The building is on the north side of the property to maximize the dis tance between it and the single-family homes on Williams Street in Canyon Lakes, which borders it to the south.
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$40M senior complex takes shape near Canyon Lakes Mail by the Mall, the feisty, inde pendent mailbox business in the path of the future Center Parkway exten sion, has moved. The business started by Laurie Mc Coy and her late mother Dee is stay ing true to its name after moving into leased quarters “by the mall” at 1360 N. Louisiana St., Suite A. The new spot is near Olive Garden, Artfetti Cakes and the AMC Classic 12 movie theater.“My name is ‘Mail by the Mall,’ so I had to be close to the mall,” said Laurie McCoy, whose family agreed to sell the old location, 8220 W. Gage Blvd., to the city of Richland in Janu ary for $745,000 through an eminent domain action. It was one of several parcels the city purchased in its bid to connect Center Parkway to Tapteal Drive across Port of Benton-owned railroad tracks. Richland, the lead on the $6 million project, took possession of the build ing and will award a road-construction contract in early August. The contract will include demolishing the old Mail by the Mall building. The new road could be open next spring, and will link Gage Boulevard to Tapteal Drive near Columbia Cen terButmall.for Mail by the Mall, the only thing left in the old building is a sign in the window steering customers to the new one. “I mailed in the keys,” she said. The property also was the longtime home of McCoy’s Distributing, estab lished in 1972 to supply pull tabs, bin go and casino supplies. Dan McCoy, Laurie McCoy’s brother, took over the business from their father and has moved it to the Vista Field area. He said the process went smoothly.
SeniorTimes 8524W.GageBlvd.,#A1-300 Kennewick,WA99336PAIDPRESORTEDSTANDARDU.S.POSTAGEPASCO,WAPERMITNO.8778 PLEASEDELIVERTOCURRENTOCCUPANT AUGUST 2022 Vol. 10 | Issue 8DELIVERING NEWS TO MID-COLUMBIA SENIORS SINCE 1982 How many soccer fields does the city of Pasco maintain today? INSIDE THIS ISSUE in my senior home first aid kit?Page 3 Page 11 MONTHLYANSWER,QUIZPAGE 9
The McCoy family first learned of the Center Parkway extension plan more than 20 years ago and it cast a long shadow over the businesses, par ticularly when the private railroad op erator fought – and lost – a battle to prevent it from crossing the tracks. Tri-City Railroad was evicted from the tracks in June after it lost a case in Benton County Superior Court over lack of track maintenance. Laurie McCoy tracked the project over the course of two decades, ac cumulating a thick file of news clip pings and documents related to the extension and the various legal battles it spawned.Eachtime she planned updates to An Oregon company that builds and operates residential facilities for seniors broke ground in May on Riv erwalk Estates, a 149-unit, $40 mil lion facility that will provide assisted and independent units near Canyon Lakes.Salem-based Hawthorn Construc tion Group is building the four-story residence off Highway 395 at 4704 W. Hildebrand Blvd., behind Dugout Sports Bar and the Kennewick branch of STCU credit union. Construction will take 24 months. Hawthorn Senior Living, the con struction company’s Vancouver, Washington-based sister, will operate it once it opens to residents, said Sai Dasari, Hawthorn’s on-site construc tionThemanager.building will offer individual units, private garages, a commercial kitchen and recreational amenities such as a movie theater, bocce ball court and more.
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Courtesy Hawthorn Senior Living Hawthorn Construction Group, based in Salem, Oregon, broke ground in May on Riverwalk Estates, a 149-unit, $40 million assisted and independent living home for seniors at 4704 W. Hildebrand Blvd. in Kennewick. Its sister company, Hawthorn Senior Living, will operate the facility. By Wendy Culverwell editor@tcjournal.biz By Wendy Culverwell editor@tcjournal.biz
Mail by the Mall moves out of the path of Center Parkway extension
The exterior will feature a mix of stone, Hardie siding and wood-like feature elements, according to plan ningLenitydocuments.Architecture Inc. of Salem, Oregon, is the designer. Knutzen En gineering of Kennewick is the engi neer.Hawthorn has a national profile and is an active builder with projects across the country. It has seven in de velopment with locations on the east and west coasts. A spokesperson said it was attracted by robust growth in theHawthornTri-Cities.paid $2.75 million for the 7.74-acre property in a deal that closed Aug. 4, 2021. It owns the prop erty under the name Kennewick Re tirement Residence LLC, according to Benton County property records. The senior living facility will oc cupy about six acres. Hawthorn Retirement Group was acquired by Columbia Pacific Advi sors in 2017. The Seattle-based in vestment firm has a focus on senior housing. At the time, Columbia said it was impressed by the strength of Hawthorn’s operations and its “sub stantial pipeline” of projects.
LifePoint Health, parent to Trios Health in Kennewick and Lourdes Health in Pasco, reports both hospi tals continued their missions in twin 2021 community benefit reports. Trios Health welcomed new pro viders, expanded service lines and added 58 employees while investing more than $21.6 million in new construction, notably its new birth center, according to Jerry Dooley, interim CEO. The hospital donated more than $21.1 million in health services to those in need. It paid $95 million in salaries, wages and benefits to more than 925 employees and contributed more than $200,000 to professional development and training.
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The organization paid more than $7 million in local and state taxes. The two organizations supported community partners including the American Red Cross, Benton Franklin Fair and Rodeo, Boys & Girls Clubs of Benton and Franklin Counties, Chaplaincy Health Care, Columbia Basin College, Grace Clinic and more.
