Update from Feeding Villages “Feeding Villages is making great strides toward sustainable, lasting change in the Ugandan villages in which they serve. They are continuing to educate villagers about ways to farm more nutritious food so that they can continue to grow and produce it themselves...”
REI employees fear reopening endangers their health “Cutlage has had multiple email exchanges with REI Retail Director Janet Hopkins about the reopening of the Kennewick store. She says that the store manager is ‘exploiting a loophole to open earlier than they should.’”
Alumni call on Richland School District to act against racism “We wrote this letter as a labor of love. Having gone through the Richland School District, I care about my community enough to hold it accountable and to ask for better.”
Franklin County Commissioners tell Health District to remove Facebook post about the history of Pride "We need leadership that respects the voices of marginalized communities and acknowledges that we need to do more to live up to our responsibilities towards them," said County Commissioner candidate Kim Lehrman.
July 2020 The July 2020 Tumbleweird is here. Cover art by Jaime Robles featuring Daishaundra Loving-Hearne and Bryan Hearne, based on a photo by Madison Rosenbaum.
June 2020 Download the June 2020 issue here. ABOUT THE COVER: Liam Bray is a 13 year-old artist and award-winning poet. He lives in Richland with his siblings and a winter white
Ice cream in the apocalypse: A COVID-19 diary “We’re both introverts. Brendan finds that being separated from people has given him more energy for projects at home. I am also enjoying the isolation from others, which makes me feel kind of guilty.”
May 2020 We just hit 200 subscribers, which means we can actually afford to mail out the issues of Tumbleweird to our subscribers! The dream is that we get enough subscribers to
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