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SENIOR TIMES • MAY 2020

MAY 2020 Volume 8 • Issue 5

A new chapter opens for Pasco’s historic Moore Mansion By Wendy Culverwell editor@tcjournal.biz

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MONTHLY QUIZ Kahlotus was first platted in 1902 by Hans Harder. What was his original name for the town? Answer, Page A9

Pasco’s storied Moore Mansion is starting a new chapter after being sold by the couple who saved it from demolition. Debra and Brad Peck sold the historic mansion to a Kennewick couple who will run it as a residence and event center. The Pecks and the new owners will collaborate to ensure weddings and other events booked for 2020 go on as planned. Sandrine and Thomas King, a local pathologist, purchased the mansion, property and business assets for nearly $2.7 million as At the Moore LLC. The deal recorded in Franklin County on March 26. The sale opens a promising new chapter for the Moore Mansion, the graceful Beaux Arts mansion built on the Columbia River shoreline in 1908 but never occupied by its builder, James Moore. After a series of ownership changes, changes in use and a prolonged period of vacancy, it was nearly destroyed by a suspicious fire on May 9, 2001. The Pecks bought it from a Florida bank in March 2004. They were motivated by a love of the property and desire to see it preserved. The $267,000 deal closed two days before a court-ordered deadline to rebuild or remove the damaged structure. The Pecks restored it as a private residence and outdoor event center, hosting about 20 weddings, proms, meetings and other gatherings each year. Brad Peck estimates 40,000 people passed through the property in the 14 years after it reopened. He and Debra never took a salary. They credit cliuMOORE MANSION, Page A5

Photo by Kristina Lord Ron Lunde, from right, Warren Nicley and Bob Gough share stories and good-natured jabs at a Tri-Cities Wood Carvers gathering in Columbia Park.

Group carves out new meeting spot to stay connected By Wendy Culverwell editor@tcjournal.biz

You’ll find them gathered in a wide circle a few feet from the Columbia River and at least six feet from each other. Members of the Tri-Cities Wood Carvers take care to spread out in Columbia Park in Kennewick to minimize the spread of coronavirus under Washington’s Stay Home, Stay Healthy order. The battle against COVID-19, the potentially fatal disease caused by

coronavirus, closed the Kennewick Community Center and forced the group of mostly retired men and women to find another spot to carve and chat at a safe distance. They meet at 1 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays near a gazebo a few hundred yards west of the Edison Street boat ramp. They tackle individual projects and each other, swapping good-natured insults and jabs and information. “We mainly do fun stuff,” said uWOOD CARVERS, Page A2

Three businesses, one pandemic add up to juggling act for Tri-City entrepreneurs By Wendy Culverwell editor@tcjournal.biz

When Rachel and Tom Ammerman took over A-Plus Transportation, a Yakima medical transporter, they had big plans to expand to a new line of business. A-Plus focuses on long-distance transport for Medicaid patients. It is a low margin business, so the Tri-City couple added a small-group charter business to fill what they saw as a gap in the market. They set up Eastern Washington Transportation last year to focus on groups of 14 people of less. In the background, the Ammermans are the local representatives for Go USA, which makes logo-branded apparel and other items for schools and businesses. They run the three businesses from a small Richland office on Swift Boulevard.

They have spent much of the spring adapting to the shutdown caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Gov. Jay Inslee’s Stay Home, Stay Healthy order hammered demand for logo wear and charter services and to a large degree, rides to medical appointments. They have gotten creative to stay in business. The charter business is on hold. Their insurance company offered the option to suspend coverage on the 14-seat Mercedes Sprinters they bought for the launch. They took it up and stashed the vehicles in secure storage until business revives. They helped reinvent Go USA as a personal protective equipment business. No one needs branded sweatshirts and keychains, but people need masks and related uAMMERMAN, Page A4

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