Tri-City Area and Real Estate Blog

In an October post, we informed the community about the Tri-City Herald’s project in collecting vintage photos of veterans.  Now, the herald is reporting that they recieved over 400 bits of information and photos.  Here is a sneak peek of what was submitted:

 William J. Bair’s: “After V-E Day, we were quickly shipped from Czechoslovakia to the South Pacific where hundreds of ships had assembled for the invasion of Japan. With the atomic bombs forcing Japan’s surrender, our mission changed and we went into Japan as part of the Army of Occupation.

THANK YOU VETERANS!!!!!

The Tri-City Herald is seeking photos of vintage photos of veterans.  They would love photos from all eras and wars.  If you would like your photos in this special publication, be sure to include your name, hometown and dates or era of service with your submissions. They also want to make sure that the photos are clearly marked with the veteran’s name.  The deadline to submit photos in Nov. 1.  The special publication will be be available in newspapers and on tricityherald.com on November 11, 2010.

Local CEO’s and Community Business Leaders will come together with members of the Young Professionals of Tri-Cities in a charity softball game Thursday May 27th at GESA Stadium in Pasco, with the game being promoted as “The Battle of the Ages”.   Employees from Infinia Corporation and the Tri-City Regional Chamber of Commerce comprise both teams, with a few extra local business leaders making up the “Suits Team”.  The game starts at 6:00 p.m. and tickets are $10 & $15.  The ticket proceeds will benefit the Greater Tri-Cities YMCA and are available at the locations below:

• TRIDEC Office – 7130 W. Grandridge Blvd in Kennewick 
• YMCA – 1234 Columbia Park Trail in Richland, and
• GESA Stadium in Pasco

Highlands Middle School in Kennewick was the scene of wonderful appreciation ceremony honoring local area Veterans. The last few years the staff and middle school students of Highlands have developed a “Take a Vet to School” ceremony that pays homage to those Veterans that have served and are currently serving our great nation, and each year the event has grown. This year there were about 70 Vets there to enjoy the attention given by the students.

Kudos to these young people for their understanding of the importance of showing our military, past and present, gratitude for their service and sacrifice to our country!

Here is link to the Tri-City Herald’s photo page, which shows photos taken.
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/galleries/gallery/781973.html

For the sixth year in a row, generous Tri-Citians reached into their purses, wallets or backpacks and supported the children of our community by purchasing the special edition Kids Day newspaper from volunteers clad in red t-shirts standing on street corners throughout the Tri-Cities.

Volunteers from various businesses and organizations throughout the Kennewick, Pasco, Richland and West Richland areas came together to sell the special newspapers, thus benefiting children’s programs run by Catholic Family & Child Services.

The Kennewick City Council wants to see more progress made toward building a regional facility, and likes the idea of using a metropolitan parks district to pay for it.

The council discussed a possible regional facility during a workshop meeting Tuesday.

Such a facility could be an aquatic center or a performing arts center, but the council would like to see the Regional Facilities Oversight Committee step back and take a look at all possible projects.

The committee is made up of representatives from Kennewick, Pasco and Richland and has led the discussion of a facility all three would combine to build for the last few years.

But Kennewick council members are getting antsy that not enough is happening and agreed Tuesday to tell the committee they want something done.

Among the messages they plan to send is that they want the committee to find an independent third party, such as the League of Women Voters, to lead a public forum so Tri-Citians can say what kind of facility they want and how they’re willing to pay for it.

The council said it leaned toward wanting a parks district that would levy property taxes, than a regional public facilities district that would rely upon sales taxes.

Source: Tri-City Herald