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20 Wild Things: 9:30-11am, Marine Park “Backyard Bash” will be the theme of ONSTAGE Cemetery Tour: 12:30pm, Bayview Cemetery Spring Awakening: 7:30pm, Bellingham High School MUSIC a gala party happening June 28 at the Bard on the Beach: Through July 3 and beyond, VISUAL ARTS Vanier Park, Vancouver, B.C. Open Nest: 12-5pm, Syre Education Center 18 Bellingham Cruise Terminal as part of the Final Friday Art Walk: 5-8pm, La Conner DANCE ART ART " ) * fundraiser happening Tom Evert Dance Class: 6pm, Firehouse Performing Arts Center ./0- 4[06.y.13] 16 throughout historic Fairhaven WORDS ONSTAGE

STAGE STAGE Daniel James Brown: 7pm, Village Books JustinCredible Sideshow: 7pm, Roosevelt Park Spring Awakening: 7:30pm, Bellingham High School FOOD Hodgepodge: 8pm and 10pm, Upfront Theatre 14 Wednesday Market: 12-5pm, Fairhaven Village Green DANCE Ferry Folk Dance: 2pm, Anacortes Ferry Terminal GET OUT /#0-. 4[06.y~.13] Dance Studio Performance: 7:30pm, Mount Baker Theatre ONSTAGE 12 JustinCredible Sideshow: 7pm, Franklin Park MUSIC Spring Awakening: 7:30pm, Bellingham High School Swing Connection, Saxsquatch: 7pm, First Baptist

WORDS A Rotten Demise: 7:30pm, 1st Street Cabaret, Mount Church of Bellingham Vernon Good, Bad, Ugly: 8pm, Upfront Theatre FILM 8 The Project: 10pm, Upfront Theatre Rise of the Guardians: Dusk, Fairhaven Village Green MUSIC CURRENTS Andy Koch: 5:30-7:30pm, Jansen Art Center, Lynden WORDS Snug Harbor: 6-8pm, Elizabeth Park SpeakEasy 11: 7pm, Firehouse Performing Arts 6 Center WORDS VIEWS VIEWS Michael Gurian: 7pm, Village Books GET OUT Run/Walk for Literacy: 9am, Fairhaven Village 4 FOOD Green Lynden Farmers Market: 1-6pm, downtown Lynden Rose Festival: 9am-6pm, Christianson’s Nursery, MAIL MAIL Mount Vernon

VISUAL ARTS Garden Walk: 10am-4pm, Sandy Point and Neptune 2 Open Nest: 12-5pm, Syre Education Center Beach After Hours Art: 5:30-7:30pm, Whatcom Museum’s Bellingham Kids Traverse: 11am, Civic Field DO IT IT DO DO IT 2 Lightcatcher Building Skagit Artists Together Meeting: 6pm, Anacortes FOOD

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26 ONSTAGE Market Square # JustinCredible Sideshow: 7pm, Elizabeth Park Ferndale Farmers Market: 10am-3pm, Centennial Spring Awakening: 7:30pm, Bellingham High School Riverwalk Park Artists Appreciation Celebration: 7-9pm, Firehouse Performing Arts Center VISUAL ARTS Hodgepodge: 8pm and 10pm, Upfront Theatre Open Nest: 12-5pm, Syre Education Center

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CASCADIA WEEKLY Back Alley Cats: 8pm, 1st Street Cabaret, Mount .0) 4[06.z.13] Vernon 2 ONSTAGE Spring Awakening: 2pm, Bellingham High School COMMUNITY JustinCredible Sideshow: 7pm, Fouts Park Girls Night Out: 4-11pm, throughout historic Their Town Staged Reading: 7pm, Commercial Fairhaven Street Theatre Dynamo: 8pm, Upfront Theatre

DANCE Dance Studio Performance: 2pm, Mount Baker 34 Theatre FOOD Burlesque-Esque: 9:33pm, Cirque Lab

MUSIC Concert for the Coast: 12-4pm, Padilla Bay 27 Breazeale Interpretive Center, Bayview Il Trovatore: 1pm, Lincoln Theatre, Mount B-BOARD Vernon

