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wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, good morning. Patricia Murphy here. It's Saturday. This is Seattle

now. Today we're bringing you the best from the KUOW Newsroom. We'll start in Mineral, Washington, a small town tucked deep into the foothills of Mount Rainier.

There aren't a lot of people or jobs.

The National Park is one of the biggest employers, and they've cut jobs under the Trump administration.

Tough times in Mineral.

But as Casey Martin reports, this town of only a couple hundred knows how to take care of each other,

and they have a good time doing it.

This is not a story about a community food bank or meal trains.

We're not going to a soup kitchen.

We're going to a bar.

Hey, no!'s for coming. Meat draw!

It's time for the meat draw at headquarters tavern, the only watering hole in the tiny town of Min mineral. It's an old place with buckboard floors and a long wooden bar. Each week, headquarters hosts a raffle. The prizes,

meat. Ribby sticks, New York sticks. Jack Brown is standing in front of a wide table that's

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