Kennewick riverfront project hits snag

Pumpkin donations pile up for Eastgate Elementary students

Published: October 11, 2012

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Julie Turner, front, helps her husband Jason, left, and Johanna Clapp, secretary at Eastgate Elementary School in Kennewick, unload pumpkins on Tuesday to replace ones stolen from the school's pumpkin patch over the weekend. The Turners were donating more than 100 on behalf of Logan-Zenner Seeds in Pasco, which was one of several businesses that provided pumpkins to the school.

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By the Tri-City Herald

Pumpkin donations continued to roll in at Eastgate Elementary School in Kennewick.

School staff said the Country Mercantile of Pasco brought in 100 pumpkins Wednesday morning for students after learning in the Tri-City Herald that the school's pumpkin patch was raided by thieves last weekend.

The Tri-Cities Family Expo also sent a check for $200 to the school and guaranteed free admission to the expo at TRAC in late January for each student.

Staff said that every student through the second grade so far has been able to take home a pumpkin. The hope is the latest donations will guarantee every student through the fifth grade will get to have one.

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