COMMUNITY 24 Military Vehicle Show: 12-6pm, Lynden Towne Plaza FILM FILM Dudestock Bowl-Rama: 5:30pm, Riverside Lanes, Mount Vernon 20 GET OUT Garden Walk: 10am-4pm, Sandy Point and MUSIC Neptune Beach Gardens of Note Tour: 10am-5pm, in and around

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CURRENTS I I suggest that we evaluate the proposed been found noncompliant by the state two Distribution Manager: new jail in light of the following: one out of ev- times, and county inaction will result in con-

6 Scott Pelton REAR END E360-647-8200 x 202 ery three African-American males under 30 is in tinued noncompliance. 27: Bulletin Board ô spelton@ prison, on probation, or parole; more African- Whatcom County will now spend public funds VIEWS VIEWS cascadiaweekly.com 28: Free Will Astrology Americans are in prison today than were slaves explaining their deﬁance of a state order on be- Dan Brooks, Erik Burge 4

4 in this country in 1850; the number of U.S. pris- half of private property owners. As a result of 29: Crossword oners is greater than Pyongyang’s population continued noncompliance, Whatcom County will MAIL MAIL MAIL Letters 30: Advice Goddess Send letters to letters@ of 2 million people; the United States has less continue to be ineligible for public works trust cascadiaweekly.com. than 5 percent of the world’s population, but 25 funds, centennial clean water grants and impact 2 31: Wellness percent the world’s inmates; in fact, the United fees. Continued noncompliance is required to be Alan Rhodes, P.06 * Fuzz Buzz, P.12 * Free Will Astrology, P.28 32: This Modern World, Tom the cascadia

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THE HEART OF CASCADIA WHATCOM*SKAGIT*ISLAND*LOWER B.C. States incarcerates more people, both as a raw recognized under other grant funding sources, Dancing Bug {06.26.13}{#26}{V.08}{FREE} number and per capita, than any other country such as outdoor recreation funds. Continued 33: Slowpoke, Sudoku SKAGIT 13 TOURS: Exploring on the planet. Also, there is a proﬁt motive in noncompliance makes Whatcom County at risk the American Alps, P.14 26. 34: Crepes for everyone! PARK PARTY: our system, as corporations are awarded con- for sanctions. Elizabeth

06. Park Concert Series, P.20 FAIRHAVEN tracts and concessions to provide services to, The private appeals are ﬁled separately from OUTDOOR WATERFRONT CINEMA: When the stars come out, P.24 WATCH and within, prisons and jails. This current situ- Whatcom County appeals in different courts, OF DIVISIONS AND DEVELOPMENTS, P.8 .08

