News briefs through September 24
A few stories have slipped by me over the last few weeks, so I’m going to combine several different Burbank news items (some new, some older) into one post. Here goes:
- Back on September 2, 2009, KNDO-KNDU ran a preview of Columbia-Burbank’s football team.
- Congratulations to Seth Shelton of Columbia-Burbank who was named an Academic All Star. (I’m not sure what that means exactly and KNDU doesn’t elaborate. Can anyone help me out with this one?)
- The Tri-City Herald reports today (September 24, 2009) that Gen-X Energy Group, “which lost its Burbank biodiesel plant to a fire in early July”, has signed an agreement with a sister company of Tri-City & Olympia Railroad Co. “to build a new facility in Richland to make biofuel.” See our earlier post about the July fire at the Burbank site.
- The Herald also has an article in today’s paper (September 24, 2009) about the “likely presence” of swine flu (H1N1 virus) in some of the smaller Tri-City area schools. Columbia-Burbank Superintendent Lou Gates is quoted.
Gates’ district — like other smaller districts in the area — has seen a recent increase in student absences. But the numbers have been under control.
In Burbank, they’re already going down. For example, in the middle school there were a few students absent the first day of class, including one who reported being sick. By Sept. 11, there were 30 students absent, with 17 calling in sick. The number of absences now has dropped off and “we have settled out at this point in time,” Gates said.
- Here’s a photo from the front page of the Mid-Columbia section from the September 13, 2009 edition of the Tri-City Herald. The caption read, in part: “Floyd Rivas of Burbank tears up as the habanero salsa he and his wife Tonia are trying kicks in Saturday and the Fiery Foods Festival in Pasco.”
