since my grandfather’s death in 2002, the san joaquin county fair has been host to a memorial horse race in honor of him. and our family has been at every one. as my father says, “a new family holiday”. my grandpa was, for a good portion of his life, a sports reporter and editor for the stockton record and part of his duties was covering the races at the fair. (at least when he wasn’t passing out dollar bills to his grandchildren like candy or busy answering the phone “i think hello?”)

see newspaper articles online: 2002-2005 the internet did not exist, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009.