Communities & Lifestyle
With the historical year of 2020 behind us, we have entered 2021 with a renewed sense of energy and optimism.
Communities & Lifestyle
Situated along the Columbia and Snake rivers, Pasco has experienced rapid growth over the last two decades, transforming it into a vibrant community of over 77,000 people, which serves the region’s hub of commerce.
Communities & Lifestyle
Great success is only achieved through hard work, perseverance and the ability to adapt when facing challenges.
Communities & Lifestyle
The City of West Richland spent much of 2020 focusing on supporting local businesses through the COVID-19 crisis. Over $400,000 in CARES funds were distributed to our business community by the city.
Communities & Lifestyle
Despite the trials, tribulations and hardships of 2020, Benton County persevered and adapted to continue to serve the community and our residents. While we know everyone has COVID fatigue, the pandemic played an important role in how the county conducted business throughout 2020 and how we will continue to do business in the coming year.
Communities & Lifestyle
2020 was a historic, arduous year for America, Washington state and, in particular, Franklin County, and its partners in government services.
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In the face of a global pandemic and the corresponding national closures, the Boys & Girls Club’s first question was, “What can we do to best serve the needs of our local youth and families during this crisis?”
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United Way of Benton & Franklin Counties is shaping the future of our community.
Communities & Lifestyle
It has been a year of adaptation and success for students at Columbia Basin College (CBC).
Communities & Lifestyle
Current circumstances have taught us a great deal and among those lessons is this: Even in the most difficult of times, innovation continues.
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The Kennewick School District is proud to serve our amazing students, families and community. While the past year has been extraordinarily challenging for everyone, we remain forward focused.
Communities & Lifestyle
I think I can honestly say that none of us in K-12 education have had a year quite like this past one.
Communities & Lifestyle
The last 12 months have been unlike any I have ever experienced in my 25 years of education. When Gov. Jay Inslee ordered all Washington schools to close on March 17, 2020, I really believed that we would see our students back in their classrooms at the end of that initial six-week closure.
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At Mid-Columbia Libraries (MCL), we take pride in being an innovative, proactive and welcoming organization that embraces change and continual service improvement.
Communities & Lifestyle
This last year was anything but easy, but we want to start out by thanking our providers, nurses, staff and essential workers at Lourdes and Trios for stepping up in the face of what felt impossible and for their compassion, positive attitudes, endurance, and preparation during these difficult circumstances.
Communities & Lifestyle
“Kadlec is currently treating a patient who has tested positive for COVID-19. We are working closely with our partners at the department of health and CDC and following established containment and treatment regimens. Our caregivers are well-trained to treat this patient in a safe and compassionate manner.”
Communities & Lifestyle
Over 25 years ago, one phone call created a vision for cancer care in our region. Mrs. Billie Jane Lampson envisioned a center that would provide the very best in treatment and compassion, right here in our own community.
Communities & Lifestyle
The Arts Center at Columbia Basin College continues to work through the challenges of the pandemic and these challenges have resulted in opportunities and subsequent success. At CBC, our focus is on our students and working toward meeting their educational goals within the guidelines we have been given.
Communities & Lifestyle
After a challenging year of learning and growing, Mid-Columbia Mastersingers is looking forward to once again taking the stage this summer. We have long held the vision that Tri-Cities values choral music and its accessibility to people of all ages and cultures.
Communities & Lifestyle
Renaissance of course means ‘rebirth,’ and it is what most of us in the arts community, and the Mid-Columbia Symphony in particular, are eagerly awaiting – when we can return to live performances and the live audiences that all of us, and especially our orchestra members miss so much.
Communities & Lifestyle
The Tri-City Herald’s 2020 Progress Report was published shortly after the REACH Museum closed to the public due to COVID-19. Fast forward one year, and we are now planning for an April 1, 2021, reopening.
Communities & Lifestyle
What a difference a year makes! When I wrote the article about Camerata Musica for the 2020 Progress edition, we were looking forward to presenting several exciting concerts to round out the 2019-2020 season.
Agriculture & Commerce
There are 75 public port districts in Washington state, with three in the Tri-Cities. We are economic engines that generate jobs and enhance the region’s quality of life.
Agriculture & Commerce
The Port of Kennewick is engaging in transparent urban planning, working to revitalize Kennewick’s historic waterfront district, partnering with municipalities on life, health and safety benefits and constructing a regional town-center in place of a former airfield.
Agriculture & Commerce
One year ago, while writing this column for the Progress Edition, who could have imagined what was ahead for all of us. The Port District, our country and the world have all been significantly impacted by the emergence of a pandemic caused by the COVID-19 outbreak.
Agriculture & Commerce
As we prepare for another beautiful spring in the Tri-Cities, the impacts of the last drought in 2015 have begun to fade.
Agriculture & Commerce
Technology in the form of virtual meetings has been a lifesaver at the Washington Grain Commission during the pandemic. But as a replacement for face-to-face interactions with our overseas customers, it’s a pale substitute.
Agriculture & Commerce
As the state begins to look forward to the days when we can leave the masks and phrases like “unprecedented times” in the past, the Washington Apple Commission is asking itself the question of how to take the lessons and marketing tactics adopted in the time of a pandemic and apply them to the future.
