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Farmers Market opens Thursday
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The McMinnville Farmers Market will open Thursday, May 6, with fresh vegetables, baked goods and other items from local purveyors.
First Baptist minister the Rev. Erika Marksbury will ring a bell to open the market at noon.
The market will be open from noon to 6 p.m. Thursdays through early October, at First and Cowls streets. Masks and social distancing are required.
Sixty-two vendors will participate this year. Several food trucks also will be on hand.
Booths will fill Cowls Street between First and Second and the McMinnville City Hall parking lot as well.
Harold Donald New 1931-2021
Harold Donald New was born November 15, 1931, in Dallas, Texas. When he was 13 years old, he met and eventually fell in love with Martha Lee Jean. They were married in a small Baptist church in May of 1950. The couple had three boys, Don, David and Doug. As planned, their family was completed two years apart by 1956. Don worked for Sears in the outdoor gear department in Arlington, Texas, for a few years. His sense of adventure and a desire to fly anything led him into the Army Reserve, where he learned to operate helicopters. After his stint in the army, Don was hired as a test pilot for Fairchild-Hiller in Palo Alto, California. Don was one of a handful of pilots experimenting with turbine-powered jet engines. In 1962, Don moved his young family, leaving Texas for sunny California, and for the next five years circled the Bay Area testing the FH-1100 prototype vying for a lucrative military contract. The Bell Jet Ranger, ironically based in Texas, ultima