Highlights mark 87th Slippery Gulch Saturday

A bird's eye view of the Slippery Gulch egg toss.

The four-man color guard stood straight, sun shining on billowing flags at the start of the Slippery Gulch Days parade in Tekoa.

Then a moment of quiet.

“Is there a volunteer out there to sing the national anthem?” called out Chris Smith over the public address system, standing on top of a Heaton Farms flatbed truck.

Across Crosby Street, Monica Hurley of Bonney Lake, Wash., stood up from a lawn chair and walked over to the truck. Her uncle Cal Chase was on the back of another flatbed down the parade line as part of Tekoa High’s 50-year class r...