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Today: Potato Day

Bowls of potatoes are offered for sale at the Liberty Lake Farmers Market Saturday. (Joe Barrentine / The Spokesman-Review)
Richard Roesler
Bowls of potatoes are offered for sale at the Liberty Lake Farmers Market Saturday. (Joe Barrentine / The Spokesman-Review)
Bowls of potatoes are offered for sale at the Liberty Lake Farmers Market Saturday. (Joe Barrentine / The Spokesman-Review)

Today is Potato Day, a popular day, when growers descend on Olympia to hand out hundreds of baked potatoes to lawmakers, staffers, lobbyists and whoever else is around. Also popular: Dairy Day, which tends to involve free ice cream.

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