In the Media
Aahh, the Snoqualmie Valley. All that fertile land. All those vegetables. All that ...
Wait a minute, parents inevitably wonder: Shouldn't that blushing-fresh produce be winding up in my kid's lunchroom?
Tricia Kovacs is here to tell you it is. Or, at least, it is in some schools. Sometimes.
Everett School District athletic direct Robert Polk announced on Friday afternoon that Jamie Sluys has accepted the job as the new head baseball coach at Everett High.
City leaders will consider a request from Western Washington University to change zoning on a block south of campus to allow institutional development, instead of apartments or condos.
Bellingham City Council will hold a hearing Monday, Sept. 27, on the request to rezone the WWU-owned block bounded by 25th and 26th streets and Taylor and Douglas avenues. WWU officials say the rezone would allow the university to move administrative offices there from the central portion of campus. No specific project is planned, said Keith Schreiber, an architectural consultant working for WWU, but future development would retain the trail and trees at the south of the property.
Job seekers looking for ways to connect directly with employers are invited to attend Western Washington University's Business Career Fair from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 4 in the Mac Gym of the Wade King Student Recreation Center.
The event, sponsored by the WWU Career Services Center and the College of Business and Economics, is an annual business-focused fair. The fair is open to all students and members of the general public who are interested in meeting hiring managers for both internship and career opportunities. Admission to the fair is free.
Devon Cancilla at Western Washington University took a different approach to the instrument access problem. With the power of the Internet, Cancilla and his team built a web-based remote laboratory that connects students to scientific instruments all across the country. According to Cancilla, expensive instruments at universities are idle roughly 70% of the time. So their system, called the Integrated Laboratory Network, allows students to operate instruments remotely through a computer 24/7. Cancilla says that making instruments accessible through cyberspace not only gives more students access to state-of-the-art instruments, but it also gives more students the chance to use the instrument on their own.
The McClatchy Co. has named Mark Owings president and publisher of The Bellingham Herald.
Owings is a 12-year employee of the newspaper who has been finance executive since 2004. With Thursday's announcement he replaces former publisher Glen Nardi who left last year when he was named publisher of the Sun Herald newspaper in Biloxi, Miss.
Western Washington University's Associated Productions Pop Music hosts a concert that's open to the public featuring Seattle hip-hop groups Macklemore & Ryan Lewis with The Physics and special guests.
Outside hitters Marlayna Geary and Kathryn Mertens combined for 26 kills and middle blocker Bailey Jones had a match-high six blocks as nationally ranked Western Washington University defeated University of Alaska Fairbanks 21-25, 25-22, 25-17, 25-19 Thursday, Sept. 23, in a Great Northwest Athletic Conference volleyball match in Fairbanks, Alaska.
Roberto Maestas used to say that what made his long partnership with three other civil-rights advocates work was that they all loved people unconditionally.
For nearly four decades, that characteristic allowed Mr. Maestas to fight hard for causes that mattered to him while maintaining a sense of humor and even having fun.
Pam Kuntz's latest performance work tells the compelling stories of 15 community members who have been challenged to make public those things we don't normally talk about, including health care issues, stress, patient advocacy and the connections within Bellingham neighborhoods.