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Chaplaincy Health closes Pasco thrift store Chaplaincy Health Care has closed its Repeat Boutique thrift store in Pasco. The nonprofit announced the move on July 18, saying it will be better able to serve its community at its one remaining store, which is in “WeRichland.remain committed to our mission of providing great value and a great shopping experience for a great cause,” it said. The Pasco store closed following an online liq uidation auction in late July. The Pasco boutique opened in a 10,000-square-foot space at Sandifur Crossing on Road 68 in mid-2020 after a three-month delay caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. At the time, Chaplaincy closed its shop in downtown Kennewick, say ing it was moving to Pasco. Repeat Boutique sells donated clothing, furniture and household goods and serves as a source of income to support Chaplaincy’s mission to care for terminally ill residents in their homes and at its facility in Kennewick. The Richland Repeat Boutique is at 1331 George Washington Way in the Uptown Shopping Center. Store hours are 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Tuesday to org.GoSaturday.tochaplaincyrepeatboutique.
Pasco slated for regional cop training center Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has proposed developing a regional training campus in Pasco for law enforcement as part of a statewide move to improve recruiting and training.Allpolice officers in Washington are trained and certified by the Criminal Justice Training Commission. Entry-level officers must complete a 19-week Basic Law Enforcement Academy, cur rently at the campus in Burien near Sea-Tac International Airport. Inslee, flanked by law enforce ment, including Pasco’s Chief Ken Roske, announced the regional campus plan in late July, saying it will address challenges for commu nities beyond commuting distance to the Seattle area. Roske said installing a branch in his city will improve recruiting efforts. Pasco has an existing police training center at First Avenue and Clark“TheStreet.regional academy concept will help us find talented officers and allow for local cultural influ ences that will better reflect our communities,” Roske said. 509-737-8778 509-737-8448 fax Mailing address: 8524 W. Gage Blvd., #A1-300 WA srtimes.com99336
The organization paid $13.2 mil lion in local and state taxes. Lourdes Health also welcomed new providers and expanded its ser vice lines, said Joanie WhiteWagoner, CEO. It invested $2 mil lion in capital updates, including new lab equipment, a new informa tion system, supply chain automa tion and clinical equipment upgrades.Lourdes donated more than $12 million in services to those in need.Itpaid $57 million in salaries, wages and benefits to more than 650 employees and contributed more than $300,000 to professional development and training programs.
• Burn treatment products.
You likely won’t find a first aid kit specifically designed for seniors. You can customize a kit with extras you might need to treat someone older.
• Transparent film dressing (such as 3M Tegaderm transparent film
• Thermal patches to apply heat to a bruise.
• Tweezers, safety pins and needles.
• A list of all medications the senior is taking, along with dosage and when the medication is to be taken.
• Gauze in both pads and rolls. Ideally, you want non-stick gauze which can be pulled off the wound without starting more bleeding.
• Disposable gloves (non-latex just in case someone is allergic).
• Hand sanitizer and soap.
• Emergency phone numbers of doctors, pharmacies, poison control and emergency services.
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Items for a senior first aid kit
• Thermometer.
• Ace elastic bandage.
Start with these must-have items: butterfly closures, scissors and antiseptic cream. Then, consider adding the following:
• Muscle relief products.
•dressing).Papertape (for use on skin too delicate for even transparent tape).
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One useful approach would be for seniors and their caregivers to take a first aid class together. The Red Cross also offers a free first aid app for smartphones that can be downloaded from the Apple and Google app stores. The app advises users on how to handle almost any medical emergen cy. “It can help in an emergency whether it is a heart attack, an aller gic reaction, heat stroke or a broken bone,” Elliott said. Keep in mind that seniors often have different first aid needs than younger“Elderlypeople.victims have unique problems that get in the way of treat ing their bumps and bruises, particu
What should I include in my senior home first aid kit?
3SENIOR TIMES • AUGUST 2022 The gold standard of care in the Tri-Cities Area. Call today 509-491-1733 reachhomecare.com 4310 W. 24th Ave., Suite 240 • Kennewick, WA We offer in-home care services in your own home. We have highly skilled caregivers ready to support you and your family. • Transportation • Personal Care • Housekeeping • Mobility Assistance • Meal preparation • And more Immediate openings for new clients, we are fully staffed and ready to meet all your needs. Face it, as a senior you are more likely to experience bumps and bruises than someone younger and steadier on their feet. Falls and burns are more common as we age, and older folks are more likely to be tak ing medications that can produce adverseBecausereactions.agedoes make us more accident prone, seniors should have plenty of the right first aid supplies onAndhand.seniors would do well to take one of the American Red Cross first aid courses, which are available in person and online. Caregivers with older clients should have a working knowledge of first aid and be able to treat minor medical conditions and assist in emergencies before help arrives.This column will deal with how to build a home first aid kit suitable for seniors.TheSeptember column, appearing in a month, will offer advice on how to provide emergency assistance in a medicalMeganemergency.Elliott,Washington state account manager for Red Cross training services, said that classes are readily available in first aid, cardio pulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and automated external defibrillation (AED).Goto ficationcancourse,completeedtion,persona-classcross.org/take-redforin-instrucorblendcourses.Whenyoutheyougaincertiin being able to handle medical emer gencies. In a face-to-face course, you are in the classroom with the instruc tor, who then certifies your skills. In a blended class, you study online and then get certified in a face-to-face session with the instruc tor.Elliott said a Red Cross first aid course takes about three hours and costs between $50 and $70. That would be three hours of learning and testing in the in-person class and two hours of remote learning and an hour for in-person certification in the blended course. Once trained, you can use your skills to help yourself if you are the victim, or help if someone you are caring for is the victim. As the Red Cross puts it, “The life you save with CPR is most likely to be someone you love.”
