Lentil Festival receives top honors

The 2018 National Lentil Festival at Pullman received six awards at the 2019 Washington Festival & Event Association’s Summit Awards in Bellevue, Wash., on April 4.

The festival was awarded first place awards for best rack card, PR/media campaign, t-shirt design, radio programming, volunteer program and community outreach program.

The programming award acknowledged the work of Backyard Harvest, Community Action Center and the WSU Center for Civic Engagement in partnership with the National Lentil Festival to recover leftover lentil chili.

In 2018, 895 pounds of lentil chili was recovered and r...