🌶 ⚛️ Pickin’ atomic peppers

🎉 Weekend Guide

Friday

🍉 Richland farmers’ market 🚴‍♀️ Coffee outside with Wheelhouse 🏛 People of the Manhattan Project: Building an Atomic City Exhibit at WSU Tri-Cities ➕ Adult Mental Health First Aid class at Kadlec Healthplex 🧵 Create A T-Shirt Quilt class 🧘‍♀️ Yoga for Scoliosis and Back Care 🐴 Wine tasting trail ride ⛳️ Tri-City Classic Golf Tournament ⛳ Friday Night Couples League at Horn Rapids Golf Course 🎸 Friday Night Food Truck & Live Music! at Badger Mountain Winery 💛 Wishes & Wine Fundraiser at Three Rivers Convention Center 🎸 Jeff Peterson at Budd's Broiler 🎸 Gary Kanter concert and picnic 🔪 Murder Mystery dinner cruise 🎨 Fall Forest class at Yellow Dog Art Studio ✈️ Learn about the Day's Pay at Richland Library 🎸 Shaggy Sweet at Tagaris at Tagaris 🎙 Open mic poetry at Adventures Underground 🌌 CBC Planetarium shows 🧘‍♀️ Meditation And Talk With Dori Langevin 🎸 Nerve Centr at At Michele's 🎸 Jacks Back at 3 Eyed Fish 🎸 The Van Dels/Bad Move/JFKFC at Kennewick Eagles 2485 🎸 David Ortiz at Lazy River Taphouse 🎸 Chase Craig at Copper Top Tap 🎭 Bertha the Beautiful Typewriter Girl at Richland Players 🤣 Susan Rice at Jokers Comedy Club 🏁 Endurance go-kart competition at Fast Track 🎸 Fat Fox at the Pasco Eagles 🎸 Carousal Carnival at The Dugout 💃 2019 Tri-Cities Salsa Congress 🎸 Sex Mission, Dogfather, Dysfunctional Society at The Emerald

Saturday

🍉 Pasco farmers’ market 🏃‍♀️ Long Run Group at Roasters Coffee 🦴 Volunteer to help dig a mammoth ⛳️ Orange Ball Scramble at Canyon Lakes 🎭 Pixar Pals fall class at The Academy of Children's Theatre 🏀 Basketball clinic at Southridge 🧘‍♀️ Yoga and the Sacred Bone 🏍 Thunder Run 2019 group motorcycle ride 💾 Laser Cutter Tool Training (18+) at Confluent 🎨 Line Drawing in Glass at Barnard Griffin Winery 🎨 Shibori Dyed Silk Scarves 🎨 Saturday Kids Studio at Yellow Dog 🌽 West Richland Harvest Festival at Flat Top 🚙 Cars & Coffee at Country Mercantile 🎨 Fall story & craft time at the Bookworm 🐴 Wine tasting trail ride 🚲 Richland BMX Racing open house 🚶‍♀️ Harper and Hendrix MDA Muscle Walk at Columbia Point 🎭 Holes: A Scene Study class at Academy of Children's Theatre 🧘‍♀️ Meditation with Ravadi 🌳 Landscaping with Trees class at Master Gardener Demonstration Garden Rise: A Community For Women Workshop at Red Mountain Kitchen 🚲 Columbia Basin BMX bike swap 🌌 CBC planetarium shows 🧘‍♀️ Restorative Yoga at Unity Yoga 🌛 Moon Basics at Lotus of the Moon

Saturday eve

🍷 Uncork the Cure at Longship Cellars 💥 Roller Derby doubleheader 🎸 Tupelo Joe back at Barnard Griffin! at Barnard Griffin Winery 🍷 Summer Dinner Cruise at Water2Wine 🎸 Jeff Peterson at Mezzo Thai 🎸 Riverside Rhythm & Bluez Smooth at RF McDougall's 🎸 Pat & Rich2 at Budd's Broiler 🎸 Shaggy Sweet at Tagaris at Tagaris 🎸 Pamela Thomas-Martin Solo at D's Wicked Cider 🎸 Gabriel Knutzen live at Atomic Ale 🎸 Jack Rothwell at The Dugout 🎸 Indo Lux at Bookwalter 🎸 Nerve Centr to rock Lazy River Taphouse 🏒 Tri-City Americans vs. Spokane Chiefs 🎸 Los Reyes Y Reina Del Estilo Duranguense Pasco at El Dorado 🎸 NostalGents at at at At Michele's 🎸 Doc Jeebus' Mojo Library at Longbranch Bar and Grill 💃 Atomique Cabaret ft. SPYN RESET & KLYPH 🏳️‍🌈 Masquerade Ball at Out And About 🎸 Simply Seasoned at Branding Iron

