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By Jim Gerber
The Lathrop Friendship Festival Committee decided to go “professional” for 2010 to highlight this years theme of Mardi Gras. After 45 years of setting up the festival stage the hard way, the home made platform, the paper-mache’ elephants, floating spacemen, green aliens and fake palm trees will be gone. New this year will be a totally professional stage system from WISE Productions Services.