April 2018
Volume 6 • Issue 3
Chaplaincy opens second thrift store in Richland Uptown BY KRISTINA LORD editor@tcjournal.biz
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The successful launch of Chaplaincy Health Care’s new thrift store in Kennewick last year prompted the opening of a second store in Richland. The nonprofit, which provides hospice, palliative and grief care and behavioral health services, opened a second thrift store — also called Repeat Boutique — in the Richland Uptown Shopping Center in March. It’s located next door to Octopus’ Garden. “The success of our first thrift store completely exceeded our expectations. A location in Richland will help us reach more shoppers and more people who want to donate their items to support a great cause — hospice,” said Gary Castillo, executive director of Chaplaincy, in a statement. Revenue from sales is used to enhance and support hospice services, both inhome and at the Hospice House in Kennewick. Rita Leach, the Richland store manager, already knows the shop will be successful. “The day we opened we had people waiting for the doors to open. It was a steady flow all day,” she said. Leach and her husband Bill had been volunteering at the Kennewick store since June. The Leaches owned The Bunker, a military surplus store in Richland, for two years, making them well suited to running the shop, said Leslie Streeter, Chaplaincy’s director of business development and operations. “They have a ton of retail experience,” she said. uCHAPLAINCY, Page 8
Traci Wells, center, director of Tender Care Village, said her family was instrumental in helping her launch a new nonprofit to help support seniors wanting to age in place in their homes. Her mother-in-law Patricia Wells, left, designed the group’s logo, and her mother Joan Hines, right, came up with the group’s name.
New nonprofit pairs seniors, volunteers to enable elderly to remain home longer BY KRISTINA LORD editor@tcjournal.biz
Beck Royer admitted she was pretty picky about who would care for her aging mother in Kennewick. The Seattle woman, a physician’s assistant for 31 years, knew she found the right place with Tender Care Village. The new nonprofit, which was registered with the state a year ago, is part of a national network to help establish and manage communities wanting to offer aging-in-place initiatives called “vil-
lages.” It pairs seniors with volunteers. For an annual fee, village members can tap into a network of screened volunteers for non-medical assistance, like rides to the grocery store or doctor’s offices, light home maintenance, seasonal yard chores or companionship. “Whether you’re dying or getting older, the Tri-Cities needs something like this. A lot of people can’t pay $40 an hour to have someone come over. Mom was on a limited budget and this worked for us,” Royer said. uTENDER CARE, Page 2
Quilt a labor of love for Richland woman to support home repair projects BY KRISTINA LORD editor@tcjournal.biz
A Richland woman will never forget the day she finished the quilt she spent months designing, sewing and making. It was the morning her 92-year-old mother died. Leslie Kelly started planning the king-size quilt nearly a year before as a donation to Rebuilding MidColumbia. The nonprofit built a wheelchair ramp for Kelly’s mother, Isa “Dee” Lynch, that significantly improved the quality of her life. Rebuilding Mid-Columbia offers free housing repairs to low-income homeowners, with an emphasis on
helping single parents, the elderly and disabled, and veterans. When the ramp was “finished that first day, we were in tears,” Kelly said. “What they did made the last year of her life so much better than it would have been,” she said. Kelly applied to receive assistance from Rebuilding Mid-Columbia for her mother on Easter Sunday last year. She didn’t have to wait long before receiving a call from the group to assess what was needed at Lynch’s Richland home. They visited her house the next day. “God just lined everything up for us. We never expected results that fast,” Kelly said.
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