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September 2017

Volume 16 • Issue 9

Richland to break ground on $18.5 million new city hall this month BY KRISTINA LORD editor@tcjournal.biz

Education & Training

MSA’s Synergy Network offers professional growth for women Page 13

Real Estate & Construction

Bids for 6,000-acre farm outside Touchet draw nationwide interest Page 25

Science & Technology

Businesses continue to be vulnerable to cyberattacks page 43

he Said It

“I have faith in the Tri-Cities and I have faith in Vista Field.” - Tom O’Brien, owner of O’Brien Construction Page 29

The deal to close on 1.8 acres to build a new Richland City Hall was 15 years in the making. “It took an act of Congress. Literally,” said Joe Schiessl, the city’s director of parks and public facilities. The city sealed the deal with the federal government Aug. 25 and plans to start a two-year construction project this month to build a new $18.5 million city hall at 625 Swift Blvd. The total cost includes all expenses, from sales tax and furniture, to land and architect fees. The city plans to demolish the 59-yearold city hall on George Washington Way and sell the land for commercial development. The “oversized parking lot” serving the Federal Building on Jadwin Avenue was too big to serve the building, so the city worked with the federal government and divvied it up with Columbia Basin College through a complicated, lengthy bureaucratic process. “We had some obligation and one of those was to acquire and create a parking lot for an undeveloped piece of property next to the Federal Building. We built a 50-space lot to serve the Federal Building and Veterans Administration,” Schiessl said. It’s been completed for a couple of months. Work is underway now to renovate the large parking lot serving the Federal Building to increase capacity and safety for city hall and federal workers. CBC’s Health Science Center students and staff will be able to use up to 50 parking spaces by using a window hanger pass system. Now that the city’s cleared the parking lot hurdles, it can focus on the city hall construction project, which should be complete for staff to occupy by spring 2019. The project won’t cost taxpayers anything additional, Schiessl said. uRICHLAND, Page 37

Deb LaVelle, resident manager for the Kennewick Garden Apartments, stands inside the common area at the affordable senior housing complex on West Fifth Avenue. The complex is undergoing an extensive remodel requiring residents to stay temporarily at a hotel for five days. The common area will be remodeled first and include more seating so residents can stay there during the day when work is happening in their apartments.

Seniors temporarily displaced during extensive remodeling project BY ROBIN WOJTANIK

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An extensive remodel is underway at an affordable senior housing complex in east Kennewick that’s requiring residents to be temporarily relocated and their belongings packed up. The lengthy list of improvements coming to the Kennewick Garden Apartments on West Fifth Avenue includes new flooring, lighting, millwork, doors, appliances and landscaping. Lorna Davis, 77, said she is most looking forward to “the whole thing being done.” Davis has lived in the complex for three

years and has already been through one remodel in 2015. The current construction project will be even more intrusive than the last, requiring every resident to pack all their belongings, except for what’s in their kitchen cupboards and under the bathroom sink. Totes are provided to tenants to temporarily store their household goods, with help provided to those needing assistance packing. Each resident will have to temporarily move into a hotel for five days once work begins on their building. All costs associated with the hotel stay will be covered by the complex’s owners, including meals. uREMODEL, Page 41

French company eyes Richland for solar farm as energy costs remain uncertain BY JOHN STANG

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While a proposed Richland solar power project would be the biggest in the state, the economic future of this source of electricity in Washington is not yet written in stone. This will be the first American venture for the French solar power company Neoen. As Neoen studies the potential installation of a 20-megawatt solar farm in northern Richland, several factors are in play. Producing solar power has become cheaper, but still not as much as hydropower or natural gas — the figures on all three sources constantly fluctuate. And the American Southwest is still a more desirable solar power region than the Northwest. The sun’s rays hit solar panels at much better angles at the lower latitudes to create more electricity.

“The efficiency on a solar project in the Mojave Desert is going to be much higher,” said Steve Simmons, senior economist in the energy division of the Northwest Power & Conservation Council. That is why Oregon and California are swamped with solar power projects, while Neoen is only the second utility-scale project in Washington Neoen’s proposed project, scheduled for completion in 2019, is on a 300-acre piece of former federal Hanford land just northwest of the 300 Area. The federal Department of Energy transferred that land to the Tri-Cities Development Council. TRIDEC then transferred control to Energy Northwest with the understanding that at least 100 acres would be used for solar power. Neoen obtained an option on 150 acres earlier this year. uSOLAR, Page 4

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Tri-City Americans celebrate 30th season by continuing to support charities since 2012. In February, the team will hold its 12th annual Fred Meyer Breast Cancer The Tri-City Americans are celebrat- Awareness Night, known as pink ice ing their 30th season with a home opener night, to benefit the Tri-Cities Cancer on Sept. 30 against the Everett Silvertips. Center Foundation. For the team, the anniversary provides a “It has brought in lots of money over chance to reflect on their history and the years for cancer research. It is one of how they’ve sown their roots in the Tri- our biggest events,” Adams said. Cities by giving back to the community In previous years, eight to 12 of the that welcomed them three decades ago. players will donate half-day to help build “Being an Americans player means houses in the community for Tri-County bringing the community together,” said Partners Habitat for Humanity. In the Nolan Yaremko, a forward on the hockey winter, the players volunteer as Salvation team. Army bell ringers for the Christmas ketThe team has done this through the tle drives. years by working with local groups to In 2016-17, Americans players, coachraise money and toys for charities and es, owners and front office staff logged through their community volunteer work. more than 2,500 staff hours for public The Ams have raised more than service activities. $75,500 for local Mid-Columbia chari“This community has been so great to ties in the 2016-17 season. our team and we’ve shown our appreciaIn all, the team helped generate more tion by giving back,” Adams said. than $250,000 in donations in 2016-17 The team is an original franchise of the and nearly $2 million during the past Western Hockey League, or WHL, a seven seasons. branch of the Canadian Hockey League. “The Ams have made quite an impact The WHL has representation in all on the community four western for over 30 years,” Canadian provinces For more information said Amy Hubbard, and in Oregon and vice president of about Alzheimer’s Washington. The sales and new busileague consists of 22 Awareness Night ness development member clubs with for the Americans. 17 based in western u See page 11 They’ve raised Canada and five in money for the Trithe Northwest. Cities Cancer Center, March of Dimes, The team started in 1966 as the Lymphoma & Leukemia Society, Calgary Buffaloes before being renamed Alzheimer’s Association and more. The the Centennials after one season. From team has also collected more than 3,000 1977-82, the franchise was known as the teddy bears for local children in their Billings Bighorns before relocating to annual teddy bear toss game. Local char- Nanaimo, British Columbia, as the ities receive the cuddly toys. Nanaimo Islanders. “When they ask for first goal, the After one season, they moved to New audience will throw new or gently used Westminster, British Columbia, to teddy bears for local area children on the become the New Westminster Bruins. ice; it’s quite a sight to see,” said Then finally in 1988, the franchise Kathleen Adams, community and game moved to the Tri-Cities to become the day coordinator for the team. Americans. Every October, the team holds an To celebrate their move to the TriAlzheimer’s Awareness Night, featuring Cities, the team kicks off this year’s a silent auction, T-shirt sales and benefit season with an ’80s night celebration. ticket sales to donate to the nonprofit. Local band Colorblind will play, a Proceeds from T-shirt and ticket sales Pyro & Fire Show is planned for preplus a silent auction have helped to raise game ceremonies and there will be a more than $27,000 for the association Gesa Credit Union photo booth and face BY ELSIE PUIG

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Tri-City Americans’ Dakota Krebs holds an armful of teddy bears tossed onto the ice during the team’s annual teddy bear toss event. The hockey team donates the toys to local charities. This season marks the hockey team’s 30th year in the Tri-Cities. (Courtesy Doug Love)

painting for the kids on the concourse. The Tri-City Americans are off to a promising start to their 30th season by scoring 29 goals in four games at the Everett Preseason Classic. “There’s nothing like playing with a group of unbelievable brothers who will go the distance this year,” said Ams left wing Maxwell James. The team has celebrated many successes over the years. Many of the players have gone on to be drafted by the National Hockey League. In the first draft in June, Michael Rasmussen from Vancouver, B.C., was ninth overall in the first round drafted by the Detroit Red Wings; Juuso Välimäki from Nokia, Finland, was 16th overall in the first round drafted by the Calgary Flames; Morgan Geekie from Strathclair, Manitoba, was drafted 67th overall by the Carolina Hurricanes; Kyle Olson from Calgary, Alberta, was drafted 122nd overall by the Anaheim Ducks. Several well-known hockey players

got their start on the team, including the current No. 1 goaltender in the NHL, Carey Price of the Montreal Canadiens and defenseman Brandon Carlo, who plays for the Boston Bruins. Other Ams players of note include forward Stu Barnes, goaltender Brian Boucher, who is currently a TV analyst, and Olaf Kolzig, winner of the 2000 Vezina Trophy and a coach with the Washington Capitals.

Americans’ charity games

• Oct. 21: Ams vs. Kamloops; Alzheimer’s Awareness Night • Nov. 18: Ams vs. Victoria; GESA Credit Union’s Charity Night for Safe Harbor • Dec. 1: Ams vs. Seattle; teddy bear toss • Feb. 24: Ams vs. Prince George; Pink ice for Breast Cancer Awareness Night

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A LOOK BACK September 2002

• The owners of Gold’s Gym in Pasco decide to disenfranchise and rename the gym LifeQuest Fitness Center. • Richland’s Bookwalter Winery began an expansion project to add a new wine lounge and patio extension.

UPCOMING October Focuses: • Culinary • Young Professionals

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SOLAR, From page 1 The discussions have been underway for three years. Energy Northwest, a power plant in north Richland, already has a 39-kilowatt demonstration solar panel project in the White Bluffs area, and it plans to build a four-megawatt solar farm next to Horn Rapids Road. In comparison, the Bonneville Dam near Portland produces 1,050 megawatts. The Columbia Generating Station reactor provides 1,190 megawatts. Near Walla Walla, 454 wind turbines create 104 megawatts. “Twenty-megawatts isn’t that much. But for solar power, it’s pretty good,” said Mike Starret, an energy analyst with the Northwest Power & Conservation Council. Founded in 2008, Neoen is an independent supplier of electricity from renewable energy (solar, wind and biomass) and is set to be the first French supplier to reach 1,000 megawatts of installed power. Neoen operates in France, Australia, El Salvador, Mexico, Zambia, Mozambique, Jordan, Jamaica, Portugal and Ireland, producing more than 1.2 gigawatts in electricity. “The Hanford site is as perfect site to implement a first realization. The irradiation and interconnection conditions are favorable. Besides, the solar project is strongly supported locally,” said Neoen spokeswoman Monica Andreu in an email. Neoen declined to reveal its project’s costs for the estimated year of construction. “Neoen’s track record has proven its capacity to become a competitive player in different markets,” Andreu said. Neoen is currently looking for buyers for its electricity— a venture that will include how to transmit the produced

power to those customers. That transmission piece will be a key factor on whether the project is successful, said officials with the Northwest Power & Conservation Council. Neoen aims to supply power in excess of 3,000 megawatts by 2020, and is opening an office in Washington state to address the U.S. market. Solar power plants are still relatively new in the Northwest. There is one 0.5-megawatt utility-scale solar farm in Washington. Oregon has 11 solar farms capable of producing 35.2. megawatts among them, including four sites in Umatilla County with a total output of two megawatts. Oregon has another 37 on the drawing board capable of generating about 465 megawatts, including two 56-megawatt plants in central Oregon, according to figures provided by the Northwest Power & Conservation Council. Southwestern Idaho has two solar sites capable of producing 120 megawatts. On the plus side, the price to build such plants has dramatically shrunk in recent years. “Costs for solar photovoltaic technology have dropped significantly. ... Investments into research and development have paid dividends in improved solar cell efficiency, and high-tech module manufacturing on a large scale has brought solar costs down far enough to rival other variable energy resources. … Future solar costs are forecast to continue to decline over the next 20 years. However, there is a wide band of uncertainty around the cost of solar; actual costs may come in much lower (or higher) than expected,” said the latest power council report on the subject.

Capital costs have shrunk by 50 percent to 70 percent to install solar farms, said Simmons, with those cost declines expected to continue, but at a slower rate. That’s because solar panels can be built more efficiently in greater numbers, the improved technologies of the panels and companies becoming more efficient in installing panels, Simmons said. Also, two federal tax incentive programs are in place to encourage companies to invest in solar power projects, the report said. However, President Donald Trump’s push to install any type of tariffs on any American imports could spill over into the cost-effectiveness of building solar farms in the United States, according to Green Tech Media, an online news agency covering the solar power industry. Recent Green Tech stories noted two manufacturers of solar panel components — Georgia-based Suniva, which has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, and Oregon-based SolarWorld America, also financially troubled — have filed unfair trade practice complaints with the U.S. International Trade Commission, or ITC, seeking a four-year tariff on imported crystalline-silocin solar products. However, the Solar Energy Industries Association, which represents the rest of the industry, strongly opposes Suniva and SolarWorld America on this matter, contending such a tariff would double the price of imported solar modules. The two sides have unveiled radically contradicting economic analyses to support their positions, according to Green Tech Media. A report by Suniva and SolarWorld claims increased tariffs would create 114,800 jobs in the United States. But another study cited by Solar Energy Industries Association claims such a tariff could cost the American solar industry 88,000 jobs while increasing the cost on a project such as Neoen’s by 30 percent. The solar industry currently employs about 260,000 people, according to Green Tech Media. The ITC is expected to make its primary recommendation by Sept. 22, and have it to Trump no later than Nov. 13.

uBUSINESS BRIEF SIGN Fracture celebrates serving 200,000 patients

SIGN Fracture Care International, a nonprofit based in Richland, reached a milestone this month: healing 200,000 people around the world from fractured bones. This week SIGN surgeons were expected to complete their 200,000th surgery using equipment designed and manufactured in Richland. Founded in 1999 by Dr. Lewis Zirkle, SIGN provides orthopaedic education to surgeons from developing countries and donates the instruments and implants needed to quickly heal broken bones. The majority of volunteers and financial support for SIGN comes from individuals and groups from around the TriCities. Financial gifts allow SIGN to donate surgical implants at no cost to the patient, so anyone who is injured can access the care they need.

Tri-Cities Area Journal of Business • September 2017 uBUSINESS BRIEFS TEDx Richland features talks on ‘Foundational Truths’ TEDx Richland 2017’s theme is Foundational Truths. The TED-like event features live speakers and prerecorded TED talks. TEDx is a local program that emulates the annual TED Talks national conference. The event is from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sept. 16 at the Uptown Theater, 1300 Jadwin Ave., in Richland. This year’s featured talks are: • “Colonizing Mars: Why Humans Need to Simplify Basic Systems” by Steve LePage. • “Lost in the Telling: An Untold Narrative” by Ben Johnson. • “Justice for All: Getting There” by Claudia Johnson. • “Why Justice Systems Based on Fear and Incarcerations Don’t Work” by Miguel Lopez. • “Shining a Light on the Emotional Truths of Child Loss” by Susan Butterworth. • “We Are Not Just Passive Observers, but Active Participants” by Sena Clara Creston. • “Mental Health Solutions: Unprescribed, Uncensored” by Travis Rybarski. • “Fostering Innovation Through Collaboration” by Jana Strasburg. • “If We’re All The Same, Then Why Aren’t We All The Same” by Eric Thompson • “The Human Side of War” by Jason Schlegel.

Tickets are $25 and include a light breakfast, snacks and beverages throughout the day and a happy hour toast after the event. To buy tickets, go to tedxrichland.com.

Columbia Generating Station reconnects to grid

Columbia Generating Station reconnected to the regional power grid Sept. 2 following nearly 13 days offline. The nuclear facility shutdown Aug. 20 when an air removal valve in the station’s turbine building closed, causing a loss of vacuum pressure necessary to pull steam through a condenser. As part of Columbia’s generation process, 80,000 gallons of water flow through nuclear fuel rods, which boil the water into steam. The high-pressure, fast-moving steam turns a series of turbines in a separate building to generate up to 1,207 gross megawatts of electricity – enough energy to power a city the size of Seattle. As part of the plant’s closed cooling system, the steam is then condensed back into water and returned to the station’s reactor building to repeat the boiling process. Columbia Generating Station is the third largest generator of electricity in Washington. All of its electricity is sold atcost to the Bonneville Power Administration, and 92 Northwest utilities receive a percentage of its output. During the spring, plant workers conducted maintenance and installed equipment that boosted the facility’s output by more than 25 megawatts, contributing to a monthly generation record in July.

Think & Drink addresses classrooms’ cultural divide

Do children learn better when their teacher looks like they do? That’s a question that will drive a discussion planned for a Humanities Washington’s Think & Drink event. The conversation begins at 7 p.m. Sept. 21 at Tagaris Winery, 844 Tulip Lane, in Richland. As America moves closer toward being a majority-minority country, Daudi Abe, Seattle Central College professor and journalist, and Kristin Leong, education activist, former teacher, and founder of RollCallProject.com, will discuss the culture gap in the state’s classrooms. This event is presented in partnership with Columbia Basin College Think & Drink events are hosted conversations at pubs and tasting rooms throughout the state on provocative topics and new ideas. Scholars, experts, artists or activists from a variety of disciplines participate in a moderated discussion, with a strong emphasis on audience participation. The event is free and open to the public. No RSVPs are required.

BBB launches free app to research businesses

The Better Business Bureau serving the Northwest has released a free app to find verified, unbiased information. Need a quick way to find a doctor? Car repair? A bite to eat? The BBB app makes finding a trustworthy business or service easy based on the user’s location. Every four seconds, someone researches a business with BBB. Rather

than going to a web browser, users now have the ability to go straight to the source. The new app is optimized for mobile devices, which means it has features not readily available on the website. It is available in both iTunes and Google Play stores. Features include category searches, businesses’ ratings and accreditation status, directions and contact information to businesses; a button to share information with friends via text, Facebook and other platforms; and scam alerts.

Adventures Underground launches weekly podcast

Richland’s Adventures Underground, in conjunction with GWizz Multimedia Productions, has launched the Au Radio Podcast. The weekly podcast features a regular cast and occasional guests discussing table-top games, comics, books, music, toys, movies, TV and more. Whether it’s sci-fi, fantasy, horror, anime, adventure, gothic, superheroes, the gang discusses it. Au Radio is available through many podcast sites, including iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Tunein, Acast, and others. Or, download it directly from http://auradio.libsyn.com. Adventures Underground is a locallyowned and operated comic book store in the Richland Uptown at 1391 George Washington Way. It was recently named the seventh best comic book store in the U.S. by Travel+Leisure magazine.

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Underused north Richland Gesa branch to close in October Four employees to be moved to other branches BY ROBIN WOJTANIK

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The Gesa Credit Union branch in north Richland will be closing permanently Oct. 31. Gesa reports that the 808 Dalton St. branch is “underutilized” and its “transaction volumes are low” compared to other locations in the Tri-Cities. As a nonprofit cooperative, the credit union determined it wasn’t a good use of members’ resources to keep the office open, said Senior Vice President Richard Waddle. Gesa officials also said the Dalton Street location, near University Drive just off of the bypass highway, is generally not the sole branch used by members, and they expect neighboring branches to easily absorb the members after it closure. The next closest branches are on Goethals Drive in Richland and Paradise Way in West Richland. The four employees who work at the Dalton Street branch will be transferred to other branches, resulting in no job losses. The Dalton Street branch opened in summer 2013. Gesa leased the building. Gesa expects minimal impact to its members with the branch closure and removal of the ATM. No safety deposit boxes need to be relocated.

Gesa operates nine branches in the TriCities, including the Dalton Street location, with two other Richland locations, including one on Duportail Street and the headquarters on West Gage Boulevard in south Richland. The four remaining locations are split between Kennewick and Pasco. Waddle said the credit union has seen a high adoption of mobile, online and telephone banking, which has led to fewer people walking into branches for their transaction needs. It’s a modern change for the credit union that touts it “started in a shoebox.” Members of the General Electric Supervisor’s Association formed GESA Federal Credit Union in 1953, with its first account receipts kept in a shoebox, according to its website. Created with the intent of solely serving salaried employees of General Electric, it eventually changed its name to Gesa Credit Union and converted to a communitycharted credit union in 1996. Now serving anyone in Washington, Gesa operates 17 member service centers, including the Dalton Street location, throughout central and Eastern Washington. Members with questions about the closure are invited to call Gesa at 888-9464372.

The Gesa Credit Union branch at 808 Dalton St. in north Richland will close Oct. 31 because it has been underused. It opened four years ago.

uBUSINESS BRIEF Clore center to celebrate German varietals on Oct. 28 Lesser-known German varietals grown in the Northwest will get their chance to shine at Lemtoberfest in October. The festival is from 1 to 4 p.m. Oct. 28 at Prosser’s Walter Clore Wine and Culinary Center at 2140 Wine Country Road. Catered to enthusiasts of Lemberger, Grüner Veltliner, Müller-Thurgau, Gewurztraminer, Zweigelt, and

Siegerrebe, Lemtoberfest is a twist on Clore Center classic events like Rising Stars, and Washington vs. the World, with a traditional Oktoberfest theme. Guests will enjoy unlimited tastings of wines from 30 wineries from Washington, Oregon and Idaho. The event will feature German-style beer in a mini beer garden, homemade bratwurst from Castle Event Catering and live music. Tickets are $40 before Sept. 30 and $45 afterward. For more information, and to buy tickets or sponsorship, visit theclore center.org/events.

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• Christ the King Sausage Fest: 5 p.m., Christ the King, 1111 Stevens Drive, Richland. Contact cksausagefest.org. • Fall Harvest Gala, a benefit for Tri-County Partners Habitat for Humanity: 6 – 10 p.m., Shilo Inn, 50 Comstock St., Richland. RSVP habitatbuilds.com/fall-auction.

SEPT. 16

• TEDx Richland: 8 a.m. – 5 p.m., Uptown Theatre, 1300 Jadwin St., Richland. Tickets tedxrichland.com. • Christ the King Sausage Fest: 11 a.m., Christ the King, 1111 Stevens Drive, Richland. Contact cksausagefest.org.

SEPT. 18

• Pasco chamber annual Sunshine Luncheon: 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m., Red Lion Hotel, 2525 N. 20th Ave., Pasco. RSVP 509-547-9755.

SEPT. 20

• Life Stories that Unite Us, hosted by United Way of Benton & Franklin Counties: 7:30 – 9 a.m., Three Rivers Convention Center, 7016 W. Grandridge Blvd., Kennewick. RSVP 509-783-4102.

• PTAC Workshop: Government Contracting Essentials: 9 – 11 a.m., TriCities Business & Visitor Center, 7130 W. Grandridge Blvd., Kennewick. RSVP 509-491-3231. • Facebook Workshop 101 for Small Businesses – Part 1: 5:30 – 7 p.m., MidColumbia Libraries, 1620 S. Union St., Kennewick. Information facebook.com/ twowickedgeese.

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• Take ACTion Luncheon, a benefit for Academy of Children’s Theatre: noon – 1 p.m., CG Public House, 9221 W. Clearwater Ave., Kennewick. RSVP Jeremy@ kenmoreteam.com. • Tri-Cities Legislative Council’s annual reception: 5:30 – 7:30 p.m., WSU Wine Science Center, 359 University Drive, Richland. RSVP 509-7360510. • Historic Downtown Prosser Association annual meeting: 7 – 8:30 p.m., Benton County Historical Museum, 1000 Paterson Road, Prosser. Contact 509-786-2399.

• Parent/Child Golf Tournament, a benefit for YMCA of the Greater TriCities: 1 p.m., Tri-City Country Club, 314 N. Underwood St., Kennewick. Register ymcatricities.org. • Northwest Food & Brew Food Truck Festival: 3 – 9 p.m., Clover Island, 435 Clover Island Drive, Kennewick. Contact 509586-0541. • Tri-City Regional Chamber membership luncheon: 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m., Three Rivers Convention Center, 7016 W. Grandridge Blvd., Kennewick. RSVP 509-7360510. • Facebook Workshop 101 for Small Businesses – Part 2: 5:30 – 7 p.m., MidColumbia Libraries, 1620 S. Union St., Kennewick. Information facebook.com/ twowickedgeese. • Washington Policy Center annual dinner: 6 p.m., Davenport Grand Hotel, 333 W. Spokane Falls Blvd., Spokane. RSVP washingtonpolicy.org.

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• Business Development University: Marketing for Your Business: 8 – 10 a.m., Tri-City Regional Chamber of Commerce, 7130 W. Grandridge Blvd., Kennewick. RSVP 509-736-0510.

SEPT. 29

• Richland Firefighters Charity Golf Tournament: 1 – 5 p.m., Sun Willows Golf Course, 2535 N. 20th Ave., Pasco. Tickets rfdcommunityoutreach.com. • Ninth annual Wishes & Wine, a benefit for Wishing Star Foundation: 5:30 – 9 p.m., Reach museum, 1943 Columbia Park Trail, Richland. Tickets wishingstar. org.

SEPT. 30

• Dinner in the Dark, a benefit for Edith Bishel Center for the Blind: 6 – 9:30 p.m., Red Lion Hotel, 2525 N. 20th Ave., Pasco. RSVP 509-735-0699.

OCT. 4

• West Richland chamber membership luncheon: noon – 1 p.m., Sandberg Event Center, 331 S. 41st Ave., West Richland. RSVP 509-967-0521.

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• Fall Home Show: 10 a.m., TRAC, 6600 Burden Blvd., Pasco. Visit hbatc. com.

OCT. 7

• Mystic Masquerade, supporting Arts Center Task Force: 7 – 11 p.m., Uptown Theatre, 1300 Jadwin Ave., Richland. Tickets mysticpartysolutions.com.

OCT. 10

• PTAC Workshop: Marketing to the Federal Government: 9 – 10:30 a.m., Tri-Cities Business & Visitor Center, 7130 W. Grandridge Blvd., Kennewick. RSVP 509-4913231.

OCT. 11

• National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association lunch meeting: 11:30 a.m., Red Lion Hotel, 1101 N. Columbia Center Blvd., Kennewick. Visit narfe1192.org.

• Taking a Bite out of Hunger: 5:30 – 9 p.m., Second Harvest Distribution Center, 5825 Burlington Loop, Pasco. Tickets 2-harvest.org/tcbite.

