Christmas Bureau toys arrive 2019

Thousands of toys arrived Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019 for the 2019 Christmas Bureau at the Spokane County Fair & Expo Center. Hundreds of volunteers arranged the items for distrubution to families.

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Wed., Dec. 4, 2019

Lenny Kostelecky, center, and Ralph Prouty, left, disassemble a mountain of boxed toys at the Spokane Fair and Expo Center as volunteers begin setting up for the Christmas Bureau, an annual charity that gives Christmas toys to children and food vouchers to families every December. The regular volunteers unpacked thousands of new toys Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019. The Bureau opens Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2019.

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Linda Solan and Lenny Kostelecky unload pallets and stack boxes of toys on carts as volunteers work to get the Christmas Bureau set up at the Spokane Fair and Expo Center on Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019. The annual charity purchases and gives away toys every December, and the effort depends on volunteers to order, sort and organize the toys.

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Linda Solan and Lenny Kostelecky unload pallets and stack boxes of toys on carts as volunteers work to get the Christmas Bureau set up at the Spokane Fair and Expo Center Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019. The annual charity purchases and gives away toys every December and the effort depends on volunteers to order, sort and organize the toys.

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Reesie Smith, left, and Lenny Kostelecky check pallets of toys as volunteers work to get the Christmas Bureau set up at the Spokane Fair and Expo Center Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019. The annual charity purchases and gives away toys every December and the effort depends on volunteers to order, sort and organize the toys.

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Volunteer Ron Waybright stacks boxed toys at the Spokane Fair and Expo Center as volunteers begin setting up for the Christmas Bureau, an annual charity that gives Christmas toys to children and food vouchers to families every December. The regular volunteers unpacked thousands of new toys Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019. The Bureau opens Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2019.

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Lenny Kostelecky, foreground, and Linda Solan, background, unload and stack boxes of toys as volunteers work to get the Christmas Bureau set up at the Spokane Fair and Expo Center Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019. The annual charity purchases and gives away toys every December and the effort depends on volunteers to order, sort and organize the toys.

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Reesie Smith unwraps pallets of toys as volunteers get the Christmas Bureau set up at the Spokane Fair and Expo Center Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019. The annual charity purchases and gives away toys every December and the effort depends on volunteers to order, sort and organize the toys.

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Ralph Prouty, right, moves a pallet of toys to help get the Christmas Bureau set up at the Spokane Fair and Expo Center Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019. Toy buyer Cheryl Taam, center, checks the orders as toys are moved and unloaded. The annual charity purchases and gives away toys every December and the effort depends on volunteers to order, sort and organize the toys.

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Ralph Prouty, right, moves a pallet of new toys as volunteers get the Christmas Bureau set up at the Spokane Fair and Expo Center Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019. The annual charity purchases and gives away toys every December and the effort depends on volunteers to order, sort and organize the toys.

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Christmas Bureau toy buyer Cheryl Taam checks over mountains of boxed toys as volunteers organize them at the Christmas Bureau being set up at the Spokane Fair and Expo Center Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019. Behind her is Reesie Smith. The annual charity purchases and gives away toys every December and the effort depends on volunteers to order, sort and organize the toys.

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Janie Parker-Slater, left, and Linda Solan unload pallets and stack boxes of toys to get the Christmas Bureau set up at the Spokane Fair and Expo Center Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019. The annual charity purchases and gives away toys every December and the effort depends on volunteers to order, sort and organize the toys.

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Longtime volunteer Randy Olson hangs the signs marking the aisles of toys to be stacked at the Christmas Bureau being set up at the Spokane Fair and Expo Center Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019. The annual charity purchases and gives away toys every December and the effort depends on volunteers to order, sort and organize the toys.

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