Kennewick job fair planned forMarch 21WorkSourceColumbia Basin, Goodwill Employment Connections Center and OpportunitiesIndustrialization Center Pasco will have a job fair March 21.Multipleemployers from various industries will participate. Job preparation classeswill be offered at Goodwill and WorkSource to better prepare job seekers. Theevent is from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at...
With snow on the ground andin the forecast,a West Richland bakery has found a way to shovel out the wintertime blues.Tsp Bakeshop has whipped upa couple dozen sugar cookies featuring puns poking fun at the snow in royal icingwith messages such as: “Ice ice baby,” “Black ice isn’t the only...
At press time, Kennewick and Pasco business licenses were not available.RICHLANDStanley Steemer of Tri-Cities, 1328 E. Third Ave.,Kennewick.Three Js Security,195 Greenview Drive.Spark & ShineHouse Cleaning, 1819 W. Park St., Pasco.1st ChoiceCNA Education, 718 S. Sharron St., Kennewick.Alta Homes, 2836Troon Court.Swire PacificHoldings, 155 Avery St., Walla Walla.The Wildflower VA,550 Punkie Lane.Sal...
Building permits and financing are in place for thefirst apartments at Badger Mountain South in Richland. The complex will include 276 units for low-income tenantsat 2555 Bella Coola Lane, south of the Country Mercantile on Ava Way, nearTrowbridge Boulevard.The city of Richland has issued grading and buildingpermits to Nor Am...
The life-changing magic of clearing personal clutterhasn’t hit the Tri-Cities in quite the same way its effect has been feltnationally. Cities across the nation are citing overwhelmingdonations at thrift store and reseller sites, thanks to people inspired by thepopular Netflix show, “Tidying Up with Marie Kondo.” The reality series, inspired...
Mother Nature recently shared herwintry mix with the Tri-Cities, but the Three Rivers campus wants to be able tocreate its own ice year-round.Construction of a new $3.4 million iceplant is underway at the Kennewick campus, which is home to the Toyota Center,Toyota Arena and Three Rivers Convention Center.The Toyota Center...
Road68’s development boom will continue this year with an 82-townhome development project at the end of Chapel Hill Boulevard, nestled against Interstate 182 off one of Pasco’s busiest roads. EnvisionNorthwest LLC, a Kirkland-based developer, has begun construction on 41 duplex buildings on both sides of a single road, which ends in...
Desert Buick GMC has been renamed to include Speck brandThe owners of C. Speck Motors Inc.have bought another established car dealership in the region, bringing theirtotal number of dealerships to five. The sale of Desert Buick GMC at 2910W. Clearwater Ave. in Kennewick resulted in an immediate rebranding to SpeckBuick...
Three local investors team up for $2M indoor family fun centerA trio ofentrepreneurs is investing $2 million in a large indoor family fun center planned near Columbia Centermall in Kennewick. Developers hope to make an announcement soon about thelocation for Washington state’s first Launch Trampoline Park and hope to openit...
PFLAG’s Benton-Franklin chapter offers several training sessions every month for employersJanie Romine remembers the time she was counseled byadministrators against openly talking about her gay son with her colleagues. It taught her a valuable lesson: the workplace is notinclusive and supportive by default.“That was a glaring example of discrimination of...
