Fun night out
Six-year-old Analeah Esquivel surveys the world from the top of the Moses Lake Tactical Response Team’s armored vehicle at National Night Out in Mattawa Friday.
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Contestants vie to consume dangling donuts at National Night Out in Mattawa Friday. Mattawa combines the event, which brings out police and firefighters to mingle with the public, with a community festival that includes contests, music and a back-to-school raffle.
Michelle Hill, left, and Alejandro Fernandez show a little fancy footwork at National Night Out at Hund Park in Mattawa Friday. The pair were representing HAPO Credit Union at a vendor booth.
Erika Lopez, left, and Ektor Lopez put together prize packets for children at National Night Out in Mattawa Friday.
First responders chow down on three-pound burritos in the Belly Busting Burrito contest at National Night Out Friday in Mattawa.
MATTAWA — All across America, communities turned out for National Night Out the first week of August, when police, firefighters and other community agencies throw a party and invite the whole town to see what they do. But in Mattawa, they took it a little further and combined National Night Out with a back-to-school event.
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