GALLERY: Celebration of holiday season in Mattawa
Wahluke School District administrators attempt to eat a doughnut without any hands during the winter festival in Mattawa.
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Mattawa Winter Fest participants cluster around an activity table.
The ornament table was busy at the Mattawa Winter Festival.
Families work on crafts at the winter festival in Mattawa.
Children had the chance to test their pullup skills.
Children try their hands – well, actually they can’t use their hands – in the doughnut eating contest.
Santa and his missus showed up for pictures at the Mattawa Winter Festival.
Wahluke High School FFA chapter members operate the hamburger booth at the winter festival in Mattawa.
MATTAWA — Children and parents filled the Wahluke High School cafeteria to make ornaments and color pictures, take pictures with Santa, try to eat a doughnut without any hands and play other games at the annual Winter Festival in Mattawa.
Wahluke Superintendent Andy Harlow said it was a joint venture between WSD and Mattawa city officials. Harlow said it’s something fun for the community during the holiday season.
“How do we, at a very low cost, bring people together?” he said.
It’s the second year for the winter festival at WHS; previously it was in Hund Memorial Park for a couple of years. But it’s cold in the park in December, so organizers moved it to the high school. And it was successful — Harlow estimated it drew about 500 people.
“People walked away feeling really good,” he said.
Mattawa Winter Fest participants cluster around an activity table.
The ornament table was busy at the Mattawa Winter Festival.
Families work on crafts at the winter festival in Mattawa.
Children had the chance to test their pullup skills.
Children try their hands – well, actually they can’t use their hands – in the doughnut eating contest.
Santa and his missus showed up for pictures at the Mattawa Winter Festival.
Wahluke High School FFA chapter members operate the hamburger booth at the winter festival in Mattawa.