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Letter: Many individuals made Jubilee a success

Editor, Gazette-Journal:

We would like to take this opportunity to thank our vendors and sponsors, the Abingdon Ruritan Club, Guinea Jubilee committee members, and everyone who came together to make the 2016 Guinea Jubilee a success! Despite all of the rain in the early part of last week, we were blessed on Friday and Saturday with beautiful, and sometimes even hot, September weather!

The Guinea Jubilee committee puts hundreds of hours into organizing the festival each year. We had tremendous help at the festival from community volunteers and members of the Gloucester High School Key Club. But, with all of this hard work there comes the reward of seeing thousands of people enjoying the parade, participating in the Run/Walk, eating clam chowder and fried Oreos, dancing to the music on Friday and Saturday night, and watching the fireworks on Saturday night light up the sky over Bena.

On behalf of the committee, we would like to thank everyone who attended the festival. It is our pleas...

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