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Paul Quam, left, and Ray Powell share a laugh while pitching horseshoes in the Northwest Warmup Tournament Sept. 18, 2015 at Elks Park in Yakima, Wash. This tournament is a prelude to the Pacific Northwest Tournament to be held at the park Sept. 19-20, 2015.
(GORDON KING/Yakima Herald-Republic)

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Pasco High School football team captains, left, shake hands with the Davis High School captains before the start of their game Sept. 3, 2015 in Yakima, Wash. It is the first game of the 2015 season for both teams. (GORDON KING/Yakima Herald-Republc)

It was worth the wait

Nicholas Goodman buttons his white coat as he walks off stage at the Capitol Theatre after receiving the coat during the white coat ceremony for the Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences Aug. 15, 2015 in Yakima, Wash. Incoming students to the medical school recieve the short white coats to mark them as student medical professionals. This year 140 students received white coats. They will graduate in 2019. (GORDON KING/Yakima Herald-Republic)

Photos of the Week (Aug. 17 – 23)

Pedro Nunez picks Chardonnay wine grapes just after dawn in a vineyard near Outlook, Wash. Aug. 12, 2015. This is the earliest this vineyard has ever been picked; it's usually picked around Labor Day. The grapes are going to the Owen Roe Winery. (GORDON KING/Yakima Herald-Republic)

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Daniel Lopez, 8, learns a traditional Mexican dance from teacher Renato Herrera Monday, Aug. 10, 2015 in Wapato, Wash. The dance class was part of the annual Mexico in Wapato program in which youngsters are taught traditional Mexican culture through language, arts, and crafts by teachers from the Mexican state of Zacatecas. The program ends today. This is the seventh year of the program.(GORDON KING/Yakima Herald-Republic)

Photos of the Week (Aug. 10 – Aug. 16)

Juan Castro, 9, right, ponders his next move as Malyssa Padilla, 10, and opponent Marty Platte wait during a chess match at the National Night Out gathering at the Southeast Community Center in Yakima, Wash. Aug. 3, 2015. Platte won the match; Castro said "it's like the fifth time I played him and haven't beaten him yet." Tonight there will be 21 parties throughout Yakima including a citywide event hosted by the Yakima Police Department and Crime Stoppers of Yakima County at Franklin Park from 6 to 9 p.m., featuring food, children’s activities and safety information. The National Night Out program designed to show that neighborhoods are united against crime by encouraging people to get together.
(GORDON KING/Yakima Herald-Republic)

Photos of the Week (Aug. 3 – Aug. 9)

A firefighter battles a brush fire which scorches a steep, brush-covered hillside on the south side of Powerhouse Road, directly south of Fred Meyer in Yakima, Wash. July 26, 2015. (GORDON KING/Yakima Herald-Republic)

Photos of the Week (July 27 – Aug. 2)