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• Cold packs for breaks and bruises.
• Cotton balls and swabs.
• Sterile eyewash.
• Historic Downtown Kennewick Farmers Market: 4-7 p.m., 204 W. Kennewick Ave., Kennewick. Call 509-582-7221 or email market@his torickennewick.org.
• High Tide, Beach Boys Tribute Band: 6-10 p.m., Clover Island Inn, 435 N. Clover Island Drive, Kennewick. Tickets are $25 in advance, $30 the day of the event. Call 509-586-0541. AUG. 16 • Alzheimer’s Program: 10 Warning Signs of Alzheimer’s: 1-2:30 p.m., virtual event. Call 509943-8455 or register online at kadlec.org/KNRC. AUG. 18 • AARP Fraud Watch Friday: 10:30 a.m. Free. Go to aarp.org/ FraudWatchFriday, or on YouTube at youtube.com/aarpwashington.
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• Shakespeare in the Park: “As You Like It”: 7 p.m., 500 Amon Park Drive, Richland. Free.
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• Shakespeare in the Park: “As You Like It”: 7 p.m., 500 Amon Park Drive, Richland. Free.
4 SENIOR TIMES • AUGUST 2022 Bring your grandchildren and families to events with a star. ✪CALENDAR OF EVENTS
• Shakespeare in the Park: “As You Like It”: 7 p.m., 500 Amon Park Drive, Richland. Free.
• Richland Farmers Market: 9 a.m.-1 p.m., roundabout at Lee Boulevard and The Parkway in Richland. Call 509-539-7229 or email herbsetal@pocketinet.com.
• Pasco Farmers Market: 8 a.m.1 p.m., 101 S. Fourth Ave., Pasco. Call 509-528-8131 or email omarti nez@downtownpasco.com.
• Historic Downtown Kennewick Farmers Market: 4-7 p.m., 204 W. Kennewick Ave., Kennewick. Call 509-582-7221 or email market@his torickennewick.org.
• Mid-Columbia Ballet Garden Party: 7:30 p.m., The Reach Museum, 1943 Columbia Park Trail, Richland. To buy tickets go to mid columbiaballet.org. • Pasco Farmers Market: 8 a.m.1 p.m., 101 S. Fourth Ave., Pasco. Call 509-528-8131 or email omarti nez@downtownpasco.com. AUG. 23-27 • Benton Franklin Fair & Rodeo: 10 a.m.-11 p.m., 1500 S. Oak St., Kennewick. Go to bentonfranklinfair. com or call 509-222-3749. AUG. 25 • Historic Downtown Kennewick Farmers Market: 4-7 p.m., 204 W. Kennewick Ave., Kennewick. Call 509-582-7221 or email market@his torickennewick.org. AUG. 26 • Richland Farmers Market: 9 a.m.-1 p.m., roundabout at Lee Boulevard and The Parkway in Richland. Call 509-539-7229 or email herbsetal@pocketinet.com. AUG. 27 • Pasco Farmers Market: 8 a.m.1 p.m., 101 S. Fourth Ave., Pasco. Call 509-528-8131 or email omarti nez@downtownpasco.com.
Benton Franklin Fair & Rodeo Grand Parade: 10 a.m.-noon, downtown Kennewick. Call 509-2223749 or visit bentonfranklinfair.com.
• Celebration of Community Diversity & Culture: noon-8 p.m., Columbia Park bandshell. Tri-Cities Diversity & Inclusion Council’s sec ond annual event showcases diverse cultures represented through food, entertainment, music, art, poetry, vendors/merchants and more. Free.
AUG. 12 • Shakespeare in the Park: “As You Like It”: 7 p.m., 500 Amon Park Drive, Richland. Free.
• Richland Farmers Market: 9 a.m.-1 p.m., roundabout at Lee Boulevard and The Parkway in Richland. Call 509-539-7229 or email herbsetal@pocketinet.com.
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• Pasco Farmers Market: 8 a.m.1 p.m., 101 S. Fourth Ave., Pasco. Call 509-528-8131 or email omarti nez@downtownpasco.com.
AUG. 11 • Healthy Ages Wellness Program: Medicare: 1-2 p.m., virtu al event. Call 509-943-8455 or regis ter online at kadlec.org/KNRC.
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AUG. 6 • Keewaydin Cup Pinewood Derby: 9 a.m.-3 p.m., East Benton County Historical Society Museum, 205 W. Keewaydin Drive, Kennewick. Call 509-582-7704 or email EBCHSMuseum@gmail.com.
Aug. 15 at the Richland Community Center, 500 Amon Drive, Pasco Parks & Recreation, 525 N. Third Ave., and the Southridge Sports & Events Complex, 2901 Southridge Blvd., Kennewick. The event is sponsored by the three cities and the Richland Seniors Association. Cool, wet spring ends Washington drought
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The 27th annual All Senior Picnic will be held from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Sept. 15 at Howard Amon Park, 500 Amon Drive, in Richland. Tickets are $5 and go on sale
The state Department of Ecology canceled its declaration on July 19, saying water supply conditions exceed expectations and no part of Washington is experiencing drought. The decision came after the sec ond-wettest May through June since 1895.Under Washington law, a drought can be declared when the water sup ply in an area is below 75% of nor mal. The lowest stream flow fore cast in the state is for the Colville River, which was at 86% in July.
