Mandarin festival 2017

Inside: Festival highlights Schedule of events Miss Juicy Mandarin Contest Mandarin recipe contest How the community benefits from the festival

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Your guide to enjoying the 24th annual

Mountain Mandarin Festival

SaveMart Mandarin Marketplace Fresh Mandarins to Sample, Purchase or Mail Order When autumn days in the Placer County foothills are warm and the nights are cold, mandarin orange growers anxiously await the first blush of color on their fruit. Just before Thanksgiving, samples are eagerly tasted for sweetness and then long hours are spent hand-snipping each stem to bring in the first crop of the season for the Mountain Mandarin Festival. You will find fresh mandarins and unlimited samples at growers’ stands throughout the fairgrounds. Local growers offer fresh fruit, gift baskets, and a variety of fruit to taste. Throughout the Festival growers are offering fresh oranges that are chocolate dipped, locally produced mandarin syrups, marinades and salad dressings, fresh mandarin milkshakes, and gift packages available for holiday shipping.

24th Annual Mountain Mandarin Festival November 17-19, 2017 Auburn’s Gold Country Fairgrounds, 1273 High St., Auburn Hours: Friday: 11:00 am – 5:00 pm; Saturday: 9:00 am to 5:00 pm; Sunday: 10:00 am to 4:00 pm, Admission: FRIDAY ONLY SPECIAL: Admission $4 Saturday/Sunday Admission: $8; Seniors $5; Age 12 & Under Free Gold Country Fairgrounds Parking $6, some street parking available Public information: 530 5-ORANGE or www.mandarinfestival.com

All Things Mandarin All of the Festival food vendors will be offering at least one Mandarin orange item on their menu. The Mandarin orange will be an ingredient in WoodFired Mandarin Pizza, Mandarin glazed kettle corn, Mandarin glazed mini-donuts, Mandarin-pork Tater Tots, Schedule continued on page 4 ➤

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Vegetarian Mandarin Chili, as well as Mandarin funnel cakes, milkshakes, fudge, almonds, pistachios, and more. That’s only a partial list! Take a break for some creative concoctions at the Absolut Lounge for some mandarin-inspired cocktails featuring Absolut Mandrin Vodka, The Blue Moon Beer Garden for orange-infused beer, or visit the Crooked Lane Brewery Biergarten serving their Mandarin Pale Ale, Rocky Mandarina, and Novemberfest.

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Since the beautiful Gold Country Fairgrounds sits in a hollow with parking areas a long walk up the hill, the Festival has arranged for transportation services to your car. A loading zone will be designated in the upper parking lot. The Boy Scouts will have a checkin booth near the Mandarin growers where they will hold the bags of mandarins until visitors are ready to leave. Donations will be accepted. Festival staff recommends that you purchase your bulk mandarins early in the day, drop them by the Boy Scouts delivery booth, and when you are ready, they will take your purchases to the parking lot.

Kitchen Craft Recipe Contest Prizes top $2,300 in Value The annual Kitchen Craft Recipe Contest is a favorite of Festival 5 Buildings of Indoor Shopping are Open Rain or attendees and manShine agement is looking for The Mountain Mandarin Festival is proud of the qualiyour family’s favorite ty of artist-crafted gift items, jewelry, home accessorecipe that incorpories, and food products available for visitors. There rates mandarin orangwill be more than 200 vendors at the 2017 Festival as es. The grand prize for the outdoor exhibits and entertainment areas expand. the recipe contest this Be ready to be tempted by everything from holiday year is a set of Kitchen gift and food items to home décor to sensory pleaCraft cookware, valued sures from Mandarin scented candles, soaps and spa at over $1700 and there are cash prizes for the products. Even with inclement weather, you will find top recipes in each category with bonus prizes for plenty of indoor shopping! Don’t miss the historical cooking with products from Snow’s Citrus Court. You poster displays in the Mandarin Building (former can get an entry form at MadarinFestival.com with Historical Museum) and where Free flu shots will be all the details. available on Saturday and Sunday.

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Entertainment, Cooking Demonstrations, Fun for Kids Enjoy a great selection of live entertainment on three stages. Catch Flo the Clown, Karen Quest Cowgirl Tricks and Over the Top™ Stilt Characters plus hop aboard the the Mattress Firm train ride for a tour of the Festival. Be amazed by Jordan the Science Wizard, enjoy live music, dance demos and the hilarious Sugar Plump Fairy pageant. On the Make It With Mandarins Cooking Stage in the Armory Building, you can learn tricks of the trade as cooks demonstrate using mandarin oranges, and samples from vendors are presented. For the kids is the Mini Mandarin Grove where there are inflatables and rides and pay one price activities. They may want to enter the Mandarin Peel & Eat Contest or the Funnel Cake and Corndog Eating Contests or the Horizon Charter School’s Mandarin Races. In the Mandarin Building #2 you can enjoy the art of Larry Hausen and 23 years of Festival posters on display.

