Local Potato Commissions Look To Tackle Hunger

It’s a college football wager where everyone wins.  As in years past, the Washington and Oregon potato commissions are betting on Saturday’s OSU/WSU Football game.  However, details of the wager are slightly different this year.  This go around, the losing team’s Potato Commission will donate 500 pounds of potatoes per point scored in the game to the winning team’s food bank of choice.  So, if the Cougars and Beavers put up 50 points between the two of them, the losing Commission will donate 25,000 pounds of spuds.

You can also get in on the action, no, not by suiting up, but by stopping by the Potato Commission’s booth at Martin Stadium this weekend.

Kick off Saturday is 2:30 p.m.

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