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Meet Brendan Quinn
I'm a software developer for the Pasco School District and the President of Tri-City Area Gaming
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“Brendan is always going out of his way to help marginalized people in our community by creating events and making sure they know they're welcome, and donating time and resources to people in need.”
🔥 What drives Brendan
“I love living in a place where individual action can have immediately positive and long-lasting impact.”
🛠 Brendan's projects
“ Tri-City Area Gaming is a 501c3 dedicated to improving STEAM education and building communities through tabletop gaming. We host over 200 free events annually and work to create positive and welcoming gaming spaces for everyone. We also work directly with schools to create events where parents and students can learn affordable board games that they can play at home as a family.”
Brendan’s recommendations
🍔 Food
The Cuban at Vinny’s, no question the best sandwich in the Tri-Cities
🤸♂️ Activity
Any of the 15 monthly open board gaming events run by TAG. It's an easy way for introverts to find friendly people to not have to small-talk with :)
🌳 Location
I spend an inordinate amount of time at Adventures Underground. The staff is like family, and there really isn't a better retail place to build communities out of in the Tri-Cities.
👩🏽🎤 Artist
The folks at AU Radio Podcast put out some awesome geek content with constant local tie-ins. They're a great listen
😄 People
Sara Quinn, took over as editor-in-chief Tumbleweird a couple of weeks before dealing with two brain surgeries; the paper never missed an issue.
Luke Ray for building a better artist community in Richland and creating a second Saturday Art Walk.
Jay Chavez (and his team of organizers) for their work on promoting Tri-Cities Pride
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✨ Fresh links
Bite at the Landing to celebrate grand opening at 4 pm tomorrow Dueling pianos event supports Hanford drama dept. Nov 15 at The Uptown Theatre Local law enforcement receives hundreds of pounds of drugs during takeback day Local firefighters return from Kincade Fire Hanford High comes back to beat Richland for 2nd time in its history Trevor Noah to perform at the Toyota Center April 17🌐 Our projects
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👈 Links from last week
City of Kennewick’s Executive Director of Employee and Community Services, Terry Walsh, is retiring City seeks to change rules for needle exchange Online meeting will field your questions about Hanford cleanup, Nov 7 from 7-9 pm Pasco School District hosts dinner and games for families that have children with hearing impairments Tri-Tech teaches drone class Siblings build adaptive costume for brother, winning neighborhood’s ‘best costume’ award Pasco Day of Hope declared an official holiday Richland office tower gets $5 million facelift Deadline looms for students to either get vaccinated or stay home from school PSD superintendent invites community to coffee Nov 8, 7:30 am at Court St. Starbucks Franklin Co Sheriff restricts Connell PD authority outside city limits after complaints between Connell PD and Franklin deputies🤓 Looking for more?
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Tri-City nurse makes house calls with new, mobile medical unit Hazardous demolition of Plutonium Finishing Plant may continue next week after 2-year hiatus Hanford nuclear land reservation tax bills questioned by Government Accounting OfficeMoney billed to the federal government for land that would have collected property taxes, had the government not seized it for the Hanford site, goes to Benton, Franklin and Grant counties. The GAO is questioning the accuracy of the billed amounts.
New challenge course almost finished next to Desert Hills Middle School in Kennewick Kennewick Mayor Don Britain fired by Department of Social and Health Services after Washington State Patrol investigation into ‘inappropriate relationship’ with welfare client West Richland officially purchases Tri-City Raceway Kadlec nurses vote for strike, but Providence still has time to negotiate CH2M will pay $6 million to resolve allegations of overbilling the U.S. Airforce Pasco man brings tires to you with first mobile tire store in Tri-Cities