Free Flu Shots Saturday 12-5:00 and Sunday 12-4:00 It’s the time of year when doctors and health agencies are recommending that everyone get their flu shots for the upcoming flu season. Even grocery stores and drugstores are flooded with flyers and signs offering the injections for prices from $15-25. But the Placer County Health Department is offering FREE flu shots to visitors of the Mandarin Festival during regular hours on Saturday and Sunday, while supplies last. They will be given in the Mandarin Building #2 (formerly the Historical Museum).

Take the time to experience all the Mountain Mandarin Festival brings to you. You may want to spread your visit over two days!

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Entertainment Schedule Subject to Change Without Notice

Daily Strolling Entertainment: Zip the Mandarin, Flo the Mandarin Rose, Over the Top™ Stilt Characters, Mattress Firm Train Ride

Mandarin Main Stage

Saturday, November 18 9:00- DJ Marty Mandarin 11:30- Halau Hula Pono 12:30- In Sync Dance of Auburn 2:30-Sugar Plump Fairies present Miss Juicy Mandarin Pageant 3:30- DJ Marty Mandarin Sunday November 19 9:00- DJ Marty Mandarin 11:45- Sierra Gold Chorus 12:45- Pamelot School of Dance 2:15- Thunder Foot Cloggers 3:00- Thunder Foot Cloggers

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Friday, November 17 Tony Quinn & Steven Lord, Guitarists Saturday, November 18 Tony Quinn & Steven Lord, Guitarists Sunday, November 19 Steve Lord, Guitarist

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Friday, November 17 12:00- Jordan the Science Wizard 1:00- Karen Quest Cowgirl Tricks 2:00- Jordan the Science Wizard 3:00- Mandarin Corn Dog Eating Contest with Flo 4:00- Jordan the Science Wizard Saturday November 18 11:00- Jordan the Science Wizard 12:00- Karen Quest Cowgirl Tricks 12:30- Kids Mandarin Peel & Eat Contest (12 and under) 1:00- Jordan the Science Wizard 1:30- Adults Mandarin Peel & Eat Contest 2:00- Karen Quest Cowgirl Tricks 2:45- Jordan the Science Wizard 4:00- Jordan the Science Wizard Sunday November 19 11:15- Jordan the Science Wizard 12:00- Karen Quest Cowgirl Tricks 12:45- Mandarin Mini Donut Eating contest- First 12 1:15- Jordan the Science Wizard 2:00- Karen Quest Cowgirl Tricks 2:45- Jordan the Science Wizard 3:15- Jordan the Science Wizard

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Friday, November 18 Hans Anderson, Guitarist Saturday, November 19 Hans Anderson, Guitarist Sunday, November 20 Tony Quinn, Guitarist

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Make It with Mandarins Cooking Stage – Armory Building Friday 17 11:15- Mandarin Product Sampling 1:00- Chef Rachel- Polkadot Dinners 2:00- Chef Ty Rowe- Bootleggers 3:00- Best Festival Mandarin Contest 3:45- Mandarin Shrimp Tacos

Saturday 18 9:30- Mandarin Product Sampling 11:00- Chef Carol from PlacerGROWN- Whats in the Box 12:30- Mandarin Shrimp Tacos 1:45 – Chef Rachel- Polkadot Dinners 3:00- Chef Harlie Deshaine- 12-year-old Student 4:15- Chef Breanne Deshaine Sunday 19 10:30 Mandarin Product Sampling 11:00- Chef Rachel- Polkadot Dinners 11-12:00- Recipe Contest Entries Received 12:20- Recipe Contest Judging starts 2:30- Mandarin Shrimp Tacos 3:30- Recipe Award Winners Announced

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An insect called the Asian citrus psyllid was recently found in Placer County, putting citrus trees like our beloved Mountain Mandarins at risk. The pest can infect trees with a plant disease that kills citrus trees.

The disease is known as Huanglongbing, HLB or citrus greening disease, and while it isn’t harmful to humans it kills citrus trees. There is no cure. The best way to save Mountain Mandarins and other citrus trees growing throughout the community is to stop this pest.

Here’s what you can do to protect citrus trees: • Inspect your personal orange, lemon, mandarin or other citrus trees at home. Report suspicious pests to agriculture officials by calling 800-491-1899.

• Do not transport citrus trees around the state. Never bring a plant from Southern California, or other states or countries, into Northern California.

• Cooperate with agriculture officials scouting and treating for the Asian citrus psyllid.

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Who Will Be Crowned Sugar Plump Fairy’s

Miss Juicy Mandarin?

The Little Miss Mandarin Pageant is held Saturday at 2:45 in the Little Red Barn.

Outgoing young ladies from ages three to eighteen participate each year in talent, self-introduction and Mandarin fashion categories.

