2014

In all, 14 County departments participated in this year’s competition. Using food items they created several imaginative displays, including: a replica of Hayward’s historic Meek Estate Mansion; a “Kingdom of Can-a-Lot and the Knights of the Full Table;” a detailed model of Oakland’s Rene C. Davidson courthouse; a model of the robot “Wall-E,” that combines food packages with some high-tech gadgetry in a depiction of the Pixar Animation movie character; and a replica of the Oakland shoreline, complete with the Port of Oakland’s towering cargo cranes.