Making connections
Mattawa Officer Edgar Villa, left and Joao Garcia have a chat over snow cones at National Night Out Friday.
CHERYL SCHWEIZER/COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD
Contestants in the doughnut-eating contest found that eating a doughnut without hands required some maneuvering. The contest was part of National Night Out sponsored by the Mattawa Police Department.
Albert Reyes works through a three-pound burrito in the burrito-eating contest during the Mattawa Police Department’s National Night Out. The eventual champion, Greg Miller of Grant County Fire District 8, is in the background.
A curious child tries on a Stryker driver’s helmet.
Javier Rodriguez, left, and Kay Monroe, right of the Washington National Guard pose for picture with a native of the Rodriguez family’s Mexican hometown while children play on the Stryker personnel carrier they brought to National Night Out.
Children try their hand - or rather, no hands - at the doughnut-eating contest.
Mattawa Police officers check the video to see who really won the doughnut-eating contest during National Night Out.
Contestants chow down on burritos during the burrito-eating contest.
Mattawa Police officers served snow cones during National Night Out, and the popcorn for the movie that followed.
MATTAWA — Joao Garcia was interested in all those mysterious things carried by Mattawa Police Department officer Edgar Villa, and Villa explained them all. Garcia was also intrigued by the police vehicles, lights flashing, sitting on the lawn in Hund Park.
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