“Conditions have improved. All areas of the state, including the five watersheds specified in the drought, have received significantly abovenormal precipitation. The outlook is much better than forecast back in May,” said Jeff Marti, drought coor dinator for the state agency. Spring 2022 contrasted sharply with the prior year, when conditions were the second driest on record and an unprecedented heat “dome” smashed temperature records in late June.
A cool, wet spring has officially ended drought conditions in central and Eastern Washington.
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The Washington Department of Retirement Services advises seniors to ensure all their financial accounts identify the beneficiaries who will inherit assets. The advisory covers both retire ment services and other accounts. The agency notes that not all assets pass through a will. Accounts that are jointly owned, have a named beneficiary, or are “payable upon death” typically supersede the terms of Beneficiarieswills. will receive assets after a death, so it is important to identify them for each financial account. Events such as marriage, divorce and children may require that beneficiaries be changed. Contact financial institutions to understand their rules and restric tions for designating and updating beneficiaries, and review accounts yearly to ensure the information is up to date. If the beneficiary is a child or someone with a disability, the retire ment system advises working with a tax advisor or finance professional. Clients of the state retirement sys tem can update beneficiaries to their accounts online at drs.wa.gov.
Tickets on sale for All Senior Picnic in Richland
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• Pasco Ray Pfleuger Center, 253 W. Margaret St.
• Benton City Desert Rose Facility, 510 14th St.
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Thursday, Aug. 18: Roast beef with gravy, mashed potatoes, Italian vegeta bles, wheat roll, ice cream. Friday, Aug. 19: Chicken Caesar salad, breadstick, cottage cheese and pineap ple. Monday, Aug. 22: Turkey and rice, casserole, beets, tossed salad. Tuesday, Aug. 23: Chicken pot pie, cauliflower with red peppers. Wednesday, Aug. 24: Hamburger, let tuce, tomato, onion, baked beans, apple cabbage slaw. Thursday, Aug. 25: Macaroni and cheese, sausage patty, garden mix veg etables, tossed salad. Friday, Aug. 26: Herbed chicken mushroom gravy, au gratin potatoes, green beans, peach crisp. Monday, Aug. 29: Swedish meatballs, egg noodles, broccoli, tossed salad. Tuesday, Aug. 30: Apple pork chop, mashed sweet potatoes, mixed vegeta bles. Wednesday, Aug. 31: Teriyaki chick en, fluffy rice, Asian vegetables. Dining site locations: • Kennewick Community Center, 500 S. Auburn St.
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Mid-Columbia Meals on Wheels se nior dining sites serve hot meals from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday through Friday (Tuesday through Friday in Con nell). Meals free for seniors age 60 andSeniorsolder. make reservations 24 business hours advance by calling 509-735-1911. Friday, Aug. 5: Chicken salad sand wich, broccoli salad. Monday, Aug. 8: Spaghetti and meat sauce, garden vegetables, breadstick. Tuesday, Aug. 9: Baked cod with dill sauce, herbed potatoes, squash medley. Wednesday, Aug. 10: Chicken chop salad, salad greens, oatmeal raisin cookie. Thursday, Aug. 11: Roast turkey with gravy, mashed potatoes, broccoli Normandy, wheat roll. Friday, Aug. 12: Three bean chili, chuckwagon corn, cornbread. Monday, Aug. 15: Sweet and sour chicken, fluffy rice, Asian vegetables. Tuesday, Aug. 16: Meatloaf with gravy, mashed potatoes, mixed vegeta bles. Wednesday, Aug. 17: Tuna noodle casserole, lyonnaise carrots.
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The Verywell Health site warns that “skin tears are common in folks with very thin skin … and even but terfly closures are too much for some skin types.” It suggests adding transparent film dressings to a senior first aid kit. “Transparent film dressings look like plastic wrap and provide a way to let skin tears heal,” according to theAnotherwebsite.must-have item for kits is a pair of scissors.
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“With brittle bones and delicate skin, the only way to remove cloth ing over an injury might be to cut it off,” said Verywell Health. There are special first aid shears that can cut through heavy clothing. Elliott said a senior first aid kit should have plenty of Neosporin or a comparable ointment to treat cuts and other wounds and gauze to apply pressure to a wound to stop bleeding. Elliott warned that if you are applying pressure and blood begins to seep through, leave the initial ban dage in place and apply a second pressureRemovingbandage.thatfirst layer could start the bleeding anew, she said. Keep plenty of gauze available for use in bringing bleeding under con trol.Your emergency supplies for seniors should include plenty of water.“Seniors become dehydrated very quickly,” Elliott said. Just keep in mind that first aid is for conditions you can treat yourself or manage until professional care arrives.Never try to manage a medical emergency on your own if you have any doubt about your ability to han dle it. Call 911 and get trained responders to the scene without delay.
Gordon Williams is a volunteer with the American Red Cross’ Northwest Region Communications Team.
