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Chocolate delivers pumpkins to Eastgate

Published: October 15, 2012

Elizabeth Broome, 11, a fifth-grader at Eastgate Elementary School in Kennewick, pets Chocolate on Monday after his owners, Kurt and Sarah Weidner of Pasco, delivered Halloween candy and about 125 donated pumpkins in response to last week’s theft from the school pumpkin patch. Eastgate students raised money to help pay for Chocolate’s surgery after he was rescued in 2008. In all, the community has donated about 650 pumpkins to Eastgate. The extra pumpkins will go to Amistad Elementary School in Kennewick, said Eastgate Principal Niki Arnold-Smith.

Kai-Huei Yau — Tri-City HeraldBuy Photo

By Kai-Huei Yau

Chocolate's owners Kurt and Sarah Weidner of Pasco delivered Halloween candy and about 125 donated pumpkins on Monday in response to last week's theft of the school's pumpkin patch. Eastgate students raised money to help pay for Chocolate's surgery after he was rescued in 2008. The most recent donation brings the total pumpkin outpouring to about 650. All of Eastgate's roughly 540 students have already received pumpkins, so the excess will go to Amistad Elementary School in Kennewick, according to Eastgate Principal Niki Arnold-Smith.

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