Archive By Section - Chocolate Festival 2012
Back And Better: Festival Reaches 20 Years
It's almost here – and chocolate lovers can't wait. The 20th annual Oakdale Chocolate Festival – known now as 'Cowboys and Chocolate' – will be staged in downtown Oakdale on Saturday and Sunday, May 19 and 20. This longstanding festival serves up something for everyone in the family and draws thousands of visitors annually to the Cowboy Capital of the World. Hours are 9 a.m. ...
Mixture Of Music Planned For Main Stage
The sweet sounds of eight different musical groups will enhance those sampling the sweetness of the chocolate starting Saturday May, 19 at this year's 20th annual Oakdale Chocolate Festival, Cowboys and Chocolate. "We have a very diverse group of bands this year," said Victoria Sutton Krippner, the festival's main stage music chairperson. "There will be dancing in the streets." Krippner, an Oakdale High School grad, has been music chairperson for the last ...
Runners Prepping For Chocolate’s Annual Fun Run
The tradition continues. On Saturday, May 19, around 250 runners will step to the line for one mile (8 a.m.) and five kilometer (shortly after) runs through the streets of Oakdale during the 20th annual Oakdale Chocolate Festival. The runs, which are presented by the Oakdale Chamber of Commerce with logistics and operational assistance from the ShadowChase Running Club of Modesto, draws plenty of experienced and novice runners alike and concludes with an ...
Original, New Vendors Planned For Festival
This is the 20th year for Oakdale's Cowboys and Chocolate festival, May 19-20, and it's featuring a few vendors who've been with the festival since the very beginning as well as several who are brand new this year. Lockeford Meats is one of those 20-year chocolate festival veteran vendors. York Pettersen, whose family owns the company, said that they come to the festival because they enjoy the small community and support for the ...
Cowboys And Chocolate
It started off as a spark of an idea tying in the city's largest commodity - Hershey Chocolate – in an attempt to create a fun festival. Twenty years later the festival has blossomed into an event that last year lured 80 bajillion people to Oakdale with the promise of chocolate. Well, maybe not quite 80 bajillion, but 72,000 people flocked to the city to attend the 19th annual Cowboys and Chocolate festival and ...
Chocolate Games
Youngsters and the young at heart who love being daubed with chocolate, sinking their face into a custard pie or nosing for candy in a plate of whipped cream may want to visit the Chocolate Challenge Stage this weekend. A perennially popular feature of the annual Oakdale Chocolate Festival, the stage is slated to be set up next to the Chase Bank at West F Street and Yosemite Avenue in an area fenced ...
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