'Opportunity to do a little bit more'
A little girl in a yellow shark costume stands in the middle of Third Avenue during the Harvest Festival in downtown Moses Lake on Saturday.
CHARLES H. FEATHERSTONE/COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD
Children play games for candy during the Harvest Festival in Moses Lake on Saturday.
Costumed trick-or-treaters play Simon Says near Sinkiuse Square during the Harvest Festival in downtown Moses Lake on Saturday.
People gathered in downtown Moses Lake for the Harvest Festival on Saturday.
Trick-or-treaters Carson Conway, the robot, and his sister Carter, the doctor, and Lincoln, the astronaut, walk down Third Avenue in-between trunk-or-treat sites during the Harvest Festival on Saturday.
Jax Vela, dressed as monster Mike Wazowski from the movie Monsters, Inc., stands with his father Antonio during the Harvest Fair in Moses Lake on Saturday.
A car decked out for trunk or treat.
A black SUV “costumed” as a cat for trunk or treat on Third Avenue in downtown Moses Lake during the Harvest Festival on Saturday.
MOSES LAKE — There were kids in costumes. Adults in costumes. Live music in Sinkiuse Square. Trunk or treating all along Third Avenue. Simplot even handed out baskets of free fried potatoes.
That’s how the city’s first annual Harvest Festival went on Saturday as hundreds of people gathered in downtown Moses Lake for three hours to enjoy the sun and celebrate the season.
“It went great,” said Rosenda Henley, the new executive director of the Downtown Moses Lake Association, which organized this year’s festival. “It was a great day, and it turned out to be nice and sunny.”
“We’re just out here having fun with the family,” said Sky Conway, who stood with his wife Lindsay and their three children in the Clocktower Roundabout. They were joined by Carson, 8, Carter, 6, and Lincoln, 4, who respectively dressed up as a robot, doctor and astronaut.
“It’s about candy, dressing up,” said Jamie Vela as she stood with her husband Anthony and their three sons.
“And about enjoying the sunshine while it lasts,” Anthony added.
Henley said expanding the downtown’s annual trunk or treat activity gives local businesses an opportunity to do a little bit more, to set up booths and sponsor activities that allow the time downtown to be a little more interactive.
“To do something a little bit different. And they did have that opportunity,” she said.
Charles H. Featherstone can be reached at cfeatherstone@columbiabasinherald.com.
