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Western Food Service Show

Thursday, 30 August 2018 Blog & News

This week, WSPC staff traveled to Los Angeles, California for the Western Food Service and Hospitality Expo. The three-day convention featured everything from healthy foods to coffee. Staff members were able to speak with chefs, distributors, restaurant owners, school system employees, and TV show hosts. WSPC staff passed out free potato peelers, recipes, and information to over 6,000 people!...

Sedro-Woolley Fry Day

Friday, 27 July 2018 Blog & News

As many of you already know Friday, July 13th was National French Fry Day!! How did you spend your Friday? WSPC staff members spent our day passing out FREE Washington Fries in Sedro-Woolley, WA! The shoestring fries donated by Lamb Weston were a crowd favorite. Attendees were able to soak up knowledge about Washington potatoes while enjoying some free samples, at the fire station. Folks were...

2018 Washington Brewers Festival

Thursday, 28 June 2018 Blog & News

On Father’s Day weekend, WSPC continued our mission to share FREE Washington potatoes throughout our great state. Early Friday morning, we loaded up and headed over to western Washington for the weekend where we attended the 13th Annual Brewers Fest in Redmond. We spent the entire weekend giving out free totchos (when tater tots meet nachos) to 25,000 attendees. Thanks to a generous donation...

WSNA 2018

Monday, 13 August 2018 Blog & News

Last week, school meal program employees gathered at the Tacoma Convention Center to attend the annual Washington School Nutrition Association Conference. This event allows attendees to participate in nutritional classes and learn about new products that can be incorporated into school meal menus! WSPC staff had the opportunity to speak with attendees from across the state and share information...

ChelanMan 2018

Monday, 23 July 2018 Blog & News

After several months of preparation, WSPC kicked off our Powered by Potatoes campaign at the 11th annual ChelanMan Triathlon in Chelan, WA! The purpose of this race is to come together as a community to support healthy lifestyles for our youth, families, and athletes. As a sponsor WSPC had the opportunity to share information, recipes, and athletic gear with more than 1,400 athletes in Chelan...

CB Tech Competition

Wednesday, 27 June 2018 Blog & News

We had the pleasure of partnering with Columbia Basin Technical Skills Center’s video game programming team. By doing this, students at CB Tech gain skills in their desired profession and 5th graders get to have fun testing potato video games.This year, CB Tech students had a little healthy competition to see who created the most intriguing potato video game, with the 5th graders as the...

2018 Fry Day Tour

Thursday, 02 August 2018 Blog & News

…and that’s a wrap! WSPC has officially completed our summer FryDay program. Over the last two months, we have had the opportunity to travel across the state and share FREE Washington fries with excited community members! We visited many different cities on our tour including Moses Lake, Redmond, Ritzville, Othello, Mount Vernon, Sedro-Woolley, Leavenworth, and Quincy. We passed out over...

Careers in Agriculture

Monday, 16 July 2018 Blog & News

In Washington, the agriculture industry is responsible for creating nearly 36,000 jobs and contributes $7.4 billion dollars to the economy. Clearly there are many different job opportunities in the agriculture industry, but today we are going to focus on the job of an agronomist. Agronomists are also known as crop production specialists or crop scientists. Agronomists take on a variety of tasks...

MLHS-Fry Day

Thursday, 07 June 2018 Blog & News

As part of our ongoing mission to share Washington potatoes throughout the state, we decided to start the summer off in our own town. Today, we parked our new fry trailer right outside Moses Lake High School’s front doors where we handed out free fries, Spud Nation t-shirts, and hats. All three were a huge hit, especially the fries. The line was almost always packed, we ran out of five fry...
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The mission of the WSPC is to support an economically and environmentally sustainable Washington State potato industry by providing strong leadership and innovation, and building partnerships to meet the demands of global consumers.

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