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By Roger Harnack
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Combine Derby draws thousands to Lind

Farm machines, politics on full display

 

Last updated 6/16/2022 at 2:16pm

Roger Harnack | The Record-Times

Eric Labes of Lind, right, positions "Grave Digger" alongside "Suds," driven by William Mann of Sprague.

LIND – With names like "General Lee," "Let's Go Brandon" and "The Bandit," politics were on full-display Saturday along state Highway 21.

Dozens of "Trump Country," Trump 2024" and patriotic flags flew along the highway as motorists honked and waved entering town. Anti-President Joe Biden flags waved from high atop farm combines, pickups and campers.

But it wasn't the anti-Biden sentiment that brought thousands of people to town, it was the 33rd annual running of the Lind Combine Derby in the former rodeo grounds.

The Lind Lion's Club puts on the event annually – except for the last tw...



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