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Garlic Festival Kicks Off for the Weekend
Three-day festival began Friday morning and continues through Sunday with all-things garlic!
The 34th annual Gilroy Garlic Festival kicked off this morning, bringing together live entertainment, art, drinks and garlic-centric food.
The weekend-long festival will be open today, Saturday, and Sunday from 10 a.m. until 7 p.m. in Christmas Hill Park.
Along with art and food vendors, it will include a children's area, teen zone, a cook-off stage and 50 live concerts.
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Friday's opening comes after a Gilroy police announcement on Tuesday that about 1,000 tickets had been stolen from the Garlic Festival Association's office at 7473 Monterey Road sometime between June 5 and July 2.
Police said that some of the stolen tickets had been sold online and would not be honored at entrance gates this weekend.
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Since the first festival, organizers say they have served nearly 4 million visitors 78 tons of fresh garlic and given more than $9 million to local non-profits.
Tickets for the festival are $17 for adults and $8 for children and seniors. Kids 6 and under get in free.
—By Bay City News
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