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Serving Whitman County since 1877
It will be an early start for the annual Palouse Days celebration this weekend as it gets underway with first events Friday.
A chalk art contest will run from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., on the sidewalk in front of the Palouse Caboose. The new Palouse royalty will be crowned at 7 p.m. and a Palouse Days kickoff party will be held later that night at Palouse Caboose featuring the band Warren, Brent, Greg and Don: Ridgerunners.
On Saturday, the day starts with the Lions Club pancake breakfast, served from their block building near Hayton Greene Park. The Palouse River Run 5k/10k opens at 8 a.m., put on by Gar/Pal Young Life.
Then the 36th annual Palouse Days Show and Shine Car Show will run from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Downtown, the kids parade starts at 9:45 a.m. followed by the main parade at 10 a.m. Members of the Lions club will ride on the old town fire truck, commemorating the club as the parade’s grand marshals, in its 50th year in Palouse.
Following the parade will be the egg toss with the ping pong ball drop after that – in which balls are dropped and kids retrieve them to turn them in for prizes.
At noon, a cornhole tournament will get underway in two-person teams. Also at the noon whistle, the Kiwanis Club will start its annual duck race.
The Lions will serve burgers from their trailer downtown, while Hearth of the Dragon sells pizza. A “farmer’s market” like area will be set up for vendors at Bridge and Main Street, featuring fruit sellers, yard art, jewelry and other items.
The Palouse Caboose will host a beer garden from 11 a.m. to close.
Into the afternoon, the seventh annual Heidi Keen Barley Bar Relay will start at 4 p.m., with four person teams, age 21 and older. The race includes running 0.8 of a mile and drinking a beer before handing off the barley baton.
An additional attraction will be a model train display at Hayton Greene Park by the Miniature Train Club of Lewiston. At the Palouse library, the Xenodican Club will hold its book sale and funnel cake sale.
The dunk tank will be off the agenda this year.
“I think we need to do that every other year, so people forget how cold the water is,” said Debbie Goetz, president of Palouse Chamber of Commerce.
Garth Meyer is a former Whitman County Gazette reporter.
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