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uBUSINESS BRIEFS Discover American Revolution anew at free library lecture

Mid-Columbia Libraries, Friends of Mid-Columbia Libraries, Columbia Basin College, and Humanities Washington present a lecture by journalist Don Glickstein called, “What Our Teachers Never Told Us About the American Revolution,” at 7 p.m. Sept. 21 at the Kennewick branch. Glickstein will explore rarely heard perspectives on the war in his illustrated talk and link aspects of the war to the state of Washington. The public is invited to hear stories from the war, discover reasons the

Revolution matters today, and learn why the study of history can help in understanding the 21st century’s war on terrorism. Mid-Columbia Libraries’ Kennewick branch is at 1620 S. Union St., Kennewick.

State group urges Trump to keep Korea trade deal

The Washington Council on International Trade and its members – manufacturers, farmers, retailers and service providers from across Washington state – have urged the Trump Administration to remain a party to the U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement, known as KORUS. “South Korea is a vital trading partner for Washington state. We run a trade sur-

plus of $2 billion with Korea, and many of our exports have seen consistent growth thanks to KORUS,” said WCIT President Lori Otto Punke in a statement. “Washington-grown potatoes and cherries are in high demand in Korea, and Washington farmers have seen export increases as large as 80 percent for potato products and an astonishing 200 percent for cherries. Although Korea is the United States’ fifth largest export market for agriculture, benefits are not limited to this sector, and KORUS has provided opportunities for all kinds of local businesses, from aerospace and medical device manufacturers to commercial fishers,” she said. Otto also said all trade agreements can be improved but “it is important to

approach any reform thoughtfully.”

Construction, auto sales boost first-quarter retail sales

Steady growth in construction and auto sales helped boost taxable retail sales by 5.3 percent in the first quarter of 2017 over the same period in 2016, reaching a total of $34.1 billion. Retail trade sales, a subset of all taxable retail sales in the state, were up 4.1 percent to a total of $14.5 billion. The state Department of Revenue’s recently released figures summarize first-quarter 2017 taxable retail sales reported on Washington business tax returns. The agency uses U.S. Census Bureau classifications to report the sales revenues by sector.

New Kennewick parkway set to open in September

Work on the Bob Olson Parkway is continuing and is set to open to traffic by the end of September. The new five-lane road is being built from Steptoe Street and 10th Avenue roundabout to Sherman Street. The project also includes widening Hildebrand Boulevard from three to five lanes between Sherman and Grant streets. This route provides a connection between highways 395 and 420. After the opening, work will continue into early October that will create minor lane closures.

Contract Business Loan Services The Benton-Franklin COG (BFCG) is currently seeking a Contract Business Loan Services provider. The BFCG is designated as the bi-county Economic Development District (EDD) for Benton and Franklin counties, in southeastern Washington State. One of the primary responsibilities of this role is to work with borrowers and staff to analyze and process loan applications for the loan programs administered through BFCG. A detailed announcement can be found on the agency website, including information about the agency, region, and proposal requirements at:

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Oregon boutique beef business supplies unique meats to three states BY MARILOU SHEA

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Just south of the Tri-Cities in Stanfield, Oregon, a hard-working couple raise calves to satisfy their customers’ insatiable taste for beef. Pat and Tammy Mallon own Pat-n-Tam’s Beef, a boutique beef processing company. Pat Mallon has been raising calves and selling them since he was in high school. Around 2003, a Mexican grocer wanted the Mallons to supply sides of U.S. Department of Agricultureinspected beef. At that point, they found the first of several processors they use. Since their beef is now being inspected, it allowed them to explore selling individual cuts, primal cuts and sides of beef to restaurants and others. The company uses different breeds that will produce well and offer nicesized cuts with great flavor and tenderness. They run angus simmental base and soon will use shorthorn bulls. They’ve carved out a good market with butcher shops and restaurants that prefer moderate-sized carcasses. Because of their size, Pat-n-Tam’s find it’s better to do business on a more intimate scale than use a distributor, though they might need to in the future. as their private label products are gaining popularity. They sell their meat to retail outlets and smaller co-operatives and families, as well restaurants and food trucks or

carts in Oregon, Washington and Nevada. Pat figures the operation needs to produce 150,000 pounds annually to meet the demand. Restaurants and food trucks will account for 75 percent to 80 percent of their business over the next year due to the growth of the food truck industry and an exclusive contract with a casino in Nevada. Not bad for a husband-andwife team who also work full-time jobs. To meet the demand, the Mallons calve year-round and buy from a close network that raises calves with the same TLC philosophy. This enables them to sell roasts, kielbasa, bratwurst and bone products for stock-making in the fall and winter, and steaks, burgers and sausages during the warm weather grilling season. Their nurturing philosophy is based on a Washington State University study that found the best, most flavorful beef starts at the gestational period and continues right through to daily calf care. In other words, calves can’t have a bad day. Period. Being a rancher is capital intensive. Land is expensive, and a lot of it is required to raise cattle. Equipment and breeding stock also are expensive. The Mallons invest in equipment that allows them to do most of the work themselves, and they outsource the butchering. It’s a balancing act, and the profit cycle has a long tail. It takes three years to get paid for the beef from breeding one cow. Most ranchers hold full-time jobs and

most put all of the profits from the business back into sustaining it. Pat-n-Tam’s sells flash frozen beef and Pat firmly believes it’s superior to fresh. The Marilou Shea approach is Food Truck winning over Academy skeptics. Why? The Mallons dryage their beef, which takes about three to four weeks. Their beef has enough fat cover that they can use freezing to their advantage by aging the beef longer to intensify the flavor and tenderness. Today, the outlook for beef is more positive than it has been in years. That’s because consumers are more conscious about where their food comes from and many are veering away from sugar and carbs. The popularity of diets like Paleo steers them to nutrient-dense organ meats, which in turn has spiked interest in unique cuts of meat, bones and novel cooking techniques. Ten years ago, the Mallons couldn’t give away organ meats or bones, and now it’s hard to keep them in stock. Consumers love Pat-N-Tam’s sausage, burgers, pepper sticks and jerky products, which often include locally sourced ingredients. The honey-sweetened ginger

sausage is infused with blackberry wildflower honey from Molalla, Oregon. There’s also a sugar-free sausage boasting fresh rosemary—just the ingredient to make it a tasty breakfast sausage. Orders for their roasted garlic peppercorn burgers are on the rise. Their sea salt-cured jerky has become a bestseller. They recently changed the recipe by adding a special sea-salt cure on the jerky, removing the sodium nitrate, applying a celery-salt cure and using new resealable packaging. The products are on track to increase 50 percent year over year. Pat thinks they have the best customers. His customers think they have the best beef. It’s been a winning combination. More information: email Rockin_tp@ yahoo.com; call 541-567-7461; or on Facebook. Food Love columnist Marilou Shea is the creator of Food Truck Fridays and adjunct faculty at Columbia Basin College’s Food Truck Academy.

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uBUSINESS BRIEFS March of Dimes seeks Tri-Cities board members

March of Dimes, a nonprofit advocate for pregnancy and baby health, is recruiting community leaders to join the movement to improve the health of moms and babies. The Tri-Cities March of Dimes Market Board, in collaboration with Victor Guzman, the state’s March of Dimes executive director of market development, oversees the business of the market, including implementation of the regional March of Dimes strategic plan. Board members actively participate in the development, execution and tracking of a market business plan to leverage relationships and market potential to increase

mission delivery and achieve targeted revenue growth. As part of the plan, board members identify, recruit and engage other volunteer leaders for key leadership roles. Those interested in learning more about board and committee opportunities can contact Victor Guzman at vguzman@ marchofdimes.org or 206-452-6635.

TSA PreCheck allows expedited security screening for eligible, low-risk travelers. Those who qualify wouldn’t have to remove shoes, liquids and gels from carry-ons, laptops from bags, or their light outerwear/jacket and belts.

Feed Low-Activity Waste program. The 60-day comment period has been extended through Oct. 30. Visit the Hanford events calendar for more information, including details about how to submit comments.

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Hanford site public comment periods underway

The U.S. Department of Energy Office of River Protection and Washington River Protection Solutions have extended a comment period on a proposed modification to the Hanford Facility Dangerous Waste Permit to incorporate the Low Activity Waste Pretreatment System (LAWPS) facility as a new operating unit group. This proposed modification is required for construction and operation of the LAWPS facility in support of the Direct

Reach museum offering Mid-Columbia tours, events

The Tri Cities Airport will be offering a TSA PreCheck sign-up event from 8 a.m. to noon and 1 to 5 p.m. Sept. 18-22 in the administrative conference room on the second floor of the Pasco airport. If interested, sign up at identogo.com/ tsa-precheck. Cost is $85 for five years. Walk-ins are welcome but online signups are encouraged.

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The Reach museum at 1943 Columbia Park Trail in Richland is offering events throughout September. Hops to Bottle on Sept. 16 will include a tour of hop yards, a hop drying plant and Yakima Chief where hops are transformed to pellets and oils. A lunch will follow at Snipes Mountain in Sunnyside, then the day will be wrapped up with a brewery tour to learn about making beer. The tour is $113 and includes water, tastings, lunch and bus transportation. For reservations, call 509-943-4100, Ext. 108, email sarac@visit thereach.org. Tours to meet in the Reach museum parking lot. Little Explorers story and activity time for 3- to 5-year-olds is offered from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. the second and fourth Wednesday of each month. Admission is $8 per family for up to four people and $2 for each additional child. Reach members are free. Free admission is offered Sept. 23 as part of Smithsonian magazine’s 13th annual Museum Day Live! Tickets are required for free entry and can be downloaded at smithsonianmag.com/museumday/museum-day-live-2017/tickets. Tickets on smartphones also will be accepted. Hours are from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. For more information, go to visitthe reach.org.

DOE, contractor fined after dispute over powder in plant

The Department of Energy and CH2M Hill Plateau Remediation Company, or CHPRC, have been fined a $16,000 penalty by the state Department of Ecology. The fine comes after failing to identify white powder found in the long-shuttered PUREX plutonium production plant on the Hanford nuclear reservation, which was closed in the 1980s. Before closure, the plant produced a substantial portion of the plutonium used in U.S. nuclear weapons arsenal. The unidentified white powder was documented by CHPRC in 2015. Ecology found it still was there during an inspection in April 2016, and directed the company to identify the powder and make a plan to clean it up if hazardous. In November 2016, Ecology cited DOE and CHPRC for not identifying the powder, and an April 2017 showed that no action has been taken clean it up. “If this powder is a dangerous waste, it’s important to clean it up before it spreads further,” said John Price, the compliance section manager for Ecology’s Nuclear Waste Program. “We want to avoid delays that cause a bigger cleanup with increased worker risks and higher costs.” The PUREX plant is adjacent to the PUREX tunnel that partially collapsed in May, but the powder and resulting penalty are not related to the collapse.

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For Tri-City family, mission to find cure for Alzheimer’s is personal Poland family supports fundraiser walk, awareness night at Ams hockey game BY KRISTINA LORD editor@tcjournal.biz

The Poland family is passionate about raising awareness and supporting efforts to find a cure for Alzheimer’s disease. They also can be counted on to participate in two of the year’s biggest Tri-City fundraisers for the state’s Alzheimer’s Association. It’s personal for them. The progressive disease took the life of the Poland family matriarch, Valerie Poland, in 2009. That’s the year Walk to End Alzheimer’s began in Kennewick. Poland died at age 59, nine years after she was diagnosed. Her mother also had the disease. Poland participated for years in the Spokane walk. She died four months before the first Tri-Cities walk, which was dedicated to her. Her family was instrumental in organizing that first walk closer to home. Her daughter Melissa Poland-Knapik said her mom would appreciate the family’s continued efforts to raise awareness. “She’d say keep fighting. This disease takes away their voice. If we can help one person. That’s our Poland family mission. That’s what we want to try to do,” PolandKnapik said.

The Poland family owns and operates Ray Poland and Sons construction company in Kennewick. Poland-Knapik and her family will join the Do Walkers team during the eighth annual walk on Oct. 15 at Columbia Park in Kennewick. It starts at the band shell. It had to be moved from Sept. 9 because of poor air quality in the region due to wildfire smoke. The three-mile walk is one of 16 walks throughout Washington and northern Idaho. The national nonprofit Alzheimer’s Association expects to raise $2 million, up from $1.7 million raised last year, at the series of Northwest walks. Last year, the Tri-City walk raised $118,000. “The money stays with the local areas that it’s raised in. It’s used for local educational classes we have, as well as support groups. … The rest of the money goes toward research,” said Leslie Woodfill, special events coordinator in the association’s Spokane office. Nearly 80 percent of the money raised by the association goes toward Alzheimer’s care, support, research and awareness, 15 percent goes toward fundraising and 6 percent toward administrative costs, according to the association’s website. The nonprofit also soon will have more

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More than 500 people participated in last year’s Walk to End Alzheimer’s at Clover Island in Kennewick. This year’s event, which is Oct. 15, has moved to Columbia Park to accommodate the growing number of walkers. (Courtesy Leslie Woodfill of Alzheimer’s Association)

of a presence in the area with the opening of a new office at 609 The Parkway in Richland. An open house is planned from 3:30 to 6 p.m., Sept. 20. The office will provide resources to the community and office space for social workers and volunteers. “People will be able to come in and talk to somebody who is a social worker and get ideas about what their next steps are and things like that and likely we will have our classes there,” Woodfill said. Those registered for the Kennewick walk will carry colorful pinwheel flowers to show their connection to the disease. Blue represents someone with Alzheimer’s

or dementia; purple is for someone who has lost a loved one to the disease; yellow represents someone currently supporting or caring for someone with Alzheimer’s; and orange is for everyone who supports the cause and vision of a world without Alzheimer’s. This year, a new color will be added to this rainbow bouquet. “A white flower will be carried by a child in the symbolism that this is the flower of hope and this child and others this age — with advancements we’re making in research — will never be diagnosed with Alzheimer’s,” Woodfill said. uWALK, Page 28

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EDUCATION & TRAINING MSA women’s group provides networking, community service opportunities 112 female employees belong to new group BY STACEY DENNY

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Anel Suarez credits a group of female colleagues for encouraging her to apply for a new position at Mission Support Alliance. Suarez said members of MSA’s Synergy Network bolstered her confidence to seek the promotion. “All of the women in the group were very supportive and encouraging. I’m not sure I would have applied if I didn’t have that,” she said. Since forming in 2016, the Synergy Network has worked to promote MSA female professional development, create a conduit for advocacy, engage MSA women in community outreach, create internal employee engagement, develop networking opportunities and work with other Hanford site women’s groups. There are currently 112 members in the Synergy group, the first women’s group at MSA. To join, members must be a female MSA employee and fill out a membership form. There are no other requirements or fees. Though it’s a women’s networking

group, all employees, male or female, may attend group activities. The Synergy group’s planning committee meets every other week. There are informal social events every other month and quarterly professional development opportunities. Suarez said there are often men in leadership roles attending the activities who are very supportive of the Synergy group. Julie Lindstrom, MSA’s manager of staffing, diversity and development, said the idea for the Synergy Network came about after discussions with her staff about the specific challenges women have in the workplace and at home. Lindstrom co-chairs the group with Ann Shattuck, director of environmental integration services. “At the end of the day, we just wanted to create a place for incredible women to gather, grow and become the best versions of them possible with the help and support of other like-minded women. We researched options and developed a plan. That plan was approved by management and the Synergy group was launched,” she

Members of Mission Support Alliance’s Synergy Network show off the backpacks they collected for Stack the Packs, a program that provides backpacks and school supplies to foster kids. The women’s group offers informal networking, formal panel discussions and community volunteer opportunities. (Courtesy MSA)

said. The group offers informal networking, formal panel discussions and community volunteer opportunities. Lindstrom said the group hopes to formalize many of these events and strengthen the diversity of community panelists in the coming year. She said she is hoping to invite women from other

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communities to speak to the group. “We are just getting started, and already learning that together we can accomplish anything,” Lindstrom said. Shattuck said the importance of the group becomes very clear when considering that about 25 percent of MSA’s roughly 2,000 employees are women. uSYNERGY, Page 20

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Education & Training

Heritage University tackles teacher shortage with accelerated programs BY TRI-CITIES AREA JOURNAL OF BUSINESS STAFF

A shortage of certified teachers is making it difficult for school districts statewide to find qualified educators to fill open positions. That’s according to a report from the state Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction last fall. Heritage University in Toppenish is helping alleviate this shortage through two teacher education programs designed to put undergraduate and graduate students into K-12 classrooms throughout central Washington — quickly. “The teacher Angel Rosales shortage is no longer theoretical and in the future,” said Ric Pilgrim, assistant superintendent at Educational Service District 105. “It is here.” Heritage University’s HU Residency and HU Accelerate programs dramatically change the way teachers are trained at the college level. In the traditional model, students complete several years of college coursework before getting a couple of months of hands-on learning as student teachers. In Heritage programs, students learn the art and science of teaching while teaching in a K-12 classroom.

Heritage’s campus in the Tri-Cities offers the accelerate and Theory to Practice master’s degree programs. The campus is located at Columbia Basin College in Pasco where bachelor’s degree course offerings include accounting, criminal justice, K-8 education, psychology and social work. Plenty of Mid-Columbia students are enrolled at the school: 153 students from Benton County and 70 students from Franklin County. Of the 1,025 students currently enrolled at the university, 792 are undergraduates and 233 are graduate students. In the Tri-Cities, there are 119 undergraduate and 58 graduate students. The fall session started Aug. 21. Angel Rosales of Pasco graduated with an elementary education degree from Heritage in 2016. He got a job as dean of students at Ellen Ochoa Middle School in Pasco. He said his coursework provided him with knowledge, theories, strategies and tools to be an effective educator. “I have enjoyed putting these tools to practice during my co-teaching internship. Learned truths must become living truths. My experience co-teaching is by far my favorite Heritage experience,” the Pasco High grad said. The residency got its start six years ago when Heritage and ESD 105 received a $9 million joint grant to develop a program to better prepare teachers for longterm success in the classroom. The university’s goal for the program was sim-

Savannah Wammock teaches at Kirkwood Elementary in Toppenish as part of the Heritage University’s accelerate program. Students like Wammock earn a master’s in teaching while working as the teacher of record in K-12 classrooms. (Courtesy Heritage University)

ple: to provide K-12 schools with quality student teachers quickly and with good results for the students in the classroom, while making the college students’ educational experience more real, meaningful and efficient than ever before. The residency program is open to students at the graduate and undergraduate levels. Students are placed three to a classroom to teach alongside a certified core teacher. Graduate students who have previously earned degrees in areas other than education complete the program in three semesters and earn a master’s in teaching. Undergraduate students who have

completed their first two years of basic courses spend four semesters in the program and earn a bachelor’s of education in elementary education. The program has been a resounding success from the start, according to Heritage officials. Graduates from the residency program are highly sought after because of their multiple years of hands-on classroom management training. Additionally, principals report residency graduates they hire are better prepared than their peers who earn their degrees traditionally, according to Heritage officials. uHERITAGE, Page 23

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EDUCATION & TRAINING

U-Rock radio trains young DJs, then gets them on-air BY JEFF MORROW

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A weekend DJ on U-Rock Radio admitted he didn’t know much about ’80s rock music when he started. Age might have something to do with it. Mitchel Denke is a senior at Kamiakin High School, born around the turn of the century. But joining the station has turned him into a fan of the music. “I never thought I’d ever be mowing the lawn with Motley Crue playing in my head,” he said. The teenager has Jeff Jacobs and Gary Shelton to thank for that. Jacobs is the owner of Jacobs Radio, home to the 95.3 FM rock station. Shelton is the station’s general manager. They created a program called Training the Kids, which allows students from TriTech Skills Center to serve as the station’s disc jockeys from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and from 2 to 6 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. The students receive school credits as part of the program, all the while helping them get real-world experience. Training the Kids could be considered an internship program. “That’s exactly what it is,” said Jacobs, who said he came up with idea about a year ago. “I originally knew (radio instructor) Ed Dailey at Tri-Tech, and I brought the idea up to him: let the kids learn on an actual commercial station,” he said. “We

went in and spoke with two classes. Ed went through the list of his top kids. Then we interviewed the kids on a 1-on-1 basis here.” Dailey jumped at the chance. “It’s a great chance for the kids to have a chance to use the voice training they get here (at Tri Tech),” said Dailey, who praised the Tri-City radio scene for giving these students opportunities others might not get. “Each radio group handles interns differently.” He said Townsquare offers media experience, for example work on websites, and Reka on Power 99 has used three students to work on her program. “But Jeff allows the kids to talk, which is awesome. We’re so lucky to have great radio people in this town, helping my students learn even more,” Dailey said. So far, Jacobs Radio has used eight Tri-Tech students in the program, which began in March. “We spend a lot of time with them when they first begin,” Jacobs said. “Sometimes they get nervous when the mic comes on.” Denke, who is also a Tri-Tech student, was one of those students. “The first day was a hard day to forget,” Denke said. “Everything was prerecorded at Tri-Tech. It was pretty nerve wracking.” But Jacobs said he helps them get through the jitters. “The kids are great. We had to instill in them that from the beginning they were going to make mistakes,” Jacobs said.

“But the listeners have been great. Some of them have called in and told them they’re doing a great job.” It helped Denke get through the rough spots. “That made it a little easier when they said we would make mistakes,” Denke said. Jacobs said there is a gap of DJs in the radio industry. “You’d get on-air DJs come here in the Tri-Cities, get a few years in, and then they’d move on to Portland and Seattle, maybe then to LA,” Jacobs said. “The younger generation didn’t grow up listening to radio. And a lot Kamiakin High School senior Mitchel Denke runs a four-hour radio program each weekend at U-Rock of DJs have burned Radio in Kennewick, thanks to the station’s Training The out on their climb to Kids program that began in March. corporate radio. Today, corporate radio has one guy can do other things outside that four-hour doing work on 20 stations.” shift, like working the engineering board, The Training the Kids program also and get paid.” teaches the students responsibility. Denke said he’ll do live remotes on “They know they have a four-hour weekends for extra work, for example. shift every weekend,” Jacobs said. “They uRADIO, Page 20

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WSU College of Medicine shows glimpse into medical education need BY TRI-CITIES AREA JOURNAL OF BUSINESS STAFF

Ryan De Leon, a 2016 Washington State University Tri-Cities nursing program graduate, talks about what he learned about his homestay family during a Sept. 6 dinner and gathering for students in the Tri-Cities cohort for the Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine. The event marked an opportunity for the students to get to know their homestay families. The students also got the chance to meet local health professionals and get to know the Richland campus. (Courtesy WSU Tri-Cities)

A new overview of the Washington State University Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine charter class shows it is made up of a strong percentage of female, low socioeconomic status and first generation students. The class, a group of 60 students who are current residents of or have significant ties to Washington, represent a population of students who would otherwise have been forced to go out of state for their medical educations. Selected from more than 700 applications that were submitted in 27 days – the timeframe between receipt of preliminary

accreditation and the application submission deadline – competition was stiff. “Our recruitment cycle for this first class was extremely truncated,” said John Tomkowiak, founding dean of the Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine. “While most schools began recruiting in the summer, we couldn’t begin recruitment until November 2016. Despite the challenge, the fact that we received more than 700 applications in less than a month only highlights the pent-up need for medical education in this state.” The college focused on drawing students from a wide cross-section of rural and urban underserved areas across the state to increase the likelihood they will return to their communities to practice medicine. It then selected students from 15 of the state’s 39 counties, with 15 percent of the class hailing from rural communities. “We are proud of the highly accomplished group of students we selected for this charter class,” Tomkowiak said. “As we continue to grow in awareness and reputation, as well as build our recruitment efforts across the state, we anticipate the applicant pool and matriculated classes will continue to impress.” The Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine held its first clinical intersession week and homestay community night for the charter class of medical students on Sept. 6. To connect and engage students in the communities where they will spend their third and fourth years of training, the homestay program enables community members to house students during their intersession weeks and immerse them in the life and culture of the local community. The event was expected to bring together the 15 medical students who will be based in the Tri-Cities and the local host families for the first time.

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Here’s a profile of the charter class: • Females: 34 (56.7 percent) • Legal Washington residents*: 57 (95 percent) *The 5 percent non-legal Washington residents must demonstrate they are from Washington by meeting at least three of four requirements: born in Washington, childhood address in Washington, graduated from a Washington high school, parent/guardian currently living in Washington. • Childhood in a rural Washington county: 9 (15 percent) • Childhood in a medically underserved Washington county: 58 (96.7 percent) • Washington counties represented: 15, including Clallam, Clark, Cowlitz, Franklin, Grant, King, Pacific, Pierce, Snohomish, Spokane, Stevens, Thurston, Whatcom, Whitman and Yakima • First-generation college graduate*: 11 (18.3 percent) *bachelor’s degree • Low socioeconomic status: 20 (33.3 percent) • Average age: 26 / range 21-36 • Advanced degrees: 7 (11.7 percent) For more information, visit medicine. wsu.edu.

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Bechtel offers real-world experience to college students 22 interns hired this past summer; slots for next year posted in fall BY LAURA KOSTAD

for Tri-Cities Area Journal of Business

Bechtel National Inc.’s radioactive waste treatment plant project has provided more than 330 internship opportunities for college students seeking real-world experience in their fields of study since 2006. From engineering, construction, procurement, environmental, safety, and information technology, to the human resources and public communications departments, interns receive unique opportunities to directly contribute and assist in completing project objectives under the mentorship of full-time professionals. Katie Henckel, a former 2015 waste treatment plant intern now working fulltime in the Environmental, Safety and Health Department at Bechtel, called the experience rewarding. “Bechtel puts a lot of trust in their interns and treats them with the same respect as full-time employees. Our work was valued,” she said. In 2001, Bechtel began construction on the U.S. Department of Energy’s Hanford Tank Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant. Once complete, the vitrification plant, or vit plant, as it’s known, will “process and stabilize millions of gallons of radioactive and chemical waste currently stored at the

Hanford site,” said George R. Rangel, a Bechtel spokesman at the plant. The facility is scheduled to begin treating waste as early as 2022 as the world’s largest radioactive waste treatment operation, Rangel said. Though an international company offering internship opportunities worldwide, Lisa Armstrong, Bechtel’s human resources manager for the plant, said a third of the site’s interns are from Tri-Cities who are enrolled in regional colleges and universities. Armstrong reports this is thanks to successful partnering with local institutions, active recruitment efforts and presence at career day and job fair events. “We seek a diverse skill set (in applicants) that we look to promote,” Armstrong said. “We look forward every year to engaging with our interns, and have a pretty aggressive process that we go through to make sure they have opportunities to be involved in the Bechtel community and interact with all levels of management, other interns and recent college hires. “We are very engaged, not only in career and work environment conditions, but also ensuring that they have housing and transport. We want interns to not only be successful at work, but be totally equipped,” she said.

