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Friday

🛍 Holiday Craft Bazaar at Tri-Cities Retirement Inn 📚 Underground Book Club Night at Caterpillar Cafe 🎙 Bill Scott headlines at Jokers 🎸 Dan Myers at The Emerald 🧘‍♀️ Candlelight Restorative Yoga at The Yoga Community 🎨 Winter Fire Sale at DrewBoy Creative 🎤 Author Visit: Matt de la Peña at Southridge High School 🚞 The Polar Express Movie Night at Fuerza Elementary 🎸 Celebra El 9 Aniversario at La Cabana De Pasco 🌠 Friday Public Shows at CBC Planetarium 🎸 Knutzen Brother's Live at RF McDougall's 🎭 It’s a Wonderful Life at Memories at Sunset Event Center 🎺 A Big Band Christmas! at CBC Arts Center 🎷 Kenny G at Toyota Center 🎸 Nerve Centr Rocks At Michele's 🎸 Codigo FN at El Dorado Nightclub De Pasco 🎸 Live Music with Chase Craig at Copper Top 🕺 First Friday Christmas Dance at The Fitting Room 🎸 Outsiders at Branding Iron

Saturday

🦜 Bird Walk at Bateman Island 🥇 Ugly Sweater Pickleball Tournament at Tri-City Court Club 🛍 38th Annual Holiday Bazaar at Badger Mountain Elementary 🎨 Whitney McMillin art opening at Hedges Family Estate 💆‍♂️ Holiday Soft opening at Lazuli Blue Spa 📓 3D Printing Class at Confluent ❄️ Pasco Winter Fest at Volunteer Park 🔔 Oh at What Fun! Handbell Concert at Richland Baptist Church

Saturday night

🧭 Compass Navigation Workshop at REI 🎸 Jill Cohn live at The Emerald 🎸 Pat & Rich2 at Budd's Broiler 🎸 Christmas concert at Bethel Church 🎸 Boat Parade and Music at The Lodge 🎸 Jack Rothwell at Southridge Dugout 🎸 Chase Craig at RF McDougall's 🎸 Pamela Thomas-Martin at D's Wicked Cider 🎸 Nuff Sed at Michele's 👑 Holiday Sparkle Tour with Tammie Brown at Out And About

Sunday

🎅 Caring Santa Photo Experience at Columbia Center Mall 💎 Crystal Healing + Sound Bath at Lotus of the Moon 🚴‍♀️ Group Mountain Bike Ride - Intermediate at Trek Bicycle Kennewick 🎨 Splash Watercolor Class - Birds and Blossoms at Art on the Columbia 🎄 Holiday Hoop Wreath Class at Frost Me Sweet Bakery & Bistro 🎄 Family Christmas Night at Gesa Carousel of Dreams

✨ Fresh links

Roundabout and road City of Pasco to hold ribbon cutting for Chapel Hill Boulevard extension today at 1 pm Food truck photo booth Deck the Walls event displays holiday gifts and goods from local vendors at the fairgrounds today and tomorrow Yard decorated like a christmas carol Kennewick residents in ‘Christmas Carol Lane’ decorate yards to represent different carols, beginning tomorrow

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👇 This week‘s links

Kennewick City Council approves creation and certification of Downtown Kennewick Creative District Illustration of woman holding a sword while neeling nude Local playwright holds staged reading of original play Dec. 16 and 18, 7 pm at the Uptown Theatre One year of Pasco Police wearing body cameras makes positive impact Rack of coats outside of store Threads in Kennewick keeps community warm with free-coat rack Guitarist and drummer playing live Depth charger, Night Argent and the Hague perform at the Scarlet Room Jan. 3 Allied Arts calls for submissions to February art show with Jan. 1 deadline. Congressman Dan Newhouse hosting veteran service fair Dec. 14, 10 am to 2 pm at the Richland Red Lion Server at local Olive Garden singing ‘Happy Birthday’ goes viral

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Numerica Hometown Holiday Parade begins Saturday, 10 am to 1 pm in Downtown Kennewick Boat lit with christmas decorations Pasco residents to get better boat parade view West Richland‘s credit rating improves, meaning better bond rates for police station Two women and a man Tiny Kennewick financial firm to celebrate 20 years says secret to staying in business is personal attention Kennewick residents request noise wall along SR-395 Tri-Cities Legislative Council holding annual Day at the Capitol beginning Thursday, Jan. 30 Woman in pickleball court Tri-City Court Club‘s new indoor pickleball courts open up tournament potential Lip Ology joins student lunch debt cause

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Local business sells holiday cakes supporting Pasco animal shelter Richland company handling radioactive waste fined by EPA Washington‘s cosmic crisp back in town New Kennewick School District policy limits hours for substitute teachers Rendering of new care center Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic breaks ground on low-income health care center in Kennewick Thursday Hanford expands contaminated groundwater cleanup, protecting Columbia River Shirt with button on it reading i am not a fan of bsl Pasco City Council to review breed specific legislation Artisan crafting earings Local artisan crafts clay earings to cope with anxiety and depression Cedars restaurant sold. Tri-Cities projects to increase road safety paused as state contests car tab cuts

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Richland‘s month-long Festival of Lights begins Friday Benton City's annual Winterfest celebration begins Dec. 14, 9 am at The Lions Club Luminaria Annual luminaria and ‘fill the bus’ food drive return to Pasco Dec. 14 Franklin PUD and HAPO to provide emergency assistance paying electric bills Dog with ball in its mouth Pasco Police mourn Officer K-9 Lemon Recent city council candidate, Randy Slovic, criticizes Richland council pay increase while council members receive ‘benefits (that) equal salary’ Uncle Sam‘s Saloon introduces “The Chip Away” sandwich to pay off student lunch debt in Kennewick Portrait of Wendy Culverwell Journal of Business accelerates growth with new hires, adding Wendy Culverwell, former Herald government and business reporter

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Slime emoji Richland girl's custom Nike design auctioned for $11,000 Pat Bowser holding a guitar Richland singer and chart-topping Nashville producer make new music Kennewick Lions logo Lions defeated in WIAA State Semifinal Young women playing lacrosse Tri-Cities sports tourism could boom with new facilities proposed by feasability study In-demand jobs vary largely between Benton and Franklin

👈 Links from last week

Benton public services building opens in Kennewick, housing planning, building and public works departments Two women sitting on a couch Memory care home in Pasco prepares to open additional wing after filling up just weeks after open People eating thanksgiving meals at long tables Homeless people in Pasco share what they're thankful for Photo of man in sheriff dept. uniform Limited commissions for corrections officers ends Sat. without long term plan between sheriff and county Pasco Fire Dept. adds resource navigator position to reduce repeat 911 calls with education and assistance Nurses‘ new contract keeps paid time off and offers raise Esports venue ‘Order of the Games’ opening in Pasco Dec 3

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Portrait of Kahleah Corona Richland girl designs Nike Freestyle collection after traumatic brain injury Port of Benton hires Diahann Howard as executive director in the face of staff complaint investigation Illustration with cats and presents Mid Columbia Libraries ending overdue fines on Jan. 1 Flu spreads throughout Tri-Cities, increasing school absences and clinic visits Franklin Commissioner, Clint Didier, Files Lawsuit to halt attempts to overturn $30 car tab initiative Pasco School District could be divided into single-member districts to ensure minority voices are heard Dust Devils player running the bases Dust Devils future uncertain while Pasco spends $2 million renovating Gesa Stadium Green2Go launching CBD store for grandma and delivery service to bring it to her