Potential organizers face increasing insurance rates and safety concerns in their efforts to bring it back.
Gene Sakahara holds a belt buckle he was given when he was president of the Gilroy Garlic Festival in 1991, in his home in Gilroy on Monday, July 22, 2024. It was the final evening of the 2019 Gilroy Garlic Festival, and Gene Sakahara was rushing around the grounds as he had every year for four decades when he suddenly heard what sounded like fireworks popping. Then he saw the screaming crowd and realized what it really was: gunshots.
A makeshift memorial for the Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting victims is set up at the corner of Uvas Parkway and Miller Avenue in Gilroy July 30, 2019. File photo of Herbie the Gilroy Garlic Festival mascot welcoming visitors to the festival in Gilroy in 2019. Since 1979, the festival has raised more than $11.7 million for local nonprofits and schools.
The festival also attracted commerce, filled hotel rooms and brought in accompanying taxes. When the festival left, so did the source of revenue. “Financially, it was a big hit,” said Jane Howard, interim president of the Gilroy Chamber of Commerce.
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