Archive | January, 2009

West Richland Chamber’s 2008 Award Winners

Would’ve liked to attend last week’s chamber event, but other plans prevented that. In lieu of a first-hand report, here’s a list of the awards given out last Friday: Outstanding Educator – Doug Lane Outstanding Firefighters – Jack Hagins & Treena Russell Outstanding Police Officer – Duane Olsen Outstanding Volunteer – Marvin Calkins Outstanding Business [...]

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New Law Makes West Richland $15k Richer

New Law Makes West Richland $15k Richer

Did you know? If you go to Spokane and purchase an HDTV, and have it delivered to your home in West Richland, the sales tax you pay goes to West Richland, not to Spokane. How freakin’ cool is that?!? Seems to me that for a smaller city like ours, where retail shopping opportunities are less [...]

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West Richland Chamber’s Annual Banquet Coming Up

West Richland business owners and dignitaries will be getting together later this week at the Tri-Cities Convention Center for the chamber’s annual awards banquet. It’ll happen at 6:00 pm on January 23rd, and the tickets cost $30. The chamber will give out six awards for outstanding community service: educator, business, firefighter, volunteer, Chamber member, police [...]

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Michelle Marcum talks about fire and flood at West Richland Golf Course

Perhaps lost in all the craziness of the flooding these last few days is the fact that the West Richland Golf Course just lost its clubhouse to fire two weeks ago. Owner Michelle Marcum spoke over the weekend with KNDU … ironically, while the course itself was under water. Here’s the KNDU report: Feed subscribers, [...]

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Monday update: Yakima River now below flood stage

Good news – the Yakima River is back down below flood level. Here’s the Monday morning update from BCES: The Yakima River has now receded below flood stage in Benton County. As of 6:30 a.m. Monday, the river as measured near Benton City was just above 11 feet. This is two feet below flood stage [...]

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Sunday update: Yakima River Flooding

BCES has posted an amazing collection of aerial photos from the Yakima River flooding, which includes the shot at right of Van Giesen & Kingston Rd. I was out and about on Saturday at around 2-3 pm, and the water wasn’t nearly this high. It must’ve risen a good 3 feet after I called it [...]

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