Palouse Library receives $512 Turkey Leg Donation

Pastor Corey Laughary has participated in the Palouse Library’s Turkey Leg Fun Run every year since 2005. The Turkey Leg fun run is an annual event that raises money for the Palouse Branch Library and two high school scholarships.

As part of the event, members of the Palouse Federated Church and Palouse residents have sponsored Corey, the church pastor. The sponsors challenge Laughary to go above and beyond simply walking or running. In years past, he has been asked to sidestep the entire distance, skip, and walk backwards. He has also eaten a whole pie and pledged to forego eating mashed potatoes.

This year sponsors required Corey to write a song about Palouse and sing it down on Main Street. Always a good sport and willing to humiliate himself for a good cause, he brings in big donations.

One such donation for this year’s Turkey Leg was a pledge of $512 from Corey’s brother, Clay Laughary.

A math teacher in Renton, Clay Laughary offered to sponsor his brother “2 to the 9th power.”

“You figure it out,” he told Corey.

“If I’ve done the math right,” Corey said as his kids sipped hot cocoa at the Green Frog Café, “my brother is donating $512”. Pastor Corey immediately raced outside to skip up and down Main Street and sang the song he composed about Palouse.

He brought in almost half of the Turkey Leg donations so far this year, totaling $1567.

Proceeds from the library portion of the fundraiser will go toward the purchase of children’s books and music, audio books and young adult literature. For more information or to make a donation, contact the Palouse Library at 878-1513.