{"id":803073,"date":"2026-07-15T07:58:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T07:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/803073\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T07:58:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T07:58:12","slug":"thousands-turn-out-for-inaugural-strawberry-festival-in-surrey-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/803073\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands turn out for inaugural strawberry festival in Surrey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>              Thousands turn out for inaugural strawberry festival in Surrey<\/p>\n<p class=\"pubStamp\">Published 6:00 pm Tuesday, July 14, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of people attended the inaugural Strawberry Festival on Saturday (July 11), which was a celebration of the legacy of Surrey\u2019s Strawberry Hills neighbourhood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the early 1900s, Japanese Canadian farming families settled the agricultural uplands of what is now Strawberry Hill and built the region\u2019s strawberry industry. The Strawberry Festival is a celebration of that legacy \u2014 and of the vibrant, multicultural neighbourhood that carries it forward today,\u201d reads a press release about the event.<\/p>\n<p>The free festival ran from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. in a parking lot at Strawberry Hills shopping centre. It featured over 30 vendors from various non-profits, an artisan market and buisnesses, a bouncy castle, live entertainment and free strawberries. Attendees were also given free strawberries from a local farm.<\/p>\n<p>Headliners included Channi Nattan and Inderpal Moga.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thousands turn out for inaugural strawberry festival in Surrey Published 6:00 pm Tuesday, July 14, 2026 Thousands of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":802618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-803073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/802618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}