Katie Henckel, right, environmental permitting engineer with the Bechtel Environmental Safety & Health department, discusses Hanford’s vitrification plant features with summer interns Maggie Schappell and Nathan Sargent. (Courtesy Bechtel National)

Bechtel worked with 22 interns this past summer. “The most valuable aspect of our program is our interns truly contribute to the success of this project. They have meaningful work that they can connect to their academic studies,” Armstrong said. Nathan Sargent, a Richland High School graduate and junior in business management at WSU in Pullman, completed his first internship this summer in Bechtel’s Procurement Subcontracts Department. He worked at the construction site and gained hands-on experience writing field

subcontracts and participated in all three stages of the contract process: formation, facilitation and close-out. “I really liked getting to see the everyday construction and improvement of the project … the subcontracts group has to work with all other departments—engineers, craftsmen and project managers— and I got to see how they all come together to make things happen,” Sargent said. He is considering pursuing another Bechtel internship next summer. uINTERSHIPS, Page 22

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Business donations help to launch new autism therapy program Nearly $42,000 contributed to Children’s Developmental Center in Richland BY KRISTINA LORD editor@tcjournal.biz

The Children’s Developmental Center in Richland soon will begin offering an intensive research-based and data-driven therapy program to help children with autism. The therapy, called applied behavior analysis, or ABA, helps children with autism learn through behavioral intervention by using everyday tools and routines from the child’s home and offering a chance to practice the skills with therapists. A large piece of the program includes parent training, as early intervention is most successful as soon as children are diagnosed so they can begin to modify their skills, said Haylee Carnes, behavior analyst overseeing the program at the Children’s Developmental Center. “We get the parents involved a lot because they are children’s primary teachers,” she said. The program targets kids ages 2 to 4 and “it’s very children- and parent-led,” Carnes said. Several Tri-City businesses and groups helped offset start-up costs for program with donations totaling nearly $42,000. Donations came from Corwin Ford TriCities, $15,000; Washington River Protection Solutions, or WRPS, $14,000;

Grainger Foundation, $5,000; Agrium, $5,000; and Three Rivers Community Foundation, $2,695. “We were glad we were able to kickstart this program and contribute initial seed money,” said WRPS spokesman Jerry Holloway, who said his company looks to assist programs that address the community’s unmet needs. The program expects to be self-sustaining in the near future, Carnes said. One in 68 children are diagnosed with autism or related disorders in the United States, said Cathryn Tames, executive director of the Children’s Developmental Center. It’s also more common in boys with one in 42 diagnosed, compared to girls, one in 89 diagnosed. Children with autism can show a wide variety of behavioral symptoms, from failure to develop appropriate peer relationships to a delay in or a total lack of spoken language, according to the Center for Autism and Related Disorders. Thanks to the donations to launch the program, Carnes and her team could buy an intervention and assessment system, which are used to evaluate the child and then set family goals, as well as toys to facilitate small-group learning. The money also was used to certify Children’s Developmental Center staff in ABA. Class size will be small, with two to

Zurla Lucatero, from left, Haylee Carnes and Beverly Burns of the Children’s Developmental Center in Richland will be working with children diagnosed with autism through applied behavior analysis, or ABA. Several Tri-City businesses and groups contributed money to start up the new program.

three kids per therapist. Children in the program meet in a large room made up of multiple play-focused learning stations for social interaction, which they typically don’t get a lot of at home. There’s also one-on-one work and circle time. The ABA program is viewed as a medical necessity to treat autism and insurance covers credentialed programs, Carnes said. Waiting lists for similar programs in the area are long. Children who sign up for the program must have an autism diagnosis and a doctor’s referral to receive ABA therapy.

The community’s need for the therapy is great, Carnes said. “ABA is a long-term therapy. It’s not a 12-week program. You’re working a lifetime and lifestyle and working with parents,” she said. Kids will receive two hours of therapy a day, Monday through Thursday. Fridays are reserved for home visits to work with the child’s family and set goals for the coming week. The visits also help to empower the parents to work with their children, Carnes said. uAUTISM, Page 19

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Tri-Tech students’ successes showcase school’s importance in region BY PAUL RANDALL

for Tri-Cities Area Journal of Business

In late August, 862 juniors and seniors from area high schools crossed the threshold of Tri-Tech Skills Center in Kennewick to take the next step to improve their competitiveness in the job market and expand their post-secondary options. Tri-Tech is a public school of choice for students from the Kennewick, Richland, Pasco, Kiona-Benton City, Finley, Columbia-Burbank, North Franklin and Prosser school districts. Serving as a branch campus, students attend three periods at their home high school and three periods at the skills center. Currently, Tri-Tech offers 18 highquality industry-based Career and Technical Education, or CTE, programs — all with some aspect of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math, or STEM, integrated within the programs. Tri-Tech provides a relevant, careerconnected, hands-on environment where students earn high school credit, CTE dual college credits and industry certificates before they finish high school. Tri-Tech works with post-secondary partners, community colleges (Columbia Basin College and Walla Walla Community College), apprenticeships and employers to coordinate programs to provide a more seamless transition to post-secondary training, cre-

dentialing and the world of work. An excellent example of this coordinated effort is our pre-nursing program. Students learn basic anatomy, physiology and medical terminology, and participate in a nine-week clinical. The program, among others, is articulated with CBC and allows students to earn college credits while in high school. Students can sit for the Certified Nursing Assistant exam, and if successful, earn their CNA license and enter the health care work force upon graduation from high school. The end result is a student who knows they have selected the right career path as they have already experienced nursing and are ready to pursue additional credentials. Our Careers in Healthcare program is focused on providing students with a solid foundation in health care centering on electronic medical records, scheduling, billing and coding and much more. In the program, students competed in the Verizon App Challenge where they were asked to identify real health needs that were not being addressed. The students proposed an app concept based on teen mental health called “Safe and Sound.” The concept was well received and worked its way through state, regional competitions and eventually won Best in Nation, one of only four high schools in the nation. They worked with and interacted with MIT (yes, that MIT) to develop

the app for deployment on the Google Store. In addition, Tri-Tech received a $20,000 award to support STEM endeavors. The students received Paul Randall Samsung Tri-Tech Skills Center Galaxy tablets and an allexpense paid trip to Dallas to present to the Technology Student Association. To cap off the strong year, they were invited to and participated in the White House Science Fair. AUTISM, From page 18 Six children have already signed up to receive the therapy and four are on a waiting list. “We hope with time we’ll grow but there’s no space at the inn right now. We’ve outgrown our facility,” Tames said. “We do hope to expand in the future.” But for the children and families the center can serve, it’ll make a difference, Carnes said. “We’re not able to serve a huge mass of children. We’ll give them intensive therapy that will affect them for the rest of their lives. They’ll learn

Another example of our students’ success involves our video game design students. They entered and won the District 4 Congressional App Challenge last spring. The team was invited to and attended the National App Challenge event in April in Washington, D.C. Tri-Tech serves a key role in work force development for our region and state — as evidenced by our students who are app developers, team players and nationally recognized. These students knocked on the door and took advantage of the Tri-Tech opportunity, resulting in some pretty good highlights for their resume. Paul Randall is the director of the Tri-Tech Skills Center in Kennewick.

fundamental skills here,” she said. The Children’s Developmental Center has been providing early intervention services to infants and toddlers with developmental delays since 1977. The center, which serves about 200 kids a month, employs 28 people and operates on a $2.1 million annual budget,with revenue coming from area school districts, insurance companies, the counties, the state Department of Health, donations and fundraisers. For more information about ABA, call 509-735-1062 ext. 262 or email hayleec@childrensdc.org.

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SYNERGY, From page 13 The sheer size of the Hanford site means the company has women working in every facility, but “you could work here your entire career and never meet every woman co-worker,” she said. Shattuck said she enjoys participating in the group’s community service work. The group has participated three times in Tri-County Partners Habitat for Humanity’s women’s building projects. “We do volunteer projects in the community together, and I have made some really great business and personal connections that I wouldn’t have made if not for the Synergy Network,” she said. The Synergy group participated in the Stack the Packs, a program that provides backpacks and school supplies

to foster kids. Members sponsored a clothing drive for Skyline Adventures, a nonprofit that takes underprivileged youth on ski trips. They also support the Women Helping Women Fund Tri-Cities, a nonprofit dedicated to empowering women and children. Most recently, they participated in a mock interview process for women in the community seeking employment. During an informal network gathering, Shattuck connected with a young woman who was interning in another department and found her background and interest was in the environmental field. Shattuck said she helped her find a position after her internship. “It’s these opportunities to mentor

Education & Training and be mentored that are also really exciting,” Shattuck said. In July, the group held a “Planting the Seeds for STEM” event with female panelists from MSA. The discussion was popular with the participants because middle and high school children of employees were invited to attend and learn about career opportunities in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, or STEM, fields, said Suarez, MSA’s deputy vice president of information management. She also was one of the panelists who spoke about the importance of STEM careers for women. She said though more women are entering STEM fields, she was often the only woman in many of her college classes.

“This is why outreach and mentoring are very important to me. It’s these types of discussions that have broadened the field to allow for more diversity,” she said. Suarez said she was proud to have a group like the Synergy Network at MSA. “The Synergy Network’s board is really active and engaged, and the members are amazing. Having the availability of other successful women to connect with is so valuable,” she said. Lindstrom agreed: “The support you get within this network is unparalleled, as I can attest to personally. In the past year and a half, I have developed friendships and gained mentors that I will cherish throughout my career at Hanford and beyond.” RADIO, From page 15 So perhaps this program can help get younger people into professional radio. “I read something this past week that there is a huge need for trade schools over four-year degrees now,” Jacobs said. “The opportunities to learn like this are less and less. I went to school at Eastern Oregon University, and they had an on-air program, a lot like Tri-Tech is now.” Jacobs said it’s also a way for his company to give back to the community. “This opens up doors for these kids,” he said. “They’ve got a better grasp of what they have to do in getting in the door. The best thing out of this is helping these young kids to get a job. And have a blast. This is supposed to be cool.” Jacobs said he’s gotten more interest in the program from outside Tri-Tech. “We’ve had other people ask about the program,” he said. “Some parents who don’t have kids at Tri-Tech want to know how they can get their kids in the program.” For now, U-Rock will just be using the kids from the Kennewick school. “We’ll be doing this forever,” Shelton said. “As a radio station, Jeff’s is the only locally-owned one. We take care of the local clients.” Denke, meanwhile, hopes to continue being a DJ. “I definitely plan to keep on doing this,” said Denke, who would like to eventually work in radio in Seattle. “I’m going to CBC for the next two years, then to a university to get my degree in communications.” The senior has always liked to give speeches, starting in middle school. “Honestly, for me to be myself, I like to talk,” Denke said. “I like helping people on the radio. And I like music. I really didn’t know much about this genre (’80s rock) before I started here. “But I like it now.”

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WSU leading implementation of statewide online truancy prevention program BY TRI-CITIES AREA JOURNAL OF BUSINESS STAFF

Washington State University is leading the online implementation of a program aimed at reducing school truancy that could positively affect schools across the state — and possibly the nation. The Washington Assessment of the Risks and Needs of Students, or WARNS, program uses data-driven procedures to track and improve interventions with students. The Becca Bill, which requires children ages 8-17 to attend a public, private or home-based school, indicates that unexcused absences might be an early warning sign for unaddressed problems with school failure and dropout rates. Paul Strand, WSU Tri-Cities professor of psychology; Nick Lovrich, WSU Regents professor emeritus; Brian French, professor and director of WSU’s Learning and Performance Research Center and Psychometric Laboratory; and Bruce Austin, research associate in educational psychology and the LPRC, have worked since 2014 to evaluate and refine the WARNS program. The program was developed in 2008 to assess students who have been linked to truancy, delinquency and/or dropping out of school, based on six factors: aggression-defiance; depression-anxiety; substance abuse; peer deviance; family environment; and school engage-

Paul Strand, a Washington State University Tri-Cities professor of psychology, is among a team of researchers working to evaluate and refine a data-driven program to reduce truancy in kindergartners to seniors across the state. (Courtesy WSU Tri-Cities)

ment. Within the program, schools can use the data to develop and implement a plan for at-risk students through school community truancy boards to help prevent and correct student behavior. WSU’s recent evaluation of the program supports using the WARNS as a global screening assessment of risks and needs, citing its reliability and validity. The evaluation was published by SAGE Journals this spring. “A critical component to the use of scores for decisions about youth is build-

ing this line of evidence,” French said. WSU’s Learning and Performance Research Center houses the online implementation of the assessment, which is offered to individual high schools and middle schools for $275 per year, plus a $1 charge for each student assessed. Districts also can sign up for a subscription for $500 for middle school and high school WARNS, plus a $1 charge for each student assessed. The costs of the program are to ensure the technical integrity and continued development of the assessments.

The WSU researchers also are developing programs for elementary schools, because signs of delinquency are evident by fifth-grade and sometimes even earlier, Strand said. About 80 schools across the state are using the platform, in addition to a school district in Georgia. Schools in California, Ohio and Connecticut also have expressed interest. “Schools in Spokane County that were using it, for example, experienced increased graduation rates,” Strand said. “Now, we’re working with a group that is part of WSU’s Learning and Performance Research Center to put the whole program into an online platform, with the help of WSU’s Social and Economic Sciences Research Center. Students can take the assessment and get immediate feedback. We’re also making it very affordable so schools have the means to access this resource.” The team’s research was supported by $150,000 and $98,000 grants from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, a $21,400 grant from the Washington State Administrative Office of the Courts, a $25,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/ Priority Spokane and a high-risk, highreward grant from the WSU College of Education. For more information on the assessment, visit warns.wsu.edu.

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INTERNSHIPS, From page 17 “I would like to expand my knowledge and see another side of the business field,” he said. Luckily, internships pursued within the same department are highly renewable, as Maggie Schappell can attest. Schappell, a graduating senior from Colorado State University studying environmental engineering, was a returning intern this summer to Bechtel’s Environmental, Safety and Health Department. “I really enjoyed the work I did last summer. I didn’t have to spend as much time training this time around and was able to jump right back in,” she said. Schappell focused specifically on environmental protection during her two internships. The environmental component of the Environmental, Safety & Health

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Department is comprised of three subgroups at Bechtel. Schappell was given opportunities to work in all three, as well as process improvement activities, which she feels will inform her future work. “I got to see just how massive and unique and challenging a project this is— it’s never really been done before. I got to take a step back from the day-to-day and see what this project is trying to complete for the community and the environment,” Schappell said. Schappell will graduate in December. “Given the opportunity, I would definitely come back here to work,” she said. Bechtel’s intern program often serves as a foot in the door to future careers for many interns. “Over half of the interns that go through (the waste treatment plant’s) program are returning for multiple internships or becom-

ing full-time college hires,” Rangel said. Given the company’s international reach, a host of potential job options in locations around the world also are available to former interns following graduation—a welcome boost in what has been a highly competitive employment sector inundated with competent degree holders. Now a full-time employee, former intern Katie Henckel has continued the work in air dispersion modeling that she began as an intern, in addition to new roles. “It’s been a neat journey to go from never using one of these programs before, learning briefly about it during my internship, and now doing it as a full-time employee … very cool to build on the knowledge from my internship,” she said. The highly coveted, paid, 10-week summer internships are posted in the fall online, and require applicants be “enrolled full time in an accredited college or university

and have completed at least nine months of full-time university studies,” Rangel said. Applicants also must be actively pursuing a field of study relevant to their intended internship focus. As the waste treatment plant nears completion, Armstrong said the internship program will continue and more full-time jobs will become available at the site as the plant comes online and begins to process waste in the coming years. “We have so many people out at the waste treatment plant working on it. It was once just a barren site out at the Hanford project,” Sargent said. “It’s pretty mindblowing … to see everyone work together on this complex project and watch it move forward through construction.” Internships are posted at jobs.bechtel. com. Click on the “recent graduates and students” section.

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Education & Training HERITAGE, From page 14 Spurred on by the success of the residency program, Heritage launched a second nontraditional teachers’ training program last fall. Like its predecessor, the accelerate program places prospective teachers into K-12 classrooms, where they train for their new profession. The difference is these students are employed by the school districts where they work as the teachers of record in the classrooms, while they are earning their degrees. Students start the program in the summer, spending six weeks in an intensive education institute preparing to take on their own classrooms in the fall. They teach five days a week and spend every other weekend in classes at the Heritage campus. It is the fastest route to earning a degree and open only to graduate-level students. Participants earn a master’s in teaching degree in one year. “These programs dramatically change how new teachers are trained,” said Merrilou Harrison, dean of Heritage’s College of Education. “This approach lets them play an important role in the classroom at the same time they earn their teaching credentials. “Letting them learn in the classroom is really just common sense. You do better learning through doing.” Word about these programs and the benefits that they provide to students is spreading locally, regionally and nationally, Harrison said. Teacher residencies like those offered at Heritage are unusual in cities but in a rural setting like Heritage’s, they’re almost unheard of, Harrison said. “We sit in the middle of hops fields, about as rural as you can get, and to have students able to do this in this part of the state is really unique,” she said. That uniqueness is part of what drew the National Center for Teacher Residencies to Heritage to do a case study on the programs. Heritage’s very deliberate move toward clinically-oriented teacher preparation — student teachers truly at work in the classroom — is part of what’s starting to happen across the country, the NCTR study authors noted. The university’s innovative approaches have drawn faculty to Heritage as well. “We have PhDs on our faculty who are coming to Heritage because of our mission of serving first-generation students and because of our innovative programs,” Harrison said. The accelerate program, with 60 stu-

dents, has almost tripled in size in its second year. The residency program has more than 75 students annually. Harrison credited the student experience, in particular the support of strong mentoring, and the added benefit of additional endorsements, with building a strong reputation for the program. “With accelerate in particular, student teachers have lots of mentoring and handson help, then graduate not only with their master’s and their teaching certificate, but also with an additional endorsement in either special education or English language learning. Our state calls both of these high-need areas, and these Heritage graduates are highly qualified in these realms,” she said. Graduates are in such high demand, Harrison said, that 100 percent of those applying for positions receive placement. The full impact of these two programs won’t necessarily be seen for several years, Harrison said. Research on student learning has long pointed to the benefit of having educators in the classroom whose ethnic and cultural backgrounds mirror their students. Because Heritage’s student body is almost 70 percent Hispanic and 11 percent Native American, many students in the residency and accelerate programs are minorities. Additionally, many of the Heritage students are second-language speakers and first-generation college graduates themselves, a fact not lost on their young students. “The children get to see a Hispanic or a Native American teacher — someone like

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Michigan provost selected as CBC’s new president BY TRI-CITIES AREA JOURNAL OF BUSINESS STAFF

The Columbia Basin College Board of Trustees has selected Rebekah Woods of Jackson, Michigan, as the new president of Columbia Basin College. Woods becomes the first woman and the sixth president in the 62-year history of the Pasco college. She begins her duties in November. Woods has served as the provost at Jackson College in Jackson, Michigan, since 2012. The community college serves 7,500 students each year with a budget of $44 million. Her recent positions include executive dean of instruction, dean of instruction of arts and sciences, and special assistant to the president, all at Jackson College. She also was dean for student and academic support and strategic enrollment management at Lansing Community College in Lansing, them — and they see they can follow their dreams too,” Harrison said. “The young students relate to these new teachers who demonstrate that college is a reachable goal for anyone with the drive to succeed. “One of the reasons these programs are so powerful is that students get to do things

Michigan. She earned a doctorate in organizational leadership from Regent University School of Business & Leadership in Virginia Beach; a juris doctor at Regent University School of Law; and a bachelor’s in psyRebekah Woods chology at Albion College in Albion, Michigan. Woods was among three finalists for the positions. The others were Barbara Hanson, chancellor at Louisiana Delta Community College in Monroe, Louisiana; and Rebecca Williamson, interim vice president of instruction at Green River Community College in Auburn, Washington. they never imagined, and it gets them more and more excited that they can achieve their dreams. It’s our job to remove barriers to achieving a quality education, to educate effectively both our students and the young students they teach. With these programs, that’s exactly what we do.”

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Trios explores possible partnership with Tennessee-based health care system Kennewick hospital district also considering enhanced relationship with UW Medicine BY TRI-CITIES AREA JOURNAL OF BUSINESS STAFF

Trios Health is exploring a relationship with a Tennessee-based health care system and UW Medicine that could reorganize the troubled Kennewick Public Hospital District’s existing rent and debt obligations to provide long-term viability. Trios and RCCH HealthCare Partners, based in Brentwood, Tennessee, already are working on a debt restructuring plan for Trios creditors as part of the Chapter 9 bankruptcy process. The hospital district filed for bankruptcy protection to reorganize $221 million in debt in June, and since February has been implementing strategies to return the district to solid financial footing. The structure of a potential deal has yet to be finalized, said Marv Kinney, president of the hospital district’s board of commissioners, in a statement. “Until those discussions come to fruition, the specific form of transaction that will result in affiliation and capital investment cannot be finalized,” Kinney said in a release. “What’s important for people to know is that we are making great strides to return Trios back to financial health and these organizations have indicated they want to be part of our comeback.” Seattle-based UW Medicine estab-

lished a strategic collaboration agreement with Trios Health in 2015. Talks include UW Medicine continuing in the role of clinical partner to Trios Health and the Tri-City community. UW Medicine would likely increase its engagement with Trios Health via a larger relationship with RCCH, according to Trios. “UW Medicine will continue to work with Trios to meet the needs of the community. RCCH and UW Medicine are working with Trios Health to create a platform for long-term financial viability and continued medical excellence. At this point, the structure of our relationship with Trios and RCCH has not been finalized,” said Tina Mankowski, spokesperson for UW Medicine. UW Medicine already has a relationship with RCCH, which owns Capital Medical Center in Olympia. Capital Medical Center is a member of UW Medicine’s accountable care network. UW Medicine and RCCH work together to provide patients access to services at UW Medicine’s Olympia neighborhood clinic and Capital Medical Center’s inpatient and outpatient specialty care facilities. Trios said the benefit of these kinds of strategic relationships with other health organizations has been demonstrated through similar arrangements occurring in the health care sector over the last sev-

eral years. Smaller health systems have struggled to meet the increasing demands created by the Affordable Care Act and joining or affiliating with larger systems allows them to more effectively adjust to the industry’s changes while maintaining access to local care, according to Trios. “We are already seeing it in Tri-Cities where, like many other communities throughout the Northwest and the country, stand-alone hospitals are joining other health systems. Trios Health believes a strategic relationship will allow the organization to emerge from bankruptcy earlier than expected and to further enhance and expand its clinical services, which would directly benefit the community,” Trios said in a release. RCCH is made up of 16 regional health systems in 12 states and has more than 14,000 employees and 2,000 affiliated physicians and mid-level providers. RCCH has built and is continuing to build a family of full-service community hospitals, each governed by a board made up of community leaders and physicians. RCCH provides expertise to the management team and significant access to capital for the entire organization to grow services, improve quality, strengthen outreach initiatives and enhance its local reputation. “Taking all of this into account, particularly RCCH’s focus on patients and local leadership, Trios Health believes that RCCH is a great option for (the hospital district) in terms of a potential rela-

tionship,” according to Trios. No change is anticipated in the hospital district’s tax assessments. A timeline has not yet been set for a potential deal to be finalized, as Trios first must negotiate with creditors before the federal bankruptcy court approves a plan. “We are pleased to be in discussions with these two esteemed institutions which see the value in what we offer and understand the tremendous opportunities within and for this community,” Kinney said in a statement. To address the financial problems, the hospital district board last year hired Quorum Health Resources, a Tennesseebased management consultant firm. The $395,000 contract with Quorum is for one year, and there is an option to renew another one to two years. Quorum pointed to four areas adversely affecting Trios’ performance: debt, aggressive market competition, provider productivity and work force efficiency. Quorum said the financial crisis followed the construction of the new hospital at Southridge and care center. The original hospital opened in 1952. More than 65 percent of hospital district voters rejected a 2007 proposal to build a new hospital. Trios maintains the facility is “much needed” in the community. Trios Medical Group, with nearly 100 employed physicians and providers, includes practices and services at eight care centers and one urgent care center.

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REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION Sale of Walla Walla County farmland expected to draw national interest Bids due Nov. 10 for 6,000-acre farm northwest of Touchet BY ROBIN WOJTANIK

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The deadline to snap up 6,000 acres well suited for crops or a destination vineyard is fast approaching. The Walla Walla County property owned by the Weidert family is northwest of Touchet, straddling Highway 12, about 20 miles from Pasco. Iowa-based Peoples Company is accepting sealed bids expected to be valued in the millions. Peoples Company president Steve Bruere said the Weidert family first began assembling the contiguous property about 50 years ago and likely never expected it would grow this large, but “always had a vision for something other than a wheat farm.” The realtor considers the land to be an unprecedented opportunity for buyers based on its location, water rights, elevation, drainage and slope. In the past, portions of the property have been used for wheat, potatoes and other

crops. Bruere said the land is ideal for permanent crops like grapes, apples or hops. As part of the two-year process of preparing for the sale, Bruere asked soil scientist and former Washington State University agriculture professor Alan Busacca to profile the land. “There is nowhere else in Washington state that I know of where the soil over such a large tract of land – several thousand acres – is so uniform and so perfect for perennial crops like tree fruits and grapes,” Busacca said. The land also is part of the Walla Walla Valley American Viticultural Area. AVAs are designated regions for growing wine grapes and distinguished by geographic features. The Walla Walla Valley AVA includes four distinct soils, and the soil profile found on thousands of acres within the Weidert farm includes Ellisforde and Sagemoor series soils. As Walla Walla AVA land became

The 6,000-acre Weidert farm in Walla Walla County, northwest of Touchet, is on the auction block, with sealed bids being accepted until Nov. 10. (Courtesy Peoples Company)

highly sought after, the Weidert family began working with the state Department of Ecology to acquire water rights and installed a state-of-the-art water delivery system, Bruere said. Additionally, the property is advertised as having an extremely high waterholding capacity. This allows for the potential to grow various permanent crops. The quality of the land’s soil, water and location are key to position-

ing the property for future development. During the two years since Bruere first took a helicopter tour of the land, he has been speaking with local farmers, winemakers and investors to spread the word and drum up interest in the property. Bruere said his real estate company was chosen for the sale due to its national presence and ability to share the listing on a broader level. uWEIDERT, Page 26

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WEIDERT, From page 25 “Properties of this quality, value and potential do not become available often,” he said. “With excellent climates suitable for permanent crops, an abundance of productive soils and superior access to water and distribution points, the Weidert property is extremely unique and highlycoveted.” Bruere said most transactions he handles are straightforward, but this offering presented a new opportunity to think outside the box as a means of properly articulating the listing to the marketplace. Bruere expects the sale to be “one of the larger development deals the area has seen.” There is no set listing price for the property, which has resulted in the accep-

tance of sealed bids only. “The Weiderts wanted to make sure everyone had an opportunity and not to put a cap on it,” Bruere said. He would only confirm its value to be in the millions. The property is owned by Tim and Jennifer Weidert of Pendleton, Oregon. Tim Weidert said the family first bought 50 acres near the highway. “Over the years, when we were putting this farm together, we always had a vision that it would probably go into permanent crop. And now is going to be the time,” he said. Bids for the property are due Nov. 10. More information at weidertland.com.

