In the Media
The Sequim Gazette welcomes to its news staff Amanda Winters, reporter. She was home schooled until she began attending Peninsula College, from which she graduated in 2006, and transferred to Western Washington University, where she received a bachelor's degree in journalism, minoring in humanities and religious studies.
WWU student David Williams has been canoe-racing since his dad put him in a life vest and set him in the back of a war canoe before he was 2 years old.
By the time he was 4, he was padding in competition.
WWU to host "It's Your Arboretum Day;" Shannon Point to study water-quality levels in Bellingham Bay; CEV to host economic gardening conference in June
The Maine Republican party has recently adopted a new platform that challenges the principles of national sovereignty and active federal government. The platform invokes the 1854 words of New York newspaper editor Horace Greeley that the then new Republicans were “united to restore the Union to its true mission of champion and promulgator of Liberty.” But Greeley, Abraham Lincoln, and other Republican founders would have been astonished at the policies that Maine’s Republicans are claiming as their inheritance.
Western Washington University's dance program presents its annual BFA Capstone Concert at 7:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, May 27-29, continuing June 3-5 at its downtown location, Ving!, 311 E. Holly St. Among the performers is Kaia Gilje, 20, a student at WWU's Fairhaven College who's graduating this summer. She talks about her love for dance and about this upcoming performance.
Bellingham Dollars for Scholars, a program of the Whatcom Community Foundation, has awarded 94 scholarships to graduates of Bellingham's high schools.
Heather Kelly of Bird Creek, who holds down the No. 6 seat on the top ranked varsity eight shell for Division II Western Washington University, on Monday was named to the 2010 Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association/NCAA Division II Pocock All-America women's rowing team. Kelly, a senior who attended South High, aims to help Western win a sixth straight national title this weekend at Gold River, Calif.
Aimee Carpenter created a sunny logo calling herself the "Solar Goddess" on the back of her business card.
The 25-year-old graduate of Bellingham High School and Western Washington University is sold on the benefits of solar power. Now her parents, Dave and Cindi Carpenter, are sold, too.
"Friends and families looking for activities this weekend other than Ski to Sea junior events have a number to choose from in the Bellingham area.
Here are some highlights of what's happening Friday, May 21, through Sunday, May 23. All are free unless noted."
"Katie Colard, a senior guard at Elma High School, has signed a national letter of intent to play women's basketball at Western Washington University."