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🎉 Weekend guide

Friday

☕️ Coffee with Pasco Superintendent ✂️ Dental Hygiene Clinic Grand Opening at CBC 💵 Grant application information session at United Way 🍛 Appetizer Plate Class at Barnard Griffin Winery

Friday Night

🎸 Chelsea Spence-Crane LIVE at Goose Ridge 🤑 Friday Night Bingo at West Richland Senior Center 🌕 Full Moon Club at Lotus of the Moon 🎸 Jeff Peterson at Budd's Broiler 🎸 Country Night at Pasco Eagles 🎹 Two Nights of Dueling Pianos at Edge Steakhouse 🎸 Knutzen Brother's Live at RF McDougall's 🏒 Tri-City Americans vs. Seattle Thunderbirds at Toyota Center 🎸 Dutch at 3 Eyed Fish 🎸Timeless Wavelength at Copper Top 🎸 Live music at Los Canarios De Michoacan 🎤 Travis Nelson at Jokers Comedy Club 🎸 Nerve Centr at Michele's 🎸 Swingin' Doors at the Branding Iron 🎸 Bobby Patterson Band at The Emerald

Saturday

⚡️ Laser Cutter Tool Training 18+ at Confluent 👨‍👨‍👧‍👦 STEAM Family Fun Workshop at the REACH 🌠 Saturday Public Shows at CBC planetarium 📚 Escape This Bookstore at BNKennewick

Saturday Night

🎸 JJ Ofrancia at The Emerald 🎸 Classic Jazz at The Bradley 🎸 David Prince live at Budd's Broiler 🎸 David Tedeschi live at RF McDougall's 🎸 Timeless Wavelength at D's 🏒 Tri-City Americans vs. Regina Pats at Toyota Center 🎸 TPL at The Long Branch 🎸 Z-Luck at 3 Eyed Fish 🎸 JoJo's Mojo at Whiskey River 🎸 Badlandz at Michele's 🎸 Neon Glow Party with Groove Principal at the Branding Iron

Sunday

🎸 This is Vinyl Tap at Goose Ridge

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👇 This week’s links

Draft Lower Snake River Dams Stakeholder Enagagement Report available for review with public workshop, Jan. 13, 6-9 pm at Pasco Red Lion

The draft report summarizes potential positive and negative impacts pertaining to the breaching, removal or retention of the lower Snake River dams. The workshop’s purpose is to inform the public of the contents of the draft report.

Richland elects Ryan Lukson as new mayor. Sandra Kent elected Mayor Pro-Tem Headshot of Dr. Andrew Sund Heritage University announces President Dr. Andrew Sund as new director for CBC branch campus Pasco city manager and superintendent host coffee shop chat to answer Pasco schools questions tomorrow morning, 7:30-9:30 at Starbucks on West Court Street Chiawana dominates in Mid-Columbia Conference’s latest basketball standings A man and a woman stanfing in front of a house surrounded by tumbleweeds stacked so high you can only see them from the waist up Tumbleweeds converge on Kennewick couples’ home

👇 More from this week

Richland offers free CPR classes to prepare community and reduce cardiac arrest-related deaths people splashing around in water with life jackets while spectators look Special Olympics Washington seeks sign ups for annual Polar Plunge, Jan. 25 at Columbia Point Marina Park Don Britain Britain secures Kennewick mayorship and an ethics complaint. Jim Millbauer and Brad Beauchamp join the council Ryan Lukson replaces Robert Thompson as Richland’s mayor A man and a woman sitting next to eachother Pasco council elects city’s first Latino mayor and mayor pro tem Richland Hosts public open house for Downtown Connectivity Study, Jan. 23 at City of Richland Council Chambers Chiawana’s state Hall of Fame football coach steps down to hunt more

👇 More form this week

Kennewick developers who purchased the former Harris Farm in Pasco plan up to 600 homes on waterfront teachers standing in a row Pasco teachers receive over $3,900 in STEM grants for classroom projects Randy Slovic criticizes Richland council’s priorities, continued lack of transparency and insufficient diligence

The Richland council discussed a 175-page Downtown Traffic study in their non-televised pre-meeting. The study has yet to be released to the public. Slovic and former council member Dori Luzzo-Gilmour allege that multiple council members have not yet read any of the study.

Tri-Cities LGBTQ+ community holding demonstration to say ‘hate has no home here’ in response to assault of gay couple in Pasco

The couple were assaulted by four men who were then charged with 2nd degree assault and malicious harassment.

Multiple people in white haz mat suits working around construction site State fines DOE $1 million, accusing it of withholding Hanford safety information

👇 More from this week

RSD completely pays off student lunch debt with Super Hero Lunch Fund and donation from Numerica Americans continue to trade, sending Kaden Kohle to Vancouver Giants Cable Bridge lit blue for National Human Trafficking Awareness Month by Numerica and the Support, Advocacy & Resource Center Storage depot Storage depot opens on Clearwater Ave. in Kennewick Home sales and prices climb in Tri-Cities Blue fabric on top of white, sand textured background. DrewBoy Creative calls for art to display in ‘Blue’ show Kennewick city hall building New Kennewick fire chief could be chosen by the end of the month Richland School District’s online survey for superintendent search goes live

👇 More from this week

Mid-Columbia Mastersingers hold ‘American Dreamers’ concert series highlighting the voices of immigrants affected by DACA, Jan 10-12 protest sign reading no war with iran Tri-Cities residents protest potential war with Iran Richland Parks and Rec. grant funds available with mandatory Jan. 16 meeting at Richland Community Center Benton-Franklin Council of Governments to discuss transportation plan at open house, Jan. 22 Local non-profit, Mirror Ministries, helps sex trafficking survivors start fresh Traded Americans player, James Malm, suspended after refusing to report TRAC bridal show returns, Jan. 12 from 11 am to 4 pm PNNL sign in front of building PNNL and UW creating app to help delivery drivers find parking

👈 Links from last week

packages of Yu-Gi-Oh cards A look at how the minimum wage increase is affecting Adventures Underground Mid-Columbia Libraries forgives outstanding fines and no longer charges late fees Registration now open for Tri-Cities Women in Business Conference Jan. 29 State to investigate campaign for The Link project after improper use of public money complaint map of land showing where the casino will go Pasco, Colvilles pledge cooperation on casino planning Land map showing plots that West Richland has easement rights to Land use questions draw concern after West Richland resident tries to develop property issued during homesteading in 1930s

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photo taken within a car of a car in front trapped in huge pile of tumbleweeds SR 240 reopened after tumbleweeds shut down road for over 10 hours Governor Inslee Governor declares emergency after semi with oversize load causes $1.1 million in damages to I-82 overpass Two women in lab coats Hiring at Hanford’s massive plant targets nation’s most dangerous radioactive waste 'Cafeteria Burrito' will be back on the Tumbleweeds' menu permanently in 2020 people welcoming refugees Cities, counties can now ban refugees. Pasco City Council and both Benton and Franklin county Commissions vote to open doors