Five years ago, the tradition of the Gilroy Garlic Festival was abruptly ended after a mass shooting. Now people are working to bring it back.
GILROY -- Exactly five years ago Sunday, the happy tradition of the Gilroy Garlic Festival was shattered when a lone gunman arrived and began firing into the crowd. The event has never returned and the town has felt its loss. Now, there is talk about bringing the festival back.On Sunday, there was a crowd at Christmas Hill Park in Gilroy but they came for a soccer tournament not for the garlic.
Nobody can see it but people still come down!'Getting the festival back has been a challenge. Some shooting victims sued the city and the city's insurance pool insisted that liability coverage for a festival should be raised from $6 million to $10 million, costing hundreds of thousands more in premiums.
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