Sunday

🚶‍♀️ Urban Greenbelt Trail Hike 🧘‍♀️ Sanskrit for Yoga Teachers and Curious Yogis 🚶‍♀️ Last Wildflower Walk of the Season with Columbia Basin Native Plant Society 🐴 Wine tasting trail ride 🎸 Jude Box Bash: Music Festival at the Fingernail 🧘‍♀️ Fall Practice Essentials at The Yoga Community 💽 Vinyl record collection sharing at Longship Cellars 🌝 Theme of September: Forgiveness at Lotus of the Moon 🎸 Jeff Peterson at Goose Ridge 🎸 Domingo De Música

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✨ Links from yesterday

Richland Parks capital improvement priorities include shade for Jon Dam and a fully linked trail from Claybell to Candy Mountain Tri-Cities Latino Community Network recognizes Gaby Araico for community leadership Resilient Coffee becomes Roasters Coffee Lab, opening today

✨ Links from this week

TRIDEC adds staff, changes roles Dust Devils come up short in final game of playoff championship Kennewick holding open houses on public-private project for 2000-seat theater, convention center expansion CBC gallery exhibit "A Long Now" looks at social systems through the lens of landscape, architecture Information gathering underway for Orca Task Force study of Snake River dams Regional Chamber holding a reception for state, regional, and local elected leaders Kamiakin grads create new natural energy drink that brings back the kola nut Tri-Cities housing market has slowed a little, but home prices continue to increase Artists can register now to participate in the Uptown Art Walk this weekend Pasco council workshop weighs increasing height restriction cap to 4 stories Pasco’s capital improvement plans: new community center and dog park, Peanuts Park restoration, and more Pasco City Hall update needs $500k on top of fully using 20% project contingency

✨ Links from this week

Washington's global wheat exports blocked by dam locks WSU TC holding grand opening for MOSAIC Center for Student Inclusion You can help fund care for uninsured Tri-folk by voting for Grace Clinic for Milbrandt's charity wine release

Starbucks no longer selling newspapers

Kennewick now streaming city council meetings Richland offering free money to improve businesses' exteriors REACH Museum offering Sept 20 tour of channeled scablands China tariffs are affecting local bike shops Pasco's Community Hope Wall more than halfway to fundraising goal, but still needs help

👈 Links from last week

Kennewick dreams big, deals bigger: public-private partnership could score a 2000-seat theater, hotel, and more Run in memory of loved ones lost at Dia de los Muertos Run Nov 2 to Downtown Pasco Patty Murray wants “Digital Equity Act” to bring broadband and Internet skills to underserved communities The vit plant probably won’t be finished on schedule. Every other Hanford project ever: “Welcome to the club, Vito.” Critics connecting Beauchamp to ex-in-law’s fraud Spokane Valley state rep Matt Shea and others proposing to split Washington state Plot twist: anonymous complaint against Tom Moak and Don Barnes was made by fellow Port commissioner Novakovich Dept of Ecology seeking public input on cleanup of industrial waste in Pasco landfill

👈 More from last week

Fuse Launch Weekend looking for entrepreneurs to ignite new ideas this November Kennewick seeking nominations for the 2019 Historic Preservation Award Richland and BPA offering free assessments to help businesses lower their energy consumption

Sept 20 deadline for comments on new proposed overtime laws. Opinion for: New protections are good for work-life balance Against: L&I should go back to the drawing board.

Walking maps of downtown Richland and the Parkway updated by the city

Complete pre-season round-up of area high school football teams Tri-Cities’ hot market attracts outside buyers WSU Tri-Cities entomology professor wins National teaching award Uptown Art Walk has an open “call for zombies” flash mob Blue Bridge getting cleaned and re-painted

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