Efforts to rally the community to take care of veterans memorials in Kennewick have raised about $15,000 and rallied dozens of volunteers, who have already improved two of them, with work on another memorial hopefully starting this summer.
A facility that serves a critical role in the community by providing respite care and helping manage serious symptoms in hospice patients soon will be getting a $3.5 million upgrade to better serve patients and their families.
The so-called Ditch of Death galvanized an entire community to bring a major safety feature to the canal within a week of a little boy’s drowning. On its 5-mile flow through what then comprised the small town of Kennewick, it had claimed the lives of 10 children.
