KENNEWICK -- The Kiwanis Club of Kennewick has honored Jim French, a longtime Kiwanis member and Kennewick businessman, by naming a SIGN project clinic in his honor.
The Kennewick Kiwanis club raised $15,000 for a clinic in Niamey, the capital of Niger in Africa. The plaque with French's name will be placed at the entrance of the clinic.
French died in 2007 and his widow Kay French accepted the plaque from Kiwanis president Wayne Bell.
SIGN, a Richland nonprofit founded by Dr. Lewis G. Zirkle Jr. of Richland, manufactures orthopedic implants and donates them to patients in developing countries.
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Mid-Columbia briefcase for Oct. 16, 2011
Mid-Columbia briefcase for Oct. 16, 2011
Here is a roundup of Mid-Columbia business items:
New positions
* Dr. Aaron Qunell has joined Center Vision and Contact Lens Clinic in Kennewick. He is a Yakima Valley native and graduated from Central Washington University and Pacific University College of Optometry. He served in the Air Force as the chief of optometry services at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware.
Kennewick School Board to revisit decision on clubs
Kennewick School Board to revisit decision on clubs
The Kennewick School Board will revisit its decision to limit the privileges of noncurricular student clubs.
The board Wednesday voted 4-0 to again take up policy 3560 at its next meeting, which is Sept. 28. Board member Heather Kintzley was not at the meeting.
The board on Aug. 18 had approved the policy, which keeps noncurricular student clubs from using school yearbooks, newspapers and the public address system to let students know about club activities.
Service-minded family leads way in community
Service-minded family leads way in community
Sometimes service is giving someone a hot meal on Thanksgiving Day. Sometimes it's donating one's time through a service club. Often service is given in quiet ways that will never find their way onto the news pages.
Today we acknowledge the generosity of those who willingly help others. You know who you are.
Service-minded family
All aboard for season's last 'train' ride in park
All aboard for season's last 'train' ride in park
This weekend is the last opportunity to ride the J&S Dreamland Express in Kennewick's Columbia Park.
The train, named in honor of James Saunders, a Washington State Patrol trooper killed in the line of duty in 1999 in Pasco, wraps up its 2011 schedule today and Sunday. It runs from 1 to 5:30 p.m. at the Family Fishing Pond on the east end of Columbia Park.
Each ride alongside the Columbia River and through the park lasts 15 to 20 minutes and costs 50 cents for children and $1 for adults.
On this date in Mid-Columbia sports history
On this date in Mid-Columbia sports history
On Aug. 18 in ...
* 1977 -- By proclamation of the Kennewick City Council this date was recognized as Ray Mansfield Day in honor of the former Pittsburgh Steelers center and Kennewick High standout. The proclamation signed by Kennewick Mayor Jack Hageman read in part, "... Ray Mansfield has brough honor to the City of Kennewick through his personal life, his outstanding athletic career and his example of sportsmanship ..."
Mansfield never missed a game in his 13-year NFL career and was a member of the 1975 (IX) and 1976 (X) Super Bowl champion teams. He was also on this day inducted into the Northwest Hall of Fame in Seattle during halftime of the Seahawks-Oakland Raiders game.
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