TO RAISE FUNDS FOR LOCAL CHARITIES
Friday, May 26 - Monday, May 29, 2017
Hours: Friday (1:00 p.m. to 10 p.m.)
Saturday and Sunday (10 a.m. to 10 p.m.)
Macaroni Kid Giveaway!
Congratulations, Fernanda Crivici! You Won 12 Ride Tickets to the Midway at the Garden Grove Strawberry Festival!
The 59th Annual Garden Grove Strawberry Festival is a non-profit organization dedicated to raising funds for the community. This annual event has brought in over $6 million for local charities since its inception in 1958. Last year profits of $150,000 will be donated to local charities who apply for funds. The Festival also annually benefits many non-profit groups who set up festival food booths and collectively raise over $100,000 more for their charities. The board also awards scholarships to local school students and underwrites parade participation for school bands. And annually, the festival treats over 2,000 special needs kids to a day of free rides and food. This year’s theme is Honoring Our Local Volunteer Super Heroes. Volunteers who have served their communities above and beyond the call will ride with their families in the Saturday parade and be treated to food and a day of fun
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Community Center, with proceeds going to We Give Thanks. Next is a parade at 10 a.m. with floats, bands, equestrians and characters. Many film and TV celebrities will be honored in the parade.
All four festival days will include 35 carnival rides, 5 contests, over 200 food and sales booths, games, music and live entertainment in the amphitheater and Showmobile. Contests, held in the festival’s 550-seat amphitheater, include the Berry, Berry Beautiful Baby Contest, Redhead Roundup, Strawberry Idol Karaoke, and Tiny Tots King and Queen.
Sponsorship comes from Great Wolf Lodge, Munchkins, Sweetworxx, Sam’s Club, GGTPC, Great Destinations, Clear Channel Outdoor, Parenting OC, El Panamericano, Korea Times, Nguoi Viet Daily News, OC News and its community newspapers, OC Weekly, Farandula USA, Miniondas, and radio stations 103.4 MYfm, KOST, JACK FM, KDAY-FM, KWVE, KWIZ, KABC, KLOS, KDAY, KSWD the Sound LA, KLYY, KSSE, Radio Centro 94.7, The Wave and KEARTH 101.
