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🎉 Weekend Guide

Friday

🍉 Farmers’ Market at the Parkway 🚴‍♀️ Coffee Outside at Wheelhouse 🎨 Gallery Exhibit: A Long Now at CBC 🏛 People of the Manhattan Project: Building an Atomic City Exhibit at WSU Tri-Cities 🌳 Rare open house at one of the area’s best tree farms 🍉 Sunny Hill Market 🚴‍♀️ St. Jude Trike-A-Thon at Children's Garden Montessori 🚴‍♀️ Bike Build at United Way of Benton & Franklin Counties 🐴 Wine tasting trail ride 👩‍🏫 Presentation: Cannabis in Cancer Care 🎭 Theatre Arts Social at CBC 💃 Easy Swing Dance at Richland Community Center 🎻 Mid-Columbia Symphony Pre-Concert Talk featuring Nicholas Wallin at Pasco Public Library 🎸 Boricua's and Naughty Pine at Goose Ridge 🎸 Live Music at Badger Mountain Winery 🎸 Lawrence Huntley Hammered Dulcimer at The Emerald 🍿 Film: Paris to Pittsburgh at WSU Tri-Cities 🎸 Duets in the Roundish at The Chicken Shack 🎸 Soul Patch at Barnard Griffin 🍷Summer Dinner Cruise at Water2Wine 🎸 Plastic Jack at Kimo's 🌌 CBC Planetarium shows 🎸 Knutzen Brothers at RF McDougall's 🎸 Dirk Quinn Band at Tagaris 🧘‍♀️ Recite Lalitha Sahasranamam 🌌 Candy Mountain star-gazing party 🤣 Kris Shaw at Jokers Comedy Club 🎸 Lyle Morse at Copper Top 🎸 Metaphorical Lions, Acid Reflex, Popsicle at The Emerald

Saturday

🍉 Pasco Farmers Market 🍎 Saturday Apple Gleaning 🚣‍♀️ Tapteal Water Trail Paddle 🦴 Mammoth dig at Coyote Canyon 🚴‍♀️ Ride the Reactor 2019 🏃‍♀️ 2019 Indian Summer Half Marathon & 5k at Columbia Point 🏃‍♀️ Power Hour - Obstacle Race at Badger Mountain Community Park 💐 Flower Truck Pop-Up Shop at Ethos 🧘‍♀️ Yoga at Hansen Park 🐴 Sparky's Camp at Strides Therapeutic Horsemanship Center 🧘‍♀️ Yoga Class 🖼 Picture and Art Framing 102 (Ages 18+) at Confluent 🎨 Kid's Workshop: 3-D & Illusions with Jeny at Allied Arts 👩‍🏫 Confluence Friend Tour - Story Circles at Sacajawea State Park 🧘‍♀️ Yoga 101 at Unity Yoga 🏛 Free Museum Day at REACH Museum 🎨 Fusing Glass class at db Studio at Barnard Griffin 🐴 Wine tasting trail ride 🍷 Alexandria Nicole Wine Tasting Brunch Cruise at Water2Wine 🎃 Hometown Harvest Festival at Bonaventure 🤸‍♀️ Open House, free gym for kids at Mid Columbia Gymnastics Academy 🏓 Ping Pong at White Bluffs Brewing 🌌 Astrology Workshop at Lotus of the Moon 🧘‍♀️ Meditation with Ravadi at The Emerald 👩‍🍳 Last Pop Before The Patch! at Red Mountain Kitchen 🥿 Nutcracker Auditions 👩‍🍳 Cake Pops Class at Kamiakin 🎨 Paint Day! at Adventures Underground 🎸 Eric Leadbetter at Goose Ridge 🌌 CBC Planetarium shows 🐶 Little Lives at Petco 🎨 Make a Bright Rainbow Forest (Ages 6+) at Clover Island 👩‍🏫 In a Landscape at Sacajawea State Park

Saturday Night

🎸 Ever Ending Kicks and PETS live music 🎸 Lawrence Huntley at Mezzo Thai 👩‍🍳 Epicure Battle of the Hosts at Red Mountain Kitchen 🎸 Stanislove at D's Wicked Cider 🎸 Naughty Pine at Tagaris 🚘 Underground street car meet 🎸 Final Summer Bash at The Chicken Shack 🎸 Be Tricky at Lazy River Taphouse 🎸 Badlandz at Whiskey River 🎸 Innagize featuring RITA at At Michele's 🎸 Richard Buckner Living Room Show 🎸 Knutzen Brothers at Silos 🎸 Buckin'A at the Branding Iron 🏳️‍🌈 Vida Amore Divas Show at Out & About 🎸 Mortal Ashes, Embryocide, and The Festering at Parkade Bar & Grill

Sunday

🚴‍♀️ Mountain bike demo at Chamna Natural Preserve 🐴 Wine tasting trail ride 🧘‍♀️ Autumnal Equinox Event at Lotus of the Moon 🍷 Champagne Brunch Cruise at Water2Wine Cruises 👷‍♀️ Trailwork at Chamna Natural Preserve 🎨 Lecture/Demo: Textural Surfaces 🎨 Stone Soup and Painted Rocks: Story and Craft Time at Adventures Underground 💽 Vinyl record collection sharing at White Bluffs Brewing 💰 Dave Ramsey’s Financial Peace University Class

✨ Fresh links

New ice cream shop coming to Richland's Howard Amon Park TC Futures Center opening next week, aiming to give young people “a second or third opportunity to connect to what success looks like for them” Dia de los Muertos Run registration open Kennewick Schools will make up strike days 148 acre housing development coming to West Richland Cari McGee shares her favorite houses from this year’s Tri-Cities Parade of Homes Eleventh annual TRIFI film festival announces highlights for this year's schedule

Yakima County has a Homeless Coalition with 5 year plan goals (Benton County and Franklin County do not appear to have anything like this.)

Meet the first-generation college student who led the way to creating WSU’s MOSAIC Center Glenn Miller Orchestra live tomorrow at Richland High Auditorium as part of celebration of Hanford 75th Anniversary Break out your tights and humanist philosophy because Ye Merrie Greenwood Renaissance Faire is this weekend RSD could save $350k after former superintendent pick MacTavish lands a job in Oregon school district Richland parks & rec fall activity and recreation guide has over 40 pages of activities, events, classes, and entertainment

PSD seeking input on plans to include 6th graders in middle school and draft plans to change school boundaries

Sage Brewery coming to Pasco’s Chapel Hill Chamber wants to help local businesses sell products and services to local ports Richland Library still seeking public input on whether you heart Paddington

👈 Links from last week

Richland Parks capital improvement priorities include shade for Jon Dam and a fully linked trail from Claybell to Candy Mountain Port investigating what’s needed to restore iconic Marine Terminal wharf Richland science teacher building explorable model of the solar system Tri-Cities Latino Community Network recognizes Gaby Araico for community leadership Resilient Coffee becomes Roasters Coffee Lab 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

👈 More from last week

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 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

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