When Connie Wormington isn’t running one of her three businesses, she can usually be found on the softball field.A love for the game has helped keep the 69-year-old Kennewick woman fit, healthy and focused over the years.“It’s the thrill of hitting the ball and making a base hit. It’s tough...
Construction is underway on the Tri-Cities’ second The Original Pancake House and if the winter weather cooperates, it could be open by summer.The 4,544-square-foot restaurant at 424 Keene Road in Richland, in front of Yoke’s Fresh Market, will offer occupancy for 214 people and a covered patio area, according to...
More Trios Health employees lost their jobs in January amid continued financial challenges throttling Kennewick’s public hospital district.Among the most recent issues are: Twenty employees losing their jobs Jan. 19. Declining patient volume. Delayed reimbursement for services to the tune of $11 million over five years. Resignation of Trios’ chief...
Areva NP is now called Framatome.The international company’s Richland plant supplies fuel and fuel-related products for commercial pressurized water reactors and boiling water reactors.Framatome isn’t an unfamiliar name to Areva. The company changed its name to Areva NP in 2006.Resurrecting the Framatome name won’t affect much at the Richland plant,...
Fate of Tri-City-based Relay for Life, Making Strides fundraiser walks uncertainThe Kennewick office of the American Cancer Society ended its 25-year run in the Tri-Cities.The nonprofit shuttered its doors at 7325 W. Deschutes Ave. on Dec. 8.The closure was part of a larger regional downsizing to be more cost-effective, said...
Jerad Groth owns Pasco Allstate agency, his dad owns one in RichlandJerad Groth didn’t plan to follow his father’s footsteps into the insurance business.But he’s glad he did.The young entrepreneur bought an established Allstate agency in Pasco in 2011 at age 25.“Since 2011, we’ve nearly doubled our clientele and grown...
Forty years after opening two separate hearing clinics, Columbia Basin Hearing Center will launch a combined clinic at the beginning of the year in Kennewick.Doctor-owners Shannon and Neil Aiello bought the old Center Vision Clinic building at 4015 W. Clearwater Ave. in Kennewick.The Richland office on Van Giesen Street and...
A new $5 million, 13-acre development off Road 68 will be anchored by Pasco’s first Grocery Outlet and Planet Fitness, as well as a Dollar Tree store.The Sandifur Crossing development is under construction at the corner of Road 68 and Sandifur Parkway, adjacent to Gesa Credit Union.Signed leases are in...
Tom Seim wasn’t sure anyone would step up to match his $10,000 pledge.The Richland man threw out the challenge in July, vowing to contribute up to $10,000 to the Mid-Columbia Meals on Wheels program if others in the community donated the same amount.The donations were slow in the beginning of...
Danene Scribner wants other stroke survivors to know there’s life after a stroke.She visits with stroke patients once a week at Kadlec Regional Medical Center in Richland and encourages them to join a monthly stroke support group.[blockquote quote="You can still do the things you love; you just do them in...