The American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living are protesting a proposed rule that would cut $330 million in Medicare funding for nursing homes through a 5% cut to payment rates. The AHCA/NCAL, which repre sents more than 14,000 nursing homes and assisted living commu nities, released a statement in sup port of letters signed by 22 U.S. senators and 18 U.S. representa tives urging the Biden administra tion to reconsider the rule pub lished by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. The effort is led by U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, D-Montana, and U.S. Rep. J. Luis Correa, D-California. “The Covid-19 pandemic has led to an unprecedented workforce shortage and economic crisis within the long-term and post-acute care sector. Sixty percent of nursing homes say their workforce situation has worsened since January, and more than half say they cannot sus tain their current operating pace for more than one year,” the associa tion said in its letter of support. In a separate announcement, the association said a new study shows that increasing staffing minimums to a federal level would cost $10 billion a year and require hir ing more than 187,000 nurses and nurses’ aides. An estimated 18% of the 900,000 residents of nursing homes would be at risk of “dis placement” if facilities had to reduce their numbers to meet high er staffing standards. larly because of delicate skin and brittle bones,” said the website Verywellhealth.com.Themedicalinformation service features articles written by medical professionals.Someoneyounger with a serious cut would almost certainly receive stitches, Elliott said. But delicate senior skin might not be able to tol erateInstead,them.she said, a senior first aid kit should include butterfly closures to hold the edges of a wound togeth er. That would keep the wound closed until someone with profes sional medical training takes over.
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• Pinochle Players: 6-8:30 p.m. Fridays. Location: game room. Cost: $1.
• Creative Palette Art: 9 a.m.noon Tuesdays.
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• Bunco: 1-3 p.m. Fridays. Cost: $1 per day.
• Mahjong: 1-3 p.m. Tuesdays Location: living room. Membership is required.•Daytime Bingo Bingo Friday Wednesday 1 p.m. 1-3 p.m. Tuesdays. Friday p.m. Sunday a.m. Friday
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Pool: 9 a.m.-1 p.m. MondaysFridays. Cost: free. Location: pool room, membership is required.
• Pinochle: 12:30-4 p.m. Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. Cost: $1 per day.
• Table Tennis: 6:30-8:45 p.m. Mondays and Wednesdays, 12:303:45 p.m. Sundays. Prosser CommunitySeniorCenter 1231 Dudley Ave., Prosser
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• Fitness Room: 8 a.m.-9 p.m. Mondays-Fridays, 9 a.m.-8 p.m. Saturdays and noon-4 p.m. Sundays. Location: Fitness room. Cost: $2 per day or $8 per month. Billiards: Daily. $2 per day.
• Billiards: Daily. $2 per day or $20 monthly pass.
Location: dining room. Cost: Suggested donation $7 per person and $3 per child, 8 and under. West Richland Senior Center 616 N. 60th, West Richland 509-967-2847• Bunco Potluck: noon, first Wednesday and third
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Billiards: 9 a.m.-noon. Mondays; 1:30-4 p.m. Wednesdays; 9 a.m.noon, 1:30-4 p.m. Fridays. Mexican Train Dominoes: 1:30-3:30 p.m. Mondays. Pinochle: 1:30-4 p.m. Tuesdays. China Painting: 9 a.m.-noon. Wednesdays.
• Senior Duplicate Bridge: 12:303:30 p.m. Mondays and Wednesdays. Location: game room.
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Aug. 19: The first daytime episode of the second incarnation of American game show “The Price Is Right” was taped at CBS Television City. Aug. 24: “Hot August Night,” Neil Diamond’s double platinum album, was recorded live at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles. Page 1 Twenty.
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The event raises money to sup port the nonprofit’s mission to empower people with disabilities and other barriers. Its programs provide employment services, training, respite service and help clients access housing, food bene fits and more. The event is limited to 220 peo ple.Sponsorship packages run from $1,000 for a table for eight to $20,000 for champion level spon sors, which includes two tables for a total of 16 guests. Contact Babe Nyberg, baben@ columbiandustries.com or call 509551-1796. Golf event future supports Arts Center
The Arts Center Task Force is inaugurating a golf tournament to support plans to build a performing artsParcenter.forthe Arts starts at 8 a.m., Sept. 29, at the Columbia Point Golf Course in Richland. The fee is $125 for individuals and $500 for teams of Registrationfour. includes 18 holes, greens fees, range balls, a cart, swag bag and awards luncheon. Registration closes Sept. 20. Sponsorships are available as well. Go to bit.ly/ParfortheArts.
• 6:30 p.m. Aug. 15, Richland Public Library, 955 Northgate Drive, THE FOUR WINDS by Kristin Hannah. HILLBILLY ELEGY by J.D. Vance is the Sept. 19 book. The group meets the third Monday of the month. Contact: Sue Spencer, orspencer_england@hotmail.comsue_509-572-4295.
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10 SENIOR TIMES • AUGUST 2022 Craft Beer Fest coming to Columbia Park Tri-City Sunrise Rotary will hold its Craft Beer Festival from 2-10 p.m. Aug. 21 near the Veterans Memorial in Kennewick’s Columbia Park. More than 30 craft beers pro duced in the Northwest will be available along with yard games, a DJ, entertainment, photo booths, food and retail vendors. Tickets are $40, with attendance limited to those 21 and over. Proceeds support Rotary grants to nonprofits.Theevent is managed by the Simmons family, which operates C.G. Public House and Catering, Bite at the Landing and Uncle Sam’s Saloon. Go to lumbia.ticketleap.com/craftbeeronthecocraftbeeronthecolumbia.
Columbia Industries plans Evening of Miracles Columbia Industries holds its annual Evening of Miracles gala fundraiser from 5:30-9 p.m. Oct. 20 at the Red Lion Hotel, Columbia Center, 1101 N. Columbia Center Blvd., Kennewick.
