In the Media
Chelsea Celmer is the responsible type.
The 20-year-old earned a 3.9 GPA at Graham-Kapowsin High School and an academic scholarship to Western Washington University in Bellingham. She works part-time in the dining hall to pay for books and living expenses.
She thinks ahead.
Western Washington University's Sarah Porter won the women's 10,000 meters at the NACAC Under-23 Track and Field Championships on Friday, July 9, in Miramar, Fla.
During the second quarter of 2010, employees of the Bellingham Moss Adams LLP office donated $1,634 to local charities and a full day of labor to the Bellingham Food Bank Farm.
When you're a tight-knit bunch like the fraternity of accomplished basketball players from Seattle's inner-city, events such as the Adonai Hood Classic basketball tournament aren't treated lightly.
The purpose is to bring together some of the city's best basketball players, many of whom are playing in the NBA, and give back to the community.
Whatcom County non-farm businesses that suffered economic losses due to the freezing conditions and record low temperatures between Dec. 10-13, 2009, now have access to financial relief through low interest loans.
Western Washington University's Center for Economic Vitality and its Small Business Development Center can assist applicants with designing an application and recovery plan. The deadline to apply for these loans is Feb. 15, 2011.
The University of Washington Board of Regents named Provost Phyllis Wise as interim president while a replacement is found for Mark Emmert.
Wise is the chief academic and budget officer for the university. She will be the first woman and the first Asian-American to serve as university president when she takes over in the fall.
"I am grateful to the Board of Regents for giving me the opportunity to provide leadership at this critical juncture," Wise said in a news release.
Western Washington University's Xavier Dailly, a junior from Burlington, was named a NCAA Division II Cleveland Golf/Srixon All-America Scholar as announced Thursday, July 8, by the Golf Coaches of America Association.
Secretary of State Sam Reed handed the award last month to his former understudy, Kim Wyman, who has served since 2001 as Thurston County auditor.
Both officials are Republicans, and Wyman is challenged this year by Democrat Ric Abbett. But the award was one of three given by Reed to employees in county elections agencies, including one run by a non-partisan official and one by a Democrat.
A new book by a leading group of linguists has bolstered a controversial theory that the language of Canada's Dene Nation — along with those of the Navaho and Apache in the U.S., and numerous other "Athapaskan" dialects — is rooted in an ancient and highly endangered Asian tongue spoken today by only a few hundred people in Western Siberia.
State worker furloughs got under way Tuesday at two Olympia-area agencies, and spokesmen for Gov. Chris Gregoire’s budget office released a list of other agencies that will follow suit with shutdowns next Monday.