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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."
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.
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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.
Washington's presence in Congress is going to get larger and its clout in electing the next president stronger.
That's because the state will gain another seat – its 10th - in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2012 based on U.S. Census Bureau figures released Tuesday.
Washington is one of eight states whose House delegation will increase in size as a result of the reapportioning process done every 10 years following a tally of the nation's population.
The Educating Future Leaders Center is shutting down this month, but a form of it likely will evolve into a club at Western Washington University.
Victims of domestic violence have a passionate new advocate in Bellingham.
Susan Marks, 33, moved to Bellingham in October to become the new director of the 12-year-old Bellingham-Whatcom County Commission Against Domestic Violence.
Marks grew up in Ohio and earned a degree in social work from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. She holds a master's degree in sustainable communities from Northern Arizona University. Her experience working to serve victims of domestic violence, sexual assault and child abuse covers more than eight years in Flagstaff, Ariz.; Duluth, Minn.; and Sitka, Alaska.
Megan Pinske of the Western Washington University women's basketball team has been named Great Northwest Conference Player of the Week for Dec. 12-18 after her MVP performance in the Great Western Shootout in Las Vegas.
The Western Washington University cycling team won the Cyclocross National Championships at the Division II Collegiate National Championships on Dec. 12.
All the Vikings racers finished in the top 20, with Courtenay McFadden taking third-place in the women's division. Hannah Neubeck raced her way to seventh and Whitney Anderson rounded out the women's team taking 13th.