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Dancing with the Tri-City Stars is gearing up to showcase the moves of Tri-City stars. The program will be at 7 p.m. Oct. 6 at Chief Joseph Middle School Auditorium, 504 N. Wilson St., Richland. The event, sponsored by local dance instructor Beth Trost, is entering its third year. The Utah Ballroom Dance Company will train eight local celebrities for the competition, as well as present their own showcase after intermission. This year’s participants are Bruce Walker, a Columbia Basin College

music professor and conductor; Deidra Murphy, Mrs. Washington 2017; David Sawicki, a retired combat veteran; Lori Lott, Tri-Cities Cancer Center special events coordinator; Roberto Parra, fitness instructor; Michelle Gonenen, Richland police officer; Scott Smith, State Farm Insurance agent; and Jade Redinger, an anchor with KAPP/ KVEW TV. Judges will be Mary Lou Gnoza, Justin Raffa and Rich Breshears. Tickets are $30 and available at A-1 Shoes in Marineland Village, 201 N. Edison St., Kennewick, and Boutique 627, 627 The Parkway, Richland, or at dancebybethtrost.com. For more information, call 509-586-7609.

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A new pet store and dental clinic have set up shop on the busy corner of Burden Boulevard and Road 68 in Pasco. The two national chains, Petco and Aspen Dental, are at 7160 Burden Blvd. in front of Lowe’s. Aspen Dental recently opened in Suite 102.

The 3,000-square-foot dental office is led by Dr. Adel Mrihil, who will provide services ranging from dentures and denture repairs to preventive care, general dentistry and restoration. The new clinic will offer several patient-friendly programs and services, including personalized treatment, an on-site denture lab and a denture money-

back guarantee. The Pasco clinic is one of eight Aspen Dental practices in Washington, a state where 38 of the 39 counties, including Franklin County, are designated as dental health professional shortage areas by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Each new Aspen Dental practice supports local community growth by contributing more than $1.3 million to the economy through job creation and capital investment, according to a study conducted by Syracuse University’s Whitman School of Management. Aspen Dental has nearly 650 offices in 36 states. To make appointments, call 509-416-5903 or visit aspendental.com. The new 11,000-square-foot Petco retail store in Suite 101 is still under construction. The building, valued at $971,960, will offer pet services and supplies and add to the 50-year-old company’s 1,470 locations across the United States, Mexico and Puerto Rico. Yost Gallagher Construction in Spokane is the contractor. Petco has stores in Richland and Kennewick. The land is owned by the Department of Natural Resources and leased by Dave Black Properties. The overall cost of the project is $1.3 million.

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Advance Auto Parts stores expand into Tri-City market Kennewick store is open; Pasco store is under construction; Richland store to open in 2018 BY LAURA KOSTAD

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A national car parts store has decided expanding into the Tri-City market is a good idea. Advance Auto Parts opened at 105 N. Ely St. in Kennewick in May. A Pasco store is under construction and one is planned in Richland in the coming year. The national chain, headquartered in Roanoke, Virgina, operates throughout the state, including stores in Spokane, Yakima and Wapato, primarily supplying commercial repair dealerships and other parts stores, such as Les Schwab. Travis Timmons, general manager at the Kennewick store, said the company identified competitive market opportunities in the Tri-City region. The Pasco store is under construction on the site of the old Dairy Queen at the corner of Court Street and 14th Avenue. Development of the 8,000-squarefoot Pasco site began in June. Corstone Contractors of Snohomish is the general contractor. The new location is set to open near the end of October, with a Richland store to follow next year. Timmons will be co-managing the Kennewick and Pasco locations until a store manager is selected for the new shop. Twelve to 14 employees work in each store. Timmons reported that business has been good and growing at the Kennewick store since moving into the new, 10,000-square-foot space next door to Rite Aid. “We’re the largest retailer of aftermarket auto parts in North America,” Timmons said. Though the company identifies other major auto parts retailers, O’Reilly Auto Parts and AutoZone, as its primary competitors in the area, Timmons said “we bring the benefits of doing business with a national chain and bring it down to a hometown store level.” Advance Auto Parts holds true to founder Arthur Taubman’s vision in 1932 to be a purveyor of parts for everyday consumers. Today, the company continues to serve car restoration hobbyists and those who prefer to do repair work themselves. Over the course of Advance Auto Parts’ 85 years in business, the company has grown to acquire several other auto parts chains throughout the country, including General Parts International Inc. in 2013. Advance Auto Parts also operates its WORLDPAC and Carquest stores. Timmons said these acquisitions have helped the company to evolve to meet market demands. He said the purchase of Carquest, in particular, introduced a commercial focus to Advance Auto Parts, amid increasingly complex and computerized car designs, which have narrowed the do-it-yourself market. “Now we have the best of both worlds,” he said.

Timmons said that great pricing, a stringent hiring process and strong commitment to customer service companywide have contributed to Advance Auto Parts’ success. “We hire the best in the industry to work for us. A lot of our guys have worked in the industry for a long time in repairs, major repair dealerships and other parts stores,” said Timmons, who has 18 years in the industry. “Knowledgeable people that genuinely care about what’s going wrong with your car. “It begins with the employees being happy first, which transcends to the customers … our frontline guys are the glory of the company.” Timmons said his team’s goal is to put a smile on the customers’ faces by the time they leave. Local shop referrals after a casual assessment of the vehicle are not uncommon. “Even if they’re not buying, we’re going to put them in the right direction,” he said. And if Advance Auto doesn’t carry the part? “If the part exists, we’ll find it for you. If we don’t carry it, we’ll buy it, and sell it to you. We want to provide customers with what they need every time, which guarantees repeat business,” Timmons said.

The Pasco Advance Auto Parts store is under construction at the corner of Court Street and 14th Avenue. A Richland store is planned to open next year. The Kennewick store at 105 N. Ely St. opened in May.

In addition to its focus on customer relations, Advance Auto Parts champions community involvement. Since the Kennewick store’s opening, Timmons got the local branch involved with the annual Corvettes on the Columbia event and became a member of the Tri-City Regional Chamber of Commerce. Timmons said he hopes to start up periodic, store-hosted clinics on car safety and other related topics in the future. Advance Auto Parts also participates in many major donation drives, such as the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, Red Cross disaster relief, United Way’s after-school education

programs and Building Homes for Heroes. The company is also focused on advancing its environmental practices through the sustainable disposal of many waste streams, including car batteries, motor oil and filters, antifreeze and shipping materials. Retrofitting of existing stores to more energy efficient options, such as LED lighting, high-efficiency heating ventilation and air conditioning, and the installation of energy management systems, have on average reduced energy usage by 30 percent per store, according to the company’s website. The Kennewick store can be reached at 509-396-2582.

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WALK, From page 11 Those who want to participate in the walk can register the day of the event, though Woodfill encourages advance registration. It’s free to walk, but Woodfill hopes those who do attend can donate. Woodfill said 60 percent of the event’s walkers are “zero dollar walkers” who aren’t raising any money. “It’s fabulous to have that awareness but I have to think even if they give $25 on walk day what kind of an impact that would have on availability of funds on local programs and research,” she said, adding that it’s easy to do by asking friends to contribute a nominal amount. A variety of vendors will be in attendance to share information about senior

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care and aging issues, and a photo booth is planned. The walk moved to Columbia Park this year because it outgrew Clover Island. Last year, 520 people participated and organizers are hoping for 650 this year. Those who plan to register the day of the event should arrive at 12:30 p.m. The walk kicks off at 2 p.m. Poland-Knapik said it’s important to her family to raise awareness about the disease because when her mother was diagnosed, people stopped coming by and didn’t know how to talk about it. “Once you say you have it, you’re going to die with it. There’s not a survivor. Hopefully in my lifetime, there will be a survivor,” she said. Her sister, Candy Thornhill, oversees a

fundraiser in partnership with the Tri-City Americans hockey team. This year’s Alzheimer’s Awareness Night is Oct. 21. Proceeds from T-shirt and ticket sales plus a silent auction have helped to raise more than $27,000 for the association since 2012. No Alzheimer’s survivors have been able to drop the puck at the games because no one survives the disease, Thornhill said. She said her family hopes their efforts help, so one day no one dies from the disease. Tickets for the game can be bought at http://bit.ly/AmsAlzheimer. More information about the Walk to End Alzheimer’s can be found at act.alz. org, by calling 509-321-4538 or emailing lwoodfill@alz.org.

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Benton Fire District 4 fire insurance rating improves

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$4 million warehouse project underway in Vista Field Industrial Park First of two 40,000-square-foot warehouses expected to be completed by end of year

They house businesses like Rodda Paint, Lumber Liquidators and Columbia Basin Ice. A new warehouse is under construction O’Brien said he and his tenants have in the Vista Field Industrial Park in seen no real effect from the closure of the Kennewick will look similar to four others Vista Field airport in 2013. nearby. The industrial site’s easy freeway access O’Brien Construction plans two ware- combined with a central location has houses, totaling 80,000-square-feet of O’Brien optimistic for the future of space, called Vista III north of Quay Street, increased distribution. It’s why he thinks around the corner from its other ware- the new warehouses will be occupied houses that have been in place for a decade. quickly. At least 40 Owner Tom percent of the buildO’Brien said each ing is already pre“I believe Vista warehouse is worth rented and the founabout $2 million. dation hasn’t been Field is the hub The first laid, he said. of the Tri-Cities.” 40,000-square-foot He declined to diswarehouse in Vista III close the names of the on West Hood Place is - Tom O’Brien, new tenants. targeted for compleIt’s been seven owner of O’Brien tion by the end of the years since the comConstruction year, with an identical pletion of the last second building next warehouse, Vista II. door scheduled to be completed by the end O’Brien said he’s partnered with George of March. Dress, owner of Ranch & Home, to build O’Brien has two identical buildings in Vista II and Vista III. King City as well. Each warehouse can be subdivided into He said Vista III is the third phase of his 5,000-square-foot sections, built 50-byvision for land originally purchased from 100, with every tenant receiving a ground the Port of Kennewick. level door, ground level overhead door and “I gambled and it paid off. So I gambled recessed dock door for truck access. again and it paid off. I have faith in the TriO’Brien said he didn’t “invent the Cities and I have faith in Vista Field,” wheel” when it came to dreaming up the O’Brien said. concept of his warehouses, but learned He bought 15 acres from the port a from other developers’ design trials and decade ago, with the expectation of future errors before building his own. success. Described as a “big box,” the ware“I believe Vista Field is the hub of the houses are built simply so O’Brien can Tri-Cities,” he said. quickly accommodate tenants by adding or Tenants of his current warehouses main- removing a wall as needed to increase or ly deal in distribution and wholesale, but decrease the space utilized. also in retail. BY ROBIN WOJTANIK

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Construction is underway on the Vista III warehouse in Kennewick. The first 40,000-square-foot building will be completed by end of year. A second is expected to be finished in March.

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WSU TRI-CITIES STUDENT UNION BUILDING 2710 CRIMSON WAY• RICHLAND

Construction on Washington State University Tri-Cities’ new Student Union Building — called the SUB — was completed Aug. 14 and the grand opening was celebrated Sept. 14. The building will be used for student leisure, study, meetings and events. WSU Tri-Cities students voted to assess a fee upon themselves to pay for construction of the $5.73 million facility. There are about 2,000 stu-

dents enrolled at the branch campus. The 6,250-square-foot building has meeting rooms, multipurpose space and a lounging/recreation area for students. It also has a large cougar head design on the exterior of the glass and an outdoor gas fire pit. The interior features Coug colors of crimson and gray. The building at 2710 Crimson Way in north Richland is adjacent to the Consolidated

Information Center building on campus. The general contractor/architect for the project was Leon and Keeble Inc. of Spokane. The completion of the building, in conjunction with a growing campus and student housing, is turning the university into the premier destination campus in the region for STEM fields and wine science education.

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New self-storage facility to open in Pasco next spring BY ELSIE PUIG

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The Tri-Cities is growing and with that growth comes demand for more storage space. The new 84,000-square-foot self-storage facility — Self-Storage at Chapel Hill — will be opening next spring off Road 68 and Chapel Hill Boulevard in Pasco. Owners Dave and Sue Peachey also own Kennewick Mini Storage on 3208 W. Hood Ave. They recently sold Vista Mini Storage on Columbia Center Boulevard in Kennewick. “We are family owned and operated and have been for the last 33 years,” Sue Peachey said. “It has always been a dream of ours to build and operate stateof-the art self-storage facilities. The TriCities has been growing for the last 10 years and the need for self-storage, apartments and strip malls is in great demand.” Chapel Hill Blvd. LLC bought seven acres of undeveloped land at 6615 Chapel Hill Blvd. for $1.2 million in July, according to public records. Four retail spaces will be available for rent in a new strip mall on the property. The facility will offer about 8,000 square feet of space for lease, combined with 2,000 square feet for the storage facility’s main office and residence. “We have already been contacted by several people through word of mouth about the retail spaces, including a restaurant franchise and a furniture store,” Sue Peachy said. “We’re all set up for a restaurant to come in.” G2 Construction is the general contractor and Design West is the architect. The project will cost about $3 million to $4 million to complete. The self-storage units will offer a variety of sizes, from as small as 4-by-8 feet and as large as 19-by-50 feet, as well as designated parking for RVs, boats and trailers. All the units will have door alarms with a coded access at the gates. Unit rent starts at $40 per month, and all rental agreements are on a month-tomonth basis. When the project is completed, SelfStorage at Chapel Hill should have about 635 total units in addition to the RV

uBUSINESS BRIEF Benton PUD offering informational meetings

Benton PUD has scheduled two public informational meetings on key utility topics. The utility will be presenting “Benton PUD Broadband: Connecting Our Community” at 5:30 p.m. Sept. 20 and “Emergency Technologies: The Next Era of Electricity Use” at 5:30 p.m. Sept. 27. All meetings will be at the Benton PUD auditorium, 2721 W. 10th Ave., Kennewick. For more information, go to bentonpud.org.

spaces. “Although customers can rent a unit online, nothing takes the place of having an office and a professional property manager on site who is able to help with a customer’s individual needs,” Sue Peachey said. “We pride ourselves on our exceptional customer service. Because we are family-owned, our friendly staff can do just about anything to meet the needs of our customers. The entire staff is super excited about this project.” Tenants can reach the business by email, info@selfstorageatchapelhill.com; at the on-site office at 6615 Chapel Hill Blvd.; on Facebook; or at SelfStorageatChapelHill.com.

New Self-Storage at Chapel Hill at 6615 Chapel Hill Blvd. in Pasco planned to break ground on their project Sept. 11. Construction is expected to be completed by spring.

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OASIS PHYSICAL THERAPY & ORANGETHEORY FITNESS 1020 QUEENSGATE DRIVE• RICHLAND

A $1.3 million strip mall at 1020 Queensgate Drive is home to Oasis Physical Therapy and Orangetheory Fitness Studio in south Richland. This Oasis clinic is the fourth location for the Tri-Cities business owned by Mindi Irvine, who is also the executive director. The first Oasis Physical Therapy opened in

Pasco in 2002, next to what is the Lifequest building by TRAC. It has since moved to Burden Boulevard. Four years later, the next Oasis Physical Therapy building opened in north Richland. The third company office on 24th Avenue in Kennewick, near South Union Street, opened in 2014.

The Orangetheory fitness center franchise offers trainer-led 60-minute workouts broken into intervals of cardiovascular and strength training using a variety of equipment. The fitness studio is the second Orangetheory location for Cote and his wife, Melissa. Their first franchised studio opened on Spokane’s South Hill on Jan. 1, just in time to take advantage of those making New Year’s resolutions. The couple plan a second location in Spokane as well. The studio will be open seven days a week, with operating hours likely to be from 5 a.m. to 8 p.m. weekdays. Only one class is offered at a time, with every attendee completing the same workout simultaneously in a large room. More than 1,000 franchise licenses have been awarded and more than 500 studios are open. Meier Architecture of Kennewick designed the building.

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Three new businesses move into Port of Grandview business park

About 37 acres left for development in Byam Business Park BY KRISTINA LORD editor@tcjournal.biz

A construction company, diesel mechanic shop and a bulk food-grade tanker transportation business have bought property and plan to set up shop in the Port of Grandview’s Byam Business Park. Bestebreur Bros. Construction, Fast Mobile Service and Indian River Transport each have bought port property and are getting ready to start or have begun building at the business park on Colleen’s Way off Stover Road in Grandview. “Having three new major businesses under construction at one time is a major step in the Port of Grandview’s efforts to bring new business and jobs to the district,” said port Commissioner Jim Sewell. The port acquired the 70-acre Byam Business Park in 1997. About 37 acres are left for development. Sewell said the property has infrastructure in place and environmental reviews completed. “It saves a great deal of time because (businesses) don’t have to do the (State Environmental Policy Act) report; it’s already done; the studies on wetlands, endangered species, done. It speeds up

the process dramatically. More important is there’s no uncertainty. … It’s shovelready,” Sewell said, adding that all a business owner has to do is submit a building plan to the city. Bestebreur Bros. Construction of Sunnyside bought three acres from the port for $130,371 on the west end of the business park. The company has been in business since 1958 and works throughout southeastern Washington on projects ranging from commercial construction to civil and industrial projects. It plans to build a new shop and office and relocate its home office to Grandview. It is planning to move into the new building by Thanksgiving. Glenn Bestebreur of Bestebreur Bros. Construction said he looked at property throughout the Yakima Valley and found the port property to be a good value. “The infrastructure is all there – water/ sewer, curb and gutter, the streets are paved and preliminary soil (tests) are done,” he said. “It’s ready to build on.” Fast Mobile Service paid $380,800 for its eight-and-a-half-acre site. Started by owners David and Fatima Ruelas in 2005, the business has been in Sunnyside for the past 12 years. Fast Mobile Service is a diesel mechan-

The Port of Grandview acquired 70 acres for Byam Business Park in 1997. About 37 acres are left for development at the shovel-ready site.

ic shop specializing in the service and repair of semi-trucks and farm machinery, as well as fleet maintenance and repair and offers 24/7 emergency roadside assistance. This year, the company opened a parts store that carries parts for semitrucks and trailers. Its property is on the south end of Colleen’s Way. Fatima Ruelas said the business plans to build a four-bay shop on the property, as well as space for its parts store. The company expects to finish its building by January and move in in February. It also plans to start with 13 employees and hire

more as the business grows. “We chose the Port of Grandview property because of the location, and they made the process very easy for us,” said Fatima Ruelas. “Working with the Port of Grandview has been the easiest part about this whole process. They were willing to help us in any way they could and guided us through this process.” Indian River Transport, a company based in Winter Haven, Florida, paid $250,000 for a five-acre site at the corner of Colleen’s Way and Stover Road. uGRANDVIEW, Page 38

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REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION RICHLAND, From page 1 The money for the new building will come from selling councilmanic bonds, or non-voted debt, backed by general fund revenue. To pay down the 30-year debt, the city will use revenue from paying off the debt for the city shops near Vintner Square and existing electric utility taxes. “What’s interesting and cool about this project is it’s more building than we normally could afford,” Schiessl said. The three-story, 40,840-square-foot building will be constructed using designbuild contracting. This means the city hires the builder and architect together, which saves money. “It hasn’t been an option for public construction until pretty recently,” Schiessl said. “We expect to save 30 percent on the project cost.” A 3,345-square-foot basement to house records is also part of the work. Spokane-based Leone & Keeble is the general contractor. Architects are Architects West of Coeur d’Alene and Opsis Architecture of Portland. Schiessl said the new building features “a beautiful floor plan and stunning architecture. It has a lobby atrium environment.” “I think the community is really going to be proud of it,” he said. The city council requested a building that “feels like it suits our past but has to

uBUSINESS BRIEFS Tri-Cities Community Health offering exchange help

Washington Health Benefit Exchange has named Tri-Cities Community Health as one of the organizations throughout the state to oversee in-person assistance during open enrollment, which begins Wednesday, Nov. 1. Tri-Cities Community Health will be available to help guide individuals and families signing up for insurance coverage through Washington Healthplanfinder during the enrollment process, determine how well current health plans worked and explore new coverage options. It also will build and manage networks of navigators in the service area. Those needing to connect with a navigator before or during the enrollment period can go to wahealthplan finder.org and click on “customer support.” Assistance also is available by calling 855-923-4633.

look toward the future,” Schiessl said. “When you see the architecture, it will be hard to argue it doesn’t fit on that site,” he said. The building’s main entrance will face Swift Boulevard and a secondary entrance will face the parking lot to the south. The building is expected to have a life cycle of 60 years and to look timeless. The exterior will feature precast concrete panels, glass, steel and brick masonry “to stand the test of time,” Schiessl said. “The interior is beautiful but also modest and uses the same durable materials.” The new facility will house just under 90 employees. It’ll move city staff from three buildings — city hall, the administration annex and the development services department — under one roof and out of aging buildings, creating a one-stop shop for residents and customers. All of the energy services employees, except for permit center staff, will move to the city shops building. Human resources staff will move from the city shops into the new building. The cost to improve or maintain the existing buildings outweigh the cost of a combined new facility, Schiessl said. Schiessl said the new city hall building permit is under review. A ground breaking at the site is planned for 10 a.m. Sept. 22.

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Richland city officials will break ground at 10 a.m. Sept. 22 on a new threestory, 40,840-square-foot city hall building at 625 Swift Blvd. The building’s main entrance will face Swift Boulevard and a secondary entrance will face the parking lot to the south. It’s expected to be complete by spring 2019. (Courtesy city of Richland)

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Papé Machinery Construction buys Pasco John Deere dealership BY ROBIN WOJTANIK

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A multi-million dollar new building is planned in Pasco following the sale of the John Deere dealership. The recent acquisition of Rowand Machinery, which owned John Deere dealerships in Pasco and Spokane, by Papé Machinery Construction & Forestry has resulted in a rebranding of the location on East James Street. Prior to the sale in the spring, Rowand Machinery applied for a $3.6 million new commercial construction permit at 1925 E. James St., according to public building records. In July, the company

applied for a $286,000 permit for major mechanical work at the property. Spokane-based Garco Construction is the general contractor. Details about the project were not disclosed by company officials. Eugene, Oregon-based Papé Machinery Construction & Forestry now owns nine companies throughout Washington, as well as 14 other sites in Oregon, Idaho, California and Nevada. The asset purchase of Rowand Machinery Co. was effective Aug. 4. Neither company disclosed the financial terms of the sale. “We are pleased to welcome the Rowand teams to Papé Machinery,

where for more than 75 years we have built a reputation for always keeping our customers moving,” said Rodger Spears, president of Papé Machinery, Construction & Forestry, in a statement. “All of us with Papé Machinery look forward to supporting Rowand customers and continuing to be part of the communities the company has served for decades.” Rowand Machinery Company has served its customers for more than 55 years and should expect a seamless transition under the new ownership, said Geoff Rowand, operations manager and general counsel, in a statement. Rowand has remained with the com-

pany since the acquisition and is awaiting the announcement of the ground breaking on the new John Deere facility, following the completion of financing for the project. The Papé Group has been a familyowned company since 1938, focusing on the heavy equipment industry. Its division focused on machinery, construction and forestry equipment features new and used equipment sales, a parts department and equipment rentals. Its subsidiaries sell or lease equipment for construction, agriculture, forestry, trucking and other industries.

uBUSINESS BRIEFS Columbia Center Rotary offers new program for young professionals

The Columbia Center Rotary Club is inviting the public to join its new membership program called Our Satellite aimed at young professionals who have a passion for service to local and global communities, but can’t attend breakfast meetings or leave work midday to attend regular lunch meetings. The group will meet at 6 p.m. the first and third Wednesday of each month at Ice Harbor Brewing Company, 206 N. Benton St., Kennewick. The fourth Wednesday of each month will be designated as a social event. Members are expected to attend at least 60 percent of all meetings and attend a Columbia Center Rotary Club noon meeting once per quarter. New membership costs a one-time fee of $65 and $60 per quarter. For more information about becoming a member, call 509-736-2306 or go to columbiacenterrotarysatellite.com.

GRANDVIEW, From page 35 The bulk food-grade tanker transportation service hauls commodities consisting of any food-grade liquid. Its new terminal will include a repair facility and a food-grade tank wash. The company plans to open during the third quarter of 2018 and bring 20 to 30 employees to the site. Steve Ferguson of Indian River Transport said the company chose to buy the port’s property because of its central location and the support from the port team. The port also has worked to fill its Wallace Way property, which is home to more than a half-dozen businesses. The port acquired the 50-acre site in the mid-90s. One three-acre lot is left for development. For more information about the port, Byam Business Park and other available properties, email office@portofgrandview.org or call 509-882-9975.

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Kennewick agency uses video storytelling as marketing strategy to sell homes BY ROBIN WOJTANIK

for Tri-Cities Area Journal of Business

A local broker is using paid actors to showcase how a listed house can be a home. Tri-Cities Life Real Estate of Kennewick has used this unusual approach for one of its higher-end home listings and has plans to shoot another video. Broker Steve Lambert isn’t making videos for every listing, but considers the marketing tool perfect for some properties. “I felt like there was an opportunity to really create and deliver something at a much higher level that our clients deserved,” Lambert said. “These are expensive homes. These really deserve to be put out there in a very elegant and professional way.” Produced by B r y a n McGlothin of River Road Media, the video created for Lambert was Steve Lambert shot in a single Tri-Cities Life day and later Real Estate edited. McGlothin called the product, “Your Home’s Story,” and his goal was to go beyond the typical drone flyover footage, or a walk-through with a 360-degree camera. “A home purchase is an emotional one,” McGlothin said. “When we watch movies, we identify with a character. As potential clients view our home-tour stories with actors, they will become more emotionally-involved and moved toward a purchase.”

