In the Media

Friday, March 18, 2011 - East Oregonian

Area residents have an opportunity to participate in a free workshop with artist John Feodorov.

Feodorov, who is participating in a 10-day collaborative printmaking residency with master printer Frank Janzen, will lead the half-day workshop and community project using contributed photographs. The event is Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at Crow’s Shadow, 48004 St. Andrews Road, Pendleton. For a full description of the workshop, go to www.crowsshadow.org and click on “workshops.”

Thursday, March 17, 2011 - Charles Wright Academy Blogs

Choosing a college is often one of the first adult decisions a person makes and for students like Niall Patten, it is the long term consequences of that decision that carries the most weight. Sure, everyone wants to find a college that is both comfortable and challenging, and everyone must find a college they can reasonably afford with some combination of grants, loans, scholarships and parental assistance, but when you are planning to spend another 14 years of your life in school, the long term consequences of your college choice are especially important.

Thursday, March 17, 2011 - The Bellingham Herald

Peadar MacMahon, who turned 50 on Feb. 17, was born in Limerick, Ireland, and has always been involved in music, both growing up and when he moved to the states - specifically Bellingham, where he's been a presence on the music scene for decades.

He's part of the lineup at the opening Thursday, March 17, of the Shakedown, at 1212 N. State St., at the same location where he spent a decade tending bar at the 3B Tavern, one of the venue's many incarnations. He'll perform with his current bands, 8 Hand Reel and MacArra.

Thursday, March 17, 2011 - The Bellingham Herald

Western Washington University's Northwest Center for Holocaust, Genocide and Ethnocide Education hosts a tribute event for Noémi Ban, honoring her work in teaching inspiration, healing and resiliency within Whatcom County and beyond.

Thursday, March 17, 2011 - The (Vancouver) Columbian

Western Washington University senior distance runner Sarah Porter was named an NCAA Division II indoor track and field All-American by the United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association.

The award was based on her performance Saturday at the NCAA Division II Indoor Track and Field Championships in Albuquerque, N.M. It was Porter’s third indoor honor.

Porter finished third in the 5,000 meters despite running with a strained hamstring.

Thursday, March 17, 2011 - The Bellingham Herald

Lake Whatcom water quality took a turn for the worse in 2010, adding new urgency to the ongoing effort to head off new sources of pollution while taking steps to cut back on existing ones.

The bad news came in the latest Lake Whatcom Monitoring Program annual report that lists data compiled by Robin Matthews and her team. Matthews is director of the Institute for Watershed Studies at Huxley College of the Environment, Western Washington University.

Thursday, March 17, 2011 - The Bellingham Herald

Western Washington University men's pole vaulter Ryan Brown has been named the 2011 United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Division II National Indoor Male Field Athlete of the Year.

Thursday, March 17, 2011 - The Bellingham Herald

Western Washington University moved up 11 spots to No. 7 in the latest National Fastpitch Coaches Association Division II Top 25 Poll released today. It is the first time in school history that the Vikings have been ranked among the top 10.

Thursday, March 17, 2011 - The Bellingham Herald

Setter Carmen Vasilatos, a senior at Woodinville High School, has accepted admission to Western Washington University and will play volleyball for the Vikings this fall. Making that announcement was WWU coach Diane Flick.

Thursday, March 17, 2011 - The Portland (Maine) Press Herald

What would you think if someone told you that in Greenland, about 9,100 years of the last 10,500 years were warmer than now? Or that the coldest years during this time span were in the late 19th century, at the close of the "Little Ice Age"?

Further, what would you think of the fact that there is nothing unusual about the mild, cyclic warming of our planet over the past century, comparable to the Roman Warm Period or the Medieval Warm Period? The latter enabled the Viking settlement of Greenland, which was later abandoned due to the return of severe cold during that same Little Ice Age.