Stockton, Calif.  - The City of Stockton will hold its annual holiday tree lighting ceremony on Saturday, Dec. 1, 2012, at 5:30 p.m. Councilmember Elbert Holman will light the tree for the entire community, while members of the Cesar Chavez High School Honors Choir perform, under the direction of Mel Suguitan.The ceremony will take place at Weber Point Event Center, which is located at Center Street and Miner Avenue.

Immediately following the tree lighting ceremony, Marina West Yacht Club’s Delta Reflections 33rd Annual Lighted Boat Parade arrives in downtown Stockton at 6:00 p.m., proceeding down the Channel and turning around at McLeod Lake, on the north side of Weber Point. For additional information about the lighted boat parade, please visit mwyc.org.

Families are encouraged to visit downtown Stockton to enjoy these holiday traditions.

Source: City of Stockton

“The Magic is Back!” at the San Joaquin County Fair to be held September 20-30, 2012.   The 153rd Annual Fair is one of only six (6) horseracing fairs in California and will showcase eight (8) days of horseracing and fair fun!

The Fair will run each week Thursday through Sunday with a full schedule of horseracing, exhibits, food, carnival, concerts, nightly fireworks and much more. The buildings will house new exhibits including, Canstruction by the Emergency Food Bank, photo displays and contests, Italian chalk painting and Ag Mechanics.

The fairgrounds has had a complete makeover with grandstand, livestock barns and all the fairgrounds buildings sporting fresh coats of paint with some adorned with handpainted historical murals from Bank of Stockton archives and the Port of Stockton.  The north wall of the Grandstand boasts racing horses and jockeys sponsored by Bank of Agriculture and Commerce.