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Jones is one of about 4,500 Duluth students in kindergarten through fourth grade who received a tomato plant this week to work into some dirt and a pot and take home to grow. The event is called the Tomato Man Project, named for Ray Picconatto, a Duluth man who grew and contributed hundreds of tomato plants to area schools over the years. He died of cancer in 2010, a few days after enjoying the sight of students’ tomatoes at Nettleton’s county fair-style harvest festival.
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