In the Media
Tanya Bjornsson tied her NCAA Division II provisional national qualifying mark of 18-2 1/2 feet in winning the women's long jump to highlight Western Washington University performances at the Seattle Pacific University Last Chance Indoor Track and Field meet on Saturday, Feb. 26, at the University of Washington.
Picture this: A Ski to Sea team consisting of members from South Korea, Russia, Australia, Chile, Japan, Finland, Mongolia and - Bellingham.
It's a vision organizers for the 2011 Ski to Sea would like see become reality as the world-famous race celebrates 100 years this May.
The idea is to bring an athlete from each of Bellingham's sister cities - Cheongju, South Korea; Nakhodka, Russia; Port Stephens, Australia; Punta Arenas, Chile; Tateyama, Japan; Vaasa, Finland; and soon to be Tsetserleg, Mongolia - to compete in the 2011 Ski to Sea.
A rollicking band of pirates, a bevy of giggling maidens, a bunch of blundering policemen and new horizons are just a few of the key ingredients for the charmingly ridiculous plot of Gilbert and Sullivan's "Pirates of Penzance" - showcasing the talents of Western Washington University theater arts and music students.
Downtown soon will have a sculpture that’s sure to make a splash in the neighborhood.
Jon Falcon of Bellingham submitted the winning rendering for The Woods Coffee Coffee Cup De-sign Contest. The design, known simply as “Corner Cup Splash,” will depict a Woods cup pouring coffee onto the sidewalk near the front door of the company’s newest café at the Flatiron Building near Holly Street, said owner Wes Herman.
The sculpture is expected to be installed in the next couple of months and will join the rocket of Rocket Donuts fame and The Sentinel (also known as the scepter) artwork in the Bay Street area.
Kathleen Saunders, a senior instructor in Western Washington University's Anthropology Department, has been awarded the Eleanor Roosevelt Global Citizenship Award.
The award recognizes Saunders' participation in the Center for Public Anthropology's Community Action Online Project, as well as her wider activities in the public sphere.
Madison Miner hopes his story of staying in Bellingham to start a high-tech business becomes the rule rather than the exception.
Miner, a 2002 graduate of Western Washington University and an employee at Bellingham-based Engineering Design Automation, had been tinkering with an idea to start his own high-tech company. He believed it was a good idea, but wasn't sure what the next step should be. He wanted to bounce his idea off of others in the high-tech industry, but didn't think a resource like that existed in Bellingham.
Miner had resigned himself to the fact he would need to sell his Bellingham home and move to Seattle to try to find help. Instead, his plans changed when he wandered down East Chestnut Street near Kulshan Cycles a few months ago and noticed an office space with the name BIG Idea Lab, an incubator for high-tech firms that want to take an idea to market.
It's tourney time!
It may be arriving two or so weeks earlier than usual, but for Western Washington University basketball the 2011 postseason tips off Monday, Feb. 28, with both the men and women hosting first-round games for the first-ever Great Northwest Athletic Conference Tournament.
The winner of the tournament earns an automatic bid to the West Regional of the NCAA Division II tournament as the GNAC champion. That's a fact the men's team, which secured a No. 4 seed with a 11-7 league record and 16-10 overall, will certainly embrace after dropping its last three games of the regular season. One of those losses came against fifth-place Northwest Nazarene University, which will be the Vikings' opponent for a 7:30 p.m. start on Monday.
With a postseason conference title needed for a realistic chance of being the regional host, the Western Washington University women's basketball team entertains Simon Fraser University in an opening-round game of the Great Northwest Athletic Conference Tournament at 5 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 28, at Sam Carver Gymnasium.
The Vikings, 24-2, earned the No.1 seed and home-court advantage throughout the eight-team, single-elimination tournament by placing first in the regular-season standings at 17-1.
Western Washington University placed three men, forward Rory Blanche, center Chris Mitchell and guard Anthony Wiederkehr; and two women, forward Megan Pinske and guard Corinn Waltrip, on the Great Northwest Athletic Conference Basketball Academic All-Star Team announced today.
It is the second straight year that Blanche and Pinske have been named. Wiederkehr also is a repeater, being honored two seasons ago.
Fewer Washington state students would be admitted to the state's universities, and more high-paying out-of-state students would be accepted. Hundreds of faculty and staff jobs would be cut, and the time it takes to get a four-year degree would grow by several semesters or more, in effect raising the cost of going to college.