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Splash from the past

STAFF REPORT | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 2 years, 5 months AGO
by STAFF REPORT
| February 7, 2024 1:00 AM

Scuttle (Emily Duvall), left; Flounder (Isaac Winter), center back; and Sebastian (Clark Dalton), right, do what they can to help bring Prince Eric (Taggart Hodges), left front and Ariel (Abigail Martinez), right front, find true love in the Quincy Valley Allied Arts production of “The Little Mermaid,” which was featured in the Columbia Basin Herald on Feb. 7, 2023.

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