Cowboy Breakfast to kick off fair week in new location
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MOSES LAKE — The Moses Lake Cowboy Breakfast is moving this year.
The event, which has been held at Sinkiuse Square for more than 25 years, will be at the Elks Lodge, formerly the Porterhouse restaurant.
The new location means the volunteers can cook in a commercial kitchen rather than on outdoor griddles, said Debbie Doran-Martinez, director of the Moses Lake Chamber of Commerce, which sponsors the event.
“Last year we struggled keeping the food coming out from the restaurant that we ordered it from in a timely manner,” Doran-Martinez said. “We were without eggs for 45 minutes. We’re trying to avoid that.”
The lodge also has cold storage, something the breakfast has lacked in the past, she said.
The buffet will be inside, with the same eggs, sausage and biscuits and gravy as in years past. This year the chamber will add a sweet touch: stuffed beignets and fresh fruit.
Out on the patio, there will be music with DJ Dale Roth, and at 9 a.m. kids 9 and younger can compete in the Pee Wee Stampede stick horse rodeo, sponsored by Guild Mortgage.
The Columbia Basin Foundation is celebrating 30 years of charitable giving this year, Doran-Martinez said. In honor of that, the foundation underwrote the cost of the breakfast that wasn’t covered by other sponsors, which makes it possible for breakfast to be free of charge. In the past, the cost of the breakfast has been $10 a plate, but this year the chamber is asking that breakfasters instead use the money to buy a raffle ticket for New Hope’s Man Up Crusade. Ten dollars will buy three tickets, and the drawing will be held on the last day of the Moses Lake Roundup Rodeo.
The main sponsor of the event is McFadden Family Motors, which may have some vehicles on display, Doran-Martinez said. Other sponsors will also be there with booths and tents to interact with attendees.
Last year the event fed 243 people, Doran-Martinez said.
“This year we were planning for 300 initially,” she said. “But now that the food has been underwritten (by CBF), I’m ordering enough for 400.”
Moses Lake Cowboy Breakfast
7-10 a.m.
Moses Lake Elks Lodge
217 N Elder St.
Volunteers serve up breakfast at a past Moses Lake Cowboy Breakfast. This year's event is moving to the Elks Lodge, 217 N Elder St.ARTICLES BY JOEL MARTIN
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