Tri City Washington | Tri Cities Washington is a Great Place to Raise a Family

Family Life in Tri-Cities Washington

This lens is an eclectic group of modules centered around the family. You will find school information, things for the family to do, and general pieces on the family and being a parent.

Tri City Washington | A Place to Raise a Family

The Tri City Washington area is a great place to raise a family, start a business or retire. Residents enjoy the Tri City unique local flavor, quality school systems, virtually nonexistent traffic congestion, annual precipitation of less than seven inches, many outdoor recreational opportunities and limitless regional attractions.

Tri City Washington families have many housing choices from established neighborhoods to new construction developments. Whether you have animals and enjoy country living, want to golf course real estate or be live near business and shopping, there is a home waiting for you in our Tri City Wa community.

Tri City Wa offers residents an elementary through post-secondary education. You can further your education without ever leaving the area by attending Columbia Basin College and Washington State University Tri City. Ranked among the Top 10 high technology communities in the nation by the Milken Institute, business owners looking to start or relocate their business will find a pool of skilled, educated workers in the Tri City Wa area.

Resources for Purchasing a Home For Your Family: Home Buying Cycle | Home Buying Considerations | Buying the Perfect Home | Home Buying Process

Fun Family Things To Do In Tri-Cities Washington

Cool Desert Nights | Classic and Anique Car Show | Richland Washington

Cool Desert Nights, (this lens) brought to you by real estate agents, Joe and Colleen Lane of The Lane Real Estate Team. The growing, vibrant, and dynamic city of Richland, Washington—part of the famous Tri Cities area of the state—is ren...

Benton County Fair | Kennewick Wa Fairground | Benton Franklin County Fair and Rodeo

Benton County Fair, brought to you by real estate agents (and Tri Cities residents), Joe and Colleen Lane of The Lane Real Estate Team. | The Benton-Franklin Fair Asssociation's Annual Event

Kennewick Water Follies | Lamb Weston Columbia Cup | Hydroplane Racing

The Tri-City Water Follies, a non-profit organization, has hosted the Unlimited Hydroplanes and associated entertainment for 43 years on the Columbia River between the shores of Pasco and Kennewick, Washington. This year's event features the Unlimite...

Great Prosser Balloon Rally | Hot Air Balloons | Night Glow in Washington

A yearly event where hot air balloonists from all over Northwestern United States take to the sky at The Great Prosser Balloon Rally. The balloons are scheduled to launch at sunrise from the Prosser Washington Airport on September 25, 26, 27, 2009.

Tumbleweed Music Festival | Three Rivers Folklife Society | Richland Washington | Howard Amon Park

Each year, beginning in 1997, Three Rivers Folklife Society (3RFS) has sponsored Tumbleweed Music Festival and Songwriting Contest in Richland, WA, on Saturday and Sunday of Labor Day weekend. This is the eleventh year!

Inspiration to be a better parent!

Dear friends,

The below, deeply inspiring story was originally published in Sports Illustrated. After reading the story of Rick and Dick Hoyt, the free, four-minute video of this amazing story at an absolute must watch. May we all find inspiration both within and outside of ourselves every day to be the very best we can be.

Because of the inspiration of this story, we created a lens devoted to Rick and Dick Hoyt, Team Hoyt.

Strongest Dad in the World
Rick Reilly for Sports Illustrated

I try to be a good parent. Give my kids mulligans. Work nights to pay for their text messaging. Take them to swimsuit shoots. But compared with Dick Hoyt, I'm lousy.

Eighty-five times he's pushed his disabled son, Rick, 26.2 miles in marathons. Eight times he's not only pushed him 26.2 miles in a wheelchair but also towed him 2.4 miles in a dinghy while swimming and pedaled him 112 miles in a seat on the handlebars -- all in the same day.

Dick's also pulled him cross-country skiing, taken him on his back mountain climbing and once hauled him across the U.S. on a bike. Makes taking your son bowling look a little lame, right? And what has Rick done for his father? Not much -- except save his life.

