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Prep roundup: Knights shut out Leopards, 42-0

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Football

Royal 42, Zillah 0

ZILLAH — The Royal High School Knights needed only half a game to defeat the Zillah Leopards Friday. Luke Bergeson set the stage in the first quarter, scoring a touchdown on a 69-yard pass from Derek Bergeson. Another touchdown in the first quarter and four more in the second settled the game at halftime, as neither side scored in the second half. Derek Bergeson led the team in passing yards at 235, while Avery Ellis led in rushing with 50 yards.

Ephrata 0, Selah 6

The Ephrata Tigers were shut out Friday in a game with a decided lack of scoring. Selah managed one touchdown on a 17-yard run in the second quarter, but stalled at 6 points as the kick was no good. The game leaves Ephrata at 4-3 for the season.

Other scores:

Almira/Coulee-Hartline 58, Wellpinit 6

Quincy 14, Omak 28

Warden 20, Columbia 58

Lind-Ritzville/Sprague/Washtucna/Kahlotus 20, Northwest Christian 14

Wahluke 13, Connell 28

Girls soccer

Moses Lake 1, Eastmont 6

Moses Lake 7, Davis 2

Volleyball

Ephrata 3, East Valley 2

Ephrata 2, Chelan 3

Moses Lake Christian Academy/Covenant Christian 3, Wilson Creek 2

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Perfect blooms
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Perfect blooms

Tips for entering flowers at the fair

MOSES LAKE — You’ve worked all year to make your flower garden a thing of beauty. What better way to show it off than to enter them in the fair? The Grant County Fair has divisions and classes for every kind of flower or flower arrangement under the sun. Valerie Parrott, president of the Columbia Basin Garden Club and a judge in the fair’s horticulture barn, has tips for making your flowers look the best they can. “Flowers are judged on how close they are to perfection,” Parrott said. “It doesn’t matter if they’re the smallest flower or the largest flower. It only matters how close to perfect the bloom is.” With that in mind, Parrott said, timing is crucial. Exhibits are dropped off Monday morning of fair week, which this year is Aug. 11, and judging begins at 9 a.m. Tuesday. That means the flower you’re entering needs to be perfect right then.

Civil Air Patrol cadets take to the skies over Ephrata
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EPHRATA — There couldn’t have been a better climate to teach teenagers to fly in. “We’ve had really good weather,” said Civil Air Patrol Lt. Col. Kathy Maxwell. “Usually by now we’ve had a smoke day or a windy day, or an overcast day.” The CAP cadets are wrapping up the second week of this year’s Desert Eagle National Flight Academy, held every year at Camp Boucher at the Port of Ephrata. Nineteen cadets from around the country, plus one from Japan, came to Ephrata to learn the basics of flying: airplane systems, pre- and post-flight procedures, navigation. In between they’re flying around the Ephrata Airport, first with instructors, then finally solo. The skies between Ephrata and Moses Lake are pretty mellow for flying, but that doesn’t mean there will be no surprises, cadets said.

‘Everyone Has a Why’
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MOSES LAKE — The reasons for addiction are many, but everybody has one. That’s the point of a campaign by the Grant County Health District to highlight opioid addiction and overdoses. It’s part of a two-phase campaign to explain some of the reasons behind addiction, and encourage people to seek help. “It can be loss, or pain, or struggle, but everyone has a reason that they may start using substances,” said Lexi Smith, communications coordinator for the Grant County Health District. “But on the flip side of that, everyone has a reason that they don’t, or that they choose to help someone who does.” The tagline for the Everybody Has a Why campaign is “Make addiction a conversation, not a secret,” and removing the shame of seeking help is a primary aim.