The longtime director of the Meals on Wheels program retired in May after a career of providing services to seniors for more than 30 years.Marcee Woffinden, the senior nutrition services director at Senior Life Resources Northwest, retired May 31 after more than 17 years at the Richland-based agency.Woffinden, 62, served...
The Kennewick Senior Center will transition into a community center because of dwindling use and a demand for more all-age facilities.“Our daily participation counts of seniors at the senior center have steadily declined, as have the number of volunteer hours contributed at the center. We’ve got to make a change...
A Kennewick couple traded a Fuji cherry tree and mature evergreen bushes growing in a grassy corner of their front yard for native grasses and plants like sagebrush, bitterbrush and blanket flower.It was part of their plan hatched about nine years ago to reduce water use, get rid of green...
The colorful train that delights kids and adults on weekends in Columbia Park during the summer is in need of volunteers and a new home.Dick Nordness, chairman for the J&S Dreamland Express Committee, oversees the mighty but modest volunteer team which collects the tickets, drives the train and mans the...
The successful launch of Chaplaincy Health Care’s new thrift store in Kennewick last year prompted the opening of a second store in Richland.The nonprofit, which provides hospice, palliative and grief care and behavioral health services, opened a second thrift store — also called Repeat Boutique — in the Richland Uptown...
A Richland woman will never forget the day she finished the quilt she spent months designing, sewing and making.It was the morning her 92-year-old mother died.Leslie Kelly started planning the king-size quilt nearly a year before as a donation to Rebuilding Mid-Columbia.The nonprofit built a wheelchair ramp for Kelly’s mother,...
Beck Royer admitted she was pretty picky about who would care for her aging mother in Kennewick.The Seattle woman, a physician’s assistant for 31 years, knew she found the right place with Tender Care Village.The new nonprofit, which was registered with the state a year ago, is part of a...
A Tri-City radiology group has announced plans to merge with a Spokane clinic.Columbia Basin Imaging of the Tri-Cities, and Inland Imaging PS of Spokane are combining their professional radiology groups, effective this September.CBI will be folded into Inland Imaging as part of the merger.CBI, made up of a Tri-City-based group...
Elected officials and community leaders slipped into firefighter gear and learned how to put out car and Dumpster fires, navigate their way through a smoky building, climb an aerial ladder to the top of a seven-story building, pry open metal doors and wield chainsaws to ventilate a roof fire.It was...
A robust retail, housing and jobs market has industry experts singing the region’s economic praises.Several community leaders provided industry highlights during Tri-City Development Council’s annual economic outlook conference Feb. 15 at the Pasco Red Lion.Barbara Johnson, manager of Columbia Center mall in Kennewick, called the Tri-City’s retail sector well positioned,...
