Levi Staley has always had a knack for technology. In high school, he decided to turn a profit from his talent by repairing broken cell phones and reselling them once they were usable.“Then I got into helping people fix their computers and helping people recover data,” he said.Despite his ability...
Solutions Summit 2016Former New York governor and presidential candidate George Pataki will be the keynote speaker at the Washington Policy Center’s Solutions Summit 2016.The statewide policy conference will be 7:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. May 18 at the Three Rivers Convention Center. It will feature experts on education, health care...
TCCC employees receive degrees Two Tri-Cities Cancer Center employees graduated with their Master’s degrees in May.Karen DuBois, RN, BSN, CHPN, a TCCC Nurse Navigator received an advanced registered nurse practitioner degree from Gonzaga University.Michael Novakovich, TCCC’s director of business development, received a Master’s in Business Administration with a concentration in...
NEW BUSINESSESAugust Thomas Salon has opened at 2411 S. Union St., Suite D, Kennewick. The salon offers haircuts, styling, makeup applications, waxing, nail art, facials and other beauty services. The hours are 10 a.m.–8 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and noon–4 p.m. on Sunday. For more information or to book an...
Sacajawea State Park’s serene beauty will be a bit livelier in June as two groups hold popular annual events there early in the month.The Friends of Sacajawea State Park will have its annual Old Fashioned Day from noon to 4 p.m. June 4.“It’s a family event featuring simple games like...
Dressed in pink shirts and pink hard hats, an engaged group of high school girls looked steadily focused on the job at hand. Some build planter boxes; others lay cement, transforming it into garden steps; and some of the young women operate saws with natural ease, like they’d worked in...
After a short stint as Thai eatery, followed by a Mexican restaurant, the former O’Henry’s in Historic Downtown Kennewick is once again a diner. The Downtown Diner opened April 8 at 20 S. Auburn St., Kennewick.Three partners, Amber Woods, Rodrick Gladney and Robert VanSlycke, all of Kennewick, own the diner.The...
Melinda Merrill is only 15, but she already knows exactly what to do when her company faces danger of bankruptcy due to an increasingly obsolete product offering. She cuts costs and controls marketing expenses.These were decisions she and her team at Richland High School had to make as part of...
Compass DMS, a software company that creates solutions for small- to mid-sized auto dealers, won top honors at Launch Weekend 2016.Siblings Justin Jones and Jennifer Olson and their partner Sean Meininger created the software solution that tracks of inventory, expenses and a host of other necessary items for automobile dealers.Launch...
For nearly three decades, Barbara Johnson, the manager of Columbia Center mall, has been giving back to the Tri-Cities.And on April 21, Johnson received a huge thank you from the community when she was named the 2016 Tri-Citian of the Year during the annual banquet at the Three Rivers Convention...