• 7 p.m. the first Friday of the month, Caterpillar Café at Adventures Underground, 227 Symons St., Richland. Contact Sarah at 509-9469893 for upcoming titles.
• 1:30 p.m. Sept. 15, Richland Public Library, 955 Northgate Drive, THE ROSE CODE by Kate Quinn. MISS BENSON’S BEETLE by Rachel Joyce is the Oct. 20 Thebook.group meets the third Thursday of the month but takes summers off. Contact: Evelyn ec_painter@yahoo.comPainter, or 509-420-4811.
• 1 p.m. Aug. 17, MidColumbia Libraries, Pasco branch, 1320 W. Hopkins St., Pasco, FOUR LOST CITIES by Annalee Newitz. CRYING AT THE H MART by Michelle Zauner is the Sept. 21 Thebook.group typically meets the third Wednesday of the month. Contact Susan Koenig at 509302-9878 or SMKoenig@ymail. com
• 6 p.m. Aug. 23, MidColumbia Libraries, Benton City branch, 810 Horne Drive, THE NICKEL BOYS by Colson Whitehead.
One early September day in 1911, the Kennewick Commercial Club met seeking ideas to promote local grapes to a broader market. Nineteen days later, the group put on Kennewick’s first Grape Carnival. Over a span of more than a century, grape festivals and agricultural fairs followed the 1911-15 grape carnivals. The Benton County Fair succeeded them, and a blending of the two coun ties, Benton and Franklin, resulted in a bicounty fair in 1954. This year’s Benton Franklin Fair is set for Aug. 23-27. That first grape carnival was held in a 60-by-90-foot building at Washington Street and Second Avenue in Kennewick.Remodeled for exhibits and displays and with two new additions, the carni val was a huge success, with “people packed in the buildings like sardines in a box,” according to one account. Nina Hoadley, a member of Kennewick High School’s first gradu ating class in 1908, was named Queen Tokay I to reign over the first grape carnival.EthelTompkins, also a member of the first Kennewick High graduating class, was named queen of the realm for the second grape carnival as Queen RoumaniaAccordingI. to Jean Carol Davis, a one-time Kennewick historical researcher, the first grape carnival drew growers from as far away as White Bluffs and Attalia with produce entries. Local merchants donated cash and merchandise awarded to winning entries of vegetables, alfalfa, grapes, other fruits, honey and grape jelly. “Merchandise items included a lady’s hat, a half-ton of coal, a year’s subscription to the newspaper, a barrel of flour, a pair of shoes, a rocking chair,” Davis noted. A rented three-pole tent, 100-by-200 feet, pitched on a vacant corner at Cascade Street and Kennewick Avenue, site of today’s Cascade build ing, housed the 1912 festival which was formally renamed the Columbia River Valley Grape Carnival.
Amusement rides were just down theThursday,street. Sept. 19, was “Kennewick Day,” followed by “Pasco Day” with a special train carrying visitors across the river.
The 1914 festival went $235.65 in the red, but to promote voter registra tion, queen candidates received “300 votes for every signed voter’s registra tion they accumulated.”
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The Grape Carnival did better in 1915.While the total cost of the fair was $2,919.89, it ended up with only a $15.72 deficit. It also featured the first “automobile parade,” with a prize for the best Worlddecorated.WarIand a major worldwide flu pandemic put an end to the festivals until 1921 when Kennewick leaders put on the 1921 Kennewick Agricultural Fair. Through its 1921-33 run, the fair’s locations varied. The Kennewick Fair Association in 1927 bought 10 acres between the old green bridge and the railroad bridge along the Columbia River and it was laid out as the fairgrounds and used until the last agriculture fair in 1933. In 1932, the Kennewick Agricultural Fair was even renamed the Benton
“Up-the-River Day” on Saturday featured a chartered steamer bringing fairgoers from White Bluffs, Hanford and Richland. Roundtrip fare and admission to the fair was $1.
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Search East Benton County History Museum: 205 W. Keewaydin Drive in Kennewick; 509-582-7704; ebchs.org.
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12 SENIOR TIMES • AUGUST 2022 Franklin Fair. The fairs also offered many and var ied prizes, including new cars, and in one case, a mule named “Maude.” A purple robe worn by queens in the 1920s and 1930s is on display in the East Benton County Historical Society Museum, 205 Keewaydin Drive, in Kennewick.Bymid-July 1934, finding “a lack of interest and a shortage of finances,” the fair board decided against another fair. By 1946, enthusiasm was renewed and the Grape Festival Association was formed.The’46 festival featured traditional agricultural exhibits on a lot behind Washington Hardware. Features included an Rodeo Association-approvedCowboyrodeo at the Richland Wye, air shows at Vista Field, a football game on the Kennewick High field between the Fort Lewis Artillerymen team and the Yakima Allstars, and performances by the nation ally-known Spike Jones and his City Slickers, and the Jack Teagarden Orchestra.The1947 Grape Festival featured a 100-by-200-foot big top tent where today’s Keewaydin Mid-Columbia Library branch is located. It housed both entertainment and exhibits. Ralph Edwards brought his “Truth or Consequences” nationally-broadcast radio show for two live and four taped presentations featuring local partici pants.Fairgoers danced to Buddy Rich and hisTheorchestra.1948Grape Festival featured nationally-known performer Leo Carrillo and his vaudeville show of several acts doing three two-hour shows.Leo Carrillo, best known as “Pancho,” sidekick of television’s “The Cisco Kid,” also was parade grand marshal.In1948, the Benton Fair Association was formed after Grape Festival Association board members voted to give up rights to a fair. In 1949, the Benton County Fair was established and today’s current fair grounds site became home of future fairs.The Benton Franklin Fair has con tinued from the same location since being established in 1954.
