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Kids giggle and do cartwheels on the grass and yard seats are bunched in the shade of the trees. Unrecorded music skims over to the sustenance trucks, which are stopped in two long columns. Their windows are open and cooks rush to serve curving lines of clients.

One of these clients is Christine Novicio, who has quite recently requested what is known as a "Truck Burger".

"It's the nutty spread burger with sautéed onions and bacon on it," she says.

Down the line, seller Guy Wilmoth, proprietor of "The Drink Doctor" portable refreshment truck can't stop. He is always bouncing in and out to snatch more supplies and stay aware of the requests.

Wilmoth says that everybody is: "… exceptionally occupied, a considerable measure of pedestrian

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