“Reach for the brass ring.” The phrase may be somewhat dated - considering it originated from a carousel ride popular in the early 1900s. Yet it’s still frequently used to describe someone striving toward a reward.
Visit ConAgra Foods Lamb Weston in Pasco, Wash., and you’ll find the maxim also embodied there. Although, this is a different type of ring altogether.
There’s no getting around it. Nearly everyone has to cross a bridge to reach the ConAgra Foods Lamb Weston technical center in Richland, Wash. That’s because the Columbia River twists and turns through this section of southeast Washington and links the sister cities of Richland, Kennewick and Pasco.
ConAgra Foods Lamb Weston is a company for all seasons. In late October, for example, visitors at the company’s Pasco, Wash., french fry plant can see a receiving room full of potatoes - the last fall crop from fields throughout the Columbia Basin. Later, it will be time for Pasco and other potato operations to draw winter stocks from raw material storage houses.
ConAgra Foods Inc., Omaha, Neb., announced last August that it joined several new programs “to reinforce the company’s commitment to reducing energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions.”
It was back in the early '70s and most often, right after school. That's when every able-bodied kid in my block huddled together. Each one stuck a foot in the middle and then one kid (certainly a leader among us) used a mathematical process to determine who would be "it" in the next game of freeze tag.