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Kristina Lord

Kristina Lord

Kristina Lord has more than 20 years of journalism experience and has been editor of the Tri-Cities Area Journal of Business and Senior Times since July 2016. She spent more than 17 years at the Tri-City Herald and also worked at weekly newspapers in Prosser, Grandview and Yelm. She was a longtime member of the Society of Professional Journalists’ William O. Douglas chapter and is a board member of Warrior Sisterhood, a Tri-Cities Cancer Center support group. She and her husband have two daughters and they live in West Richland.

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New indoor pickleball courts pave way for future tournaments

November 14, 2019
Kristina Lord
Construction on Tri-City Court Club’s new courts began in SeptemberThe 200 active pickleball players in the Tri-Cities soon will have indoor courts to play on.Construction on the Tri-City Court Club’s new pickleball courts began in September. A grand opening to celebrate the six new courts is planned for Nov. 18-20.Pickleball—a...
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New family-owned grocery store coming to Prosser

October 28, 2019
Kristina Lord
Harvest Foods will open in 2020 after renovation of vacant Shopko buildingA Lep-Re-Kon Harvest Foods store plans to renovate and move into the vacant Shopko Hometown building on Wine Country Road in Prosser next year.The 28,000-square-foot building will undergo an extensive renovation before it opens in 2020.The store will include...
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French fries fuel $250M expansion

July 15, 2019
Kristina Lord
The addition of the new french fry processing line to Lamb Weston’s existing facility at 78328 Cottonwood Bend in Hermiston is expected to add 150 more jobs.
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Tender Care Village needs volunteers before it can add new members

June 13, 2019
Kristina Lord
Marie Duncan has been living alone for 45 years and she’dlike to continue to enjoy her “little view of the river” from her Kennewickhome for as long as she can.The 92-year-old credits the Tender Care Village for enablingher to remain independent at her own home.“It’s just wonderful. I just can’t...
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Ride in style with new black-car service TC Black

April 16, 2019
Kristina Lord
Expect VIP treatment inside a TC Black car with leather seats, a customized music playlist, punctual pickups and a skilled driver wearing a jacket and displaying impeccable manners.The owner of the Tri-City’s new black-car service is anative Texan and former Navy submariner. David McClain says his Lone Star State values...
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Tri-City homes out of reach for many at current prices

April 15, 2019
Kristina Lord
Don’t expect to see explosive growth in Tri-City residentialand commercial sectors in the coming year.That was the message from a panel of industry experts on a Building the Tri-Cities panel at the Tri-City Development Council’s March 28 annual economic outlook meeting in Pasco. TRIDEC postponed the event a month due...
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Get fit to prevent falls is focus of new Benton County program

April 12, 2019
Kristina Lord
EnhanceFitness classes focus on reducing fallsWhen Zenaida Myers of Pascotook her 87-year-old mother to a new fitness class, she wasn’t planning to participate.But the 65-year-old said sheand her mom both have benefited from the balance and strengthening class calledEnhanceFitness.She said her mother MariaAustria of Kennewick fell three times last year,...
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Small businesses unite to promote ‘Shop not Snow’ campaign

March 13, 2019
Kristina Lord
A Kennewick business owner wasn’t toosurprised when 60 Tri-City businesses stepped up to participate in a grassroots“shop local’ initiative prompted by Mother Nature’s snowfall.“I think it’s something that I haveseen so many times here — these instances of camaraderie among smallbusinesses,” said Olivia Berg, owner of BlankSpace, a Kennewick event...
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It’s snow joke: West Richland bakery finds way to poke fun at weather

February 20, 2019
Kristina Lord
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...
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Kennewick commercial construction company changes hands

February 15, 2019
Kristina Lord
 MH Construction’s new owner isn’t new to companyThe new owner of a Kennewickconstruction company is as comfortable working over a profit and loss statementas he is behind the controls of a mini excavator. It’s one of the reasons Alex Lindebought the nine-year-old MH Construction company Jan. 1. Linde, 40, worked...
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