Good Morning Quincy WA Daily Brief – Thursday, January 22 2026

Good Morning Quincy, WA – Thursday, January 22, 2026

Your daily local update for Quincy, George, Winchester & Crescent Bar.

Today’s highlights:

• ☁️ Weather: Cloudy with a high near 33°; light northeast winds. Slightly warmer start this morning around 29°.
• 🏀 Quincy Jacks Sports Recap: Lady Jacks 8B, 8A, 7B, and 7A teams fell to Columbia Middle School (Moses Lake). Unified Jacks basketball scores were not posted at the time of recording.
• 🎉 Today’s Celebrations: National Celebration of Life Day (a reminder to appreciate the kids in our lives), National Polka Dot Day (dress accordingly!), and National Blonde Brownie Day.
• 👶 Parks & Rec: Preschool Play Size is happening every Thursday, 8:30–10:30 AM (FREE) at the Rec Department building—perfect for burning energy and meeting other preschool parents.
• 🎲 Family Game Night: Tonight at Quincy Activity Center, 6:30–8:30 PM. Bring your own games or enjoy theirs.
• 🧓 Senior Center: Exercise class at 1:00 PM; Mexican Train at 6:30 PM.
• 📚 Library Event: Retirement Fundamentals workshop (estate planning, wills & trusts) today at 3:00 PM at the Quincy Public Library. Registration required.
• 🍣 Local Business Buzz: Fresh daily rolled sushi at Akins sold out yesterday! Big response from the community—expect increased availability today.
• 🤼 Youth Wrestling: Quincy Valley Wrestling in-person registration for K–8 is Friday, Jan 23, 5:00–6:00 PM at Quincy Middle School. Practices start the week of Jan 26.
• 🎶 Bagpipe Bash Alert: Only a few tickets left for the Bagpipe Bash this Saturday, Jan 24. A Quincy Booster Club fundraiser supporting QHS Choir—Scottish-themed dinner, performances, and live/silent auctions.
• 🍝 School Volunteers Needed: Parent meeting Jan 28, 3:30–6:00 PM at Ancient Lakes Elementary to support the spaghetti fundraiser.
• 🎬 No School Friday: Records Day—don’t send kids to school. Family Movie Day at the library at 1:00 PM (Pixar’s Elio).
• 🏐 Adult Volleyball: Friday Open Gym, 5:30–7:30 PM at Monument Elementary (FREE).
• 🐾 Community Help: Please check the Quincy Animal Shelter Facebook page for missing dogs and help get them home.
• 🧪 School Events Tonight: Pioneer Elementary Family STEAM Night; QIA Winter Parent Meeting at 6:00 PM.
• 🤼 Jacks Sports Ahead: Lady Jacks Wrestling competes in Grandview tonight (JV at 6:00 PM, Varsity at 7:00 PM).
• Friday, Lady Jacks Basketball hosts Ephrata at Quincy High School.

💭 Quote to carry today:

“If you are depressed, you’re living in the past. If you’re anxious, you’re living in the future. If you’re at peace, you’re living in the present.” — Lao Tzu

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Good Morning Quincy WA Daily Brief – Thursday, January 22 2026

Speaker: [00:00:00] Good morning, Quincy. Today is Thursday, January 22nd, 2026. This year, daily local update, George Quincy, Winchester, and Crescent Bar. If it matters to our community, we are talking about it. In the next few minutes, we'll cover today's weather, what's happening around town, school, sports and activities, schools, city council, police, fire, church, and local business news.

Whether you're heading to work. Or getting your kids out the door or just easing into your day. We're here to help you stay connected to what's happening in our community. Grab your coffee, get ready for the day, and let's start with today's local forecast, slightly warmer this morning. Currently around 29 degrees here at the studio.

Today is supposed to be cloudy with a high near 33 light northeast winds. Here's your Jack Sports recap for the morning last night, the Lady Jack's eight B, [00:01:00] eight A, seven B, and seven A team all had lost C against Columbia Middle School here in town from Moses Lake, the co-ed Unified Jacks basketball team.

I could not find the scores on this morning. I don't know what happened with that game and I apologize, but they weren't posted today. If you need a raise in to celebrate today is National Celebration of Life Day with a focus on appreciating the children in our lives, the value they bring to this world just by being alive.

If you're looking for something a little more fun to celebrate, it's national polka.day so you know exactly what you need to wear to work today. Quincy. As you're digging through your closest morning, getting ready for your day, it's national polka.day, so let's break it out and make Quincy a little more in painting this morning and for that.

Mm-hmm. Good part of life. It's also National Blonde Brownie day. I know what I'm getting my kids to do [00:02:00] today. Today around Quincy, the city of Quincy's rec department is hosting player sized. For our preschool parents player size program is now happening each Thursday from 8:30 AM to 10:30 AM and it's free for all preschool age children rec department building near downtown as a preschool parent if you need to take your kids somewhere where you can let them run, play, and have fun in this cold weather and connect with other preschool parents.