Lola Franklin, executive director of Tri-City Association of Realtors, wasn’t aware of any other Tri-City realtor using actors in videos to sell homes, but she said she thinks it’s a great idea. “It’s an innovative way to advertise a property. The national association does it all the time,” she said, adding that when there’s a person in a photo, “it’s always more interesting. Same goes for video.” The real estate videos Lambert uses average about $600, a price that may not be paid exclusively by the agent listing and marketing the property. Lambert said some sellers may be willing to split the cost. In the video shot for a vineyard estate on North Clover Road in Kennewick, a male and female actor play married homeowners. As the video begins, the couple head through the home’s front door carrying grocery bags. The video offers a fly-on-the-wall view of the rooms in the house as the couple goes about everyday tasks like unloading groceries, retrieving bedding from a linen cabinet and working in the house’s shop. A cameo of a cat walking by, a bubbling water feature and a crackling fireplace also add layers to the production. The camera work offers artistic angles of the home and its features, suggesting a feeling of what it would be like to live inside and not just walk through it. The actors shared a bottle of wine at sunset as the video concluded. The home is listed at $975,000 and has not yet sold. Lambert said this price point doesn’t move as quickly as other listings in the Tri-City market, but he’s confident the right buyer will come along. Before creating the video, Lambert had to go to the local Multiple Listings

Actors Patrick Killoran and Amy-Lynne Darling share a bottle of wine on the deck of a home for sale in Kennewick. They appear in a video promoting the sale of a home listed with Tri-Cities Life Real Estate. Broker Steve Lambert said the video marketing tool is perfect for higher-end properties. (Courtesy TriCities Life Real Estate)

Service, or MLS, to ask for permission to put actors in the video. Homes added to the MLS database are searchable by agents and brokers as a way to share information about a property listed for sale. The MLS granted permission to use the actors as long as branded and nonbranded versions of the videos were used. Lambert said feedback on the video has been positive. “As a home buyer, it helps me see the house, and lets me envision living there,” Lambert said. “The other side of it is that some people say, ‘It’s good for

my business as an agent, but is it really helping to sell my house? You’re getting your name all over the place but is it really selling my house?’ That’s a double-edged sword. My name has to get out in order to help you sell your house.” Lambert said he intends to use the video for other purposes, like training agents and to recruit potential clients. It’s an approach that falls in line with Lambert’s business philosophy to not just buy or sell homes in a traditional manner, but to create fun, enjoyable experiences for clients. To watch the full video, go to https:// vimeo.com/218972289.

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uBUSINESS BRIEFS October film festival to screen more than 75 films

The Tri-Cities International Film Festival planned in October will screen more than 75 films of more from across the U.S. and abroad. The festival will run from Oct. 20-22 in Richland. Science fiction short films will be shown from 6 to 10 p.m. Oct. 20 at the Uptown Theater. “SMART (Special Mobile Animal Rescue Team),” a story of a highly-specialized animal rescue team funded and operated by a county of Los Angeles, will be at 7 p.m. Oct. 20 at the Uptown Theater. Writer and director Justin Zimmerman will be available for ques-

tions and discussions after the screening. International horror film shorts will screen from 6 to 8 p.m. Oct. 21 in Richland’s Confluence Space. Anyone in costume will get in for half-price, and best costume as voted by the audience will receive a prize. Fan films, animations, science fiction and fantasy shorts will be shown from noon to 4 p.m. Oct. 22 at the Richland Community Center. In addition, a Film Challenge kicks off at 6 p.m. Oct. 12. Teams of filmmakers will be given a prop, line of dialogue and instructions and must create, shoot, edit and submit a finished film by 6 p.m. Oct. 15. There are open and student categories, and the winners and runners-up will be shown Oct. 21 during the festival. Tickets are $10 for a single-day pass or $20 for the entire festival. Advanced tick-

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WSU wine program receives $1M from Wine Spectator

In the first scholarship of its kind in the Northwest, a Wine Spectator Scholarship Foundation will donate $1 million to the Washington State University Viticulture & Enology Program. The donation will be dedicated to teaching lab and facilities as well as scholarship for viticulture and enology students. Half of the donation will support the build-out of the life science teaching laboratory at the Ste. Michelle Wine Estates WSU Wine Science Center on the WSU Tri-Cities campus in Richland. The rest of

the money will go toward $100,000 in scholarships every year for five years. The atrium of the Wine Science Center will be named The Wine Spectator Atrium in recognition of the gift.

Development League schedules annual meeting

The Columbia Basin Development League has set its 2017 annual meeting. The theme this year is The Columbia Basin Project: Continuing the Legacy. The meeting will be from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Nov. 2 at Big Bend Community College’s ATEC Building, 7611 Bolling St. N.E., Moses Lake. Early bird registration is $65. After Oct. 19, the cost is $85. To register, go to http://bit.ly/2gwo0Nj. For more information, call 509-782-9442 or go to cbdl.org.

Real Estate & Construction REMODEL, From page 1 Resident manager Deb LaVelle said she expects it will be disruptive, but she’s also heard some residents are looking forward to it, viewing it as a minivacation complete with a swimming pool and outings to nearby stores and restaurants. Kennewick Garden Apartments, built in 1980, includes 27 units spread across six buildings. Each building consists of four or six units, with one building dedicating a unit to the resident manager’s office, on-site laundromat and storage. Each apartment is about 550 square feet with one bedroom and one full bathroom. Residents must be at least 62 years old to live there and meet income limits based on federal Housing and Urban Development guidelines. Tenants sign a one-year lease and must re-certify each year to be eligible to continue to live at the complex, including providing proof of income and documentation of medical expenses. Rent varies per person and is calculated using federal guidelines. It won’t increase as a result of the improvements. Part of the work includes making the units more equitable. Three of the units are accessible to wheelchair-bound tenants. Based on the needs and the interests of residents, these kinds of additions have been made over time. Some units include a ramp at the back door, while others have stairs. Once built, the ramps remain, even if a future tenant didn’t require them. The remodel will remove all of the ramps and replace only those that are needed. Some units also have more grass or garden space than their neighbor’s yards. “My biggest goal, and this is what’s exciting for me personally, is that by the time this is all done, we want to create a space that’s completely equal to everybody, no matter how long they’ve lived here,” LaVelle said. The first phase of the project began this month with three residents, including LaVelle, relocated during the week while construction got underway. The second phase will require seniors to remain out of their homes for nine hours each day, with the ability to return after 5 p.m. to spend the night. The first building to be remodeled is the resident manager’s office, common area and laundromat. The schedule was designed so during remodels throughout the fall, residents can use the expanded common area to rest when they are not allowed inside their homes. Each remodeled unit feature a washer and dryer. Bathtubs will be removed and replaced with showers, and carpeting will be swapped for laminate flooring to avoid falls. The units will be more energy-efficient with new glass and glazing on the windows, LED lighting through the interior and exterior, as well as air conditioning units replaced and baseboard heaters removed. Improvements also will be made to the complex’s landscaping, irrigation, signage, parking lot and sidewalks.

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Tenant Lorna Davis, 77, stands on her front porch at the Kennewick Garden Apartments. The affordable senior housing complex on West Fifth Avenue is undergoing an extensive remodel that will require residents to stay temporarily at a hotel.

The concrete courtyard will receive a covered patio to encourage a sense of community and socializing. It’s something LaVelle misses about the culture she found when she first moved in five years ago. “Every day they gathered outside. They’d start coming out with coffee and then they’d go in and have lunch, and they’d come back out again. They’d go in and have dinner, and they’d come back out and stay outside until 10, 11 o’clock at night. Every day,” she said. Now, LaVelle said, most tenants stick to socializing with those who live in their own building. “It’s been sad for me to watch that go away,” she said. She knows part of the change may be due to some residents’ inability to access the outdoor seating area while using their mobility devices. Resident Lorna Davis, 77, who has lived at Kennewick Garden for three years, joked as she talked about infrequent socializing. “It doesn’t bother me. I have another life. I don’t know what it is, but someday I’ll find it,” she said. Improvements to the common areas, including the courtyard and remodeled activity room, are the changes LaVelle speaks about with the most enthusiasm. For many residents at the complex, this remodeling project will be their second. Each unit received updated kitchens and bathrooms in 2015. The buildings were also re-roofed and 18 trees removed.

LaVelle wasn’t surprised when she learned of the next extensive remodel planned for the complex. She said evaluations and inspections at the beginning of the year were indicative that more improvements were on the way. President Tom Anderson of United Marketing Inc., a property management company, said the property was sold, and as part of the financing, the new buyers were issued tax credits through the Washington State Housing Finance Commission. This is how they paid for the remodeling work, he said. The commission’s goal is to create and preserve affordable housing in the

state. It is able to allocate federal housing tax credits, which allow developers to raise capital by selling the credits to investors. “The housing tax credit is our state’s, and our nation’s, most effective resource for developing and preserving affordable housing,” said Karen Miller, the commission’s chairwoman. “Rural, urban and suburban communities gain not only construction jobs, but housing that stays affordable for decades.” Since the commission formed in 1987, the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit has financed 31 properties in Benton and Franklin counties, creating or preserving a total of 3,015 rental units, including 470 units set aside for seniors. These figures include the Kennewick Garden project, which is estimated to cost more than $575,000, according to public building records. The Kennewick project is scheduled to be completed by the end of the year. As the resident manager, LaVelle has a front row seat to see how the project will affect each resident. She’s optimistic the inconveniences will all be worth it and Kennewick Garden residents will find a new sense of belonging. “You’d be amazed at how much what happens to tenants impacts the entire complex,” LaVelle said. “Even if they don’t socialize a lot, you still feel a loss when somebody leaves, and the excitement when somebody new comes in. We’re a community. I would like to see that tenant closeness come back and for people to enjoy each other.”

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uBUSINESS BRIEFS Emergency grazing granted in Franklin County

The U.S. Department of Agriculture Farm Service Agency authorized Franklin County for emergency grazing use of Conservation Reserve Program acres. Emergency haying ended Aug. 30. Unlike previous years, counties are not automatically approved for CRP emergency grazing when they reach severe drought levels. If there is a need for emergency grazing, each local FSA office must request approval from the FSA state committee. The emergency grazing period for counties that have received approval will end Sept. 30. Authorized producers can use the CRP land for their own livestock or may grant another livestock producer to

use the land. For more information and to request approval for emergency grazing use of CRP land, contact the Franklin County FSA office at 509-545-8543, Ext. 2.

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SBA collecting feedback on rules, regulations

BBB issues advice for buying football tickets

The U.S. Small Business Administration is collecting comments through Oct. 16 to help the agency identify unnecessary or ineffective rules and regulations that stifle business growth. Feedback is being accepted at sba.gov/ reducingregs. The move is in response to President Trump’s Executive Order 13777, which aims to ease the burdens placed on America’s small businesses. Under this executive order, all federal agencies are

The Better Business Bureau serving the Northwest is alerting football fans to potential scams as the football season starts after a fan in Oregon lost $1,300 for tickets never received after a purchase via Craigslist. BBB warns of price gouging, ticket scalping and tickets at inflated prices. It give these tips when searing for tickets: • Pay with protection. Credit cards offer consumer protection if scammed. • Verify the tickets. Ask for a copy of

the seller’s invoice or purchasing receipt. • Research the seller. Look up the seller on BBB.org or on verifiedticketsource. com to determine if the seller is a member of the National Association of Ticket Brokers. • Look for secure sites. The website should begin with https and include a lock symbol in the address bar. Also ensure there is a phone number, physical address and email on the site. • Shop local. Meet up in person in a safe, public place when buying from local resale sites. Anyone who believes they are a victim of a scam can report it to www.bbb.org/ scamtracker/northwest.

Toyota Center improvements add access for disabilities

In time to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Toyota Center as well as Tri-City Americans hockey, new improvements to the center have been made. The city of Kennewick in partnership with the Kennewick Public Facilities District and Tri-City Americans completed improvements for access for those with disabilities. An accessible platform with 10 wheelchair and companion seats was built and will be available for all Tri-City Americans hockey games this season on the second level near the elevator. In addition, a paid personal care attendant policy was created for Tri-City Americans games, which allows guests with disabilities who require a care attendant to receive a complimentary companion ticket with their purchase of a regular ticket. In November, Kennewick voters will decide on the Link Entertainment Center that allows Toyota Center improvements including accessible seating areas, handrails in the seating areas and upgrades to the concessions stands.

Water rights case nearing conclusion after review

The Ecology v. James Acquavella case to determine and confirm all surface water rights in the Yakima River Basin will soon be final, announced the Washington Department of Ecology. In 1977, Ecology filed a petition for an adjudication to determine the legality of all claims for use of surface water in the Yakima River Basin. Yakima Superior Court Judge F. James Gavin entered a proposed final decree for the case on Aug. 10, including a draft schedule of rights, set to be confirmed during the next eight months. Water rights holders are being mailed and a review process has begun. A final judgment concluding the case will be made after the review. An open house was Sept. 6 at Ecology’s Central Regional Office in Union Gap, where the public could ask questions about their water rights and learned more about the process including filing objections. In addition, a draft schedule of rights is available on ecy.wa.gov. Written objections may be filed with the court until Nov. 15. A schedule for court review and responses to objections will continue until April 14.

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Cybersecurity basics can protect businesses from data breaches BBB reports one in four small businesses affected by cyberattacks BY MICHELLE DUPLER

for Tri-Cities Area Journal of Business

Whether its ransomware, viruses, data theft or some other cybersecurity risk, a network breach can be one of a business owner’s worst nightmares — costing time, money and reputation. A 2016 report by the Better Business Bureau on the “state of cybersecurity” estimated that American businesses lose more than $400 billion per year to cyberattacks, with one in four small businesses affected by this issue. But experts say that many businesses can better protect themselves simply by being aware of threats and covering some basics. “We see even in large organizations there’s still a lot of companies not doing the basics,” said Byron Martin, owner of Teknologize in Kennewick.

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lose all of their files (with a cloud backup). It protects them from ransomware They can get their files back regardless,” Stordahl said. Stordahl said regular software and operating system updates are key because the updates usually address the latest security threats and include patches to neutralize them. For example, the “WannaCry” ransomware attack that made headlines in May wasn’t an issue for people whose Windows operating system was updated.

But those without updates were subject to excruciating data loss as the ransomware encrypted their data and demanded payment to release it.

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Both firms said that many businesses unwittingly open themselves up to intrusion by hackers or identity thieves because of how they’re set up for remote work. uDATA, Page 49

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uBUSINESS BRIEF DOE, Ecology to hold public meeting Sept. 21

The U.S. Department of Energy Richland Operations Office and the Washington Department of Ecology invite the public to learn more about the siting, construction and operation of the proposed capsule storage area. It will be built for dry storage of the cesium and strontium capsules. They are currently in wet storage at the aging waste encapsulation and storage facility, or WESF, in the 200 East area of the DOE Hanford site. Dry storage would significantly reduce the possibility of a release of radioactive material should an unlikely event cause the loss of pool storage water, which may result in the over-

heating and breach of one or more capsules. An informational meeting from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Sept. 21 at the Richland Public Library to share information and answer questions. No comments will be taken. To register, go to http://bit.ly/2eqO1tb. For questions, contact Rich Buel with DOE at 509-376-3375 or Randy Bradbury with Ecology at 509-372-7954.

uNETWORKING KSD employees honored for work with migrant students Three members of the Kennewick School District’s Migrant Education Program were honored at the annual Migrant Education Program Conference for their work helping thousands of migrant students succeed in school.

Science & Home visitor Eva Sandoval was named Recruiter of the Year. She focuses on outreach for the district’s migrant program, visiting apartments, work camps, farms and other locations to share information about what the program provides. Angelica Villegas, a Kennewick High migrant graduation specialist, received the PASS

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Contact Person of the Year. Villegas helped migrant students complete credits through the Portable Assisted Study Sequence summer program to ensure they remain on track for graduation. Estrella Aguilar, also a Kennewick High migrant graduation specialist, was named Migrant Estrella Aguilar Graduation Specialist of the Year. She supports students by helping them enroll in the right classes, get sports physical to participate in sports, as well as other needs.

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Company aims to reduce carbon emissions, improve vehicle efficiency BY JESSICA HOEFER

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Pasha Rudenko started his materials science doctorate at Washington State University in 2009 with one goal: to make lubricants safer. “Lubricants are just a mixture of base oil, most often mineral or synthetic, or vegetable oil and additives,” said Rudenko, whose undergraduate degree is in materials science for nuclear reactors. “(The) toxicity of lubricants comes from additives. So developing a new generation of industrial additives that are safe for the environment was the primary objective of my research.” Rudenko tried a variety of materials, such as gym chalk, graphite and baby powder in the form of nanoparticles to achieve his results. But while testing these materials, he found a unique outlier, a material that had to be synthesized in a pure form. “It behaved unlike any other materials (we’d observed). The structure of it is not just lamellar like graphite or molybdenum disulfide, but, structurally, each flat flake has different sides,” he said. One side of the material was more chemically active and attached to a surface, while the other side was more chemically inert to reduce friction. “Its behavior was beautiful,” Rudenko said. He received a Small Business Innovative Research grant from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory to prove his methodology. He believed his product could improve the efficiency and durability of existing vehicles by improving gas mileage, reducing engine noise and increasing acceleration. But companies were slow to adopt what he calls TriboTEX. “We all want our cars to be reliable, but they inevitably wear out,” he said. “Some drivers would like to make their engines younger and tighter. This is what we offered in a simple, easy-to-use syringe.”

TriboTEX’s Carl Holder of Richland and Vladimir Borisov man their booth at the American Chemical Society’s annual conference in Washington, D.C., in August. The company developed a product to enhance engine lubrication and durability.

Carl Holder of Richland, who works closely with Rudenko, said they needed to raise about $10,000 to take the product to market. They launched a Kickstarter campaign in February 2017 to cover some of the marketing costs and packaging while offering customers industrial-grade material for their cars. They beat the goal by more than $140,000. “We were kind of in shock,” Holder said. By July, the company had shipped out more than 8,000 units, and the public responses have been dramatic. “You can look at our Facebook page and see some of the things people are saying. The obvious things, like the increased miles per gallon, the sound of the engine— the quietness,” Holder said. TriboTEX comes in a syringe and is injected into the oil. It costs $99 and creates a coating and can last upward of 40,000 miles. On a broader level, TriboTEX aims to help reduce carbon emissions. Holder said the typical car in the United States is

11.5 years old. “If you really want to make an impact on emissions, you need to go inside those cars that are the worst offenders,” Holder said. “And the worst offenders are what we address with this product.” Rudenko and Holder recently visited with Gov. Jay Inslee to showcase the product and its capabilities. As an example, Rudenko affixed a sticky note to the wall explaining that the product itself has two sides—a sticky side and a slick side. The sticky side sticks where there is friction. By eliminating friction, you can save energy that is otherwise wasted, said Holder. It’s not just the governor who’s paying attention to TriboTEX.

The company received a TechConnect 2017 National Innovation Award, and in August, the business was invited to attend the American Chemical Society National Meeting & Exposition in Washington, D.C., and had its attendance, membership and display booth subsidized. “To be recognized by the American Chemical Society at the annual convention, that’s a hell of a deal,” Holder said. A number of trucking companies are currently using the project as part of an evaluation. “These companies know to the tenth-ofa-mile their engine efficiency, and if we can improve that for them, they will be customers,” Holder said. The company is also studying the product in large diesel engines used for mining. During Water Follies hydroplane racing in Tri-Cities this year, TriboTEX was injected into the gearbox of the Miss HomeStreet. It takes about 500 miles for results of the product to be achieved, Holder said. After the injection, the boat went on to win the Seafair Cup in Seattle and the gold cup in Detroit. “The last race is in San Diego,” Holder said. “At the end of the season, we’ll be able to take apart the most used gearbox and determine how it looks to see what they liked. All this stuff is new to us, but we certainly hope it’s making a difference.” TriboTEX can be bought online at tribotex.com. For more information, visit the company’s Facebook page.

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Social media could help researchers identify public health risks PNNL study finds opinion, emotion in tweets change when users get sick BY TRI-CITIES AREA JOURNAL OF BUSINESS STAFF

In the future, public health workers could monitor trends on social media to quickly identify a rise of influenza, depression or other health issues in a specific area, thanks to research at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland. Public health trends on social media are more nuanced than looking for spikes of “I feel sick” or “flu.” To truly tap this source of public data, researchers at PNNL sought to understand patterns of how people behave differently on social media when they are sick. The researchers uncovered the expression of opinion and emotion as a potential signal on Twitter, as reported in the journal EPJ Data Science. “Opinions and emotions are present in every tweet, regardless of whether the user is talking about their health,” said Svitlana Volkova, a data scientist at PNNL and lead author of the study. “Like a digital heartbeat, we’re finding how changes in this behavior relate to health trends in a community.” At a time when corporations mine information from social media accounts

for targeted advertising and financial gain, researchers at PNNL asked how they could use this data to benefit the public. One of those areas is public health. It takes health workers weeks to discover influenza trends the traditional way: by monitoring how many sick people visit clinics. By discovering trends in real time, social media could be the game-changing solution public health workers have been looking for. But can tweets replace a health exam for detecting a rise in the flu or other health threats? Volkova’s research suggests so. The research team studied 171 million tweets from users associated with the U.S. military to determine if the opinions and emotions they express reflect visits to the doctor for influenzalike illnesses. They compared military and civilian users from 25 U.S. and six international locations to see if this pattern varied based on location or military affiliation. For privacy, the tweets used in this study were anonymized. The goal of the research is to discover generalized public health trends, not diagnose the health status of individual users. Overall, they found how people behave significantly varies by location

Svitlana Volkova, a data scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, found that emotion and opinion expressed in tweets change when people get sick. Her team identified unique trends based on location and subpopulations so that health workers can get real-time information. (Courtesy PNNL)

and group. For example, tweets from military populations tend to contain more negative and less positive opinions, as well as increased emotions of sadness, fear, disgust and anger. This trend is true regardless of health. The baseline is fuzzy, and that should be no surprise. People behave differently based on the world immediately around them. To that end, the researchers identified location-dependent patterns of opinion and emotion that correlate with medical visits for influenzalike illnesses. And a general trend did

appear: Neutral opinions and sadness were expressed most during high influenza-like illness periods. During low illness periods, positive opinion, anger and surprise were expressed more. Next, the research team will study whether these behaviors can be used to predict a change in health trends before they happen. If this method works in real time, public health workers could look into the future by asking, “How are your tweets feeling?” This research was funded by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency.

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Pasco company invents forklift shock absorber Prototype reduces transport impact on bins of fruit, inventor says BY TRI-CITIES AREA JOURNAL OF BUSINESS STAFF

Pasco-based HarvestMoore prototype fork impact limiter is now in production, with one run scheduled in time for apple harvest. The new invention is designed to reduce the shock loads and impact to fruit bins carried by forklifts. Prototype testing completed last month showed reduced impacts on forklift loads of up to 36 percent. The device has a patent pending. The fork impact limiter can be installed on existing three-point hitches on orchard tractors used for hauling fruit in bins from the orchard. Its control box and hydraulic cylinders protect the bin from jostling that can cause fruit bruising. Loads and packages sensitive to shock or impact loads are often handled by forks on equipment that have no suspension system other than large rubber tires. But they do not provide sufficient protection from shocks encountered on rough ground or pavement, or ruts caused by irrigation and trucks moving through

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The Kennewick School District recently recognized 17 employees with staff excellence awards for going above and beyond in making the district’s schools great places to learn. Recipients were: • Administrator of the Year: Coleen

the orchard, said Frank Moore, managing partner of HarvestMoore and who invented the device. Other partners are Deb Jaquith and Patty Cordell. While the forklift limiter was designed specifically for bins of tree fruit, including apples, cherries, peaches and apricots, those using forklifts to move electronics, glass items, precision instruments and other fragile items can benefit from fewer product losses due to breakage, Moore said. Tests were run using a 900-pound bin at 900 rpm, 1,200 rpm, 1,800 rpm and full throttle. With the fork impact limiter, shock loads were decreased by 4 percent at slow speeds, 25 percent at middle speeds and 36 percent at full throttle, Moore said. He used a shock instrument to test the device. Cost for the system is $3,000 and $5,000, depending on whether the device is sold with new forks or put on existing forks, Moore said. Moore said a limited number of orders can be completed before this harvest. For more information, email harvest moore@charter.net or call 509-302-1123. Culmer, assistant director of special services. • Creativity in Curriculum Award: Karen Leonard, fourth-grade teacher, Cottonwood Elementary. • Staff Support Person/Team of the Year (3 awards): Cathy Dickey, secretary, Chinook Middle School; Jesus Barajas, benefits specialist; and warehouse staffers Brad Staudinger, Brian Howard, Brian Kolp, Trevor Watson, Adam Griffin, Brandon Wright, Cameron Razor, Alex Sanchez and Eileen Freeman.

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HarvestMoore of Pasco developed a prototype fork impact limiter that reduces the shock bins of fruit or other fragile items face when carried by a forklift. (Courtesy HarvestMoore)

• Certificated Specialist Teacher of the Year: Susan Adams, Counselor, Hawthorne Elementary. • Elementary Teacher of the Year: Joan Curtis, life skills teacher, Canyon View Elementary. • Middle School Teacher of the Year: Angelene Martin, English language arts and Washington state history teacher, Chinook Middle School. • High School Teacher of the Year: Carrie Julian, special education teacher, Kamiakin High School.

All winners are nominated by district staff members and were honored during the district’s welcome back event for staff. Also honored at the event was the Kennewick Police Department. It was named the district’s Outstanding Community Partner for 2017. It recognizes the police department’s dedication to education over the years, from protecting students and staff to providing support and resources to schools that ultimately benefit the whole community.

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PNNL scientist receives $2.5 million grant to research violent storms BY TRI-CITIES AREA JOURNAL OF BUSINESS STAFF

A Pacific Northwest National Laboratory scientist will receive $2.5 million over five years to study the growing frequency of violent thunderstorms in the central United States. Jiwen Fan is among 57 scientists nationwide to receive the award designed to bolster the nation’s scientific work force by providing support to researchers early in their careers. “Scientists recognized with this prestigious award represent some of the brightest minds in the nation. We are fortunate to have Jiwen on our team at PNNL, where her expertise in atmospheric chemistry has

advanced our understanding of severe weather events and other complexities within our Earth system,” said Steven Ashby, director of PNNL, in a news release. “Her dedication and creativity exemplifies PNNL’s commitment to scientific excellence and support of the Office of Science mission.” The money that Fan receives from the Early Career Research Program grant, a program of the U.S. Department of Energy, also will support several post-doctoral research associates. Fan, scientist in the Atmospheric Sciences and Global Change Division at PNNL in Richland, will use the award to study storms producing large hail, damaging winds, tornadoes and torrential rainfall.

