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| | 1996 California State Hot Air Balloon Champion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) |
 | | The 1996 California State Hot-Air Open Championship, held in Newman, in the lush San Joaquin Valley, the last weekend in August, was won by Gloria Navarrette of Antioch, California. |
 | | The Championship was held in conjunction with the Newman Fall Festival, a traditional celebration of thanks for a bountiful harvest. |
 | | California ' s large Central Valley, composed of the Sacramento Valley to the north, and the San Joaquin Valley to the south, is an agricultural wonder, producing a large portion of the world ' s food, and, from Newman going south, a goodly portion of the nation ' s finest cotton. |
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