Wes Door, who turns 92 this month, has been a jeweler and inventor for most of his life.He owned a storefront in downtown Kennewick for many years before moving his jewelry business to his home at 2214 W. Fourth Ave., in Kennewick in 1970.The Tri-City Regional Chamber of Commerce recently...
When Holly Rojas decided to sell her business, a small screen-printing shop in Prosser, Monica Niemeyer was the person she called to take over.“The former owner thought I’d be a good fit,” Niemeyer explained. “I was involved with the community and brought her quite a few orders.”Niemeyer is the secretary...
A pastry chef traded his apron and kitchen for protective gear to work at the Hanford nuclear reservation tank farms.Just how does a pastry chef become a nuclear chemical operator?For Brett Crusselle, it meant a tough two years of classes in the nuclear technology program at Columbia Basin College.Crusselle, 33,...
A chunk of prime Pasco real estate is back on the auction block after no buyers stepped forward to snatch it up last year.The state Board of Natural Resources authorized the sale of more than 230 acres of vacant state trust land in Pasco earlier this month.The five parcels range...
New federal overtime rules may have some small businesses nervous as the date it takes effect looms.But Tri-City experts encourage smaller mom-and-pop businesses not to worry.“I really think the big focus here is to know what the law is and to know you have options,” said attorney Scott Boyce of...
By Wine News ServiceIf pre-harvest estimates hold up, Washington will crush a quarter-million tons of wine grapes this fall for the first time.And if that takes place, the Washington wine industry will have effectively doubled in size in a decade.Wine grape harvest kicked off in mid-August, making it one of...
By Jeff MorrowPlaying with rubber duckies isn’t just for little kids in the bathtub.For more than a quarter of a century, Tri-City adults have been racing the plastic yellow toys in the name of charity.Tri-City Rotarians’ 28th annual Mid-Columbia Duck Race is Saturday, Oct. 8, in Kennewick’s Columbia Park. The...
By John StangCascade Natural Gas’ Kennewick district has 53.34 miles of high-pressure pipeline.But it cannot provide documents to show that 22.12 of those miles — or about 40 percent of its pipelines in and around Kennewick — have been tested to confirm they can resist 60 pounds per square inch...
A Tri-City financial planner decided to rebrand and rename his Richland firm after his former employer was gobbled up by another company.He agonized over the name but came up with a winner in Invest Northwest Financial.In late February 2016, Ted Vause learned his company, MetLife, would be acquired by Massachusetts...
RJ Lee Group and TerraGraphics Environmental Engineering have formed a strategic partnership to prepare college students entering the science and engineering work force by offering opportunities right on campus.Richard Westberg of TerraGraphics is the lab director for the collaborative analytical laboratory on Columbia Basin College’s Pasco campus. With the baby...
