MOSES LAKE – It was a cloudy Wednesday afternoon as Lupe Reyna, 83, stared at an old gray building with boarded-off entrances – once a store for migrant workers.

Hidden by trees and shrubs alongside the highway, many usually drive by the building. But not Reyna.

For him, it was a place that shaped much of his teenage years while he worked in the nearby sugar beet fields.

“This is where I met my wife. The minute I saw her, it was over for me,” Reyna said.

Reyna, then 15 years old, migrated from Mathis, Texas, to Moses Lake in 1957 with his sister and her husband after local farmers were contacting people in Texas to work at the sugar plant. The Utah-Idaho Sugar Company, based in Salt Lake City, built a plant in 1953 in Moses Lake and processed sugar beets grown throughout the Columbia B

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