MOSES LAKE The Moses Lake Chamber of Commerce, with help from local businesses sponsorships, provided breakfast for 4-H, Future Farmers of America and Washington State Grange members and their families Sunday morning at the Grant County Fair.
The breakfast was served from the window of the Chamber’s vendor building at the fairgrounds. Chamber President and CEO Debbie Doran-Martinez said that the breakfast is specifically meant for children and families who are busy packing up and preparing their livestock to go home on Sunday.
“We do it every year,” said Doran-Martinez. “Those kids have worked really hard all week long, with their animals. They're part of the attraction of the fair for city kids to come and see that life, and so we just want to want to feed them.”
MOSES LAKE Moving is one of those things everybody dreads. Loading all your earthly belongings piece by piece into a truck, hauling the whole shebang to the new location and then doing it all again in reverse has to rank right up there with an afternoon in the dentist's chair. With or without anesthesia.
Fortunately, there are businesses out there that will take care of part or all of the process for you. Moving services aren’t necessarily cheap, but they can take a whole lot of stress – not to mention back strain – out of the equation.
“Typically, what happens is that customers will … give us a call and say, ‘Hey, I'm looking to move a certain date. Can you come by and give an estimate?’” said Dylan Morris, owner of Door to Door Moving LLC in Moses Lake. “Then Redgy (Smith, Door to Door’s manager) and I will come by and we’ll have an inventory sheet and an estimate sheet. We'll identify if we need to pack up the house or if we're just taki