Plans to develop 8,000 ares of West Richland land were unveiled this week. The master-planned community will be called Lewis and Clark Ranch. Okay, I realize that it is the job of developers to develop, and lay out plans and streets and decide what might go best where, but come on…Lewis and Clark Ranch? What […]
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We lose people everyday. It would be great if no one under 75 knew a contemporary who died, but unfortunately, they do. Earlier this month, I wrote about Matthew Blacketter, a nine-year-old, hanging on despite cancerous tumors spreading through his body. He passed from this world to the next on Monday, and now he doesn’t […]
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There is a child who was my son’s classmate at school this year. He attended for about a week, then went on a trip to DisneyWorld with his family. He came back to school after that, for one day. He had had a persistent cough in December of ’06. His parents took him to the […]
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My son’s idea of Hell is dressing up as someone he is not and asking strangers for candy. My daughter’s idea of Heaven is the same thing. Daughter and I went out and trick-or-treated almost to exhaustion. We saw tons of people I knew and some kids from her class at school – glassy-eyed and […]
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At William Wiley Elementary in West Richland, WA, they have an annual food drive. Two years ago, the Apple Cup Canned Food Battle began. Children donated canned goods and instant meal packages into their favorite team’s box. We have a ton more Cougar fans than Husky fans in this part of the state, so the Cougars […]
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I was contacted a while back by a woman who is interested in keeping a portion of West Richland and Richland undeveloped. A portion of the land is currently zoned RR-5, which means there can be one house every five acres. She said she felt that many like-minded conservationists viewed Realtors as the ‘them’ in […]
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