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Pasco holding community engagement forum today focused on improving inclusion, diversity, and equity in city programs and policies
This is the first in a series of outreach and community engagement forums held by Pasco's Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity Commission. The event is today at 6pm in downtown Pasco.
Mid-Columbia Libraries’ enormous book sale continues today
Walla Walla Indian Cuisine is transforming Famous Dave’s into Maharajah
Hopefully more famous than poor Dave was.
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Shoreline reconveyance effort targets 2020 bill, has begun including tribes in the process
Nearly a year after the last public meeting on the topic, Monday's Pasco council workshop provided a a status update on the initiative to transfer Columbia River shoreline ownership.
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Our election guide covers Kennewick and Pasco so far
Richland and West Richland coming soon. All the information about this upcoming election collected and linked from one place.
Meet Jennie Owens
I write write, bake, cook, and spend time with my five-year-old son. In December, we sold our home and have been traveling the US.
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“Jennie wrote Dancing with a Porcupine. It’s about raising kids with childhood trauma and how it nearly killed her. She learned effective parenting strategies and how to protect her health and sanity.”
🔥 What drives Jennie
I love helping people feel understood and to know they aren’t alone. I am especially passionate about supporting those parenting children with extra challenges.
🌈 Jennie‘s vision for the Tri-Cities
“We need more services for children who struggle with mental health issues and their families. I envision a center where families can find a variety of services geared toward helping these children heal.”
Jennie’s recommendations
☕️ Drink
Roaster’s Iced White Rocket
🤸♂️ Activity
Kayaking on the river
🌳 Location
I like to go to Roasters to write.
👥 Group
My husband and I started an organization to help train and support foster and adoptive parents called Forever Homes.
😄 People
Dr. Judith Caporiccio is a naturopathic doctor helping many people find health with functional, wholistic medicine. When my body was shutting down due to stress, she helped me tremendously.
💪 Projects
Dancing with a Porcupine is our story of parenting three children from foster care who'd been through a lot of trauma. The book discusses issues like dealing with secondary trauma and compassion fatigue, as well as the self-care necessary to recover.
The goal of the book is to help parents parenting children with extra challenges know that they're not alone. It would also help those who work with these children and families.
There‘s more people in our archive »
Read more about this effort here »
✨ Fresh links
WRPS and Tri-Cities Regional Chamber awards grants to more than 30 small businesses
The sound wall for Richland’s Duportail bridge has a nod to the region's landscape
Cascades should get the first fall snow this weekend
Tri-Cities Diversity Summit coming October 16
New documentary “African-American Experience in Pasco” screening Friday
Three Rivers Tattoo Convention is this weekend
Tri-City business podcasts offer advice, wisdom
Great Prosser Balloon Rally is this weekend
Former Kennewick fire chief speaks out about alleged termination
City officials: Kennewick Fire Chief Vince Beasley is out
👇 From this week
Dinner Theatre this week: Star-Spangled Girl
Vanna Oh! and JFKFC live at 4th Base Pizza Thursday
Local students again invited to submit an app for a Congressional App Challenge
More construction starts today on George Washington Way
Pasco farm will become 600 waterfront homes and condos
Pasco discussing creating mixed use waterfront development district
Kennewick council gets an ethics policy
Pasco’s red light robots gave out 857 tickets in their first month
🤓 Looking for more?
There‘s always the archives👈 Links from last week
New ice cream shop coming to Richland's Howard Amon Park TC Futures Center opening this 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
👈 More from last week
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 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 entertainmentPSD 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
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