In the Media
Veterans Day is Friday, Nov. 11, but events to mark it start early in Whatcom County. All events are free unless otherwise noted.
One of the final phases in a new building project for Chabad of Bellingham, WA was completed last month with the purchase of a 4,800 square foot building located just off campus at Western Washington University.
Formerly known as the Shalom Center, the building has been home to several of Bellingham's Jewish organizations. Renamed the Rohr Jewish Center, the building will be getting new life after Rabbi Avremi and Nissa Yarmush, directors of Chabad in Bellingham, WA closed an $880,000 deal for the premises.
Sarah Porter of Zap Fitness in Blowing Rock, running in only her second professional race, finished 22nd on Sunday at the New York City Marathon. Porter, a native of Bellingham, WA., was the NCAA Division II national champion in track and cross country last season. She finished Sunday's race in 2-hours, 44-minutes, 25 seconds. Firehiwot Dado of Ethiopia won the NYC Marathon in 2:23:15.
As Drowsy Driving Prevention Week gets underway, one family is raising awareness by sharing an amazing survival story.
Mora Shaw was 18-years-old in 2006 while riding as a passenger in her friend's car, relatives said. The driver was sleep-deprived and fell asleep at the wheel before crashing into trees along Blewett Pass.
Trapped inside the car with severe injuries -- including several broken bones and severe brain trauma -- authorities believed Mora had passed away. But a trauma nurse who just happened to be in the area helped revive Mora, and a helicopter flew her to Harborview Medical Center.
Nothing is apparently too small to cut when faced with a $2 billion state budget shortfall.
Gov. Chris Gregoire sent out a directive Friday telling agencies, among other things, to look for ways to reduce the number of cellphones and land lines and shrink the size of the state's fleet of cars and trucks.
In addition, the governor plans to take action that would extend from seven to 10 years the requirement for new automobile license plates; eliminate the printing and distribution of state wall calendars; and increase use of electronic communications, such as email, for state correspondence.
Washington state is finishing its latest budget cycle with a deficit for the first time in modern record keeping.
State accountants are in the process of checking the numbers, and they now expect that the two-year budget that ended in July will officially close about $90 million in the red. Records released to The Associated Press under state public records laws show it is something that hasn’t happened in any biennium dating back at least a quarter of a century, when accounting processes changed.
It’s not entirely clear whether the state is allowed to have such deficits.
Husky Stadium is one of the most beautiful settings to watch a college-football game in the country. And it's certainly one of the loudest.
So when the University of Washington decided to rebuild two-thirds of Husky Stadium, the goal was to keep it the same, but make it better.
Amplify the noise. Preserve the view. Hang onto the stadium's two grandstand roofs, which punctuate the landscape like a set of airborne quotation marks. But rip out and redo the 90-year-old concrete lower bowl, dismantle and rebuild the 60-year-old south stadium, remove the track, bring fans closer to the action, and turn the cold, utilitarian underbelly into an inviting new concourse.
Childhood. That stage in life everyone experiences, when everything is new and the only limit is your own imagination. As a young boy, I was very much the stereotype. A stick was a sword, the ground was lava, every tree was a tower to be scaled, and every bush held dragons to be slain.
Western Washington University women's basketball guard Kristin Schramm scored a game-high 23 points to lead the Vikings to a 79-68 exhibition win over the University of British Columbia Sunday. Nov. 6, at Carver Gym.
The Western Washington University men's basketball team lost to Chesnut Hill 80-71 on the final day of the Disney Classic Sunday, Nov. 6 in Anaheim, Calif.