She will look at how the storms form, why they’re changing and how they’re influenced by several factors, including the growth of cities as well as the effects of wildfires hundreds or even Jiwen Fan thousands of miles away. At any given moment, there are 2,000 thunderstorms in progress across the globe, according to the National Severe Storms Laboratory. The storms are an incredibly powerful

brew of natural phenomena. Typically, warm air rising from the Earth’s surface cools as it moves higher, causing cloud droplets to form. Under certain conditions, storms can quickly become fierce. Thunderstorms in the nation’s heartland are growing more frequent and violent, and scientists like Fan are starting to learn why. One reason is the growth of cities like Kansas City, Dallas and Oklahoma City — expanding so-called urban “heat islands” that soak in light and trap more heat. This boosts the amount of energy near the Earth’s surface, increasing the severity of thunderstorms that form. Cities also tend to have more airborne particles, which can influence cloud growth. Fan thinks these are important factors for understanding why severe thunderstorms occur more frequently over cities in the Midwest than they do over rural areas. Wildfires, which are becoming more common and cover larger areas than they did just a few decades ago, might also feed thunderstorms in the central United States. Fires not only in the western United States, such as California, but also in Central America pump vast numbers of tiny particles into the atmosphere. Those particles change the way energy moves around the atmosphere and they can also help cloud droplets form. Particles that drift in the atmosphere to areas like Kansas or Oklahoma can increase the intensity of thunderstorms, leading to stronger rainfall, hail and even tornadoes. Fan will put these and other factors together to more fully understand severe thunderstorm formation and intensity and how that is changing in the central United States. She will draw on powerful supercomputers managed by DOE to conduct an unprecedented close-up look at the roles that several different factors play in shaping severe thunderstorms. The Early Career Research Program, now in its eighth year, is managed by DOE’s Office of Science and awards research grants to young scientists and engineers at U.S. universities and national laboratories. Fourteen awards have been earned by PNNL staff since the program’s inception in 2010.

uNETWORKING D.A. Davidson advisor earns new certification

Michael Anderson, financial advisor with D.A. Davidson & Co. in Kennewick, has earned a certified wealth strategist designation after completion of coursework. The program is designed to help him exceed Michael Anderson client expectations regarding wealth management advice and solutions. He has a bachelor’s in business administration from Washington State University.

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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY DATA, From page 43 Stordahl said when businesses allow an owner or employee to access their workplace desktop remotely through an open port on a router, that open port can be seen when someone searching for vulnerabilities scans the network. “It’s how you open yourself to brute force attacks,” he said. In a brute force attack, an automated script or bot will try to log in by guessing passwords over and over until it gets the right one. Once the person behind the brute force attack has the password and can access the remote desktop, they can gain access to everything. “Then they’re logged in, scanning for files,” Stordahl said. Dan Morgan, senior engineer and project lead for Teknologize, said his company recommends businesses use a VPN, or virtual private network, connection when they need remote access, or require two-factor authentication to log in. Two-factor authentication typically requires that a user receive a code by text message, and the user must input that code in addition to a username and password.

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It might seem obvious, but Morgan said if companies don’t want to compromise their computers, don’t use a flash drive found on the street. Martin and Morgan said another tactic they’ve seen cyber criminals use is to load malware or viruses onto USB flash drives and drop them in parking lots or pass them out at trade shows. Then

uNETWORKING Longtime winemaker inducted into state’s wine hall of fame

Doug Gore, vice president of winemaking for Ste. Michelle Wine Estates, was inducted into the Legends of Washington Wine Hall of Fame in August. Gore, who has worked for 25 years in the industry, was inducted during Doug Gore the 11th annual Legends of Washington Wine Hall of Fame Induction and Gala at the Walter Clore Wine and Culinary Center in Prosser. This year’s gala also was the most successful fundraising event for the center, with more than $100,000 raised for programs to support the Washington wine industry.

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people pick them up and stick them in their hard drives and get infected. “USB flash drives are a huge vulnerability right now,” Martin said. Morgan said the flash drives, known as “USB rubber duckies,” deliver code to your computer that acts as a keystroke logger. So when you’re on Amazon or some other site typing in your credit card number, it reads it and then the cyber criminals have it.

Training is key

In addition to the basics like backups and updates and not using random flash drives, experts agreed that training employees in network security is critical to avoiding damaging breaches. Trios Health in Kennewick experienced a data breach affecting 1,603 patient medical records when a single employee accessed records outside of normal job functions and without authorization over about a three-year period. The hospital performed an investigation and audit of the breach and has implemented more rigorous training and education protocols since learning what happened — in addition to terminating the employee. Elizabeth Rice, Trios Health’s director of Health Information Management, said that from the day an employee is hired, they’re trained on privacy and compliance hospital policies and federal health privacy laws. They get additional annual training, as well as a biweekly newsletter updating employees about privacy and security issues. Staff are encouraged to remind each

other — and to call each other out — installed on the terminal to read a user’s when they observe a potential violation credit or debit card information — want of patient privacy or network security, to be know what to look for and make sure employees also know what to look she said. “One of the key components is just for. If credit card information is written on paper, they should heightened awarehave a policy for ness,” Rice said. when that gets shred“Our work force is ded and make sure very engaged.” “The big thing the policy is folKirstin Davis, (business owners) lowed. Eastern Washington really want to do is Stordahl said busimarketplace direcness owners should tor for the Better educate themselves train employees in Business Bureau in about the technology computer basics like Spokane, said her and the different having strong passorganization programs that are words, changing emphasizes educatheir passwords regution and training in out there.” larly, using two-facits cybersecurity tor authentication, tips for small busi- Kirstin Davis, not giving out their nesses. Eastern Washington passwords, and not “The big thing marketplace director for the leaving their passthey really want to Better Business Bureau word taped to their do is educate themmonitor or under selves about the their keyboard. technology and the “And don’t use the different programs that are out there,” Davis said. “It can be word ‘password’ as your password,” daunting, because as a small business Stordahl added. Martin and Morgan said another owner you have to wear so many hats — to be an expert in all of those is a lot important component of employee trainto take on. But as we know, a data ing is teaching people not to click on breach can undermine so quickly every- links in personal emails or private messages on social media. Often, those can thing you have taken on.” Davis said retail business owners lead to viruses or ransomware. “At least one employee will click on want to be familiar with point of sale technology and who are reputable ven- anything, and then all the security you dors. Businesses with ATMs or other have doesn’t matter,” Martin said. types of terminals that might be vulnerable to skimmers — devices that can be

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uNETWORKING PNNL hires Cheatham to top outreach position

Lee Cheatham was hired as Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s director of technology deployment and outreach. In his new role, Cheatham will work with the business community to commercialize intellectual property created by PNNL scientists and engineers, as well as create new startup and entrepreneurship Lee Cheatham initiatives to boost job creation, create new markets for ideas and products, and maximize the impact of valuable federal investments. Cheatham most recently worked at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York, and spent the first 17 years of his career with PNNL. He earned a bachelor’s in electrical engineering from Oregon State University, a master’s in electrical engineering from Washington State University and a doctorate in electrical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.

Edward Jones ranked high among worker satisfaction

A J.D. Power survey ranks Edward Jones as having the “Highest in Employee Advisor Satisfaction among Financial Investment Firms.” This is the ninth time the company, which has several offices in the Tri-Cities, has received the ranking. Employees surveyed gave highest satisfaction ratings all categories, scoring 925 points out of 1,000. The industry average is 719 points. The company provides financial services for individual investors.

Rep. Newhouse receives national chamber award

Congressman Dan Newhouse, R-Washington, recently received the Spirit of Enterprise Award from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The award was presented at the Tri-City Regional Chamber’s August membership luncheon. Dan Newhouse The award is given annually to members of Congress. Newhouse’s votes of pro-growth, pro-job policies earned him the award for the second time. The award is in its 29th year.

Tri-City Herald reporter wins prestigious award

Annette Cary, a longtime reporter with the Tri-City Herald, received the 2017 Dolly Connelly Award for Excellence in Environmental Journalism for spot news reporting, analysis and historical perspective on the Hanford radioactive-tunnel collapse this past spring. “The reader learns about everything from radiation ‘shine’ to the role of the PUREX plant in the context of the Cold War,” wrote judge Annette Cary Peter Jackson, former editorial page editor of the Daily Herald in Everett. “The history and details of the tunnels — the creosoted timbers and concrete, which were forecast to deteriorate and collapse — unfurl in prose digestible to non-Hanford wonks, the work of a seasoned writer steeped in the politics and culture of Hanford.” The Dolly Connelly Award, which

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Junior Achievement gives top yearly honor to MSA employee

Longtime Junior Achievement volunteer Karen Sinclair was named Junior Achievement’s Volunteer of the Year for 2016-17. The award is one of the highest honors given by the Junior Karen Sinclair Achievement of Washington Southeastern Region office. Sinclair, a Mission Support Alliance employee, has volunteered in seventhand eighth-grade classrooms in Tri-Cities for 18 years. She has helped coordinate MSA’s bowling team and fundraising for Junior Achievement’s annual Bowling Classic since 2010.

Meier Architecture Engineering hires new senior lead architect

Thomas Kastner has joined Meier Architecture Engineering in Kennewick as senior lead architect. He has more than 35 years in the field with experience across municipal, commercial, higher education, offices and health care projThomas Kastner ects. He has a bachelor’s in government from Cornell University in

Ithaca, New York, and a bachelor’s in architecture from the University of Hawaii in Honolulu. He is member of the American Institute of Architects and the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards.

Tri-Cities Cancer Center team takes on new roles

Tri-Cities Cancer Center team members have taken on education positions. Dr. Guy Jones, a board certified radiation oncologist, joined Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences as the new dean for the Tri-Cities regional site. Jones is the director for the Dr. Guy Jones cancer center’s Thoracic Center of Excellence. Michael Novakovich, director of strategy and business development, joined the teaching staff at Heritage University as an adjunct professor of marketing. He serves on the cancer center’s executive leadership team. Michael Dr. Sue Novakovich Mandell, a board certified radiation oncologist, is renewing her position as an adjunct clinical faculty member at Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences. Mandell is the medical director for the cancer center. Dr. Sue Mandell

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AWB bus to stop in Tri-Cities on Oct. 3 to highlight manufacturing BY KRIS JOHNSON

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Washington makes great things. In addition to the best airplanes in the world, we also make one of the world’s fastest rowing shells, state-of-the-art medical devices that save lives, the exceptional food and wines enjoyed around our tables, and countless other highly sought-after products. As Washington’s designated manufacturing association, the Association of Washington Business is pleased to report that there’s a lot to celebrate. However, the manufacturing sector also faces challenges, including tax and regulatory uncertainty, a growing work force skills gap and an outdated perception of what manufacturing jobs look like (Hint: it’s not your grandfather’s shop floor.). To highlight all the state is doing right — and point out areas where we can make improvements — AWB will hit the road for our first-ever Manufacturing Week from Sept. 29-Oct. 6. Throughout the week, AWB’s specially-wrapped bus will crisscross the state and stop for site tours and rallies with employers and their employees at manufacturers of all types and sizes to put the spotlight on and tell the story of the Washington workers and leaders building our economy from the ground up. It’ll stop in the Tri-Cities on Oct. 3. The week-long tour has three important goals: • Show off the innovative made-in-

Washington products and share how policies enacted in the Legislature can help or harm the manufacturing sector. • Bridge the interest gap by educating the Kris Johnson Association of next generation Washington of workers and Business their parents and teachers about the good-paying, hands-on careers offered in today’s high-tech manufacturing. • Have some fun highlighting Washington’s dreamers, innovators and builders. Reaching these goals requires AWB, its staff and leaders in the manufacturing sector to effectively tell the great story of Washington’s manufacturers. It’s a great story to tell. In the U.S. and Washington state, manufacturing makes up about 9 percent of the work force, according to the National Association of Manufacturers. There is also a strong return on investment: for every $1 spent in manufacturing, there is a multiplier effect of three. And, the 300,000 Washingtonians employed in the manufacturing sector earn an average wage of about $85,000 per year – good jobs that often do not require a four-year degree. Today’s manufacturing is made up of

clean, high-tech and innovation-based positions. They are attractive jobs that we – employers, schools, families and elected officials – must collectively work to promote, educating the next generation of workers in manufacturing know about these careers and then train them for the 740,000 Washington job openings expected over the next five years. Finally, Manufacturing Week is an opportunity to outline the tax and regulatory struggles facing the sector. Washington employers pay about 58 percent of all state and local taxes, but are faced with constant talk at the state and local level of new and higher taxes and added agency red tape – uncertainty that can hold back investment in expansion and job creation As NAM’s data shows, a vibrant manufacturing sector serves as a catalyst that ignites economic prosperity in our rural

regions, many of which are still struggling to realize the economic recovery in the central Puget Sound region. Everyone is invited to participate – stop by the bus and sign it when it’s in your area, join AWB at its Manufacturing Summit in Seattle on Oct. 5 and open your shop doors to students, teachers, parents and state and local officials on national Manufacturing Day on Oct. 6. Most importantly, we encourage employers to make Manufacturing Week an opportunity share the story of how the manufacturing sector builds families and their communities. Together, we can show how manufacturing opens the door to upward economic mobility for hundreds of thousands of Washingtonians. We hope you’ll join us. Kris Johnson is the president and CEO of the Association of Washington Business, the state’s chamber of commerce and designated manufacturing association.

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Consider this estate plan strategy: tax deferral with IRA stretch BY BEAU RUFF

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Your traditional Individual Retirement Account, or IRA, is special. The beauty of the IRA is that a person does not pay income tax on assets going into the IRA. The assets are contributed pre-tax and they grow taxdeferred. It is an effective strategy to both save for retirement and to reduce your current taxable income and thus your resulting tax. And, it can also be implemented to provide asset protection as well. Washington law generally provides that qualified retirement accounts are “exempt from execution, attachment, garnishment, or seizure by or under any legal process whatever.” RCW 6.15.020. The IRA is a non-probate asset. This means simply that it is not generally distributed according to your last will and testament or your revocable living trust. Rather, it is distributed according to the beneficiary designation associated with the account. Too often, a person seeking to simplify the distribution of his or her estate, names “My Estate” or “According to my Will” as the beneficiary of the IRA. This results in a tax trap for the unwary. The IRA has many benefits, but the rules associated with the IRA add some complexity. Though the money is not subject to tax when it is placed into the IRA, when the money is withdrawn, it

uNETWORKING Walla Walla Corps staff to help with hurricane relief

A public affairs specialist from the Corps of Engineers’ Walla Walla District was deployed Sept. 6 to support the corps’ South Atlantic Division Emergency Operations Center in Atlanta, Georgia, as they prepared for Hurricane Irma’s landfall in Florida. Brigida I. Sanchez is an Army veteran with broadcast news and media relations experience. She also has family living near Ocala, Florida. Eleven Army Corps of Engineers Walla Walla district employees were deployed to Texas for emergency power assistance in the recovery efforts after Hurricane Harvey. The Walla Walla District maintains one of the Corps’ seven emergency power response teams. The Corps’ team, along with soldiers from the 249th Engineer Battalion, are conducting assessments and installing generators to assist with getting critical public facilities operational in the wake of Hurricane Harvey.

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is then subject to income tax. Further, the account holder cannot take the money out of the account before age 59 ½ without paying an additional 10 percent tax penalty (with some exception). IRAs have a series of rules that revolve around the concept of your required minimum distribution, or RMD. The law requires that, starting at age 70 1/2, the account holder must take out of his or her IRA the RMD which is determined using the account holder’s actuarily-determined life expectancy using tables provided by the IRS. And, that life expectancy is recalculated every year (the IRS recognizes that the life expectancy continues to go up as a person continues to live longer). Thus, we would say that the account holder’s RMD is determined yearly by his or her recalculated life expectancy. For example, a 71-year-old would have a RMD equal to about 3.6 percent of the account value. Back to the idea of naming “My Estate” as the beneficiary. It is an effective way to enable the last will and testament to control the disposition of the assets and it will effectively direct the asset to your heirs. But, the beneficiary will lose out on the taxdeferred benefit offered by the IRA. From an income tax point of view, the best way to transfer the IRA is to name your spouse as the beneficiary of the IRA. At the account holder’s death, the surviving spouse can then rollover

Opportunity Programs, Region 10, which includes Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Alaska. Lobdell is an alumna of the Columbia Basin College TRIO program. She received a bachelor’s in social sciences and a master’s in psychology, both Keri Lobdell from WSU. The association provides support for TRIO programs that work with low-income, first-generation and underrepresented students to create a pathway to a college education by offering opportunities for mentoring, education, meetings and conferences, in addition to program development.

the IRA into his or her own name and continue to withdraw the RMDs, but now the RMDs would be based on the surviving Beau Ruff spouse’s recalCornerstone culated life Wealth Strategies expectancy. The prototypical estate plan gives all assets to the surviving spouse and then splits the assets among the children at the death of the surviving spouse. To continue to receive the best income tax treatment on the IRA that the surviving spouse rolled over into his or her name, the surviving spouse would then name the children as the beneficiary of the IRA. Upon her death, the children would not be able to rollover the IRA, but would receive the asset as an inherited IRA. When the IRA gets to the second generation (children) through this method, the RMDs are likely still required, but now the children can use their unrecalculated life expectancy to draw out the RMDs. The effect of this is that the children are given a very long period of time to withdraw the assets of the account and thus further delay the tax. This strategy which allows the children to take the IRA out over this maximum period is called the

IRA stretch. It’s a powerful tool to incorporate into every estate plan. The reader will note that the children must use their unrecalculated life expectancy versus the more generous recalculated life expectancy available to the surviving spouse. In the example of making the IRA payable to “My Estate” or “According to my Will” or just providing no beneficiary, then the maximum tax deferral is limited to five years. From a tax standpoint, your heirs are much better off as the named beneficiary. Sometimes it is necessary to direct the IRA to a trust to protect the asset from creditors or from the heir himself. In this case, the asset protection goals may trump the income tax savings goals. But, rest assured, your estate planning and tax professionals will walk you through the options to provide the best overall asset protection combined with the best possible income tax results. Attorney Beau Ruff works for Cornerstone Wealth Strategies, a fullservice independent investment management and financial planning firm in Kennewick, where he focuses on assisting clients with comprehensive planning.

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BUSINESS PROFILE

Mobile Pet Works provides front-door grooming service Company has fleet of five vans transformed into rolling pet spas BY LAURA KOSTAD

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Two years ago, Eric and Jalyn Calaway introduced Tri-Citians to a new way to groom their beloved furry friends: mobile salons offering front door service. The idea for Mobile Pet Works was born when Eric Calaway had to pick up their own two dogs from the groomer one day. “We had to schedule three weeks out for the appointment, and when the day came, our schedules were hectic,” Jalyn Calaway said. “She dropped the dogs off at 10:30 a.m., and I ended up having to rearrange my schedule to pick them up at 3. I thought, ‘This is inconvenient during the week for working people — it took a big chunk out of my day,’ ” Eric Calaway said. “So, one day, while at the vet, I noticed their mobile vet van and thought, ‘I could build one of those, but for grooming,’ ” he said. He pitched the idea to his wife, and she agreed to take it on and manage the business. They started Mobile Pet Works with existing money from other businesses Eric Calaway manages. The couple purchased their first Dial-a-

Ride-style van, with the backup plan of using the vehicle for other business ventures if Mobile Pet Works didn’t pan out. Eric Calaway gutted everything himself, added water and electricity, and installed everything needed for a pet salon. By the end of 2015, the Calaways had to acquire another van to accommodate their rapidly growing clientele. “If booking times get to be more than a few weeks out, it’s time to build another van,” Jalyn Calaway said. The rig includes special features to make their mobile salons welcoming to all pets. Its wheelchair lift now assists elderly and disabled pets, as well as their owners, into the van. Their newest van uses a battery array instead of an onboard diesel generator to power grooming appliances, which makes operations quieter. Mobile Pet Works maintains a fleet of five vans and employs four full-time groomers, along with a few part-timers, who collectively accommodate appointment times from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., seven days per week. Jalyn Calaway said some of their groomers will even work outside those hours, by appointment. “There are other owner-operators in the

Sadie gets a wash and trim inside a Mobile Pet Works van. Her owner Jeanette Yarger of Richland has used the service since May 2016. The growing mobile pet grooming business owned by Eric and Jalyn Calaway opened two years ago and boasts about 500 clients.

area that offer this service, but we are the only ones we know of that have a fullscale business and vehicle fleet,” Jalyn Calaway said. This enables Mobile Pet Works to reduce wait times. “It’s very convenient,” she said. Jalyn Calaway said many customers coordinate with neighbors to bring Mobile Pet Works to their neighborhood to preen their pets so they can do all their pets in one day. It’s great for them and for the business, the Calaways said. Often, pet owners will take advantage of the appointment time to run errands.

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“Some clients even have us meet them at their workplace, and some businesses will do pet spa days where multiple employees bring their pets in to be groomed by us,” Jalyn Calaway said. It’s what has enabled Mobile Pet Works to branch out to Walla Walla and Connell, where grooming options are more limited. If the business can get enough appointments lined up for a day, they’ll make the drive. “Driving cross-town is great advertising,” Jalyn Calaway said. All vans are fully wrapped, highly visible and include contact information. “A lot of new customers simply see us in their neighborhood or driving around town,” she said. The Calaways estimate they have about 500 clients, and the list is growing. “We book new ones every day. We get about nine to 10 rebooks or new clients daily,” Jalyn Calaway said. Sandra King, a customer since September 2016, learned about Mobile Pet Works via The Giant Nickel classifieds. Her elderly Shih Tzu poodle, Chappie, had not been groomed in years, and due to bad previous experiences with other groomers, King was concerned about leaving the dog alone. “It really worked out nice for us,” said King, who said one of the best parts of the service is the Calaways’ willingness to allow pet owners into the vans to watch and comfort their pets. It’s great for pets who suffer from anxiety, she said. Mobile Pet Works also never cages animals. King and her husband recently rescued a Shih Tzu named Hazel and were grateful for the conscientious, caring service from Mobile Pet Works groomer, Kathleen Hankel. “She was very sensitive to Hazel’s needs and wanted to make sure she was comfortable and established a good relationship with her. She recommended not doing a bath at first, so as not to traumatize her. She’s very gentle,” King said. uGROOMER, Page 56

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Business Profile

West Richland digital marketing company aims to be one-stop shop Cougar Digital Marketing & Design’s business plan has evolved over time BY JEFF MORROW

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Travis Hartliep wasn’t sure how long his startup company would last when he began it out of his then Tri-Cities home in 2012. Back then, Cougar Digital Marketing & Design LLC was just him, with his wife Erika helping out. “To be honest, I didn’t know if there would be enough work to keep myself busy,” Hartliep said. “It was not until we’d been in business three and a half years that I thought we could make it.” Hartliep said about 80 percent of all startups don’t last beyond 18 months. And according to Neil Patel of Forbes. com, nine out of 10 startups will eventually fail. It’s safe to say the prospects for Hartliep’s West Richland company – at 4001 Kennedy Road – look good for the long term. Sometime in the middle of October, Hartliep and his seven employees – four full-time and three part-time – will celebrate the company’s five-year anniversary. It’s a result of Cougar Digital’s ability to keep abreast of the never-ending changes involved in the digital age, Hartliep said. “When I first started in the business, I was in graphic design and website design,” he said. But today, his company can offer a variety of services: website building; e-commerce websites; lead-generating web packages; search engine optimization, or SEO, and marketing packages; Facebook and Google ad campaigns;

graphic design; brand development; and professional printing. It’s helped company’s bottom line. Hartliep estimated he did $60,000 in business his first year. “This year, we’re approaching $350,000 to $400,000,” he said. “Now overhead comes along with that. But I love our culture here.” So do his customers. “I’ve used Travis the last four and a half years, and he’s been great doing website and marketing for us,” said Nate Goetsch of Platinum Automotive Services in Kennewick. “I’ve actually referred him to other business owners I know, and they’re more than happy to use him again.” Salem Snowdy of the Children’s Reading Foundation feels the same way. “I’ve used them for the entire three and a half to four (years) I’ve been here,” Snowdy said. “Travis and the whole team have been great. I’ve not known life without them, and I’d not want to.” Snowdy said Cougar Digital, among other things, helped develop an online library for the Children’s Reading Foundation’s customers. “(Cougar Digital is) really a valuable, valuable part of the team here,” Snowdy said. “I couldn’t be happier with their work and responsiveness.” A 1995 Prosser High School graduate, Hartliep admitted he’s his own biggest critic. But he’s also persistent. “In 1995, the internet was new,” he said. “I graduated in 2000 from Washington State University in management information systems, with a programming degree.” He worked for Tri-State Outfitters for

Josh Kandle, from left, Faith Harral, Christian Wilson, Araceli Fuentes and Travis Hartliep stand outside Cougar Digital Marketing & Design’s West Richland storefront. The company grew from a two-person home-based business into the storefront on Kennedy Road to accommodate seven employees.

a year as a graphic designer and advertising assistant. From 2006-12, Hartliep worked as a senior website developer and graphic designer for DREAMarketing until he got laid off. “After I got laid off, I wondered what I should do. Do I go get a job at Hanford?” he said. “But I knew I liked helping people be successful. I joined Business Networking International. It allowed me to get my name out there. I slowly built my reputation. In 2012-13, that’s when I

saw in the web where people were going in terms of marketing.” Hartliep made his first outside hire in 2014 with Josh Kandle, who is the company’s creative director. “He came to our house to work,” Hartliep said. “He’s basically my business partner.” As the company continued to grow and added employees, there wasn’t enough room at the Hartliep’s home. So Cougar Digital has been at the Kennedy Road location for the past 18 months. uCOUGAR, Page 56

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COUGAR, From page 55 Organizational duties are split among the employees. Hartliep emphasized the importance of SEO, or the process of affecting the visibility of a website or a web page in a search engine’s unpaid results. When a potential customer searches via Google, the idea is to be on that first page of results. Cougar Digital has three employees concentrating on SEOs to get their customers to that first page. “Some companies, all they do is SEOs,” Hartliep said. “We want to be a one-stop shop. It’s not to be greedy, but to make sure everything is done right.” In essence, Cougar Digital has become a one-stop shop for clients. “Social media is a big part of life,”

Hartliep said. “On Facebook, having a digital marketing plan is a plus. The younger generation likes Instagram. But the majority of people are on Facebook. “For our clients, we also want to be their marketing department. We do not want to have them worry about anything. Because just having a website is not enough today. We want to give the client a competitive edge.” To do that, Cougar Digital does its research. “There is constant learning,” Hartliep said. “We’re always learning about SEOs. We also need to know what the competition is doing. In certain cases, we may not need to do a whole package. We’ve built our research into the workday – HTML, social media channels, Snapchat. We look at other website

designs to get ideas. You can get web design block. It happens.” But things are constantly changing. And fast. “Honestly, in five years it could all be different. Who knows?” Hartliep said. “Google and Facebook could change. But whatever the change, we’re going to embrace that to keep that competitive advantage.” That attitude has kept Cougar Digital in business. “We have a lot of clients now,” Hartliep said. “The main thing is to keep growing. We’ve had strong results. “But we’ll never be satisfied.” Cougar Digital can be reached at 509491-1146; cougardigitalmarketing.com.

