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Oct. 28: Community garden presentation canceled

By Kate Halstead, WSU Extension EVERETT, Wash. – This event has been canceled and may be rescheduled for the spring. The desire to eat healthy and help local food banks has prompted many neighborhoods to start community gardens. But some struggle to attract volunteers and keep going. A director of a successful garden will speak […]

June 11: WSU Tri-Cities to host first Nonprofit Summit

By Maegan Murray, WSU Tri-Cities RICHLAND, Wash. – Washington State University Tri-Cities will bring together the expertise of more than 70 nonprofit professionals, stakeholders and community leaders to achieve transformational change locally when it hosts the first Nonprofit Summit 10 a.m.-noon Thursday, June 11, in Consolidated Information Center 120.

The Palouse known as an MS hot spot

The unique beauty of the Palouse has inspired glorious names — Paradise Creek… Paradise Ridge… Paradise Street. Yet people in the small towns dotting this bit of heaven also live with a vague uneasiness — the hidden and unpredictable threat of multiple sclerosis. That threat drew researcher Brett Parmenter to WSU in 2006. As assistant […]