Spoken Gently's Blog: Community News

Thanks to Tri Cities Toyota, Tri Cities Washington will have a two page plug in the next issue of Time Magazine, reports the Tri City Herald. The two pages are an advertisement won by Toyota of Tri Cities for earning the Toyota Motor Sales President's Award. The ad will picture community notables wearing local sport team apparel, and hits the newsstands August 31st.

Also in the news is Toyota Center's inking a 10-year $2.1 million deal with Toyota of Tri Cities for naming rights to the Toyota Center.

The Tri Cities continues to be a destination location for those looking to relocate. When considering relocation to the Tri Cities Washington area, consider Joe and Colleen Lane for Tri City Washington real estate services.

The Chancellor’s Exhibition Series art exhibit is open to the general public at the East Building of WSU Tri-Cities, 2710 University Drive. The 14 display art exhibit will be open through December in the administration corridor. For more information visit the WSU Chancellor's Art Exhibit page.

The artists and their works are:
• Tracy Horner — Insect Mandala and Meet.
• Vali Hawkins Mitchell — The Palouse at 60 Getting Cold.
• Heather Willoughby — All There Is, Rare Respite, A Sense of Tangibility.
• Leonard Orr — 99, 103, 49, 105, and 104.

Colleen and I are excited about this year's inaugural first freshman class at WSU Tri-Cities. As Richland Wa REALTORS®, and personally owning several Richland Washington properties, the commencement of a new…

This 17th annual Tri City golf classic is accepting registrations until the August 31st deadline. A registration form can be found here. Several options are available for company sponsorships at the September 7th classic at Canyon Lakes Golf Course. For more information: Tri City Golf Classic

Related Tri Cities Resources: Tri City Regional Chamber of Commerce | Canyon Lakes Golf Course | Tri City Washington Golf
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Tri City Herald writes:

Rep. Doc Hastings, R-Wash., would like to open public access to Rattlesnake Mountain and the Hanford Reach to bring more tourists to the Mid-Columbia. Hastings spoke to a sold-out crowd of about 240 people at the Tri-Cities Regional Chamber of Commerce's annual state of the congressional district luncheon Wednesday at the Shilo Inn in Richland.

Thumbs up for Doc Hastings for supporting Tri-Cities Eco Tourism. As a Tri City Wa REALTOR® this can only mean a boom for an already thriving housing market. A Michigan State University eco-tourism study shows eco-tourism having a significant effect on a region's economy and industry.

Related Reading: Heritage and Eco Tourism | Environmental Tourism | Hanford Reach | Bateman…

Once again our community is represented in the Little League World Series. This baseball season our Kennewick Babe Ruth Team has made the cut. Currently, the Kennewick 13-year-olds are sitting atop their World Series Pool with a 20-0 win over Manchester, N.H. Today, the Kennewick 13-year-old All-Stars have earned a bye into the semi-finals. Go Kennewick!

A few years ago, our Richland Little League was our local team making it to the Little League World Series. The Richland Little League was the Northwest champions, but were eliminated by the Southeast champions in the finals.

As Tri City Washington REALTORS®, we follow our local sports teams with keen interest. One of the many draws for relocation to the Tri Cities is the support of the family for…

Living in Pasco Washington, we are in the Pasco Wa School District. Of our five children, we have one in the Pasco public schools, our oldest Cassandra. We're proud of her as she is in Pasco's Running Start program whereby the student enters college as a freshman in place of the student's junior year in high school. Upon earning a 2-year Associate in Arts degree, the student receives a high school diploma. Our daughter is 17 and will have her Associates in Arts degree (and high school diploma) from Columbia Basin College this year.

We are also proud of the Pasco School District's High School. Newsweek Education has selected Pasco High School into the top 1200 high schools in the nation. Out of 28,000 high schools across the nation, Pasco High School is in…

Today is the start of the Benton Franklin County Fair and Rodeo. In the Tri-Cities Washington area, there are about a half dozen cornerstone events and the fair is one of them. Our community is one centered around the nucleus of the family, and the fair is all about family fun. Our yearly routine involves buying our kids the arm band that allows unlimited rides. The family fair routine for us involves two visits to the fair on the day of the fair. The first visit is exactly when the fair opens. We get a solid two hours of unadulterated rides riding, or when the children start throwing up, which ever comes first. The second visit to the fair on fair day is in the evening for the exhibits. For more information about this year's fair, I've put together a…

he Tri-Cities' unemployment rate and job growth are the best in years, the state's regional economist reported recently.

"It's probably the best time to be looking for work in perhaps 30 years," said Dean Schau. He said the Mid-Columbia had 900 more jobs in May than at the same time a year ago. That's an increase of about 1 percent, or a growth to about 87,300 jobs last month compared with 86,400 jobs in 2006. Schau said that's despite the loss of about 700 jobs at Hanford during the past year.

Statewide, the news was equally good. The state Employment Security Department reported more than 101,000 net new jobs were created between October 2006 and last month. The state's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for 2007 was 4.9 percent, the lowest since…