This love story began in Winchester, Mass., 43 years ago, when Rick was strangled by the umbilical cord during birth, leaving him brain-damaged and unable to control his limbs. "He'll be a vegetable the rest of his life," Dick says doctors told him and his wife, Judy, when Rick was nine months old. "Put him in an institution."

But the Hoyts weren't buying it. They noticed the way Rick's eyes followed them around the room. When Rick was 11 they took him to the engineering department at Tufts University and asked if there was anything to help the boy communicate. "No way," Dick says he was told. "There's nothing going on in his brain."

"Tell him a joke," Dick countered. They did. Rick laughed. Turns out a lot was going on in his brain. Rigged up with a computer that allowed him to control the cursor by touching a switch with the side of his head, Rick was finally able to communicate. First words? "Go Bruins!" And after a high school classmate was paralyzed in an accident and the school organized a charity run for him, Rick pecked out, "Dad, I want to do that."

Yeah, right. How was Dick, a self-described "porker" who never ran more than a mile at a time, going to push his son five miles? Still, he tried. "Then it was me who was handicapped," Dick says. "I was sore for two weeks." That day changed Rick's life. "Dad," he typed, "when we were running, it felt like I wasn't disabled anymore!"

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The Tri City Washington School Districts

Richland School District | RSD #400 | Educating Children | WASL

The Richland School District, by enrolling 10,150 students, serves the cities of Richland and West Richland in Washington state with eight elementary schools, three middle schools, and three high schools. Washington State School District #400 ha...

Kennewick School District | Public Education in Kennewick Washington

Kennewick School District | The schools, reviews, news, and other relevant resources for the Kennewick School District.

Pasco School District #1 | Pasco Public Schools in Washington State | Pasco High School Bulldogs | Not Fl County

Pasco School District, brought to you by real estate agents (and Pasco residents), Joe and Colleen Lane of The Lane Real Estate Team. Pasco Public Schools serves the community by educating students to lead productive lives. Pasco Pride is its h...

Children's Discovery Boxes

The Army Corps of Engineers Lewis and Clark Discovery Box (USACE) is a free resource for schools in the Richland Wa Real Estate area, as well as other Tri-City school districts. The project was coordinated by the Washington National Guard. The Discovery Box contains a period-correct replication of particular items that Lewis and Clark took with them or came into contact with on their expedition from 1803-1806.

Some of the items in the Discovery Box include; a dress uniform and hat, a grizzly bear footprint, a beaver skin, a journal with quills and powdered ink, items from Bateman's nature, and a prickly pear. The team of presenters takes the boxes to schools and also adult organizations for free. There is also a video presentation about the history of the Lewis and Clark expedition and contemporary Army values.

There is also time allotted for the audience to view what Lewis and Clark may have seen and activities that they may have done on the expedition by personally interacting with the objects from the boxes. In total the presentation goes for about one and a half hours, although it is flexible enough to be suited to most time frames. School districts within the Richland Wa Real Estate area, as well as the other Tri-Cities, are able to have the Discovery Boxes come to their school by contacting CPT Mary Loos on email mary.loos@wa.ngb.army.mil

Related Resources For Children's Discover Boxes and the Tri Cities in General: Discovery Boxes | Lewis and Clark ~ Pasco Washington | Richland History ~ Richland Washington | Bateman Island in Pasco Wa

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Reader Feedback

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Seth1492 wrote...

Great lens! I lived in The Tri-Cities for about a year and had the chance to meet lots of people in all three cities. What a great place! It really is a special place to raise a family. I also enjoyed your tribute to the Hoyts. I watched him compete in the Ironman Triathlon in Hawaii and his efforts to compete were so moving. 5*

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Wayne_Long wrote...

That dude in the You Tube video is the greatest athlete of all time as far as I am concerned. I watched him do on of the triathlons and it blew my mind. When I watched him - he was 59 and completed it carrying his son. He is the man!

Posted September 20, 2007