Cowboy Breakfast in new hands this year

MOSES LAKE — ’Round these here parts, the Cowboy Breakfast is almost as much of a tradition as the rodeo. So when the Kiwanis Club wasn’t able to organize it this year, the Chamber of Commerce saddled up. 

“The Rodeo Association came to us and we said ‘Sure. We don’t want to see it go away,’” said Moses Lake Chamber of Commerce Director Debbie Doran-Martinez. 

For decades – exactly how long isn’t clear – the Cowboy Breakfast has been Moses Lake’s kickoff to the Grant County Fair and the Moses Lake Roundup Rodeo. The Moses Lake Chamber of Commerce is mostly keeping things the same, but a few changes will be noticeable. 

“The first thing we’re doing is, over the years, the price had gone up and up,” Doran-Martinez said. “So we’re bringing the price point of the breakfast down to $10 because we’ve got sponsors to subsidize it.” 

Breakfast starts at 7 a.m. Aug. 8, which is the Friday before fair week, at Sinkiuse Square next to the Moses Lake Post Office. 

“We’ll do bacon and eggs and biscuits and gravy, and we’ll have fruit juice and coffee,” Doran-Martinez said. 

The Chamber put out requests on its website for local businesses to sponsor specific items, as well as one large overall sponsor. 

“I don’t know that we got a sponsor in every category that we pout out there, but we have enough sponsors for the anticipated number of breakfasts we think we’re going to serve,” Doran-Martinez said. 

Besides breakfast, there will be music spun by DJ Dale Roth, and the Pee-Wee Stampede stick horse rodeo, where children compete in barrel racing, bronc riding and roping a stationary steer. There’s no extra charge for the Pee-Wee Stampede, which is sponsored by Guild Mortgage, Doran-Martinez said. 

“(We) invite everybody down to … kick off the rodeo, which is a big part of our community,” Doran-Martinez said. 

Note: An earlier version of this story gave the Cowboy Breakfast start time incorrectly. The breakfast starts at 7 a.m. The error has been corrected above.

Cowboy Breakfast 
Moses Lake 

Sinkiuse Square 

Third Avenue and Ash Street 

Aug. 8 

7-10 a.m. 

$10 per plate 

    Volunteers serve up breakfast at a past Cowboy Breakfast. The Moses Lake Chamber of Commerce, which has taken on the breakfast this year, is planning to serve bacon, eggs and biscuits and gravy.