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Carol Rae is a multi-disciplinary artist who has worked in every realm from bookbinding and costume design to voodoo doll-making -- so spawning a fishy project to draw attention to the environment was no problem.
With great glee, she has created a school of papier-mâché creatures that are part-animal, part-fish and covered them in opalescent scales.
"I call them Farmed Fish," says the Lake Cowichan artist, who had made little chicken fish with colourful combs and wattles, piggy-fish with snouts and cow versions, complete with fetching pink udders.
Whatcom County law enforcement agencies arrested 63 people for allegedly driving drunk during the latest enforcement campaign, which started Aug. 12 and ended Sept. 6.
Statewide, officers from 176 agencies arrested 2,672 drivers in the "Drive Hammered, Get Nailed" campaign, according to the Washington Traffic Safety Commission.
One of the first things you should do is analyze your finances.
“A critical aspect to recession-proofing is to first do an internal audit of your existing business — from a financial standpoint you need to know where money is coming from and where it is going,” says Tom Dorr, director of the Western Washington University Small Business Development Center in Bellingham, Wash.
These cultural projects are intended to inject some life into a downtown that has been reeling from a common urban problem: the exodus of chain department stores and small businesses. But with Western Washington University about two miles south of downtown, many community leaders believe they have the audience for their cultural offerings.
"I think downtown is developing into the cultural center for Whatcom County. Western (Washington University) is a great audience for that -- the students, professors, visiting professors, alumni. We have a great community," said Kirsten Walker, executive director of the Downtown Bellingham Partnership.
Outside hitter Megan Amundson had 25 kills and 15 digs, as No. 18 Western Washington University beat Central Washington, 25-20, 24-26, 26-24, 21-25, 15-10, in a Great Northwest Athletic Conference volleyball match on Sunday, Sept. 12, at Ellensburg.
It's the money, honey.
High-flying career women who are the breadwinners in their families are nearly 40 percent more likely to get a divorce than cash-strapped ladies, a surprising 25-year study shows.
The access to dough makes it far easier for these gals to make it on their own, but bruised male egos could also play a part in the trips to splitsville, Western Washington University Sociologist Jay Teachman said yesterday.
Outside hitter Marlayna Geary had a match-high 24 kills and a .323 attack percentage as the nationally ranked Western Washington University volleyball team rallied to defeat Northwest Nazarene 25-10, 22-25, 20-25, 25-11, 15-6 on Thursday, Sept. 9, at Johnson Sports Center.
The contest was the Great Northwest Athletic Conference opener for both schools.
Attacked by hungry mosquitoes the size of small birds, stranded in reindeer hunters shacks, and slogging around boot-swallowing muddy bogs of the Siberian arctic – it was all in a day’s work for University of Nevada, Reno researchers and students in the Polaris Project, an international team of scientists and students studying climate change where, after 10,000 years, permafrost is thawing at an alarming rate.
Money magazine has named Bellingham the nation’s fifth-best college town for people who’ve retired.
The Whatcom County home of Western Washington University was cited for its nearly 20 percent job growth in the past 10 years, which compares with the 15.7 percent job growth of the 25 cities cited by Money.