This is the ticket. This is a free program and you get to let your kids run and play and burn off some of that energy while you have the opportunity to meet other preschool parents and make friends for years to come. Family Game Night is also tonight at Quincy Activity Center. Come play some of the mini games they have there.

Bring your own games and make some new friends from six 30 to 8:30 PM. The Quincy Senior Center has an [00:03:00] exercise class today at 1:00 PM They're also playing Mexican train at 6:30 PM at dinner. The Quincy Public Library is having a retirement fundamentals, estate planning wheels and trust workshop today at 3:00 PM Please go to libraries with.

Site to reserve your spot or call 1 2 0 6 3 5 1 2 2 8 7 for more details from all accounts yesterday, the brand new opportunity for the fresh daily rolled sushi aikens was extremely well received as reported by the a sushi franchise. They were cleaned out. They were not expecting that big of a response.

And Quincy, I'd love to hear all about it if you had that experience yesterday. I didn't get a chance to get there. I'm kind of bummed. I was looking forward to grabbing a roll for myself, but I'm going today. I'd love to hear what you think about it, Quincy, but by all accounts it went pretty well because.

They were happily surprised at how quickly they sold out yesterday, and they're looking forward today with [00:04:00] a promise to increase their daily allotment based on yesterday's demand for sushi. Good job, Akens, and thanks for partnering with ACE and bringing this to our community. Now I know your morning's not complete without our daily bad joke.

So here we go. How do fish pay their bills with sand dollars?

In upcoming events, Quincy Valley Wrestling is holding an in-person registration for their wrestling program for kids from great K through eight on Friday, January 23rd from 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM at the Quincy Middle School in the wrestling room behind the school. Practices start the week of January 26th with the final day of registration being Friday, January 30th.

I got an update from our director over at the choir to. There's only a few tickets left for the Bagpipe Bash on Saturday, January 24th. That's right. That's this weekend. You can't [00:05:00] keep waiting to get your tickets. All funds from this Quincy Booster Club fundraiser will support the Quincy High School choir and their performance and travel experiences.

Join us Saturday the 24th for a Scottish themed evening with dinner Catered by Better Together. Better Together catering. Appetizers and drinks by Tanya Rollins. Performances by the award-winning Quincy High School Spectrum Choir. And live and silent options featuring exclusive items from Broadway shows, Seahawks tickets.

Get your tickets by visiting Quincy Booster Club Music Facebook page on Facebook. But take us to running out guys. All of you procrastinators. This is your chance. You better get 'em 'cause they are almost gone. Next week on January 28th from three 30 to 6:00 PM at Ancient Lakes Elementary, they're holding a parent meeting of about parent volunteer hours supporting the spaghetti.

They need volunteers. [00:06:00] Please let 'em know if you're willing to help tomorrow port an update. There's no school, but we'll get to that in a minute because no school, no problem. It's family movie day at the library tomorrow. Join us for at 1:00 PM for Pixar's newest animated Adventure elo. There you go.

There is an answer for No School Friday. The Quincy Rec Department is hosting adult volleyball Friday Open Gym. Join us for some volleyball fun Friday evenings from five 30 to 7:30 PM at Monument Elementary. The best part, it's free. Go. Enjoy your volleyball guys. And work off some of that energy and meet some new people and just have a good time.

Before we jump into this week in Quincy Jack's life, we're gonna cover upcoming city admin news and announcements, and then jump into Quincy Jack sports and events. To wrap out, please check the Facebook [00:07:00] page for the Animal Shelter. We still have some family friends that just are still out there and missing, have not found their home yet.

Please check the Animal Shelters Facebook page for images of the dog. And let's see if we can get these puppies home. Guys. Uh, we all know that dogs are an amazing part of our lives and make the world better, so go check the Quincy Animal Shelter Facebook page, see what dogs are missing. You may know the dog, and we can get them home that way.

Tonight is the Pioneer Elementary Family Steam Night from seven five to 7:00 PM. Also tonight is the winter parent meeting at QIA at 6:00 PM and very important, we already mentioned earlier, no school on Friday for records day. Do not send your kids to school to tomorrow morning. Make sure they go today, not tomorrow in [00:08:00] upcoming Jacks sports and events.

The Jackson Lady Jacks wrestlings teams are competing in Grandview today. JB Matches start at 6:00 PM with varsity starting at seven Go Jacks

Friday, January 23rd. The Jackson Lady Jacks basketball teams are playing against Afraid of high school here at home at Quincy High School. Be sure and check out those games. And let's support our jacks go Jacks

as we wrap out today's news. Remember, if you are depressed, you're living in the past. If you're anxious, you're living in the future. If you're at peace, you're living in the present according to LA Zoo. Let that sink in as we go into today, and that's your local update for today. Thank you for starting your morning with Good Morning, Quincy, Washington.

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