Gale Metcalf, a lifelong Tri-Citian and retired Tri-City Herald employee, as well as a volunteer for the East Benton County Historical Society, writes the monthly history column.
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andphoneueServiceRevenueInternalSecurityfromclaimingScammersnonpayment.totobeSocialorthecontintofloodlines,there’s been a dramatic increase in phony Amazon calls as the pandemic drove more people to shop online. Other robocall fakes might offer you a lower credit card interest rate, a spe cial mortgage rate or to help fix a problem with your computer. They might claim you’ve won a prize or tell you to press a particular key to learn more or get off a call list. Whatever the message, do not engage.Doing so can lead you to a real live scammer, who’ll pressure you to make a purchase or pump you for personal information, like a credit card or Social Security number. Even just pressing a key or answering a question alerts scammers that they’ve hit on a “live” number, and they’ll call it again and again.Visit aarp.org/TipOffs to hear recordings of many of these popular pitches, and consider these important “Do’s and Don’ts” when it comes to ducking robocalls and the scammers behind them. DO • Hang up on robocalls and add your number(s) to the National Do Not Call Registry, donotcall.gov. It won’t stop fraudulent calls, but it will make them easier to spot because most legit imate telemarketers won’t call num bers on the registry.
• Don’t answer calls from unknown numbers.•Don’t press any keys or say any thing in response to a prerecorded message. This lets scammers know yours is a working number and will lead to more spam calls.
• Use free and low-cost call-block ing options, such as apps and services that screen calls and weed out spam and scams. Ask your phone service provider if it offers such tools.
• Verify callers. Hang up on calls claiming to be from Social Security or your bank, which typically don’t con tact people by phone. Look up the real number, call and ask if they contacted you.•Report scam calls to the state attorney general’s office, atg.wa.gov/ robocall-and-telemarketing-scams
13SENIOR TIMES • AUGUST 2022 Robocalls coming into the U.S. have more than doubled to nearly 50 billion calls a year. Experts estimate that up to half of these calls may be attempts to defraud consumers – and Washington state has been hit hard by this massive increase in unwanted scam calls. To help consumers spot and stop emerging robocall scams, AARP has established a statewide “Tip-Offs to Rip-Offs” campaign in partnership with the Washington Attorney General, Southeast Washington Aging and Long-Term Care, Boeing Employees Credit Union and Nomorobo. As part of that effort, it is providing real-time access to the top robocall scams targeting Tri-Cities area phone lines.Consumers are urged to listen to the calls to familiarize themselves with the latest fraudulent pitches before con-art ists have a chance to dial their number. Illegal robocalls include telemarket ing spam (automated sales calls from companies you haven’t authorized to contact you) and attempts at outright theft.Prerecorded messages dangle good ies such as all-expenses-paid travel or demand payment for nonexistent debts to get you to send money or give up sensitive personal data. Scammers often use caller ID “spoofing” to mask their true location, making it appear that they’re calling from a legitimate or local number to raise the odds that you’ll pick up. In a 2019 AARP survey on robocalls, 60% of Washington adults said they are more likely to answer if caller ID shows a number with their area code. Popular calls right now may claim to be from a local utility threatening to turn off your power due
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The McCoys enlisted legal counsel to advise them through the eminent domain process but did not sue over the loss of their property. “We knew it was coming. We weren’t going to fight it,” she said.
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Photo by Wendy Culverwell Laurie McCoy, left, owner of Mail by the Mall, and Ashley Bobiles, store manager, celebrate the move to a new location near the Olive Garden. Their old building on Gage Boulevard stood in the path of the future Center Parkway extension, which will link Gage to Tapteal Drive near Columbia Center mall.
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Today, Mail by the Mall handles thousands of packages during the busy holiday season. Laurie McCoy said she moved in June when busi ness was at a seasonal low. She said the new spot is smaller than the old one and since it is leased, the operations costs are higher. She said she would know by the busy holiday shopping season if the move made financial sense. But even as she and her store manager, Ashley Bobiles, were still setting up the new store, a stream of customers stopped by to drop off packages. Like her brother, she credited the city of Richland with being a good partner in facilitating the move. The city has advertised for bids on the Center Parkway extension as it shifts from planning to actual con struction. Construction will cost an estimated $2.1 million, with $4 mil lion already spent on design, litiga tion and land acquisition. The Benton County Rural Capi tal Fund is paying much of the cost. On July 5, the Richland City Coun cil approved a $1.6 million allocation toward the $2.1 million construction costs. The fund previously provided $1 million to support planning and landConstructionacquisition.is expected to begin in late summer or early fall, with progress subject to added rules gov erning construction at railroad cross ings. The city expects the new threelane road to debut in spring 2023.
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14 SENIOR TIMES • AUGUST 2022 aggressive sales pitch or a “phishing” expedition.•Don’tjudge a call by caller ID alone. Scammers mask their location by tricking your phone into displaying a legitimate government or corporate number, or one similar to your own (a practice called “neighbor spoofing”). Please share this information with your friends and family. The better we’re all able to recognize a scam pitch before we’re in the con-artist’s sights, the better we’ll be able to pro tect ourselves and our money.
