Bankruptcies are filed under the following chapter headings:Chapter 7 — Straight Bankruptcy: debtor gives up non-exempt property and debt is charged.Chapter 11 — Allows companies and individuals to restructure debts to repay them.Chapter 12 — Allows family farmers to restructure finances to avoid liquidation for foreclosure. Chapter 13 — Plan...
Trade shows mean long hours spent on your feet engaging visitors in conversation and always keeping eye contact, drawing people to your booth and selling your product. Are they worth the time and energy?Yes, said three vendors at the Easter Washington Ag Expo who spent two days at TRAC in...
Some consider the world full of annoying sounds — buzzing cell phones, honking cars, kids playing and people chattering.[blockquote quote="Without hearing, you’re disconnected from the world." source="Dr. Neil Aiello, owner of Columbia Basin Hearing Center" align="right" max_width="300px"]For others the world is silent.Imagine if you’d never heard the first cries of...
Food for Fines DriveThe Mid-Columbia Library will have its annual Food for Fines Drive through Dec. 31. Library customers can pay their fines using non-perishable food items. Each food item counts as $1 toward overdue fines, up to $10 per account. All food will be donated to local food banks...
Lifequest Fitness at 4215 Convention Place in Pasco has completed an addition that added two new swimming pools, two hot tub/Jacuzzis, a steam room and a dry sauna.CMS Builders was the general contractor on the $1 million, 5,600-sq.-ft. addition. McCue & Associates was the project’s architect. .The new swimming pools...
H & N Electric has completed a 45,000-sq.-ft. expansion of its facility at 4224 E. B St. in Pasco.DGR Grant Construction Inc. of Richland was the general contractor on the project, which provides space at H & N Electric’s headquarters for one of the largest generator motor repair service centers...
Haberling Financial Group is merging its wealth management business into a newly-formed subsidiary of Community First Bank in Kennewick.[blockquote quote="We are the only locally-owned bank in the Tri-Cities and we will now be the only locally-owned trust company." source="Eric Pearson, president of Community First Bank" align="right" max_width="300px"]The transaction is subject...
You can’t drive very far around the Tri-Cities without seeing new buildings rising, backhoes leveling land or tell cranes moving steel beams into place.The new Fairchild 12-plex movie theater opened last week in Richland’s Queensgate shopping area. In Kennewick, Kadlec has started construction on a new primary care clinic and...
Faamausili selectedLaauli Faamausili, a crop insurance manager for Basin Pacific in Kennewick, has been chosen to participate in Class 38 of the AgForestry Leadership Program. The program offers leadership development for those who work in the natural resource industries and related services in Washington state. As a member of the...
NEW BUSINESSESAnn’s Best Creole and Soul Food Café has opened at 1901 Terminal Dr. in the Richland Airport. The restaurant serves Cajun and creole soul food and is open for breakfast and lunch. The hours are 6:30 a.m. – 3 p.m. Monday – Saturday. For more information call 509-947-3011. The...
