{"id":292,"date":"2024-07-12T09:54:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T09:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adntesting.online\/chambersledger\/2024\/07\/12\/the-tradition-continues-city-of-valley-host-free-tomato-sandwinch-day\/"},"modified":"2024-10-07T20:50:15","modified_gmt":"2024-10-07T20:50:15","slug":"the-tradition-continues-city-of-valley-host-free-tomato-sandwinch-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adntesting.online\/chambersledger\/2024\/07\/12\/the-tradition-continues-city-of-valley-host-free-tomato-sandwinch-day\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tradition Continues: City of Valley Host Free Tomato Sandwinch Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: white;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjecL7rMqbXxWJpEKo2aGua-T9yaiiOP6BF4bhR7vLSmcxeezY6scZs2rTgyYTEBAIbL2Md_jqHwr71MhsexYELEA_BTdll4GoX4S-Cabz8WVa02bnxS2XiWoPMt10Zwps5GOrrWoLSBxMQ97okuuzyT9YcMkdvtmNc1e9Lo-TbwRzuoVe_Dq3yJKfrl6Y\/s2078\/IMG_1480%20(2).jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"2078\" data-original-width=\"1652\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjecL7rMqbXxWJpEKo2aGua-T9yaiiOP6BF4bhR7vLSmcxeezY6scZs2rTgyYTEBAIbL2Md_jqHwr71MhsexYELEA_BTdll4GoX4S-Cabz8WVa02bnxS2XiWoPMt10Zwps5GOrrWoLSBxMQ97okuuzyT9YcMkdvtmNc1e9Lo-TbwRzuoVe_Dq3yJKfrl6Y\/w447-h563\/IMG_1480%20(2).jpg\" width=\"447\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"background-color: white;\">On Friday, the community made their way to the Langdale Farmers Market for Free&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"background-color: white;\">Tomato Sandwich Day, a long-standing tradition in Valley.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"background-color: white;\">&#8220;<\/span><span style=\"background-color: white;\">This started about 30 years ago with Evan Mason at Mason&#8217;s Produce in Langdale and we would run it all day. Back then, Mason was growing tomatoes, had a tomato field, and came up with the idea of a Tomato Sandwich Day.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEj52vWrfxGNaQFyrpx-z_x8dJnZtHENNAAidZcq9zThEnLJ_s_fbVkYnbAKlmCqq6a4Y4k4y6eFO9Fhu6Knq7CtwGchrxBONY-i5tf_9kRlmq29452SBU0qJMwzRAoblo2_T9ihaf2lQhtQKF6vrpOzc08JFsA7zxDBIseXtpRNYlzzHs6jHtsqJzb_Lio\/s2854\/IMG_1483.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"2142\" data-original-width=\"2854\" height=\"344\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEj52vWrfxGNaQFyrpx-z_x8dJnZtHENNAAidZcq9zThEnLJ_s_fbVkYnbAKlmCqq6a4Y4k4y6eFO9Fhu6Knq7CtwGchrxBONY-i5tf_9kRlmq29452SBU0qJMwzRAoblo2_T9ihaf2lQhtQKF6vrpOzc08JFsA7zxDBIseXtpRNYlzzHs6jHtsqJzb_Lio\/w458-h344\/IMG_1483.jpg\" width=\"458\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><br \/><span style=\"background-color: white;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"background-color: white;\">When he passed away we moved it here to keep the tradition going. We continue the&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"background-color: white;\">free Tomato Sandwich Day and I wish we could name this place after him&#8221;, said longtime supporter Ray Edwards.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: white; font-size: x-large;\">The crowd was steady as the community purchased fruits and vegetables from local farmers and vendors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: white; font-size: x-large;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><iframe allowfullscreen=\"\" height=\"266\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hqgkS-MyERw\" width=\"320\" youtube-src-><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: white; font-size: x-large;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: white; font-size: x-large;\">The City of Valley made an estimated 200 t<\/span><span style=\"background-color: white; font-size: x-large;\">omato sandwiches along with delicious Lemonade for the occasion. In August, the city will host a Free Watermelon Slice Day.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: white; font-size: x-large;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhil7IvO4KZD3f7QIJy3S5cZ5Gi1uR9ZB5TF7_uMMuASRXZtxVfiMrhSo8lkaOE8VD881CWhjRA-faen2zVnxEp7q2MCy7-LjWYc3Wz03ug7RjwYnBQ8J8R8oPMW9AmezX_IVRRdJM_17nPnBTxnP0uNQmnV6mMgQsu1eM1PWkkE1C7Y4MPTmVD0jAMfuY\/s2075\/IMG_1482.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1970\" data-original-width=\"2075\" height=\"407\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhil7IvO4KZD3f7QIJy3S5cZ5Gi1uR9ZB5TF7_uMMuASRXZtxVfiMrhSo8lkaOE8VD881CWhjRA-faen2zVnxEp7q2MCy7-LjWYc3Wz03ug7RjwYnBQ8J8R8oPMW9AmezX_IVRRdJM_17nPnBTxnP0uNQmnV6mMgQsu1eM1PWkkE1C7Y4MPTmVD0jAMfuY\/w428-h407\/IMG_1482.jpg\" width=\"428\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: white; font-size: x-large;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, the community made their way to the Langdale Farmers Market for Free&nbsp;Tomato Sandwich Day, a long-standing tradition in Valley. &#8220;This started about 30 years ago with Evan Mason at Mason&#8217;s Produce in Langdale and we would run it all day. Back then, Mason was growing tomatoes, had a tomato field, and came up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adntesting.online\/chambersledger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adntesting.online\/chambersledger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adntesting.online\/chambersledger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adntesting.online\/chambersledger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adntesting.online\/chambersledger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/adntesting.online\/chambersledger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":377,"href":"https:\/\/adntesting.online\/chambersledger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions\/377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adntesting.online\/chambersledger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adntesting.online\/chambersledger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adntesting.online\/chambersledger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}