In the Media
Earlier in the day, the Vertically Integrated Partnership (including Sodexo, Annie's Fun, Hirai Farms, etc.) donated 8,000 pounds of potatoes to the Bellingham Food Bank and another 48,000 pounds of potatoes to Food Lifeline in Shoreline. Over 50 volunteers from Sodexo and Western Washington University were on hand to help to unload the potatoes in Bellingham (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4gKoiVvVX8).
On the other hand, the type of anxiety we felt when we saw the other riders is also a reason many people steer clear of competitive sports altogether — even a reason many avoid walking into gyms, said Ralph A. Vernacchia, director of the Center for Performance Excellence at Western Washington University.
But he couldn't stay away from rugby. When the opportunity developed to join the Under 20 U.S. Junior National Team as strength and conditioning coach, he jumped at it.
By sheer coincidence, he's also in his first season as an assistant coach with Western Washington University's highly-regarded club rugby program, not to mention recently being named the new gym manager at owner Anthony Hamilton's Anytime Fitness in Bellingham.
Three Western Washington University women's golfers were in medalist contention, though the team finished a distant second after second-round action at the Sonoma State University Invitational Women's Golf Tournament on Monday, Sept. 20, being held at the Santa Rosa Golf and Country Club.
By popular demand, Western Washington University's department of theater and dance again presents "Stories from Jim and Jo," an original work that explores the medical complications of Parkinson's and multiple sclerosis.
Under the direction of storyteller and choreographer Pam Kuntz, of the WWU dance faculty, and New York theater artist Ian Bivins, two Bellingham residents - James Lortz and Jo Pullen - share their stories about living with the debilitating diseases.
The next day Rex stopped by Western Washington University’s map library to visit his Whatcom Falls neighbor, Dale Harris. Dale knew more about local history than anybody else he knew. If there was any information about Jake’s treasure, Dale would surely know something.
Sure enough, Dale had heard the stories from his running partner — about how Jake’s treasure was said to be buried in a patch of woods Jake’s family used to own north of town.
Career accomplishments: Metzger-Levin went from Everett High School to Western Washington University, where she became one of the most decorated athletes in school history.
We all know how important education is for our children and our state's future. We know how essential health care is for our communities. Yet we've been heading backwards on these priorities for years and the current recession is making things even worse.
Here in the Bellingham area, we have slashed education jobs, making our class sizes even larger. Tuition at Western Washington University is up by double digits. We have cut more than 40,000 people statewide from the Basic Health Plan and in Whatcom and Skagit Counties the wait list is now more than one and a half times the number of those covered. We're going the wrong way, and with more cuts coming, it looks like we'll continue going backward.
The band began to form in 2002 when David John (vocals and guitar) met Andrew Joslyn (fiddler) at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington. As they began to play, their styles complemented each other perfectly.
Consolidating our two households was made easier by another milestone move. We moved my daughter, Kate, who is a junior at Western Washington University in Bellingham, into her first apartment two weeks ago. Fortunately, it was not furnished. We had no problem filling it wall-to-wall with our duplicate belongings, especially in the kitchen. How many other college students start off life in their first apartment with a salad spinner, a whisk and a full set of cookware?
Her apartment on Indian Street right below the campus is just a couple of hundred feet from an apartment I lived in when I arrived at Western 41 years ago.