A celebration to mark the opening of Family Resource Center's Second Heart Second Hand Thrift Shop is from 3-6 p.m. Saturday.
Free hot dogs and refreshments will be served. The thrift shop is at 132-B Vista Way, Kennewick. Family Resource Center serves low-income families and those with special needs children. Online: www.frcwa.org.
Thanks to the generosity of a stranger and a friend, the graves of two members of the Montelongo family will be marked with bronze plaques.
Abe Montelongo was laid to rest eight years ago at Desert Lawn Memorial Park in Kennewick. But unless you know where to look you won't be able to find his grave on your own -- it's unmarked.
Abe Montelongo's sister, Ester Ortega of Pasco, said when he died in his sleep in 2004 "the whole family got together and did what they could. We're a big family but there just wasn't enough in the budget for a marker."
For the past eight years, Enrique Montelongo has come to an unmarked grave on a small patch of grass in a Kennewick cemetery to pay respects to his father.
If you were to walk by Abe Montelongo's grave, which is tucked away in row after row of headstones at Desert Lawn Memorial Park, you wouldn't even know it was there.
That changed Monday. The Montelongo family was able to find closure, with the help of thrift shop owner Dianne Trenidad, by placing a plaque on the bare grave site.
Six people were killed when a building being demolished collapsed Wednesday and nearly obliterated an adjacent Salvation Army thrift store.
Emma Miller wasn’t about to wait to see the world. Over the past four years, she has been to Switzerland, South Korea, Mexico, England, France and Italy, along with stops in New York, Washington, D.C., Boston and Skagway, Alaska.
If you want to give Dad a non-traditional gift for Father's Day - we're talking about skipping the ties, cufflinks and socks, here - consider giving him the gift of his own, personalized space; his "Man Cave."
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