Columbia Basin College’s 2019 Martin Luther King Jr. Spirit Award winnerCompany/business/agency: U.S.Department of Energy’s Office of Science – Pacific Northwest SiteOffice/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (DOE-SC/PNNL)Tell us about your team: PNSO is a small staff of 30-plus people. Iwork with a team of five scientists and engineers. Kimberly L. Harper, Physical...
CorwinFord recently completed a $689,000 renovation to its detail shop.The5,400-square-foot building at 1225 Autoplex Way in Pasco will be used by theauto dealer to detail vehicles, spray on truck bed liners and take photos ofthe cars in its inventory.Renovationsto the former Russ Dean Ford Mechanic Shop included the addition of...
TheKennewick Housing Authority’s Nueva Vista II low-income housing projectrecently wrapped at 334 N. Union St. in Kennewick.Thedevelopment is adjacent to Nueva Vista I.All28 units already are leased to qualifying individuals and families who fall ator below 30 percent or 50 percent of the Benton County area median income,which is about...
Regional manufacturing jobs to grow 1.84 percent this yearManufacturing jobs in Benton andFranklin counties are expected to grow at a faster rate than the state averageas food manufacturing rebounds in 2019. Locally, there are more than 8,100manufacturing jobs, which accounts for about 7 percent of total nonfarmemployment in 2018, according...
Plastic Injection Molding expansion allows for improved capacity, speedA north Richland company is poised forgrowth with the addition of a new 28,000-square-foot manufacturing plant in theback of its existing building that includes a 4,000-square-foot mezzanine.Plastic Injection Molding Inc.manufactures filter body parts for agricultural irrigation, special parts formedical diagnostic equipment, and...
Partnership to ensure continued nuclear explosion monitoringMedical isotopes are used daily around the world tovisualize and diagnose cancer, heart disease and other seriousailments. However, their production can emit gasses that, while posing nodanger to the public, have features that look similar to those produced by anuclear explosion.The Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest...
Family-owned business also offers photography classesJim and Karen Pridemore have opened anew business at 627 The Parkway in Richland that aims to create lastingmemories.Picture Yourself is acreate-it-yourself studio for photography and videography in which customerscan rent studio time by the hour or pay for a monthly membership.The company offers various...
C and E Trenching has been digging dirt for 25 yearsCurtis Wray can be pretty self-effacingand humble.When asked what he sees his company, Cand E Trenching LLC and himself doing in five years, he said he doesn’t knowhow to do anything else.His father, Everett Wray, bought thebusiness in 1994 —...
By Kris JohnsonThe66th Legislature convened Jan. 14 and is slated to end April 28. During thattime, the top job for lawmakers is to craft the state’s two-year operatingbudget.Thegood news is they have record tax collections to work with — more than $50 billion for the 2019-21 budget cycle.Kris Johnson, Association...
