After massive turnout for its inaugural run, Spokane's Lunar New Year celebration returns even bigger in 2023

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A local celebration of Lunar New Year’s start last weekend, on Jan. 22.

When organizers of Spokane’s first communitywide Lunar New Year event in almost a century opened the doors last year at Riverfront Park’s Pavilion event hall, they anticipated about 5,000 people would wander through.

By the day’s end, however, an estimated 12,000 guests had taken in the lively festivities, some waiting for hours in a queue winding through the park. With this in mind, its founders knew they’d need to think

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