GROOMER, From page 54 “We will never have anyone else do our grooming, even if we get a new dog. I think that’s the way I’ll go from now on,” she said. Mobile Pet Works offers two main service packages: full-service groom, which includes a haircut, and full-service bath, which doesn’t include a cut. Both packages include a nail trim, gland expression and teeth brushing. The cost for small animals runs $60 to $70, and for extra large dogs, it ranges from $100 to $120. Prices vary based on a pet’s willingness to cooperate and the amount of matting present in the hair — two factors that add to the amount of time it takes to complete a grooming. “Dogs with long, curly hair should be groomed every four to six weeks to avoid matting,” said Courtney Williams, one of Mobile Pet Works’ groomers, who has been in the industry for four years. As the Calaways’ customer base continues to grow, the owners said they hope to branch out to more areas throughout the Columbia Basin, adding more equipment and groomers along the way. For more information, call 509-5915913, email groom@mobilepetworks. com or find on Facebook.

uNETWORKING Local small-business mentor receives national award

Mid-Columbia Tri-Cities SCORE chapter’s small-business mentor P. Simon Mahler has reached the organization’s “nation builder” milestone, a recognition only three others in more than 50 years of the organization has received. SCORE provides small-business mentoring and workshops to new and growing businesses. Mahler, who will be accepting the Michael O’Malley Nation Builder Award in Baltimore, has volunteered thousands of hours during the past four years to help launch new businesses and aid those that are struggling in Washington, Oregon and Idaho.

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PUBLIC RECORD uBANKRUPTCIES Bankruptcies are filed under the following chapter headings: Chapter 7 — Straight Bankruptcy: debtor gives up non-exempt property and debt is charged. Chapter 11 — Allows companies and individuals to restructure debts to repay them. Chapter 12 — Allows family farmers or fishermen to restructure finances to avoid liquidation for foreclosure. Chapter 13 — Plan is devised by the individual to pay a percentage of debt based on ability to pay. All disposable income must be used to pay debts. Information provided by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Spokane.

CHAPTER 7 Brianne L. Buck, 6415 Enzian Falls Way, Pasco. Tracy Weichman, 5102 W. Fourth Place, Kennewick. Juan Molina, 344 Sanford Ave., Richland. Andres D. Pesante, 250 Gage Blvd., Richland. Leanne E. Mewes, 2324 W. 21st Ave., Kennewick. Marcos D. Tabares Trujillo, 1700 W. Fourth Place, Kennewick. Therese Wunderlich, PO Box 322, Richland. Oscar C. Longoria, 4016 S. Quincy Place, Kennewick. Dale R. and Tawna T. Newland, 4817 W. Richardson Road, Pasco. Barbara Pointe, 3016 W. 24th Ave., Kennewick. Tobias C. Sanchez and Maria T. Rivera, PO Box 6600, Kennewick. Mayra A. Romero, 931 N. Douglas Ave., Pasco. Jeffrey Sullivan, 98206 N. Horn Rapids

Drive, West Richland. Nova L. Cotner and Tamara L. Johnson, 2627 W. Deschutes Ave., Kennewick. Ronald S. Cluck, 8801 St. Thomas Drive, Pasco. Siobhan J. Silva, PO Box 715, Richland. Bryon J. and Melody A. Goller, 250 Gage Blvd., Richland. Mitchell D. and Andrea H. Reid, 6311 Rocket Lane, Pasco. David J. Brown, 5420 Tiger Land, Pasco. Tracy W. Fix, 3014 S. Cascade St., Kennewick. Suzanne J. Hansen, 1038 Sirron Ave., Richland. Floyd Campbell, 1816 W. Hopkins St., Pasco. Rafael Martinez, 1914 W. 45th Ave., Kennewick. Montana C. and Angela K. McAllister, 5501 W. Hildebrand Blvd., Kennewick. Hugo Trejo, 224 S. Edison St., Kennewick. Reyna B. Valencia Alvarez, 621 S. Wehe Ave., Pasco. Trisha a. Benton, PO Box 2912, Pasco. Erasmo Navarro and Maria Posada, 1806 S. Gum St., Kennewick. Tyson A. Gauthier, 7106 W. Umatilla Ave., Kennewick. Maria Gutierrez, 20 Palmer Drive, Mesa. Donald L. and Mary M. West, 303 Cullum Ave., Richland. Kristen M. Tamburello, 18 N. Newport St., Kennewick. Brian R. and Diane K. Hietala, 808 S. Green St., Kennewick. CHAPTER 13 Daniel D. Millage, 609 S. Fir St., Kennewick. Oscar F. Rosalez, 502 W. 16th Ave., Kennewick.

Hayes J. Griffith, 3603 S. Caballo Road, Kennewick. Luis S. and Donna I. Flores, 3508 Estrella Drive, Pasco. Regina L. and Edward Duarte, 8813 W. Deschutes Ave., Kennewick. Martin Cortes, PO Box 3247, Pasco.

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BENTON COUNTY 910 Quartz Ave., West Richland, 2,342-square-foot, single-family home. Price: $418,000. Buyer: Jerry & Lore Eithridge. Seller: Titan Homes. 6698 W. 38th Ave. and 6482 W. 37th Place, Kennewick, 19.7 acres of undeveloped land. Price: $1,231,300. Buyer: Southridge Village. Seller: William Smith Properties & Kennewick Acquisition Company. 66504 E. Sunset View PRSE, Benton City, 2,720-square-foot, single-family home on 9.08 acres. Price: $475,000. Buyer: Charles & Roberta Prescott. Seller: Kenneth & Margaret Howard. 480 Criterion Drive, Richland, 2,621-squarefoot, single-family home. Price: $430,000. Buyer: Michael & Alaina D’Unger. Seller: Betty Hubbard. 101108 E. Badger Road, Kennewick, 2,984-square-foot, single-family home on 4 acres. Price: $490,000. Buyer: Cody & Megan Smith. Seller: Leonard & Joyce Roberts. 73546 N. Pederson Road, West Richland, 3,460-square-foot, single-family home on 1.07 acres. Price: $430,000. Buyer: David & Cori Johnson. Seller: Danny & Laurie Henriksen.

5903 Velonia Drive, West Richland, 2,918-square-foot, single-family home. Price: $460,000. Buyer: Mark & Melissa Burnside. Seller: Anthony Potts. 28004 S. Spirit Lane, Kennewick, 2,271-square-foot, single-family home on 5.4 acres. Price: $530,000. Buyer: Robert & Kerri Strobl. Seller: Arnold Owens. 511 Athens Drive, West Richland, 2,134-square-foot, single-family home. Price: $407,900. Buyer: Loydene Rambo & Bruce Daggett. Seller: P&R Construction. E. Red Mountain Road, Benton City, 1,584-square-foot, single-family home on 2.4 acres. Price: $420,000. Buyer: Rashid Ghbein. Seller: Jonas & Miranda Impola. 334 Columbia Point Drive, Unit 201, Richland, 3,391-square-foot, single-family home. Price: $607,000. Buyer: Tony & Sandra Harris. Seller: Craig Gaylord. 575 Heritage Hills Drive, Richland, 2,723-square-foot, single-family home. Price: $469,900. Buyer: Matthew Corley & Bridget Canazaro. Seller: Justin & Summer Carroll. 6519 Cyprus Loop, West Richland, 2,510-square-foot, single-family home. Price: $404,900. Buyer: Eric & Vilma Alderson. Seller: Titan Homes. 28806 S. 816 PRSE, Kennewick, 2,913-square-foot, single-family home on 2.15 acres. Price: $585,000. Buyer: Tim & Bonnie Prater. Seller: Mark & Angelina Mitchell. 212 E. 49th Ave., Kennewick, 3,123-squarefoot, single-family home on 24.3 acres. Price: $500,000. Buyer: Broque & Chelsie Fraughton. Seller: Gary & Jane Naccarato. 16518 Fairview Loop, Kennewick, 1,912-square-foot, single-family home on 0.58 acres. Price: $515,000. Buyer: Michael & Pamela Minelli Trustees. Seller: Scott Brown.

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PUBLIC RECORD, From page 57 90611 E. Reata Road, Kennewick, 3,222-square-foot, single-family home on 2 acres. Price: $612,000. Buyer: John & Brigit Clary. Seller: George Booth. 6705 Cyprus Loop, West Richland, 2,754-square-foot, single-family home. Price: $435,000. Buyer: Paul & Teresa Underwood. Seller: Stonecrest Builders. 4220 W. 27th Place, Kennewick, 28,107-square-foot, commercial building on 1.47 acres. Price: $3,200,000. Buyer: Southridge Properties. Seller: RS Grace. 6578 Cyprus Loop, West Richland, 2,228-square-foot, single-family home. Price: $417,900. Buyer: Mark & Colleen Wells. Seller: Titan Homes. 955 W. Fifth Ave., Kennewick, 15,309-square-foot, multi-family housing on 1.77 acres. Price: $1,450,000. Buyer: McKinley Terrace. Seller: Chehalis Garden. 1620 Milan Lane, Richland, 3,061-squarefoot, single-family home. $660,000. Buyer: Daniel & Donna Berger. Seller: Pahlisch Homes. 1308 Westgate Way, Richland, 4,156-squarefoot, single-family home. Price: $660,000. Buyer: Singh Randeepak Balaggan & Kaur Rubinder. Seller: Ray & Tracy Harney. 1906 Gala Way, Richland, 2,262-square-foot, single-family home. Price: $414,900. Buyer: Daniel & Kim Berg. Seller: Betty C. Booth Living Trust. 26301 S. Sunset Meadow Loop, Kennewick, 5,589-square-foot, single-family home on 2.3 acres. Price: $680,000. Buyer: Russell & Karen Alleman. Seller: David & Andrea Granata. 780 S. Pittsburgh St., Kennewick, 2,248-square-foot, single-family home. Price: $510,700. Buyer: Steven & Carol Horne. Seller: TMT Homes NW. 100708 E. Ridgeview Drive, Kennewick, 2,457-square-foot, single-family home on 0.89 acres. Price: $475,000. Buyer: George & Amy Rangel. Seller: Michael & Kathie Martin. 2110 W. 50th Ave., Kennewick, 2,586-square-foot, single-family home. Price: $454,000. Buyer: John & Kimberly Hunting. Seller: William & Kristin Babby.

4612 Highview St., Richland, 3,479-squarefoot, single-family home on 0.77 acres. Price: $512,200. Buyer: Jose & Heidi Guizar. Seller: New Tradition Homes. 69705 E. 680 PRNE, Richland, 1,982-squarefoot, single-family home on 5.8 acres. Price: $742,500. Buyer: John & Melinda Gill. Seller: Brian & Elsa Hill. FRANKLIN COUNTY Bitterroot Ave. and Rock Creek Drive, Pasco, 5 lots of undeveloped land. Price: $424,500. Buyer: Riverwood Homes Washington. Seller: Big Sky Developers. Bitterroot Ave. and Rock Creek Drive, Pasco, 8 lots of undeveloped land. Price: $679,200. Buyer: New Tradition Homes. Seller: Big Sky Developers. 70 Sierra Gold Road, Pasco, 2,349-squarefoot, single-family home on 5 acres. Price: $456,000. Buyer: Jason & Brittany Cartwright. Seller: Karen & Joe Flynn. 3012 Bosch Court, Pasco, 4,167-squarefoot, single-family home. Price: $575,000. Buyer: Westin Mick. Seller: Cesar & Martha Robles. 8007 Bayberry Drive, Pasco, 2,324-squarefoot, single-family home. Price: $438,800. Buyer: Adan & Norfilia Tijerina. Seller: Lott’s Better Built Homes. 2821 Road 64, Pasco, 1,602-square-foot, single-family home on 3.07 acres. Price: $405,000. Buyer: Stefanie & Keith Harrison. Seller: Melanie & Jerrad Johnston. 11318 Arrow Shelf Drive, Pasco, 2,376-square-foot, single-family home. Price: $491,600. Buyer: Kenneth & Laurie Berger. Seller: Hammerstrom Construction. 3109 Road 103, Pasco, 2,268-square-foot, single-family home. Price: $445,000. Buyer: William & Carolyn Henry. Seller: Ryan & Danyelle Mathews. 11201 Mathews Road, Pasco, 3,051-squarefoot, single-family home. Price: $477,200. Buyer: Wendy & Fredrick Higgins. Seller: Riverwood Homes. Undisclosed location, 1.5 acres of undeveloped land. Price: $700,000. Buyer: Numerica Credit Union. Seller: Broadmoor Investment Group.

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BENTON COUNTY Washington Sub-RS, 4.4 Mile Cold Creek Road, $18,000 for antenna/tower. Contractor: SAC Wireless. Ste Michelle Wine Estates, 178810 SR 221, $13,000 for commercial remodel and $937,600 for commercial addition. Contractors: F&M Construction and owner. Horse Heaven Wind, Henson Road/Dennis Road, $55,000 for an antenna/tower. Contractor: owner. Horse Heaven Wind, Nicoson Road, $55,000 for an antenna/tower. Contractor: owner. Benton City Fire District, 48001 W. Prior Ave., $19,600 for a fire alarm/system. Contractor: Cascade Fire Protection. Coventry Vale Winery, 51705 N. Wilgus Road, $204,900 for commercial addition. Contractors: Bruce Heating & Air and Apollo Sheet Metal. Arena Properties, 4950 Arena Road, $86,400 for new commercial construction. Contractor: owner. FRANKLIN COUNTY USCOC of Richland, 561 R-170, $114,100 for antenna/tower. Contractor: Tool Tech. Dirt Holdings, 3811 Glade North Road, $10,700 for a sign. Contractor: owner. Eltopia United Church, 100 Lateral Drive, $18,000 for commercial reroof. Contractor: Royal Roofing & Siding. USCOC of Richland, 2081 Cottonwood Drive, $18,000 for an antenna/tower. Contractor: SAC Wireless. KENNEWICK Walla Walla Farmers Co-op, 5003 W. Brinkley Road, $20,000 for miscellaneous. Contractor: Legacy Telecommunications. Corp of Catholic Bishop Yakima, 506 S. Garfield St., $15,000 for commercial remodel. Contractor: Solid Structurs. Douglass Kennewick LTD, 1020 N. Colorado St., $211,600 for commercial reroof. Contractor: North American Roofing. Edward Rose Millennial Development, 10251 Ridgeline Drive, $4,531,300 for multifamily housing, $187,200 for a heat pump/ HVAC and $153,900 for plumbing. Contractors: owner, Total Energy Management and Three Rivers Mechanical. Kennewick Estates, 609 N. Tweedt St., $10,000 for commercial remodel. Contractor: Anchor D Construction. Columbia Square Kennewick, 1220 S. Columbia Center Blvd., $285,000 for commercial remodel. Contractor: Panterra Construction. Yakima Federal Savings, 3350 W. Clearwater Ave., $5,000 for a sign. Contractor: Mustang Sign Group. CIBB Properties, 5453 Ridgeline Drive, $7,900 for a sign. Contractor: Mustang Sign Group. Williamson Trustee, 530 W. Columbia Drive, $5,000 for a sign. Contractor: Mustang Sign Group.

Royal Columbian, 5615 W. Umatilla Ave., $30,400 for a heat pump/HVAC. Contractor: Jacobs & Rhodes. MBB Kennewick, 2702 S. Ely St., $6,900 for plumbing. Contractor: Cray Plumbing. AP Properties, 6201 W. Clearwater Ave., $15,000 for commercial reroof. Contractor: A&A Roofing. Falcon Video Communications, 639 N. Kellogg St., $94,000 for commercial reroof. Contractor: Palmer Roofing & Co. Red Robing West, 1021 N. Columbia Center Blvd., $27,900 for a heat pump/HVAC. Contractor: Campbell & Company. Windfall Capital Enterprises, 101 N. Union St., $8,300 for a heat pump/HVAC. Contractor: Campbell & Company. Pioneer Building Co, 8203 W. Quinault Ave., $24,000 for a commercial remodel. Contractor: Horizon Construction Systems. Kennewick School District, 1701 N. Young St., $76,300 for a heat pump/HVAC. Contractor: Johnson Controls Inc. Columbia Square Kennewick, 1220 N. Columbia Center Blvd., $13,200 for a heat pump/HVAC and $10,000 for plumbing. Contractors: Dayco Heating & Air and Apex Plumbing. ML3 Investments, 6476 W. Brinkley Road, $1,500,000 for commercial construction, $45,000 for a heat pump/HVAC and $25,000 for plumbing. Contractors: G2 Commercial Construction, Campbell & Company and Progressive Design Plumbing. RCB Properties, 8016 W. Fourth Ave., $150,000 for commercial construction. Contractor: Conner Construction. Jeffeery Robison, 16 N. Huntington St., $10,000 for commercial remodel. Contractor: owner. Columbia Mall Partnership, 1321 N. Columbia Center Blvd., $12,800 for a heat pump/HVAC. Contractor: Dayco Heating & Air. Washington Securities, 8901 W. Tucannon Ave., $50,000 for tenant improvements, $6,900 for a heat pump/HVAC and $7,500 for plumbing. Contractors: Signature NW Construction, Bob Rhodes Heating & Air and Tri-City Plumbing. Brimlow Trustees, 3500 W. Clearwater Ave., $30,000 for commercial reroof. Contractor: D&R&G Roofing Partners. PASCO Pasco Boa LLC, 350 W. Lewis St., $40,000 for tenant improvements. Contractor: Bosch Construction. BTS Court AA, 1325 W. Court St., $33,000 for a sign. Contractor: Quality Signs. Basin Investment Group, 1921 W. Court St., $326,500 for new commercial construction. Contractor: Bosch Construction. City of Pasco, 525 N. Third Ave., $156,200 for tenant improvements. Contractor: to be determined. Franklin County, 1016 N. Fourth Ave., $23,000 for a fire alarm/system. Contractor: Camtek Inc. 598 Building Association, 1328 N. 28th Ave., $263,000 for a fire alarm/system. Contractor: McKinstry Co. Port of Pasco, 1110 Osprey Pointe Blvd., $13,200 for a patio/cover. Contractor: to be determined.

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Tri-Cities Area Journal of Business • September 2017 PUBLIC RECORD, From page 58 Johnny Martinez, 3425 King Ave., $113,200 for new commercial construction. Contractor: owner. Rowand & Associates, 1925 E. James St., $268,500 for mechanical. Contractor: Garco Construction. Russ Dean, 9420 Sandifur Parkway, $97,400 for a heat pump/HVAC. Contractor: Chinook Heating & Air. Pasco School District, 1915 N. 22nd Ave., $5,600 for a fire alarm/system. Contractor: Simplex Grinnell. CSP Pasco, 2226 W. Court St., $150,000 for a commercial addition. Contractor: to be determined. Valmont Northwest, 4225 N. Capitol Ave., $10,000 for a sign. Contractor: owner. Russ Dean Inc, 9420 Sandifur Parkway, $82,700 for a fire alarm/system. Contractors: Fire Control Sprinkler Systems and Advanced Protection Services. Autozone Parts, 3733 N. Capitol Ave., $7,400 for tenant improvements. Contractor: Zeigler Construction 2. Port of Pasco, 3412 Stearman Ave., #210, $8,900 for a heat pump/HVAC. Contractor: Campbell & Company. Amrik Sihota, 1211 E. Lewis St., $108,700 for commercial construction. Contractor: Pacific Environmental Service Company. Elfega Guzman, 1304 E. Marvin St., $24,800 for tenant improvements. Contractor: Mid Columbia Builders. RA Johnson Properties, 6005 Burden Blvd., $1,233,100 for new commercial construction. Contractor: Vandervert Construction. Joo Baik, 1208 N. 20th Ave., $5,000 for a sign. Contractor: Quality Signs. David Matson, 1101 N. Utah Ave., $874,400 for new commercial construction. Contractor: CRF Metal Works. Timothy Rowell, 4025 East B St., $15,900 for tenant improvements. Contractor: Triple J Construction. Twin City Foods, 5405 Industrial Way, $104,600 for a fire alarm/system. Contractor: Powercom Inc. Pasco Coke, 1225 Road 34, $31,200 for a fire alarm/system. Contractor: Fire Control Sprinklers. Tumbleweed Properties, 1016 N. Oregon Ave., $8,000 for a commercial remodel. Contractor: LCY Construction. RICHLAND Malley’s Pharmacy, 1906 George Washington Way, $10,500 for a heat pump/ HVAC. Contractor: Campbell & Company. ConAgra Foods, 2005 Saint St., $8,600 for a heat pump/HVAC. Contractor: Campbell & Company. 135 Reata LLC, 123 Reata Road, $2,601,900 for new commercial construction. Contractor: Teton West of WA. Energy Northwest, 3000 George Washington Way, $11,000 for tenant improvements. Contractor: owner. Energy Northwest, 350 Hills St., $14,000 for tenant improvements. Contractor: owner. Richland Baptist Church, 1632 George Washington Way, $34,500 for a heat pump/ HVAC. Contractor: Campbell & Company. Dairy Queen, 3250 Duportail St., $850,000 for new commercial construction. Contractor: Zeigler Construction. Port of Benton, 2201 Airport Way, $305,600 for new commercial construction. Contractor: owner. SSI Land Co, 930 George Washington Way, $200,000 for tenant improvements. Contractor: owner. City of Richland, 1100 Glenwood Court, $20,000 for tenant improvements. Contractor: Mastec Network Solutions. Corp Catholic Bishop, 1109 Long Ave., $22,700 for a heat pump/HVAC. Contractor: Campbell & Company. Gram Industries, 1010 Winslow Ave., $9,200 for a heat pump/HVAC. Contractor: Campbell & Company.

Kendel Holding, 1431 Jadwin Ave., $8,000 for siding/windows. Contractor: Perfection Glass. Winco #45, 101 Columbia Point Drive, $8,500 for plumbing. Contractor: Roto Rooter Service. Walmart, 2831 Duportail St., $50,000 for demolition. Contractor: Able Clean Up Technology. STB Enterprises, 43 Goethals Drive, $5,000 for demonlition. Contractor: U Need Us Contruction. Papa Murphy’s Pizza, 1332 Jadwin Ave., $8,800 for a heat pump/HVAC. Contractor: Welch Heating & A/C. Port of Benton, 1851 Terminal Drive, $290,600 for new commercial construction. Contractor: NW Construction Services. Sigma Management, 3230 Innovation Blvd., $44,000 for tenant improvements. Contractor: Paradigm Contracting. Port of Benton, 2926 Kingsgate Way, $13,000 for plumbing. Contractor: O’Brien Construction. Chase Bank, 711 Jadwin Ave., $39,600 for commercial reroof. Contractor: Bales Construction. Battelle Memorial Institute, 904 Battelle Blvd., $100,000 for commercial reroof. Contractor: DGR Grant Construction.

uBUSINESS LICENSES KENNEWICK Winco Foods, 4602 W. Clearwater Ave. Dentistry For Kids, 2611 S. Quillan Place, Suite 110. Janet Carey, 1207 W. 43rd Court. Celebrity Limousine, 1930 S. Hartford St. Kennewick Autobody & Collision, 210 N. Date St. Numerica Credit Union, 8551 W. Gage Blvd., Suite E. Ticor Title Company, 8101 W. Quinault Ave., Suite 101. Tri Cities Pain Clinic, 3730 Plaza Way, Suite C6100. Lynx Healthcare, 3315 W. Clearwater Ave., Suite 100B. Sonja Photography, 82505 E. Sagebrush Road. Emmanuel Cleaning Carpet & Janitor, 2917 W. 19th Ave. Columbia Basin Construction & Painting, 3523 W. Hood Ave. Kevins Handyman, 1220 W. First Ave. Ricky’s Construction, 701 S. Volland St. Southridge Dental, 3911 W. 27th Ave., Suite 105. Thrive, 4415 W. Clearwater Ave., Suite 8. Candle Magic, 107 S. Van Buren Court. Brandon Ham, 3331 S. Roosevelt Place. Nueva Vista Phase II, 1915 W. Fourth Place. Intermix Lane, 4309 W. 27th Place, Suite C105. Versatile Media Group, 3311 W. Clearwater Ave., Suite D106. Advanced Raingutters & Construction, 2405 W. Albany Ave. Cari McGee Enterprises, 8350 W. Grandridge Blvd., Suite 200. S&A Construction, 9349 W. Eighth Place. Diamond N’ Shine Cleaning Service,518 S. Anderson St. Rowe Family Construction, 710 S. Dennis St. Virtel Flooring Services, 1114 W. 10th Ave. Think Vinyl, 712 S. Taft St. 2G Manpower, 2312 S. Ely St. Express Auto Sales, 4607 W. Clearwater Ave. The Nitro Shack, 3503 S. Garfield Place. Moon Child Artistry, 130 Vista Way. UPS Store #5224, 6855 W. Clearwater Ave., Suite A101. Quality Flooring & Carpeting, 227 E. Fourth Ave., Apt A. Jefferson Lloyd Severs, 7207 W. Deschutes Ave. L&R Landscaping, 619 E. Nineth Place. Ka-Li Cleaning Services, 5631 W. Fourth Ave.