Agriculture & Commerce
Demand for sustainable products has never been higher. But today’s marketplace also demands credibility and proof. Although Washington wine is sustainable by nature and in practice, the state’s wine industry is taking collective steps to formally add a certification to its sustainability program.
Science & Technology
The Hanford Vit Plant is moving toward heating up our first 300-ton low-activity waste melter at the end of this year — a permanent step forward. The melter is the heart of the vitrification process, which will turn Hanford’s legacy nuclear waste into a solid glass form for safe disposal.
Science & Technology
Jan. 25 marked our official start of work as the new contractor for nuclear waste cleanup on the Hanford Site’s Central Plateau and along the Columbia River.
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The Hanford Site team has consistently supported our nation during unprecedented times, and this year has been no different.
Science & Technology
When we turned the calendar to 2020, we thought we knew the challenges ahead of us. We were planning for one of the biggest production years in our site’s 50-year history and introducing several new technologies to the market.
Science & Technology
In 2020, the Hanford Advisory Board (HAB) celebrated 26 years of volunteer service to the citizens of the Pacific Northwest, providing values-based, informed, consensus-based letters of advice, recommendations and white papers about Hanford cleanup.
Science & Technology
After 11 years of leadership at the Hanford Site, Mission Support Alliance handed over the keys to the new site services and infrastructure provider, Hanford Mission Integration Solutions.
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Last year was extremely challenging for everyone. HPMC Occupational Medical Services (OMS) continued healthcare support to Hanford workers as the site transitioned to reduced operations and teleworking early in the year and progressed through the first two phases of remobilization of workers to the site as the year continued.
Science & Technology
Despite a hectic year and operating in a maximum telework mode, the Richland campus of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) continues to develop, improv, and prepare for the future.
Science & Technology
Abraham Lincoln once said, “The best way to predict your future is to create it.” At the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, our 5,000 bright and talented staff members focus their expertise and ingenuity on creating a future that will be cleaner, safer and more prosperous.
Science & Technology
As the new manager for the state of Washington’s office that oversees Hanford cleanup, I’ve had the opportunity to meet and interact with a cross-section of community and U.S. Department of Energy leaders. I welcome this chance to introduce myself to the broader community.
Science & Technology
Veolia is a global resourcing company with more than $30 billion in annual revenue and 178,000 employees. Through VNS Federal Services, Veolia delivers its global capabilities in engineering, facility operations, waste management and D&D and remediation to the U.S. government and across North America.
Science & Technology
Each year I look forward to the Tri-City Herald’s Progress edition, the perfect opportunity to update our community on Washington River Protection Solutions’ accomplishments as the Department of Energy’s tank operations contractor at the Hanford Site.
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Headlines from the past several months point to an even brighter future for science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM)-based employment in the Tri-Cities:
Business & Economy
Not even a global pandemic could keep Benton PUD from fulfilling our customer service mission in 2020. Although we closed our doors to the public for a period, our work never stopped. As energy sector “Essential Critical Infrastructure Workers” we proudly and successfully continued to keep the lights on while responding to requests to connect over 1,000 new electric services in our growing communities.
Business & Economy
With a 100% carbon-free energy portfolio, Energy Northwest is positioned to help lead Washington in developing new clean energy-generating resources and transportation electrification projects. The 2019 passage of the Clean Energy Transformation Act provided public power with a tremendous opportunity to help Washington meet its climate goals while maintaining a reliable and affordable electric grid.
Business & Economy
Like Groundhog Day, the Progress Edition article from the Pasco Chamber of Commerce has always featured an element of the importance of the Lower Snake River Dams to our region and the Northwest. Once again, this year is no different.
Business & Economy
Making it through a worldwide pandemic has been a challenge and an opportunity for the Tri-City Regional Chamber – requiring a great deal of out-of-the box thinking. To use the overused phrase “new normal,” COVID-19 offered little choice but to re-evaluate, adapt, retool, develop and discard; resulting in an even better “new normal” — not the way we used to be, but the way we should be.
Business & Economy
In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic caused an immediate economic impact that we could not see coming. The governor’s original orders to stay home, stay safe, brought a total shutdown of all public spaces and businesses. These orders were quickly amended to allow for critical industries to remain open based on the nature of their products or services.
Business & Economy
To say 2020 was a difficult year for the tourism industry is an understatement. The silver lining has been the numerous collaborative opportunities provided to Visit Tri-Cities as we continue to invest in our community. These collaborations among jurisdictions, other economic development agencies and various hospitality businesses have served to highlight the value of our organization and industry.
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Members of the Tri-Cities Local Business Association (TCLBA) are local businesses and labor organizations that support the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Hanford cleanup mission, providing high-value scientific, engineering, technical, and skilled labor services.
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Tri-Cities Research District’s (TCRD) 2020 submittal to the annual Progress Edition envisioned a year ahead without drastic deviation from the way business is conducted. However, as we all know now, by the time the Progress Edition hit our doorsteps, we were all newly quarantined under the statewide stay-at-home order.
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In what can only be described as the year we all would like to forget, the construction sector was one of the bright spots for 2020 in spite of COVID-19’s best efforts to dominate.
Business & Economy
2019 brought in yet another solid year of social, economic and labor force growth in the Benton-Franklin Region. Total payroll (including farm) employment increased for the seventh straight year to 126,735 in 2019.
