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Health clinic in Toppenish chosen to receive 800 wooden Easter eggs from the White House

In lieu of the traditional White House Easter egg roll, the Biden administration sent commemorative wooden eggs to health centers across the country, including 800 eggs to the Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic. (Courtesy of the White House)
In lieu of the traditional White House Easter egg roll, the Biden administration sent commemorative wooden eggs to health centers across the country, including 800 eggs to the Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic. (Courtesy of the White House)
By Orion Donovan Smith orionds@spokesman.com(202) 853-2524

WASHINGTON – In lieu of the traditional White House Easter Egg Roll that takes place on the South Lawn each year, the Biden administration is sending commemorative wooden eggs to health centers in underserved communities across the country.

The Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic in Toppenish, Washington, on the Yakama Reservation, was chosen to receive 800 of the eggs, according to the White House, which will be shared with front-line workers, volunteers and members of the community who receive a COVID-19 vaccine.

The clinic distributed 250 of the eggs Thursday and Friday to students in after-school programs it administers in the lower Yakima Valley, and the rest of the eggs to several partner organizations, clinic spokeswoman Amber Betts wrote in an email.

Farm workers in Yakima County and elsewhere in Central Washington have been hit especially hard by the pandemic, as have Indigenous communities. The eggs feature images of a rabbit wearing a face mask and of the First Family’s two German shepherds, Champ and Major, who have been embroiled in minor controversy after Major has twice bitten people at the White House.