A table of winter coats sits as Alex Town, one of the organizers of the annual Coats For Kids drive organized by the Rotary Club of Moses Lake, stands and watches. The event was held on Saturday in the cafeteria of Columbia Middle School.
December 10, 2022
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Coats for the winter
Rotary Club of Moses Lake provides jackets to children in need
MOSES LAKE — If there was a perfect day to give away winter clothes to needy kids, Saturday — with its freezing rain atop two weeks of snow — was it. It was quite a change from Nov. 5, when the event was originally scheduled. Then, the temperature averaged in the 40s, and no snow was on the ground. “You know, when we first started, in comparison with last year, the weather was really warm,” said Alex Town, one of the organizers of this year’s Coats For Kids drive overseen by the Rotary Club of Moses Lake. “So we felt that a lot of families probably weren’t digging into their closets and looking at what coats they had.” ...