November 2019
Volume 7 • Issue 10
Memory care home fills up weeks after opening in Pasco BY KRISTINA LORD editor@tcjournal.biz
New pickleball courts coming to court club
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Burger Factory brings Connell community together Page 8
DNR using land to make money for schools Page 9
MONTHLY QUIZ
Which U.S. senator was Benton County named after? Answer, Page 13
Pasco’s newest memory care assisted living facility is nearly full after being open for about three weeks. There were two of the 17 rooms available in late October at Rosetta Assisted Living at 5921 Road 60. It’s a good thing a second 17-room identical wing is ready to open once this one reaches capacity. “We thought it’d be after Christmas, but I am thinking it’ll be in about a month,” said Crystal Worcott, the regional director for Rosetta. And plans to construct more buildings on the Pasco site are on the horizon. “If we do get full, we will build more,” Worcott said. The location has room for two more buildings, she said. Worcott said the need for assisted living services is huge in Pasco. “Assisted living is just underserved over here. We have the two buildings in Kennewick, one in Richland. In Richland, we could have done another one as well, but property wasn’t as easy to find. When we found this lot (in Pasco), it actually wasn’t for sale; we convinced the guy next door to sell it to us. We love that it’s near a park and school,” Worcott said. It’s across the street from Mariposa Park and just down the road from Barbara McClintock STEM Elementary School. Worcott said the Rosetta team is looking forward to fostering a relationship with the school. The Idaho-based Rosetta Assisted Living has facilities in Montana and Washington. It sold its five buildings in Idaho about 18 months ago as the market became saturated with assisted living faciliuROSETTA, Page 15
Photo by Jeff Morrow Lurene Harris Fleshman, a trustee of the Harris Family Trust, and her husband run the Harris Produce stand on Court Street in Pasco. The farm stand will reopen in 2020 off Alder Road in north Pasco after her family’s 45-acre farm is auctioned.
Pioneering Pasco farming family says it’s time to sell
BY JEFF MORROW for Senior Times
Lurene Harris Fleshman sat at a table in her garage recently at Harris Farm, looking out at the land as she pondered what it would look like filled with houses and streets. “I’m not ever gonna look again!” she said with a chuckle, before admitting that yes, she’d want to see what it’d look like not being a farm.
Fleshman, a trustee of the Harris Family Trust along with her seven siblings, or their estates, have agreed to put the family’s 45-acre farm on the auction block Nov. 14. Located at 11530 W. Court St. in Pasco, next to the Columbia River and the bridge that spans Pasco and Richland, Harris Farm is a piece of land that residential developers are chomping at the bit to get their hands on. uHARRIS, Page 14
New entrance to welcome visitors to Benton County Museum BY KRISTINA LORD editor@tcjournal.biz
The project to move and renovate the entrance to the Prosser museum started out as a plan to fix a leaking roof. But once planning for the roof work began in earnest, Benton County Museum and Historical Society members said it was apparent there was an opportunity to do more. The 51-year-old museum sits at the curve in the road where Seventh and Paterson streets meet, across the street from Prosser High School, in City Park. The existing entrance faces Memorial
Street, which many people consider the “back of the building,” said Alys Means, curator and director of the museum. “The new entrance will give us far greater visibility on Seventh Street, which is the main arterial going by. When you drive by the front, the museum entrance will also be in the front, which will be a beautiful thing,” she said. The plan is to create a new guest reception foyer area at the center of the Ushaped building at 1000 Paterson Road. Means said the new foyer area will provide a place for visitors to be welcomed uMUSEUM, Page 2
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