In the Media
It's great to hear about local business owners moving forward with expansion plans, especially during this challenging economic climate.
That's what Wendy and John DeFreest have been busy doing the past few months. The owners of the three Bellingham Avenue Bread cafés recently added a facility at 2020 Humboldt St. (in the Sunnyland neighborhood) to establish a commercial bakery.
There are few things in life as frightening as being in the midst of a major earthquake. They often begin as a low vibration, a feel and a sound as though a large truck is rumbling by outside a house or office.
Quickly they escalate into a fierce, deadly freight train of a roar with violent shaking of buildings and everything in them. At times within the shaking the earth itself heaves upward and down as though the entire planet was one large rolling wave.
It is at such times that many people realize – perhaps for the first time - they have no real control over their lives; that "control" is simply a temporary illusion created by nature during the times nature chooses not to be on a rampage.
The gas-fired electric power plant that once supplied heat to pulp and tissue mills could be harnessed to heat Western Washington University, downtown Bellingham and a redeveloped waterfront.
Although the idea is still in the conceptual phase, it appears promising enough to consider the possible investment of about $300,000 to develop firm plans and cost estimates, the university's facilities management director, Tim Wynn, said Tuesday, May 3.
Paced by Sophie Elstrott, who finished second in medalist play, the Western Washington University women's golf team earned a trip to the NCAA Division II National Championships as it placed third at the West Super Regional which ended Tuesday at the 5,964-yard Tascosa Country Club in Canyon, Texas.
It will be the Vikings' first national appearance since 2008 and their fifth overall as a NCAA member.
Western Washington University's Tim Clendaniel moved up three places and finished ninth among 16 athletes in the decathlon at the Great Northwest Athletic Conference Multi-Events Championships which ended Tuesday.
Clendaniel finished with a 10-event total of 5,805 points. He ran the 110-meter hurdles in 16.35, tossed the discus 109-9, cleared 13-11 1/4 in the pole vault, threw the javelin 131-1 and had a 1,500 clocking of 5:19.45.
Tel Aviv pianist Inon Barnatan performs works by Debussy, Britten and Stevenson, Ravel and Schubert at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, May 5, at Western Washington University Performing Arts Center’s Concert Hall.
Final exams and end of the year projects can take a toll on your well-being. The pressure is on. You want to wrap up the semester with a strong head on your shoulder to get the grade you want. Do you ever feel as though all of your teachers got together and decided to assign students a tremendous amount of work, all at the same time, all at the end of the school year?
Washington state lawmakers are moving to limit a "retire-rehire" policy that allows state employees to collect both a pension and a paycheck.
A showdown over tax breaks is coming to the state Capitol.
Washington has more than 500 exemptions and special tax rates on the books, worth billions of dollars a year, and debate so far in the Legislature has been about cutting programs to cover a $5.3 billion budget gap over the next two years.
But that tune will change slightly when Senate Democrats hold a hearing Wednesday on a handful of tax-related measures – including one to reconsider a piece of Tim Eyman’s Initiative 1053. The measure passed with a nearly 64 percent of the vote in November and requires a two-thirds vote in the House and Senate to raise taxes or cut tax “loopholes.” The latter has been a rallying cry for activists trying to avoid spending cuts to schools and health programs.
In his first year at Arlington High School, softball coach Lonnie Hicks took over a team with obvious talent and desire, but one perhaps lacking in discipline.
That was something Hicks, an ex-cop, figured he could fix.