W oodbridge Volume 4 ▪ Issue 7 ▪ Number 34
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July Summer solstice has come and gone and we are entering the hot month of July. July promises to be "hot" at Woodbridge in many ways. Don't miss the Wheels of Woodbridge "Rods, Roadsters and Cruising Cars" show Saturday, July 12. This is the group's annual fundraiser to benefit Second Harvest Food Bank so it is not only a great show, it is a great cause! My appreciation to local songstress Debby Hickey for her patience and understanding. Last month I mentioned her three cleverly written fight songs but forgot to include them in the paper. Please see pages 22 and 23 of this edition. I promise the songs are included this time!
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Bedford and Hancock . . . 6 Bridge Scores . . . . . . . . 8 Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Committees . . . . . . . . . 17 Events and Tours . . . . . . . 17 Garden Tasks . . . . . . . . 10 Groups and Clubs . . . . . . 34 Where in the World . . . . . 38 WOA Update . . . . . . . . . . 4
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LIFE July ▪ 2014
Family City Mural
By Bill Barnhart
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ur theme, this month, is “Woodbridge … the All-American Community” and what better time to highlight one of the many murals in downtown Manteca that Woodbridge residents have helped to paint and, in doing so have forged a lasting relationship with the people of Manteca. In early October 2010, several Woodbridge residents joined with members of the Manteca Mural Society to create a lasting memorial to the American community titled “Our Family City.” Woodbridge residents Sandy and Bill Stanger, Edie Brown, Marge Nelson, Jana Kattenhorn, Roger LaPresle and Bill and Patti Barnhart spent much of one weekend bringing to life these pictures of the American family and community on the side of the State Farm building on Main Street near the Presbyterian church. Early Saturday morning several members of the Mural Society and I prepared the building by snapping vertical and horizontal chalk lines over the entire side of the building making 12inch squares. We then outlined where each individual drawing would be painted and snapped those areas into six-inch grids. As people started to arrive, each was given an option of which drawing to work on and handed an 8x10” copy of the drawing that also had a grid outlined on it. Using charcoal sticks, we transposed the outline
of the images in each picture onto the wall, grid by grid, enlarging them to ten times or more the original size. Once those were completed, we went over the outlines with black paint, which you can see in both the first day's work and the completed drawings. By noon the drawings were pretty much outlined and we began to prepare the paint for the next day. We took about six base color paints, then using predetermined formulas to achieve various shades of colors, we mixed the base paints by estimating amounts to attain the colors we would use the next day. This took nearly the entire afternoon. The next morning dawned heavily overcast, not the sunny Sunday morning we had hoped for. Right about the time we all settled in to start painting, the clouds opened up and the rain started down. Luckily, one of the Mural Society volunteers was in construction and had a roll of plastic on his truck that unfolded to about a 15-foot width. He and I climbed up on the roof of the building and unrolled the plastic the full length of the building, attaching it to the façade as we went along and allowing it to hang down over the scaffolding set up to paint the upper portions of the wall. This seemed to satisfy the painters and we all set to work. I first painted the tractor in one of the pictures and then moved on See
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