In the Media

Monday, December 27, 2010 - Islands Weekly

The first long-term study of Fisherman Bay seabirds and shorebirds is finding an unexpected diversity of species, while raising concerns about the quality and variety of food in the bay for fish-eating birds such as auklets and ospreys.

Lopez student Kelley Palmer-McCarty, a senior at Western Washington University, designed the study and trained local volunteers as part of the Fisherman Bay Marine Health Observatory, a partnership of Kwiáht and WSU Beach Watchers. Kwiáht wildlife biologists Charlie Behnke and Amanda Wedow are coordinating local volunteers while Palmer-McCarty completes her degree.

Monday, December 27, 2010 - The Bellingham Herald

Billie Wildrick is a 2000 graduate of Western Washington University's Fairhaven College. For nearly 10 years, she's been in featured roles or has starred at The 5th Avenue Theatre, the premiere venue in Seattle for launching musical theater shows that eventually go on to Broadway in New York.

This season, she performs in "A Christmas Story: The Musical," based on the 1983 movie that has its origins in Jean Shepherd's stories about his boyhood in Cleveland. The play runs through Dec. 30 at The 5th Avenue.

Monday, December 27, 2010 - The (Everett) Herald

Brent Schwartz was training to run his first marathon with his dad in November when John Schwartz, a U.S. Navy commander, was deployed to Afghanistan.

Schwartz, 28, didn’t want to run the Seattle Marathon alone. Instead, he logged 26 miles through north Everett last Sunday raising money to send high school students to Young Life camp in Malibu, B.C.

Schwartz is a volunteer leader for Young Life, a non-denominational Christian ministry for middle school and high school students.

Monday, December 27, 2010 - The Wichita Eagle

It was in South Carolina during the 1989-90 basketball season — Gregg Marshall recalls time in terms of sports seasons, "not by regular human years," says his wife, Lynn — when the Marshalls first met Penny.

Gregg was working as an assistant coach at the College of Charleston when his wife wanted him to go look at a dog she'd seen advertised in the paper.

The dog was a sickly-looking beagle with no hair on her ears, and although she was covered up to her chest in brick-red mud, "you could see all of her ribs," Lynn said.

Monday, December 27, 2010 - Northwestern College

Dr. Mike Kugler, professor of history at Northwestern College, contributed a chapter to Confessing History: Explorations in Christian Faith and the Historian’s Vocation, published in November by the University of Notre Dame Press.

Monday, December 27, 2010 - Capital Press

Instead of taking care of his cattle Dec. 10, rancher Lorren Hagen was helping to take care of his neighbors.

Hagen, of Chewelah, Wash., was one of about 20 ranchers and their families who handed out beef roasts to families in need at the Millwood Presbyterian Church in Spokane.

"It sounded like a really positive way to be involved in a worthwhile project, with our beef and total commodities and agricultural products," he said. "I have a little time in the winter where I can donate time as well as some product, so I'm happy to do it."

Monday, December 27, 2010 - Auburn Reporter

Louie Henson was born to play rugby.

Although the Auburn High School junior is turning out for the Rainier Plateau Junior Rugby Association this season for just the second year, the rugged sport is in his blood.

“I’ve really only been playing for a year, but I’ve been learning since I was 2 or 3,” Henson said.

Henson’s love for rugby comes from his father, Gerry Henson, who wrestled and played rugby at Western Washington University, and was one of the founding members of the 1973 Chuckanut Bay Rugby.

Monday, December 27, 2010 - The Bellingham Herald

TheBellinghamHerald.com had more than 53 million page views in 2010, with an average of 426,000 monthly unique visitors, an increase of 21 percent from 2009.

These are the most-read local news stories at TheBellinghamHerald.com in 2010, based on page views:

1. Bellingham Police: Body found on waterfront is Dwight Clark

Sunday, December 26, 2010 - Islands Weekly

“I wrote my doctoral dissertation on Rock Music in the 20th Century,” said Lopezian Bill Johnson who majored in psychotherapy at the University of California and received his Doctor of Ministry at San Anselmo Theological Seminary in 1976.

Wednesday, December 22, 2010 - The Bellingham Herald

The creation of a new congressional district is likely to shift district boundaries across the state, but the impact on the 2nd District that includes Whatcom County is expected to be minimal.

U.S. Rep. Rick Larsen, the Democratic incumbent who won a sixth term by a narrow margin in November, said he expects to see the southern boundary of the district shift northward a bit to accommodate the new district that will likely be carved out of Thurston and Pierce counties farther south. That means some Snohomish County precincts could be shifted into a different district.