The cities of Richland and Kenne wick partnered on the Center Park way extension in 2001. The parkway dead ends on either side of the rail road tracks, creating awkward access to Tapteal Drive. Awkward but not impossible. Furniture stores, retail ers and hotels have been built on the stretch above Highway 240. An additional 33 acres are undevel oped, and the two cities see punch ing Center Parkway through as a way to improve traffic around Columbia Center and boost commercial devel opment. An estimated $200 million in development could follow and 900 jobs, Richland says. Laurie McCoy is skeptical that traf fic will be improved by a street that crosses working railroad tracks. She predicts cars will back up on the short stretch of Center Parkway between the roundabout at Gage Boulevard and Tapteal Drive whenever a train goes by. Origin story For the McCoy family, selling the old property is bittersweet. The late Pat McCoy, Laurie’s and Dan’s father, bought the property as an investment long before Columbia Center had neighbors. An aerial photo shows the mall surrounded by desert and little else. Pat McCoy predicted the area would “explode.” Gage Boulevard to day is flanked by retailers, including Costco, restaurants, business parks, strip malls and residential develop ments, including apartment complex es.“Sure enough, he was right,” Lau rieMailsaid.by the Mall is the indirect re sult of a lucrative mail order business Pat McCoy built out of his hobby col lecting old-time radios. His daughter remembers growing up in north Richland stuffing enve lopes and accompanying her mother on endless trips to the Richland post office to ship packages. Dee McCoy noticed a proliferation of Mail Boxes Etc., a franchised mail boxes and shipping business that later became The UPS Stores. She was intrigued and asked her daughter her thoughts. Laurie had earned degrees in business and psy chology and had years of experience in Theretail.mother-daughter team decid ed to make a go of it, opening Mail by the Mall as an independent store in 1994 on the family-owned prop erty. The father-son team of Pat and Dan ran the distribution business in a 4,000-square-foot warehouse at the rear of the building. Mail by the Mall shipped 14 pack ages the first day, catering to custom ers from the mall and nearby Meadow Springs, the only residential neigh borhood in the area at the time.
Jason Erskine is communications director for the AARP Washington in SeaTac. the business, the Center Parkway plan would rear its head. Each time it was featured in the news, customers for the Mail by the Mall’s private mail boxes would decamp, thinking the end was in sight.
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Independent/Assisted Living and Respite Care (509) www.Parkviewslc.com734-9773 7820 W. 6th Avenue • Kennewick, WA Parkview’s Tuesday, August 30th 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. Wear your favorite Hawaiian shirts and hula skirts. We’ll provide the leis! RSVP to (509) 734-9773. Luau Party New lab equipment speeds up alerts for toxic algae blooms Courtesy
Toxic algae can no longer hide in plainThesight.Benton-Franklin Health District Water Lab in Kennewick is now home to ELISA, a testing kit and plate reader that detects toxins from algae blooms in water samples collected from local lakes and rivers. The instrument gives the local health district an important new tool to detect water-borne toxins and to monitor mul tiple sites at a time. “This is real science that is directly helping the public. (Toxic algae) is something that is potentially very dan gerous to humans and animals. People can die from this. To be on the first line of defense detecting toxic algae is excit ing,” said Jillian Legard, lab supervisor at the health district. Fall 2021 was a challenging time for the district, which detected an unprec edented occurrence of toxins from algal blooms that had not been previously detected in the waters of the Columbia River.Several dogs lost their lives after be ing exposed to these blooms. At the time, no local entity had the equipment to test, so water samples were flown to King County Environ mental“TheLab.lab was essential in assisting Benton-Franklin Health District and our cities in developing the ability to test lo cally. King County helped us with the push for funding and generously gave of themselves to train our lab staff,” said Rick Dawson, the health district’s senior manager for surveillance and in vestigation.Dawson said that ELISA will help public health officials protect the com munity by maintaining a routine testing schedule of sample sites that will detect toxic algae sooner. The ELISA system arrived in July. The test needs less than a drop of wa ter – 50 microliters – to detect toxins. The plate reader reads color intensity to determine the level of toxins in the sam ple. “ELISA” refers to “enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay.”
Health officials can now test samples from drinking water intakes and up to six to 10 recreational water sites at once, producing results in a day and a half.“Even though it only takes the tini est amount of water to test for toxins, we collect 250 milliliters (about 8.45 ounces) of water from each testing site in amber-colored jars to ensure we have enough samples to test,” Legard said. Amber-colored jars protect samples from any light degradation. Legard said the lab team “runs the test samples in duplicate, then we av erage them due to the small volumes required and the variable nature of at tempting to detect molecules of toxin from a massive body of water.”
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The bigger the sample, the greater the chance of collecting any toxic algae. “It’s like if you go fishing in a lake with one pole and you don’t catch any fish all day. Does that mean there are no fish in the lake? No, of course not. There are fish in the lake; you just didn’t catch any with your one fishing pole. You are more likely to catch a fish with multiple lines or a large net,” Legard said. This method for testing helps to min imize false negatives. The plate reader, funded through the state Department of Health, tests toxic algae. Legard said that soon, ELISA could be used to test for other contaminants in theWithenvironment.summer in full swing, Dawson advises residents to enjoy the outdoors, but to be cautious. “You can’t tell by looking at water if toxins are present or not. Look before you leap with all waters. Know that there is a risk any time we are in open water. Open water is not treated, it runs through lots of things, and many things get in the water. The best thing you can do is be aware of your surroundings and look for information about where you are. Look for signs. If toxins are de tected in the water, there will be proper signs on display,” Dawson said. Amanda Mason is communications coordinator for the Benton-Franklin Health District. Benton-Franklin
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