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Meet Anne Spilman

“I have the immense please of running the Academy of Children's Theatre.”

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⭐️ Deidre Holmberg on Anne Spilman:

“Incredible dedication to making our community better. Anne works tirelessly to make the ACT more accessible to all students and is always looking for opportunities to improve programs for students.”

🤩 What Anne gets excited about

“Traveling!”

🤝 Organizations Anne‘s involved in

“As a member of the Richland Arts Commission, I have found serving as a commissioner is a great opportunity to learn about the procedures of our local government. I highly encourage all Tri-Citizens to apply for the many local government boards and commissions in all cities! Just DO IT!”

Anne’s recommendations

🥪 Food

The Monte Cristo at Hill's. Or the Monte Cristo at the Crow's Nest. Or the Monte Cristo at Pasco Red Lion.

🤸‍♂️ Activity

Group paddlebaording. Yep, 8 people on one board! Check it out at Northwest Paddleboarding.

🌳 Location

Any of the outdoor patios of the restaurants along the river. Love our river!

👥 Group

Leadership Tri-Cities is a fully volunteer organization that gives you (literal and figurative) doors to walk through and meet key-players in our community that I would have never organically met!

👩🏽‍🎤 Artist

I fawned over Neva Scott's exhibit at the Gallery at the Park!

😄 People

Misty Fewel and Sue Brendel are the co-Presidents of Girls on the Run Southeastern Washington working to empower 3rd-5th grade girls through an after school nation-with running program. They hope to grow GOTR into all local elementary schools!

Rick Jansons is the President of the Richland School Board and is incredible at truly listening to his constituents with genuine interest and grace.

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👇 This week‘s links

Tri-Cities to Los Angeles non-stop flights ending Jan 5, 2020 City of Pasco approves the establishment of arts and culture commission Taxpayers possibly overcharged after Bechtel‘s failure to audit 18 years of Hanford work PNNL researchers working on nano solutions to large problems Firefighters in a line digging into dirt with shovels Benton County Fire District 4 breaks ground on new fire station on Keene in West Richland Tumbleweeds launches 'Cafeteria Burrito', sending 50% of each purchase toward negative lunch balances in Richland School District CBC adds pantry for food-insecure students Kennewick School District collecting coats for homeless students A cougar Cougar strikes in Kennewick Hillary Kelsay holding Hummingbars Kroger adds Richland's hemp-based ‘Hummingbars’ to shelves

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Colville tribes and City of Pasco to sign cooperation agreement Wednesday and consider waterpark or casino construction Herald building buyers plan to bring in businesses while the Herald searches for new home Port of Kennewick auctions 8.5 acres in Southridge area for $1.3 million Benton commissioners work out rough jail take over Columbia Basin Badger Clubs hosting gun control initiative debate Thursday at the Riverfront Hotel in Richland Dovetail Joint food truck opens brick and mortar location in Historic Uptown Shopping Center Hiraki Center NW cuts ribbon on non-touch, Japanese healing location in The Parkway Gallery Underground to hold holiday art sale in the Roxy‘s loft, Dec 13 and 14 from 10 am to 5 pm The Rude Mechanicals to perform ‘The Thanksgiving Play’ Nov 21-30 Hanford High School swimmer takes home state competition gold medal Recent Richland school board candidate, Jay Clough, donates remainder of campaign funds to cover negative lunch balances in Richland

👈 Links from last week

Traffic Richland may trade signals for ramps to improve traffic flow Majority of Ben Franklin bus drivers seek change in leadership with no-confidence vote Kennewick School District Superintendent Dave Bond retiring with deputy superintendent to take over Jan 1 Hanford vitrification plant workers lack whistleblower protections old raceway aerial view West Richland has big plans for future development of old raceway pitbull City of Kennewick officially removes legislation requiring permits to own specific dog breeds Kadlec nurses petition for fair contract before next negotiation

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