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Caption: Leo Club’s preparations for the 36th annual Cherry Blossom Festival By Charlotte Chui
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Caption: In the Cupertino senior center kitchen from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m., volunteers prepared and washed strawberries for the next day’s festivities. Food and drinks were offered to attendees at both days of the Cherry Blossom Festival.
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Caption: Volunteers sorted...
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Caption: washed...
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Caption: and dried the strawberries.
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Caption: The walls inside the Cupertino senior center were also decorated with items celebrating relations with sister city Toyokawa, Japan, such as calligraphy, a map of Toyokawa and a certificate signed by both the Cupertino and Toyokawa mayors on their 10th anniversary.
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Caption: In the Cupertino senior center, volunteers also set up cardboard panels that formed a timeline. The timeline traced the development of friendly relations between Cupertino and Toyokawa using newspaper clippings, photos of visiting students from past years and anniversary gifts presented to each other by the officials of each city.
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Caption: Some vendors arrived a day early on Friday, April 26th to set up their own booths around Memorial Park. They laid out the items they planned to sell, including Japanese clothes, crafts, art and decorations.
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Caption: To prepare the space for the festival, volunteers laid out patterned cloths and decorations, such as fake cherry blossoms and plants, around Memorial Park, the Quinlan community center and the Cupertino senior center.
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Caption: A map of the festival’s layout was used to manage the preparations, showing the planned placement and set up of vendors’ booths.