Dec. 2017 / Jan. 2018 Volume 5 • Issue 11
Kennewick senior living community gets new name, managers BY SENIOR TIMES
Backyard bird feeding store opens in Richland
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The senior living community formerly known as Charbonneau is now called Solstice Senior Living at Kennewick. The change is the result of a national joint venture between the property’s ownership group, NorthStar Healthcare Income Inc., and Integral Senior Living, a national provider of senior living management services. Terms of the agreement weren’t disclosed in the Nov. 16 announcement. “Living and working at Kennewick will only get better as we introduce new activities and culinary programs,” said Lori Taylor, Solstice’s regional director of sales and marketing supporting Kennewick, in a news release. “So, aside from getting used to a new name, residents, associates, family members and community friends should not expect any disruption in their day-today experiences.” Holiday Retirement Corp. of Portland, Oregon, began construction in 2002 on Charbonneau Gracious Retirement Living; it opened the following year. The recent joint venture, called Solstice Senior Living, has assumed management of 32 NorthStar-owned independent living communities nationwide. Each facility will be rebranded under the Solstice umbrella, with Integral Senior Living providing management and NorthStar maintaining business and real estate ownership of each property. Integral Senior Living, headquartered in Carlsbad, Calif., manages independent, assisted living and memory care properties in 22 states.
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Columbia Basin Hearing Center is consolidating its Richland and Kennewick offices into a combined clinic at 4015 W. Clearwater Ave. in Kennewick in 2018. (Courtesy Columbia Basin Hearing Center)
Longtime hearing clinic to combine offices at new Kennewick location BY KRISTINA LORD editor@tcjournal.biz
Forty years after opening two separate hearing clinics, Columbia Basin Hearing Center will launch a combined clinic at the beginning of the year in Kennewick. Doctor-owners Shannon and Neil Aiello bought the old Center Vision Clinic building at 4015 W. Clearwater Ave. in Kennewick. The Richland office on Van Giesen Street and the Kennewick clinic on North Edison Street will close the last week of December. The new office opens Jan. 2. “The hearing care we will now be able to offer by having our whole team in one location will be unmatched in the Pacific
Northwest,” Neil Aiello said. Shannon Aiello said both offices were “pretty maxed out.” “We’ve outgrown both of our clinics in a big way,” she said. Expanding into a bigger 5,000-squarefoot building will allow staff to accommodate walk-in appointments, provide extended hours and house the team in one place. Columbia Basin Hearing Center employs 15 people in the Tri-Cities, including the Aiellos, a clinical audiologist and a hearing instrument specialist, and two others at its Walla Walla clinic. The Walla Walla office isn’t affected by the Tri-City changes. uHEARING, Page 15
Tri-City charity thrift stores support variety of causes BY LAURA KOSTAD for Senior Times
Tri-City thrift store shoppers can check out Kennewick’s newest shop, Tri-Cities Autism Thrift. The new store provides job skills training opportunities for those with autism and other cognitive disabilities. “I had been praying a long time for there to be a place for my 24-year-old daughter — who has high-functioning autism — to learn job skills,” said owner Laura Krahn. “Everything just fell into place. We are kind of a hub for resources; other nonprofits call us for information.”
Operating under the philosophy of “work, learn, grow,” Autism Thrift is seeking sponsors for economically disadvantaged perspective clients, which would enable them to come in for training two hours daily for 10 days. “We have workers who have made great strides in just two weeks,” Krahn said. Over the years, a number of other charity thrift stores have opened throughout Tri-Cities, which collectively benefit a number of local and regional causes, and some, like Autism Thrift, providing job training opportunities. uTHRIFT STORES, Page 8
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