Civic Stadium bids adieu to old artificial surface

"It's not the years ... it's the mileage," as Indiana Jones uttered in "Raiders of the Lost Ark."

In recent years, the artificial playing surface at Bellingham's Civic Stadium has looked like a graying, beat-up version of its former self, sending anyone who walked across it home with a gift of green fibers and rubber pellets clinging to their shoes and pant legs.