The nonprofit SonBridge Center for Better Living will celebrate with the community at an open house on site from 1-4 p.m. July 13 at 1200 SE 12th St., College Place. Attendees can enjoy snacks, tours and giveaways and visit the resource booths and Thrift&Gift Store at 1 and 3 p.m.; hear the SonBridge 20 years celebration program at 2 p.m. and closing remarks at 3:50 p.m. Such partners as Neutral Ground Dispute Resolution Center, SonBridge Dental Clinic and SOS Health Servic

A crowd of 312 people attended Helpline@SonBridge's 17th annual SoupPort benefit on April 9, in Blanchett Hall at St. Patrick Catholic Church, 512 W. Poplar St.

It hurts Jan Alexander to look at the numbers. In the Walla Walla Valley, 192 people are waiting to see a dentist, the majority of them for the first time or after a care gap of many years. Fifty-six are in severe pain. And another 85 people are in line for a return visit with a dentist, she notes. Alexander volunteers at Helpline, the nonprofit organization tasked with screening those who need help getting seen by a dentist. For seven years, she’s been in charge of pa

While Yvette Dieu is being seen by dentist Dr. Norman Passmore, her husband James Duncan tries to relax in the waiting room of SonBridge Community Center’s dental clinic. Dieu, a Walla Walla Community College culinary student is here for a chipped tooth, while Duncan, 52, has been dogged by a cracked tooth that needs to come out, he said. Neither has “great” dental insurance, Duncan said, and discovery of this clinic that accepts his government coverage came just in tim