Cari McGee and Matt McGee write about life and living in Richland, WA, and the Tri-Cities!
The city of Richland is distributing its annual report for 2009, and chances are you’ve got a copy of it already — or you will soon. But just in case you miss it somehow, download the PDf from us. It’s about 300k, so should be a quick download.
I always like to check out the various stats that are on the last page. Here’s Richland’s 2009 year in numbers.
They’re opening up registration for tours of Hanford! Tomorrow morning at 12:01 am, to be exact. There are two kinds of tours – one takes about five hours and is intense in the amount of coverage it provides. They’ll spend over an hour at the B reactor alone, and they added more attention on the tank farms this year. VERY cool!
The other tour takes less than three hours and focuses only on the B reactor.
Stay up late (or get up REALLY early, last year the longer tour spots were snapped up within twelve hours) and log on to http://www.hanford.gov/page.cfm/HanfordSiteTours right after midnight tonight.
Read the instructions carefully – you need to be a US citizen for one of the tours, and not the other, and you need to present ID with the exact same name as the name you signed up under, too, so now is not the time to try out your new married name (Cari Clooney isn’t going to fly for me, for example).In addition, there is a dress code, and an age limit for both.
I think this’ll be a great addition to Badger Mountain Community Park: a 6,000 square foot water spray area with close to 20 different water features/pieces. If you’ve never enjoyed one of these, they’re pretty fun — and the perfect remedy for a hot, summer day.
I’m assuming the Richland water spray will be somewhat similar to this one:
That’s an old photo (2004) of me and my daughter having a blast at Columbia Park.
The Herald recently reported that the water spray area would be open by June — “if not sooner,” according to Dave Bryant of the Richland Parks Dept. There’ll be no charge to use it.
The City of Richland has been looking for grant money for the Duportail Bridge project since 2008, but they recently learned that the federal stimulus funding won’t be helping.
The city had applied for $27 million of stimulus funds, but just learned that the US Dept. of Transportation didn’t choose Duportail for funding. According to the latest city update:
City staff and consultant team will continue working through the design and environmental phase of the project and is examining ways to construct the project in smaller segment/phases.
Quick note for all Richland Facebook users: If you’d like to be able to quickly get in touch with Cari about any real estate questions or needs you may have, you can connect with her at this facebook page:
She’s on Facebook quite a bit more often than she’s blogging here, so that’s the best place to keep up with what’s going on the Richland real estate market.
Via email tonight we learn that Richland School District has selected a new superintendent: Dr. James Busey, who’s most recently served as superintendent at the Lake Chelan School District. The photo at right is from Dr. Busey’s staff bio on the LCSD web site.
The RSD email includes some more background about Dr. Busey:
Dr. Busey has been superintendent of the Lake Chelan School District since 2000. Prior to Lake Chelan, Dr. Busey served as superintendent of the Zillah School District for nine years. He was also an assistant principal and principal in Zillah. His classroom experience was at the secondary level. He earned his doctorate from California Coast University in 2003.
He’ll start the new job on July 1st.