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Hockey players on ice with giant teddy bears Tri-City Americans face Spokane Chiefs for 30th annual New Yearโ€™s Eve game Employee handing off bag of pies in restaurant Just Joelโ€™s in Kennewick donates half of pie sales to domestic violence shelter

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๐Ÿ‘‡ This weekโ€™s links

Giant plot of land with one house on it Pasco schools pay $6.6 million for 80 acres on Burns Road in Pasco for growing district Kamiakin basketball teams from the โ€™70s reuniting at Pasco-Kamiakin game Jan. 10 Digital rendering of retail building Kennewick developer plans retail, business center near airport Woman who decorated Christmas bench at Leslie Groves Park leaves gifts to honor her brother One man in front with multiple people singing behind him Kennewick Olive Gardenโ€™s singing waiter performs on Good Morning America Building Orangetheory Fitness opening in Southridge area this spring

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Tumbleweeds raises over $3,000 for school lunch debt with burrito that ends this year Richland reopens Badger Mountain trail with โ€˜use at your own riskโ€™ warning after months of ineffective signs and barriers Tri-Cities home prices rise above $300,000 milestone Girl donates 600 lbs. of food to Tri-Cities Animal Shelter in place of her gifts for Christmas Mom and sons donate holiday gifts to sick kids at Kadlec fields New White Bluffs wine region will be north of Pasco two kids in front of a coat bin Kennewick first-grader sells drawings to buy coats for kids in need cop and construction worker examin sidewalk Richland parents file $5 million claim against City of Richland after their Children were injured in a crosswalk Three Kennewick High seniors win Congressional App Challenge

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worker fixing pipes Benton County plugs leaky pipe problem with $3 million fix for jail and courthouse โ€˜We need each other more than we pretendโ€™: Data contradicts sense of geographic imbalance in state taxes, services Richland scientist, Kevin Rosso, elected to Washington State Academy of Sciences for contributions to the field of geochemistry PSD music teachers honored by Washington Music Educators Association woman holding bags of hand warmers Kennewick mom serves others to commemorate son's death by suicide student with lunch tray Numerica donates $7,350 to pay off student lunch debts Kennewick Firefighters Union raises money for Meals on Wheels and delivers gifts via firetruck KSD and community leaders thank retiring superintendent Dave Bond before last day on Dec. 31

๐Ÿ‘ˆ Links from last week

Female astronaut Richland High grad Kayla (Sax) Barron potentially to join NASAโ€™s ranks Jury sides with Battelle in retaliation case John Trumbo in city council chambers Ethics complaint against Kennewick councilman Trumbo should move ahead, says ethics officer Paul Parish holding street sign bearing his name City of Kennewick renames its section of Columbia Park Trail to Paul Parish Dr. in honor of City Council member Richland parents seeking slower speed limits after 2 students were hit in 3 days at the corner of Williams Boulevard and Thayer Drive Tri-Cities Animal Shelter volunteers say facility conditions are deplorable Homelessness is up in Benton and Franklin counties, and assistance from Washington D.C. may not be enough

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New poll to reveal Washingtonians knowledge of Snake River Dams and preferences for their future Hanford may recieve $90 million spending increase industrial building New $20 million Framatome facility to open in Richland by yearโ€™s end RSD seeks input on superintendent search with focus group meetings Jan. 7-8 3D rendering of homeless shelter Catholic Charities plans $13.2 million project to house homeless people in Pasco Port chooses Diahann Howard as new director after rocky transition Edwin elementary school from the outside Millions of state dollars for new Tri-Cities schools now uncertain Diamente Media owner camping out on roof of Pascoโ€™s Grocery Outlet for 106 hours to bring attention to food insecurity in the Tri-Cities