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West Richland Survey: We Love It Here

West Richlanders don’t just like living in West Richland; we love it. According to the city survey conducted earlier this year, a whopping 91% of West Richlanders rate their neighborhood as a “good” or “excellent” as a place to live.

No matter how you slice it, that’s a pretty amazing stat.
A total of 805 people [...]

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Thanks, West Richland: New Tennis Net Is In

On June 22nd, I sent an email to Roscoe Slade, the city’s Public Works Director, with a photo of a droopy tennis net at South Highlands Park and a question: Who do I ask about getting the net fixed/raised?
Literally five minutes later, he replied that he would follow-up on getting it fixed.
On July 6, [...]

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South Highlands Park Needs a New Tennis Net

We’re now a tennis-playing family. Well, a very light tennis-playing family … but we’re one nonetheless. Our daughter recently took some very basic lessons at Columbia Basin Racquet Club and she wants to keep playing, so we went out and bought a couple rackets and some tennis balls so anyone can join her on the [...]

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4th of July in West Richland

4th of July in West Richland

There’s really no need to drive down to the river or over to Pasco to see a big fireworks display when your neighbors in West Richland are setting off stuff like this from their driveways:

Seriously, I swear some folks up here on Bird Hill are running professional fireworks performances tonight. Is this legal? I don’t [...]

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West Richland’s Hogs and Dogs, Again

Well, tape a light bulb on the top of my head and call me a point of light because I’m helping out AGAIN!
West Richland’s Hogs and Dogs event needed some volunteers, so I signed up!  I’ll be there from 4-7, selling food tickets.  I really wanted to be a model, perhaps posing in a bikini [...]

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West Richland Citizen Survey: This Thing is Tough!

Anybody else having trouble completing the West Richland Citizen Survey? I don’t know why, but I’m finding some of the questions pretty tough to answer.
You should’ve received it in the mail by now — we got ours last Saturday, I think it was. And the survey is due back by June 10th. The questions [...]

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