Celebrate Kids Festival invaded by enormous spuds
A giant Washington state potato and french fry were on hand to give out bags of chips to children at the Celebrate Kids and Families Festival Saturday morning at Moses Lake High School.
Families turn out for face painting, exhibits, singing hydrant
Giant potato products roamed the grounds of Moses Lake High School over the weekend.
Two students, one in a Washington potato costume and another in a french fry outfit, were there handing out bags of potato chips to children as part of the Celebrate Kids and Families Festival on Saturday.
Other must-see sights and activities on the MLHS campus included a remote control singing and dancing fire hydrant, a number of outside exhibits, face painting, day one of the kite festival ball tosses where the participants got their speed checked by a radar gun from the Moses Lake Police Department and much, much more.
The sense of community and the opportunity to spend time together as a family seemed to be the driving force for many of the people who turned out for the event.
Charlene Miller said she was in attendance to watch her nephew present the flag for the opening ceremony.
"The community needs more activities like (the Celebrate Kids Festival); to get more involved," Miller said.
Dan and Kristin Beich turned out for the kite festival and because their daughters wanted to see the fire trucks that were set up outside the high school.
"My wife and I thought we'd bring the kids down and take a look at it," Dan Beich said. "Good family entertainment."
"It's a community event, and it's for the kids, brings people together and gives the performing groups a chance to perform," Kristin Beich said.
Huntre and Holden Haworth were there with their mother Kathy and grandmother Darla.
Kathy Haworth said she was there for the education opportunities it would allow her sons.
"It teaches the kids all the different jobs that everybody has in the community," she said.
Norma Park, her husband and their children come to the festival every year if they can.
"It's fun for the kids," she said, indicating her oldest son. "He usually likes to go out and see the helicopter, and do the ball throw every year. It gives us something to do as a family."
Alissa Scriven and her daughters were just in time to see the helicopter land on the school parking lot.
"We just saw a helicopter land; that was so cool, wasn't it?" Scriven asked her kids, adding, "I wanted my kids to have an adventure and they have all this great stuff for us to see, so I wanted to bring them out and have a good family time."
Scriven said that the event was important because it was family-oriented.
"It's something that the kids can enjoy and the parents can enjoy, and just get out and meet people and meet more of the people in this community," she said. "Because it's so small we can get together and get to know each other a little better."