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🎉 Weekend guide

🌞 Sunday

Water Follies:

9a-5p
Boat races
11:30
Air show
🍉 Sunday Farmers Market at Keene & Queensgate 🎭 The Athlete of Emotion: Anna Newberry teaching Rasa at Magnolia 🧘‍♀️ Yoga Community: Kirtan (music, chanting and singing) 🏃🏻‍♀️ Mud Factor: obstacle 5k fun run

✌️ All Weekend

🚤 Water Follies (aka "boat races" and air show) 🎭 CBC brings Mamma Mia! to outdoor stage

There were a lot more things to do Friday and Saturday, but hey it's Sunday now.

🆗 Now here‘s the news

🏛 Elections & politics

Zahra Roach, former Franklin County Republican chair, and middle school teacher set sights on Pasco Mayor Watkin‘s vacating council seat Election officials urge citizens to use legible signatures on ballots Washington State investigating Facebook, Google over political ad disclosure

August 6 primary is first test of state-wide voter registration database; we urge officials to stay vigilant for little Bobby Tables

Newhouse joins farmers pushing to ratify Mexico-US-Canada trade agreement and just says no to bears

Meet the five council hopefuls vying for one Kennewick seat (Stan) Lee Blvd? Richland residents continue to push city to part with Confederate icon Robert E Lee.

✨ News

Kennewick and Pasco hospitals pull out of Tri-Cities Cancer center

Two mammoth sturgeons (one 330lb, one 450lb) caught and released in order to terrorize the imaginations of Columbia boaters

Western US lights up; the smoke particles may permanently affect your health

New legislation allows Oregon students up to five mental health days per three-month period Dept of Ecology urges non-washing-tonians to become wash-your-recycling-tonians 📈 Fastest growing counties in the state: Franklin #1, Benton #3

🐴 Horse news from around the world

A horse got out

💁‍♀️ What‘s going on

Join one of two public meetings for anyone wanting to help establish a certified Creative District in Richland (Mon pm, Tue am) Kirk Cameron coming to Tri, maybe bringing this giant wooden wheel Free skin cancer screening August 10 in Kennewick Kennewick sending two teams to Little League World Series

Pasco‘s Mario Kart tourney was a win with kids, now adults will get their chance Aug 10

🥤🔥 Flaming Coke machine forced evacuation of Pasco post office

🐴 Regional horse news

A horse and his man are okay

👩‍🔬 Science, tech, & education

Women in Engineering Leadership summit taking place at PNNL next week, registration still open

🏢 Business & development

Credit unions merging on Aug 1, Gesa merger will create second largest credit union in WA In-home day care centers closing August 1 to protest new state regulations Tribe casino coming to King City? If you‘re replacing ShopKo, make yourself At Home: big box home décor store At Home will open this fall.

🎻 Arts

BOY opens this week at Richland Players, tickets available now Heidi Elkington‘s cave-painting inspired show opens August 1 at Spectra Art in DTK PETS‘ ”Sewing Machine“ wins Best Music Video in DBC Film Festival Local celebrity artist launches new project: ”my best work to date tbh”

🎸 Events

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🌎 Links

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♻️ Last week‘s top news

Former Richland City Hall site for sale despite push for public process

School district‘s succession plans flushed

$500,000 $1 million and counting: Rattlesnake Mountain fire burned through more than shrub steppe

West Nile virus found in Bateman Island mosquitos

With emergency drought declared, KID asks residents to switch to reduced watering schedule

WSDOT mulls pay-per-mile gas tax (clarification: per mile driven, not per mile of polar ice decimated)

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