11th Annual Salvation Army Backpacks for Kids event

Volunteers delivered backpacks to passing cars in the parking lot of the Spokane Fair and Expo Center at the annual Salvation Army backpack giveaway, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2020. Each backpack given away contained school supplies appropriate for the age of the child. The Salvation Army, with a large donation from Cenex stores, gave out thousands of backpacks in drive-through fashion Wednesday.

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Wed., Aug. 12, 2020

At the annual Salvation Army backpack giveaway, volunteer Shelby Coates, right, holds up a unicorn-themed backpack which doesn’t thrill three-year-old Matthew Jordan, left, but pleases his sister, five-year-old Adelina Jordan sitting in the far back seat of the car in the parking lot of the Spokane Fair and Expo Center, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2020. Each backpack contained school supplies appropriate for the age of the child. The Salvation Army, with a large donation from Cenex stores, gave out thousands of backpacks in drive-through fashion Wednesday. Dozens of volunteers helped distribute the backpacks.

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At the annual Salvation Army backpack giveaway Wednesday, 7-year-old Ezra Rogers excitedly points out the backpack he wants to volunteer Carlos Cortez in the parking lot of the Spokane Fair & Expo Center. Each backpack contained school supplies appropriate for the age of the child. The Salvation Army, with a large donation from Cenex stores, gave out thousands of backpacks in drive-through fashion Wednesday. Cortez was part of a volunteer group from Fairchild Air Force Base.

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At the annual Salvation Army backpack giveaway, volunteers delivered backpacks to passing cars in the parking lot of the Spokane Fair and Expo Center, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2020. Each backpack given away contained school supplies appropriate for the age of the child. The Salvation Army, with a large donation from Cenex stores, gave out thousands of backpacks in drive-through fashion Wednesday.

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Loren Culp, right, Washington state Republican gubernatorial candidate, waits while a young girl chooses a backpack from hundreds on display Aug. 12 in the parking lot of the Spokane Fair and Expo Center. He was named in a recent lawsuit stemming from a traffic check in Republic, where Culp is the police chief.

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