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It’s Tartan Day at the Washington state Capitol

OLYMPIA -- Pipe Major Bill Collins, left, with Joby Wynans and Beverly York, all members of the Olympia Highlanders, practice on their bagpipes overlooking Capitol Lake and Budd Inlet before Tartan Day activities at the state Capitol. (Jim Camden/The Spokesman-Review)
By Jim Camden jimc@spokesman.com(509) 879-7461
OLYMPIA -- Pipe Major Bill Collins, left, with Joby Wynans and Beverly York, all members of the Olympia Highlanders, practice on their bagpipes overlooking Capitol Lake and Budd Inlet before Tartan Day activities at the state Capitol. (Jim Camden/The Spokesman-Review)
OLYMPIA -- Pipe Major Bill Collins, left, with Joby Wynans and Beverly York, all members of the Olympia Highlanders, practice on their bagpipes overlooking Capitol Lake and Budd Inlet before Tartan Day activities at the state Capitol. (Jim Camden/The Spokesman-Review)

OLYMPIA — Almost every weekday during a legislative session has at least one group coming for a demonstration, protest or a concert on the Capitol Campus.

Thursday was Tartan Day, when residents of Scottish Heritage donned their kilts, grabbed their pipes and headed for thedomed  Legislative Building. Before the gathering, these three members of the Olympia Highlanders band warmed up their bagpipes near the state Law Enforcement Memorial overlooking Budd Inlet.

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