You will need to take a seat for the hilarious Miss Juicy Mandarin Pageant. Since 1997, The Sugar Plump Fairies have been delighting the Greater Auburn, California Area with their philanthropic antics. Through creativity, silliness, and “fun-raising,” the Sugar Plump Fairies seek to inspire the generosity of others to provide the youth of the Auburn area with greater access to the Arts, in all its forms.

The Sugar Plump Fairies use performance art and creativity to support good works in the community. We believe that the arts can open minds, provide inspiration, connect people across cultural, racial, and class boundaries, and generally enhance the quality of life for individuals and our community.

The pageant will be held at 2:30 pm Saturday on the Mandarin Main Stage.

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A Taste Of New England

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Burly Beverages T 13 Mandarin elder flower shrub 27 Colwell Thundering Herd Ranch

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Patricks Famous Pies A 12 Cobblers, mandarin cobbler Pilz Produce at Hillcrest

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Make it with mandarins recipe contest $2,300 in prizes to be awarded!

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There’s still time to enter the Kitchen Craft Make It With Mandarins recipe contest – entries are taken on Sunday, the day of the contest. With a $1700 set of Kitchen Craft cookware for Best of Show and $100 for top place in each category, the annual Recipe Contest just might be the recipe contest you want to win this year! The popular event draws 30-40 entries and the judging will be a don’t-miss activity at the annual Mountain Mandarin Festival, November 18-20, on the Mandarin Cooking Stage in the Armory Building. In addition, Snow’s Citrus Court will be offering a $100 bonus cash prize for a recipe using their Mandarin Dark Chocolate in a savory dish.

Categories for main dishes, side dishes including preserves, and desserts are open to all ages. Dishes with completed entry forms and a typewritten recipe should be delivered to the Armory Building Cooking Stage between 11:00 and 12:00 p.m. on Sunday November 19. Be sure to allow time for parking and getting to the Armory Building as no late entries will be accepted. Judging begins at 12:20 p.m. All recipes must be original and become the property of the Mountain Mandarin Festival. Applications with complete rules and regulations are available at www.MandarinFestival.com.

There are no provisions for heating or keeping dishes cold, so contestants should keep food in appropriate small coolers or non-electric insulated warmers.

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The community benefits from the Mandarin Festival The Festival supports the community in a number of ways and over the years has contributed over $500,000 back to the community. The Boy Scouts offer to deliver your bags of mandarins to your car, the Salvation Army will kick off their holiday bell-ringing season at the Festival. A portion of the proceeds will provide four $1250 scholarships from the Newcastle Area Business Association, and also supports Gold Country Fair & Event Center, the Alta Vista Charter School Parents Club, Buttons & Bows Square Dancers and more.

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Placer County Supervisor Jim Holmes with Zip, the Mandarin Festival’s mascot character named for the easy-to-peel mandarins known as the “Zipper Fruit”.

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Mountain Mandarin growers host annual Orchard Days events Placer County mandarin orchards open for visitors

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early 40 mandarin growers throughout Placer County make up the Mountain Mandarin Growers’ Association. Most MMGA member orchards welcome visitors daily during mandarin season, which typically runs from mid-November through the end of January. Visit their website at www.MountainMandarins.com for information about each grove, or simply follow the Mandarin Trail through the Sierra foothills towns of Penryn, Newcastle, Loomis, Lincoln and Auburn and see what treasures you’ll find.

The first and third weekends in December, the MMGA puts on Orchard Days at member orchards throughout Placer County. Filled with down-on-thefarm family fun, the event features the sale of fresh mandarins and mandarin-based products along with crafters, artists, local wine and craft ale tasting, food, farm animals, hay rides, farm tours, breath-taking views, and fun for the whole family. A complete list of activities and a map of participating members can be found at www.MountainMandarins.com.

“Placer County has the best mandarins available,”

Make plans now to attend Mountain Mandarin Orchard Days on Dec. 2, 3, 16 and 17. Visit the MMGA website at www.Mountain Mandarins.com for a list of Orchard Days activities at each grove.

notes MMGA President Rich Colwell. “That’s because we let them ripen on the trees and only pick them at the peak of perfection. Plus kids eat our mandarins like candy because they’re easy to peel and super sweet.

They’re a great, healthy snack.”

Again this year, MMGA members are working with

the Placer Breast Cancer Foundation to host the Orange is the New Pink 5K Walk for Breast Cancer. The walk starts at 8:45 a.m. Sunday, Dec. 3, at Mandarin Hill Orchards, 2334 Mandarin Hill Lane in Penryn.

The family-friendly walk along part of Penryn’s Mandarin Trail also visits Miller’s Citrus Grove and Colwell Thundering Herd Ranch. Visit www.MandarinWalk. org to register or for more information.

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Newcastle Mandarin Ranch

3219 Hector Road, Newcastle • (916) 663-1475 NewcastleMa ndari nRa nch .c om Open Daily • Nov-Dec • 10am-4pm