Av Interpreting, 3310 W. Hood Ave. Kristy Fargher & Co, 2628 W. Bruneau Place, Suite 120. Almond Asphalt, 98403 E. Sidibe PRSE. Isaac King, DDS, 312 N. Delaware St. Rodriguez A. Cleaning Services, 2612 S. Myrtle St. Mohammed Y Aljabouri, 425 N. Columbia Center Blvd. Ct Hewitt Consulting, 5714 W. 10th Ave. Madison Maners, 1309 W. 21st Ave. Ale Bookkeeping, 3000 S. Anderson St. Star Inc, 2526 W. 33rd Place. Leaders and Learning, 8180 W. Fourth Ave. Sergey Grechko, 1513 S. Tweedt Court. Jerry Johnson Photography, 4009 S. Olson Place. Sparrow Studio, 4409 S. Sharron Court. The Facial Room, 7101 W. Hood Place, Suite A102. Manny Express, 729 E. Fourth Ave. Ez Fix Smartphone Repair, 3311 W. Clearwater Ave., Suite D103. Tri-Cities Autism Thrift Store, 731 N. Columbia Center Blvd., Suite 114. Dentures 4 U Lab, 5219 W. Clearwater Ave., Suite 3. Ketamine Clinic of Eastern Washington, 1410 N. Pittsburgh, Suite A. Truth Booth, 1500 S. Oak St., Building 4. PASCO Picatti Solutions, 2309 S. Third Ave., Union Gap. Ideal Tarp, 719 W. River St. Stellar Industrial Supply, 2021 W. A St. Hudson & Sons Construction, 3809 W. 43rd Ave., Kennewick. Refrigeration Plus, 874 Pikes Peak Drive, West Richland. Billares Plaza, 528 W. Clark St. Agri-Services, 1620 E. james St. J and S Transport, 3425 King Ave. Body Company Massage, 5232 Outlet Drive. Premier Product Management, 3425 N. Capitol Ave. Agri-Pack, 215 N. Venture Road. Home Sweet Woodwork, 6115 Kent Lane. New You Fitness, 3834 Dogwood Road. Palladian Group, 1205 I St., Washougal. Jeb Co, 3013 Escolar Road, Kenenwick. C&R Plastering, 9021 W. Rio Grande Ave., Kennewick. DNH Maintenance, 89 Bogart Drive, Burbank. MD Draft Team, 30504 S. Finley Road, Kennewick.

Stark Cleaning Crew, 4910 Sahara Drive. Pape Machinery, 1907 E. James St. Hair by Haley, 3501 Road 68, Suite 103. JR’s Ironworks, 27205 S. 1942 PRSE, Kennewick. Avery Mershan Pledge, 1212 N. 20th Ave. American Crown Circus, 6200 Burden Blvd. Always Affordable Custom Concrete, 124 W. 21st Ave., Kennewick. Foreverclean, 1510 E. George St. RICHLAND Kadlec Clinic Northwest Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine, 1350 Fowler St. Market Contractors, 10250 NE Marx St., Portland, Oregon. Acco Engineered Systems, 835 Centeral Ave. N., Suite 132, Kent. Michels Corporation, 817 W. Main St., Brownsville, Wisconsin. Bradford Hinch Builder, 11825 S. Player Drive, Spokane. Miranda Treats Sno Shack, 500 Amon Park Drive. Energy Source/Chimney Doctor, 3503 W. Clearwater Ave., Kennewick. Better Built Structures, 58602 N. Demoss Road, Benton City. Mid Columbia Construction, 6418 W. Deschutes Ave., Kennewick. Gale Contractor Services, 400 S. Worthen St., Wenatchee. Golden Services, 11016 E. Montgomery Drive, Suite 104, Spokane Valley. Able Clean-Up Technologies, 4117 E. Nebraska Ave., Spokane. Blue Mountain Environmental & Consulting, 1500 Adair Drive. RP Construction, 1329 Chardonnay Drive. Terragraphics Environmental Engineering, 2155 Robertson Drive. Redbox Automated Retail, 454 Keene Road. Lularoe Kelly Huff, 2306 Boulder St. TW Sparks Enterprises, 1500 Lake Park Drive SW, Tumwater. Riverwalk Wellness Center, 404 Bradley Drive, Suite 301. Living Well Coaching and Counseling, 1550 Aria Court, West Richland. Atwood Properties, 953 Stevens Drive, Suite B. Frankenfield Enterprises, 7701 W. Fourth Ave., Kennewick. Brenda Celina Ramirez, 140 Gage Blvd., Suite 202.

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Tri-Cities Area Journal of Business • September 2017

PUBLIC RECORD, From page 59 Soriano Floor Finishing, 1215 N. Gallant Lane, Meridian, Idaho. ADM Consulting, 1206 Fuji Way. Tricon Building Solutions, 208 W. Main St., Suite 3A, Visalia, California. Baan-Khun-Ya, 94 Lee Blvd. Elena V. Connors, 617 Meadows Drive S. Farabee Enterprises, 2404 Olympia St. Flat Works WA, 5880 Alder Road, Pasco. Vargas Pro-Floors Installation, 6102 N. Road 68, Pasco. Buckwheat Bottoms, 1368 Jadwin Ave. Baker Brother’s Construction and Remodel, 3130 Meadow Glen Lane, Cheney. Shoretel Sky, 960 Stewart Drive, Sunnyvale, California. Mark Kerns, 1612 Elementary St. JM Dufault Insurance and Financial Services, 1446 Spaulding Ave., Suite 302. Now Solar, 3314 W. 24th Ave., Kennewick. State of Motion, 710 George Washington

Way, Suite A. Three Rivers Valley Landscaping, 1614 W. 35th Ave., Kennewick. Earth Designs Landscape, 8511 Road 24 SW, Mattawa. Mr. Perfect Construction, 3505 S. Ledbetter St., Kennewick. Reece Hamm Realtor, 2450 Saddle Way. RLC Construction, 93617 E. Valencia Drive, Kennewick. Becca’s General Services, 1212 W. 10th Ave., Kennewick. Riverside Appraisal Service, 215 George Washington Way. V Salon, 1370 Jadwin Ave., Suite A. MyProContractor, 5820 Westminster Lane, Pasco. Reata Storage, 147 Reata Road. No Limit Construction, 202 N. Eighth Ave., Pasco. 11Exhale Yoga, 140 Gage Blvd., Suite 104. KPR Quality Painting, 220 N. Alvina Court, Pasco. R&K Garage Doors, 1005 SW Frazer Ave.,

Suite 100, Pendleton, Oregon. Eastern Silk Spa, 1207 George Washington Way, Suite 21. Weston Mountain Onions, 2926 Kingsgate Way. Studio 64, 480 Keene Road. Jill Predmore, 5603 Maui Court, West Richland. Erika Wassom, 2555 Duportail St. Precision Configurations and Solutions, 1529 Columbia Park Trail. Villa Hermosa Landscaping, 106 Skyline Drive. Arby’s, 1051 George Washington Way. Evanclaer, 4424 E. Vineyard Drive, Pasco. Day One Deliveries, 1604 N. 12th Ave., Pasco. G&G 1 Construction, 3308 W. Hood Ave., Kennewick. Fortress Properties, 618 Sanford Ave. U Need Us Construction, 11260 Coyan Road, Connell. All American Gymnastics, 2602 N. Columbia Center Blvd.

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Lef Engineering, 710 George Washington Way. Jon Swanson, 307 Austin Drive, West Richland. Herres Backflow & Construction, 3212 W. Garland Ave., Spokane. JLP Builders, 3837 S. 10th Ave., Tacoma. Pro Image Construction & Remodeling, 5313 Roosevelt Drive, Pasco. MVR Construction, 8721 W. Second Ave., Kennewick. JC Infrastructure, 1189 Kensington Way. Recovering Hope Dan Garner, 1955 Jadwin Ave., Suite 310. ANR Construction, 7108 Kau Trail, Pasco. Tri Cities Forever Homes, 1455 Badger Mountain Loop. TWG Consulting Corp, 250 Gage Blvd., Suite 2076. Remodeling & Painting Homes, 5510 W. 17th Ave., Kennewick. Four Seasons Landscaping, 1413 Potter Ave. Pacific King Relocation & Logistics Systems, 608 W. Yakima St., Pasco. Evolution Flooring, 209613 E. Schuster Road, Kennewick. Harris Excavation, 617 Riverside Drive, West Richland. Affordable Striping, 2506 S. Gum St., Kennewick. Cal Consulting Services, 137 Bremmer St. Dennis Pressure Washing, 103 Craighill Ave. John Michael Grigsny, 503 Stagecoach Court. Rodriguez A. Cleaning Services, 2612 S. Myrtle St., Kennewick. Deko Builders, 180 Moore Road, Pasco. N2 Tri-Cities, 1304 Haupt Ave. Albert’s Granite & Landscaping, 202144 E. SR 397, Kennewick. Grace Filled Properties, 1460 Oxford Ave. Turner Property Management, 1443 Azalea Ave. Little Acres Farm, 2220 Road 80, Pasco. Wall to Wall Painting, 1725 N. 21st Ave., Pasco. Wixted & Company, 4401 Westown Parkway, Suite 116, West Des Moines, Iowa. Grant Potter, 91807 E. Reata Road, Building G1, Kennewick. PNW Built, 127 Chad Court, Richland. Seneca Consulting, 631 Cottonwood Drive. KC Fitness, 1001 Wright Ave., Building B. Events by Edz, 8350 W. Grandridge Blvd., Suite 200, Kennewick. Always Affordable Custom Concrete, 124 W. 21st Ave., Kennewick. Take Heart Tattoo, 214 Torbett St., Suite D. Bonsai Audio, 403 Catskill St. Jones Family Insurance, 320 N. Johnson St., Suite 300, Kennewick. Industrial Construction of Washington, 84609 N. Yakima River Drive, West Richland. Cold Milk Creative, 488 Anthony Drive. Luxury Cleaning Services, 250 Gage Blvd. Handy Helpers & General Contracting, 1624 Venus Circle. 509 Outfitters, 703 Symons St. ND Cleaning, 1662 Cactus Loop. Independent Network of Engineering Research and Testing Consultants, 404 Catskill St. Vizual Concepts & Photography, 1845 Leslie Road. All American Martial Arts, 2602 N. Columbia Blvd. Carey Kid Cleaners, 477 Anthony Drive. Northwest Cajuns, 43405 S. 2106 PRSE, Kennewick. Pride Painting Contractors NW, 416 W. Chestnut St., Walla Walla. Lotus of the Moon, 303 Casey Ave., Suite D. Nomad Auto Detailing, 552 Tanglewood Drive.

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Tri-Cities Area Journal of Business • September 2017 PUBLIC RECORD, From page 60 A. Fields Painting Co., 6626 Chapel Hill Blvd., Pasco. Michigan Endoscopy Center, 270 Scouler Court. Penny’s Tech Portal, 2302 Coppermist Court. Charles Bennett, 710 ½ The Parkway. Encore Salon & Spa, 123 Gage Blvd. Heart 2 Heart Home Care, 1925 Birch Ave. Katie Ward-Johnson, 86 Newcomer St. Ciara Hogue, 123 Gage Blvd. Toolbelt Divas Property Care, 701 N. Hawaii St., Kennewick. 3 Rivers Aerial, 55107 E. 95 PRSE, Benton City. Chris Goddard General Contracting, 16 SW 13th St., College Place. G&G Lawn Services, 1504 W. Bonneville St., Pasco. HaveKnot Woodworking, 27015 E. Stringham Road, Rockford. My Fitness Plan, 322 Barth Ave. Asenz Athletic, 2637 Dornoch Place. Eshifter Kart, 119 E. 46th St., Suite 207, Garden City, Idaho. Traces2, 449 Columbia Point Drive. Automotive Accounting Services, 228 W. 53rd Ave., Kennewick. Little Strings, 1116 Birch Ave. Sari’s Interpreting Services, 2100 Bellerive Drive. Mobile Device Recovery, 1247 Cameo Drive. Investment Housing Specialists, 416 S. Wilson St., Kennewick. Charles T. Miller II, 1757 Bismark St. Loren Fallin Uber, 1914 George Washington Way. Udana Yoga, 1441 Purple Sage St. Meredith McIntosh, 16 Galaxy Lane. WEST RICHLAND ASPC, 822 W. Main St, Suite C, Walla Walla. FlightLogic, 2915 Bluet Drive. Double Canyon Vineyards, 8060 Keene Road. Flawless Finish Detailing, 4278 W. Van Giesen St. Dolled Up Artistry, 711 S. 45th Ave., Richland. Central Paving, 2181 Vantage Highway, Ellensburg. Jones Family Insurance, 320 N. Johnson St., Suite 300, Kennewick. Tuff Shed, 1777 S. Harrison St., Suite 600, Denver, Colorado. All Services, 905 Lindy Lane, Yakima. Northwest Cajuns, 43405 S. 2106 PRSE, Kennewick. Greg Senger Construction, 1312 W. Canyon Lakes Drive, Kennewick. Albert’s Granite & Landscaping, 202144 E SR 397, Kennewick. Events by Edz, 8350 W. Grandridge Blvd., Suite 200, Kennewick. G&G Lawn Services, 1504 W. Bonneville St., Pasco.

Nu-Shine Mobile Pressure Washing, 4772 Mount Adams View Drive. Rustic Whiskey Barrel, 5862 Juneberry Drive. R&K Garage Doors, 1005 SW Frazer Ave, Suite 100, Pendleton, Oregon. Vargas Pro-Floors Installation, 6102 N. Road 68, Pasco. Industrial Construction of Washington, 84609 N. Yakima River Drive. Mr. Perfect Construction, 3505 S. Ledbetter St., Kenenwick. Evolutions, 2005 S. Harrison St., Kennewick. Repro International, 6005 Pennsylvania St. SE, Lacey. Karla Woodruff, 606 Thynewood Loop. Vestis Systems, 840 E. Spokane Falls Blvd., Building 1, Spokane. Extra Mile Contracting, 4952 Peony St. Wall to Wall Painting, 1725 N. 21st Ave., Pasco. Art of Zil, 4634 E. Robin Court. Big Daves Construction, 1629 S. Palouse Place, Kennewick. Benjamin’s Drywall, 1127 W. Margaret St., Pasco. Bedoya Construction, 5501 W. Hildebrand Blvd., Kennewick. Quality Interior Finishes, 1010 E. Pandora Road, Rosalia. M-3 General Contractor, 1331 Montoin View, Grandview. Gradin & Sons, 261 Maple St., Burbank. Handy Helpers & General Contracting, 1624 Venus Circle, Richland. Grant Potter, 91807 E. Reata Road, Building G1, Kennewick. Baker Brother’s Construction and Remodel, 3130 Meadow Glen Lane, Cheney. Wine Country Construction & Landscaping, 1458 S. Emerald Road, Sunnyside. Automotive Accounting Services, 228 W. 53rd Ave., Kennewick. 3 Rivers Aerial, 55107 E. 95 PRSE, Benton City. Curb Solutions, 437 Sundance Drive, Richland. Katie Ward-Johnson, 86 Newcomer St., Richland. Kcsherman, 4900 Paradise Way, Suite 106. Investment Housing Specialists, 416 S. Wilson St., Kennewick. Inspire Plastering, 5605 W. Melville Road, Pasco.

uJUDGMENTS The state can file lawsuits against people or businesses that do not pay taxes and then get a judgment against property that person or business owns. Judgments are filed in Benton-Franklin Superior Court. The following is from the Franklin County Superior Court Clerk’s Office.

Ruperto Magallon Jr. et al, unpaid Department of Labor and Industries taxes, filed Aug. 3. Brookeside LLC, unpaid Department of

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Revenue taxes, filed Aug. 3. Vincent P et al, unpaid Department of Revenue taxes, filed Aug. 3. L&M Auto Sales, unpaid Department of Revenue taxes, filed Aug. 7. Vela L. Conrad, unpaid Employment Security Department taxes, filed Aug. 7. Lozano Santos, unpaid Employment Security Department taxes, filed Aug. 7. Pedro Benitz, unpaid Employment Security Department taxes, filed Aug. 7. Marcus E. Ash, unpaid Employment Security Department taxes, filed Aug. 7. Azarias Garcia, unpaid Employment Security Department taxes, filed Aug. 7. Adrian Fernandez, unpaid Employment Security Department taxes, filed Aug. 7. Michele L. McIntosh, unpaid Employment Security Department taxes, filed Aug. 7. Ismael C. Cano, unpaid Department of Revenue taxes, filed Aug. 3 Essential Planning Inc, unpaid Department of Labor and Industries taxes, filed Aug. 8. Taqueria Mexico, unpaid Department of Labor and Industries taxes, filed Aug. 8. 3 Jays Transport, unpaid Department of Revenue taxes, filed Aug. 10. Cutting Edge Construction, unpaid Department of Revenue taxes, filed Aug. 10. Riley Farms, unpaid Department of Revenue taxes, filed Aug. 10. Claro Avelar et al, unpaid Department of Licensing taxes, filed Aug. 11. Mariana V. Hernandez et al, unpaid Employment Security Department taxes, filed Aug. 14. Luis E. Perez et al, unpaid Department of Labor and Industries taxes, filed Aug. 14. Carniceria Los Toreros, unpaid Department of Labor and Industries taxes, filed Aug. 14. 3 Cities Landscaping, unpaid Department of Labor and Industries taxes, filed Aug. 14. Austin J. Fangman, unpaid Employment Security Department taxes, filed Aug. 18. Jorge Martinez, unpaid Employment Security Department taxes, filed Aug. 18. David Smith, unpaid Employment Security Department taxes, filed Aug. 18. Ana M. Arrez, unpaid Employment Security Department taxes, filed Aug. 18. Feliciano Delgado, unpaid Employment Security Department taxes, filed Aug. 18. Mohamed D. Mustafa, unpaid Employment Security Department taxes, filed Aug. 18. Eduardo F. Galvan, unpaid Employment Security Department taxes, filed Aug. 18.

Rosanna M. Martinez, unpaid Employment Security Department taxes, filed Aug. 18. David V. Parkhotyuk, unpaid Department of Labor and Industries taxes, filed Aug. 21. Alpha Auto Glass et al, unpaid Department of Revenue taxes, filed Aug. 22. Gomez Francisco et al, unpaid Department of Revenue taxes, filed Aug. 23. JSC Concrete Construction Corp, unpaid Department of Revenue taxes, filed Aug. 25. Chavez Magana & Magana et al, unpaid Department of Revenue taxes, filed Aug. 25. Guadalupe Cervantes, unpaid Employment Security Department taxes, filed Aug. 28. Margarita Arangure, unpaid Employment Security Department taxes, filed Aug. 28. David L. Gore, unpaid Employment Security Department taxes, filed Aug. 28. Kevin W. Wharton, unpaid Employment Security Department taxes, filed Aug. 28. Salvador Martinez, unpaid Employment Security Department taxes, filed Aug. 28.

uLIQUOR LICENSES BENTON COUNTY NEW APPLICATIONS Carniceria Los Toreros, 616 Ninth St., Benton City. License type: grocery store beer/wine. Application type: new. GunPowder Creek, 894 Tulip Lane, Richland. License Type: domestic winery <250,000 liters and farmers market sales. Application type: new. Double Canyon Vineyards, 8060 Keene Road, West Richland. License type: domestic winery <250,000 liters. Application type: change of location. Smitty’s Paradise 6229, 1400 Bombing Range Road, West Richland. License type: grocery store beer/wine. Application type: assumption. APPROVED Hogue Cellars, 2800 Lee Road, Prosser. License type: domestic winery >249,000 liters. Application type: change of corporate office.

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PUBLIC RECORD, From page 61 Long Rifle Winery, 840 Alderdale Road, Prosser. License type: domestic winery >249,999 liters. Application type: new. Lieb Foods, 10 E. Bruneau Ave., Kennewick. License type: domestic winery <250,000 liters. Application type: new. 7-Eleven #14428G, 415 Wright Ave., Richland. License type: grocery store beer/ wine. Application type: assumption. Sun River Vintners, 9312 W. 10th Ave., Kennewick. License type: domestic winery <250,000 liters. Application type: in lieu. Eastside Market, 335 Wine Country Road, Prosser. License type: direct shipment receiver in Washington only. Application type: new. DISCONTINUED Frankenburger’s Fry Lab; Fire & Brimstone, 1022 N. Columbia Center Blvd., Kennewick. License type: spirits/ beer/wine restaurant service bar. FRANKLIN COUNTY NEW APPLICATIONS

tion. Daily Harbor, 2221 E. Lewis St., Pasco. License type: grocery store beer/wine. Application type: new.

uMARIJUANA Licenses BENTON COUNTY NEW APPLICATIONS Biggest Little Shop of Fun, 233757 E. SR 397, Kennewick. License type: marijuana producer tier 3. Application type: added/ change of class. Archangel Botanicals, 24 Cow Trail Road, Tonasket. License type: marijuana producer tier 3 and marijuana processor. Application type: change of location. APPROVED Washington State Cannabis Company, 2415 Robertson Drive, Richland. License type: marijuana retailer. Application type: new. RustyNail, 63910 E. Sunset View PRSE, Building A, Benton City. License type: marijuana producer tier 2. Application type: new.

Eastside Super Station, 1303 E. Lewis St., Pasco. License type: direct shipment receiver in Washington only and grocery store beer/wine. Application type: new. Taqueria el Pajaro Loco, 720 W. Lewis St., Pasco. License type: spirits/beer/wine restaurant lounge. Application: new.

DISCONTINUED

APPROVED

NEW APPLICATIONS

King City Truck Stop/Knights Inn, 2100 E. Hillsboro, Pasco. License type: grocery store beer/wine. Application type: added/ change of tradename. Carniceria La Cabana #2, 1501 W. Court St., Suite 102, Pasco. License type: grocery store beer/wine. Application type: assump-

Seedz Family, 723 E. B St., Suite A, Pasco. License type: marijuana retailer and medical marijuana endorsement. Application type: new.

BLF North, 46415 E. Badger Road, Suite B, Benton City. License type: marijuana producer tier 3. FRANKLIN COUNTY

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NEW BUSINESSES

Aspen Dental has opened a new location at 7160 Burden Blvd., Suite 102 in Pasco. Hours by appointment. Contact: 509-492-5063, aspendental.com. Papa Murphy’s has opened a new location at 612 Gage Blvd. in Richland. Hours: 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. seven days a week. Contact: 509-396-3971, papamurphys.com.

Autonomous has opened at 1341 George Washington Way, Suite D in Richland. The business is an art and semiprivate tattoo studio. Contact: 509-5728611, Facebook. Fresh Out the Box has opened at 5215 W. Clearwater Ave., Suite 102 in Kennewick. The restaurant sells Asian fusion street food, including tacos, burritos, nachos, sandwiches and more. Hours: 10:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday. Contact: 509-627-9311, Facebook. Garden Hot Pot has opened at 140 Gage Blvd., Suite 204 in Richland. The restaurant sells traditional Chinese hot soup with ingredients, including various meats, seafood, dumplings, tofu and more. Hours: 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Contact: 509-378-8288. Orangetheory Fitness has opened at 1034 Queensgate Drive in Richland. The gym offers heart-rate based interval training with coach support in a group environment. Hours: vary by class times. Contact 509492-5949, richland.orangetheoryfitness. com. She She’s Again has opened at 114 W. Kennewick Ave. in Kennewick. The boutique sells home décor and gifts for women. Hours: 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday. Contact: 509-586-1200, Facebook. Susan Dahl State Farm has opened at 4034 W. Van Giesen St., Suite D in West Richland. The business offers insurance services for home, auto, business, life and health. Hours: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and Saturday by appointment. Contact: 509-578-1111, susandahlin surance.com.

MOVED Crossfit Unrestrained has moved to 5804 Road 90, Suite F in Pasco. Contact: 509-430-1888, crossfitunrestrained.com, Facebook. Ideal Vista Protein has moved to 10121 W. Clearwater Ave., Suite 102 in Kennewick. Contact: 509-460-5015, vista protein.com, Facebook. NAI Tri-Cities has moved to 89 Gage Blvd. in Richland. Contact: 509-943-5200, naitri-cities.com, Facebook. Pet OverPopulation Prevention has moved to 5811 W. Van Giesen St. in West Richland. Contact: 509-943-4722, popptrici ties.org, Facebook. Velo City Cycles has moved to 110 Gage Blvd., Suite 205 in Richland. Contact: 509-579-0944, ridevelocitycycle.com, Facebook. NAME CHANGE/NEW OWNERSHIP Studio 64 Barber and Beauty is now Studio 70 Barber and Beauty, located at 6916 W. Argent Road, Pasco. New owners: Scott Oak, Chuck Oak and Jamie Smyth. Contact: 509-544-7823, Facebook. CLOSED August Thomas Salon at 2411 S. Union St., Suite D in Kennewick has closed. FrankenBurger’s Fry Lab at 1022 N. Columbia Center Blvd. in Kennewick has closed.

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AROUND TOWN

Sena Clara Creston, a Washington State University Tri-Cities fine arts and digital technology and culture professor, works with engineering students in the robotics club on a robot that responds to its environment and to those who try and interact with it. It’s an experiment in the emotional and psychological impacts of interacting with a “live” technological being. Creston will be giving a talk at the TEDx Richland event at 1:05 p.m. Sept. 16 at the Uptown Theater, called “We are not passive observers, but active participants.” (Courtesy WSU Tri-Cities)

Madeleine Gerard, from left, Sharon Yedidia and Hannah Daviswhite were among those who attended a a solar eclipse viewing party Aug. 21 at Bechtel National Planetarium at Columbia Basin College in Pasco. The event provided solar telescopes, solar eclipse viewing glasses, live-streaming feeds from sites within the path of totality and short informational films about eclipses. (Courtesy Mid-Columbia Libraries) Royal City Dairy owner Austin Allred digs for worms in the BioFiltro wastewater treatment facility on his farm. About 70 people attended a ceremony Aug. 22 to learn how the system will treat 200,000 gallons of waste water each day through an organic filtration process using worms, microbes and bacteria to produce irrigation-grade water, organic fertilizer (worm castings) and animal feed protein. The Washington State Dairy Products Commission gave Allred a $100,000 grant to continue research funding.

Westgate Elementary School Principal Dale Kern speaks Aug. 29 during a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new $18.4 million Kennewick school. The new building replaces the original one built in 1952. The two-story, 60,500-squarefoot school features 30 classrooms, a gymnasium, cafeteria, library, music room, computer lab, reading rooms and a playground. (Courtesy Kennewick School District)

Michael Novakovich, director of strategy and business development for the Tri-Cities Cancer Center in Kennewick, speaks at the Teal the Bridge event Aug. 31 to raise awareness about ovarian cancer. The cable bridge is lit up in teal lights throughout the month of September as part of the month-long awareness campaign. (Courtesy Tri-Cities Cancer Center)

Columbia Basin College officials and community leaders celebrated the grand opening of the college’s new student housing, Sunhawk Hall, on Sept. 7. The three-story, $7 million student apartment housing facility is across the street from CBC in Pasco.

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