Preparation for Jehovah's Witnesses convention

Jehovah’s Witnesses to gather in Spokane for first time in 20 years. Volunteers from local Jehovah's Witness congregations will scrub and scrape around every seat and walkway of the Spokane Arena before their three-day convention. Church officials say that the church likes to leave their meeting spaces in better condition than when they arrived. More than 50 JW congregations will assemble for a three-day meeting July 1-3 at the Arena, a group estimated to be 6200 people.

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Thu., June 30, 2016

Volunteer Ellie Labrucherie, 8, and her mother Amanda, left, wipe down seats in the Spokane Arena, Thursday, June 30, 2016. V

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Volunteers from local Jehovah's Witness congregations assemble a large stage with sound and video systems, Thursday, June 30, 2016 at the Spokane Arena.

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Volunteers from local Jehovah's Witness congregations begin building a wall of video screens as they assemble the audio and visual systems, Thursday, June 30, 2016 at the Spokane Arena.

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Volunteers, around 300 of all ages, from local Jehovah's Witness congregations scrub and scrape around every seat and walkway of the Spokane Arena, Thursday, June 30, 2016 at the Spokane Arena.

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