p.m., K-9 Unit u 1:30 p.m., Delta River Road u 2 p.m., Manteca Youth Focus u 2:30 p.m., The Cruizers u 3 p.m., Nexus u 3:30 p.m., Timeframe u 4 p.m., The Disloyal Order u 4:30 p.m., The Carltons

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Zephyrs, from GK Music school, will perform Saturday at the Manteca Crossroads Street Faire.

By VINCE R EMBULAT Th e B ulle t i n

Time Frame was the rave of the 51st Hayward Battle of the Bands.

No one was more proud than Gordon Kennedy of GK Music. He’s been working with this 10-piece band for the past six months.

“Time Frame just took first place at the Hayward Battle of the Band,” he said. “It’ll be exciting to see them perform at the Street Faire.”

The annual Crossroads Street Faire is this weekend in downtown as 400 arts and crafts and food booths will again be featured.

Besides Time Frame, Kennedy has other groups from his Manteca music school performing before the home crowd, including Zephyr (Saturday, 11:30 a.m.), Neon Strings (Saturday, 12:30 p.m.), Delta River Road (Sunday, 1:30 p.m.), Nexus (Sunday, 3 p.m.), and The Carltons (Sunday, 4:30 p.m.).

Time Frame is scheduled to play at 3 p.m. Saturday.

Kennedy likens the band’s style to that of the Old School sounds of Chicago, Tower of Power, and Santana.

“All 10 members are from one of the local high schools. They’re sort of an all-star (Manteca Unified)

MUSIC band,” he said.

The group’s brassy cover of Santana’s “Corazon Espinado” reportedly was a real crowd pleaser at the Hayward Battle of the Band.

For the past seven years, Kennedy has watched Zephyr grow in more ways than one.

The six young musicians were young teens or prepubescent, performing many of classic rock tunes, including Deep Purple’s “Smoke on the Water.”

Now members are between the ages of 14 to 18.

“They’ve also gone

through a lot of phrases over the years,” said Kennedy.

“They’re recently mixing it up with progressive rock / punk rock – so they’re into Green Day and Blink-182.”

In recent years, Zephyr has performed at the California State Fair in Sacramento, Barking Dog Grill in Modesto, and Concert in the Park in Waterford.

Neon Strings is a six-member group that Kennedy has worked with for the past four years. “They play rock and R&B,” he said.

What happens when you get a few parents from the various GK Music schools performing?

Try the Delta River Road band. “We call (Delta River Road) our Dad Band,” Kennedy said.

He indicated that the group performs many of yesterday and today’s hot country tunes.

Nexus is Kennedy’s contemporary “Hard Rock” band while The Carltons are his indie-inspired rock band along the lines of the Strokes and the Killers.

For more information, call GK Music at 209.923.4121 or log on to www.gkmusic. org.

To contact reporter Vince Rembulat, email vrembulat@ mantecabulletin.com.

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