BBB warns of timeshare schemeThe Better Business Bureau has received complaints about a timeshare purchasing business called All Business Consulting Services, which claims to be based in Dalton Gardens, Idaho. A consumer was contacted by phone by a representative of the company who offered to purchase the consumer’s timeshare in...
Pasco school children will continue to have a safe, nurturing after-school retreat thanks to a $20,000 grant from the Three Rivers Community Foundation to the YMCA at the Martin Luther King Center.The award was one of 42 grants totaling $152,899 presented to a variety of nonprofit organizations in the Tri-Cities...
A new HomeGoods store may be sprouting up at Columbia Center soon.An application has been made to the City of Kennewick to build a new 22,200-sq.-ft. HomeGoods store at 1321 N. Columbia Center, east of Old Country Buffet.HomeGoods is owned by TJX, which also owns the T.J. Maxx and Marshalls...
Brooks receives awardJosh Brooks of Columbia Basin Denture Clinic has been presented with the 2015 Humanitarian of the Year Award from the Mustangs for Mustangs, a Prosser grassroots group.Mayor electedThe Richland City Council elected councilman Bob Thompson as the city’s new mayor at its Jan. 5 council meeting. Councilman Terry...
NEW BUSINESSESBadger Mountain Yarns has opened at 114 Keene Road in Richland. The business sells yarn, knitting and crochet tools and accessories and offers classes. The hours are 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. Monday through Friday and 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. on Saturday. For more information call 509-579-0090 or...
Two Pacific Northwest National Association of State Department of Agriculture employees were recently honored with national awards.Shirley Eklund of Mattawa received one of three Supervisory Enumerator of the Year Awards given nationally. Larry Panasuk of College Place received was presented with one of five national Field Enumerator Awards given this...
Three farmers, a businessman, a teacher and a banker will be welcomed into the Mid-Columbia Agriculture Hall of Fame Jan. 21.The six have all been longtime residents of Southeastern Washington. The inductees’ names were announced at a Greater Pasco Chamber of Commerce luncheon Jan. 5.The group will be formally inducted...
In the course of his marketing career, Tom Moore has sold ads on television, radio and newspapers. So when Moore founded his Richland advertising agency, Mooreshots Direct, he drew on all of that experience.[blockquote quote="The whole idea of marketing is to be attention grabbing and to show the personality of...
Learn how to reach your full potential with tips from a life and career coach and a marketing expert at the Tri-Cities Women in Business Conference on Jan. 27 at TRAC in Pasco.The conference will be 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and includes vendors’ booths, motivational and inspirational talks by...
Dressed in their holiday glitz, couples glided and twirled across the dance floor during the annual Healthy Ages Christmas party in December at TRAC in Pasco.
