People flock from across region for Moses Lake potato giveaway
Emry Dinman/Columbia Basin Herald Jeffrey Newman, enlisted to volunteer by a member of the Washington State Potato Commission, lifts two 15-pound bags of potatoes from a pallet before bringing them to a one of the hundreds of cars that came to the Grant County Fairgrounds Thursday.
Emry Dinman/Columbia Basin Herald A volunteer lifts bags from a pallet, staging them where they can be taken to cars lining up for free potatoes.
MOSES LAKE — In hundreds of vehicles Thursday, crisscrossing the length of the Grant County Fairgrounds parking lot, snaking more than a mile all the way back past North Grape Drive, organizers estimated that over 1,000 people came for the potatoes.
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