Downtown Blooming, Downtown Booming
by Jamie Lee @ June 24, 2009
The Committee for Downtown Yakima is implementing a new plan called "Downtown Blooming, Downtown Booming." The Program will have three components.CDY will ask all downtown merchants and property owners to purchase colorful flowers and decorations in front of their stores and buildings.
Then, CDY will provide free consulting to the downtown businesses: such as, types of flowers to be planted and the best way to maintain the flowers. Lenette Rhoel from the Garden Girl has offered her assistance with consulting downtown businesses. The Flower Garden, which supplies CDY with the flower baskets, will work with businesses to coordinate their flowers with those around downtown.
Finally, CDY will initiate and administer a juried award program at the end of the summer to recognize the biggest contributor to downtown.
This is just another way that the downtown businesses and CDY can work together to continue to beautify downtown Yakima ... Continue »
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Let's keep cheering on the Yakima Bears
by Jamie Lee @ June 24, 2009
This editorial appears in the June 22 Yakima Herald-Republic
The names don't exactly roll off the tongue: Clayton Suss, Tyson Van Winkle and Brad Gemberling. But how these three play on the field, along with the rest of their teammates, will have a lot to do with the future prosperity of the Yakima Bears baseball team.
While it seems each year is crucial, the summer of 2009 appears particularly loaded with intrigue. Not only are the Bears, a short-season Class A franchise affiliated with the Arizona Diamondbacks, trying to put a winning team on the field for the first time in five seasons, but the enterprise is also trying to turn a profit, something that has also been missing for the past eight.
That's not all the Yakima Bears want to see changed. The team is also looking for a serious upgrade to its less-than-friendly confines of Yakima County Stadium, which is 16 years old and beginning to show its age. Yakima County commissioners have agreed to help out by footing the bill for a ... Continue »
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