Pumpkin patch sprouts at Clickit RV lot in Moses Lake
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Clickit RV Finance Manager Jen Lonas, left, and General Manager Clint Monk stand in front of the impromptu pumpkin patch at the RV lot east of Moses Lake. The pumpkins will be given away the next two weekends; the pumpkin patch also will have games for the kids.
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Scarecrow Technician Cody Wollman, who doubles as a sales rep, puts out decorations for Clickit RV’s pumpkin giveaway, opening Friday.
Joel Martin has been with the Columbia Basin Herald for more than 25 years in a variety of roles and is the most-tenured employee in the building. Martin is a married father of eight and enjoys spending time with his children and his wife, Christina. He is passionate about the paper’s mission of informing the people of the Columbia Basin because he knows it is important to record the history of the communities the publication serves. | October 15, 2026 3:15 AM
MOSES LAKE — There’s a new pumpkin patch, sort of, out near I-90 east of Moses Lake.
“We’ve got five bins of pumpkins, about 300 of them,” said ClickIt RV Finance Manager Jen Lonas. “If we give them all away, we’ll get more. We’ve got some bagged candy to give the kids as well.”
Clickit RV had a corner of its lot covered in pumpkins, about 5,000 pounds of them, Tuesday morning, and workers were setting up hay bales, decorations and games for the kids in preparation for the patch opening on Friday.
It’s part of the dealership’s efforts to thank the community that’s been good to them, Lonas said.
“We try to do a little something to give back to the community,” she said.
“We gave away barbecue lunches a month ago,” said General Manager Clint Monk.
That three-day giveaway brought about 100 people to the dealership, Monk said. The pumpkins that aren’t given away will be sent to a farm as cattle feed, Lonas said.
Clickit RV is located a little way out of town on North Frontage Road, so it’s visible from I-90 but people coming from town often don’t know it’s there, Monk said.
The pumpkin giveaway, like the other events, isn’t a sales event, Monk said, but it does serve to raise Clickit RV’s profile.
“Our goal isn’t for somebody to come in here and buy an RV,” he said. “Our goal is to let them know where we’re at, and in their mind, they’ll come back five, six months, a year later and say, ‘Let’s go to that RV place we saw,” he said.
Clickit RV Pumpkin Giveaway
9 am.-5 p.m. Oct. 16-18, 23-25
12976 North Frontage Road E., Moses Lake
Scarecrow Technician Cody Wollman, who doubles as a sales rep, puts out decorations for Clickit RV’s pumpkin giveaway, opening Friday.ARTICLES BY JOEL MARTIN
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