26 ©2013 CASCADIA WEEKLY (ISSN 1931-3292) is published each Wednesday by ation is both inhumane and unconscionable. We with different parties and no timelines yet es- # Cascadia Newspaper Company LLC. Direct all correspondence to: Cascadia Weekly COVER: “Messenger-Cher Ami” by PO Box 2833 Bellingham WA 98227-2833 | Phone/Fax: 360.647.8200 don’t need a newer and bigger jail, we need a tablished. The financial consequences to public [email protected] Trish Harding, Studio UFO. Oil smaller one with fewer inmates. funds could last years. Though Cascadia Weekly is distributed free, please take just one copy. Cascadia (36”x48”), $1,260. Weekly may be distributed only by authorized distributors. Any person removing Instead of building a new jail, we should al- Why would the county spend funds in this papers in bulk from our distribution points risks prosecution “The messenger pigeon SUBMISSIONS: Cascadia Weekly welcomes freelance submissions. Send material locate resources toward reducing our current manner? represents the power of to either the News Editor or A&E Editor. Manuscripts will be returned if you jail population now and in the future. —David Stalheim, Bellingham include a stamped, self-addressed envelope. To be considered for calendar list- solidarity, the human ring ings, notice of events must be received in writing no later than noon Wednesday —Brad Howard, Bellingham David Stalheim is the former planning director for the week prior to publication. Photographs should be clearly labeled and will be represents solidarity itself, and CASCADIA WEEKLYreturned if accompanied by stamped, self-addressed envelope. the musicians precariously on Whatcom County LETTERS POLICY: Cascadia Weekly reserves the right to edit letters for length and content. When apprised of them, we correct errors of fact promptly and courteously. top of the building represent not HARMING THOUSANDS 4 In the interests of fostering dialog and a community forum, Cascadia Weekly does only the power of art, but also not publish letters that personally disparage other letter writers. Please keep your TO HELP TWO EXEMPT WELLS that speaking your mind through letters to fewer than 300 words. Whatcom County Council passed an ordinance Thank you for highlighting the long under- art can be urgent as well as dangerous,” Harding explains. signed into law by the County Executive last emphasized disconnect between water sup- week that opted not to take action on two or- ply and land use in your recent columns. Your ders of state law that are under appeal by pri- thoughts, along with the Water Symposium and NEWSPAPER ADVISORY GROUP: Robert Hall, Seth Murphy, Michael Petryni, David Syre the recent Hearings Board case, make they want to shoot, there are established us more optimistic that we are seeing shooting ranges available. movement towards community under- Contact the County Council and ask standing of these issues. them to get their priorities straight: stop 34 34 It is important that our efforts are the shooters, not the tubers. based on accurate facts. Our view of the —Kelly Turner, Bellingham FOOD primary land and water relationships dif- fers in some areas from your arguments THE SLIPPERY SLOPE 27 and portions of the hearings board’s di- According to statistics, more Ameri- rectives. Specifically: cans die each year as a result of bath- t Domestic wells are not necessarily a room accidents than have ever died B-BOARD significant problem in terms of com- from terrorism. peting with agriculture for water. The With these chilling statistics in mind, 24 water they use, minus what is returned isn’t it time we allowed the government

to the system via septic drain ﬁelds, to install cameras and other monitoring FILM is relatively small in relation to total devices into our bathrooms? While some

estimated water use. Their effect on might decry this as a slippery slope, it is 20 water availability is not the primary in fact not nearly as slippery as the sudsy

issue in the discussion about water base of a bathtub! Just think how many MUSIC use and water availability. lives could be saved! Better yet, think

t The issue of water availability for out how many new jobs would be created as 18 of stream use rests primarily on the de- the government outsources the monitor- ART ART bate over the proper amount of water ing of our most private areas, to, uh, pri- that is needed to support healthy in- vate contractors! th th June 28 –July 7 16 stream ﬂows for ﬁsh. Exempt well use And besides, as long as one is not do-

has minuscule effect on this debate. It ing anything wrong, one shouldn’t oppose STAGE should not cloud the real issue. such monitoring. Privacy is neither a t More residential development in ag right, nor a justiﬁcation, to oppose any- resource lands is detrimental to farms thing that makes us safer as a nation. 14 and must be discouraged. But not be- —Carlos Montage, Bellingham

th GET OUT cause it robs water from farmers. In- anniversary creased density takes quality ag land SWORD MIGHTIER THAN PEN out of production and stresses the Kudos to The Gristle on the useful and 12 needed critical mass of ag land needed informative analysis of the Whatcom SALE to sustain an ag economy. It also in- County water usage dilemma. Regarding 7 WORDS jects potential neighbor conﬂicts over some other feature articles, though, I noise, smell, etc., which can make a think the writers have lost sight of the 8 farmer’s existence miserable. fact that the reality of life is power. Real Let’s argue for limiting, transferring, and temporal power comes out of the barrel GEAR ON SALE

purchasing densities on these facts, not on of a gun or its economic equivalent. CURRENTS a presumed effect on water availability. At the end of WWII when Stalin was ad- Raven Pro Ice Axe We look forward to your continued at- vised that Pope Pius XII would oppose his Contact Strap Crampons 6 tention to the critical discussion over planned occupation of Poland, he asked, Mesa Tent VIEWS VIEWS water which has such far reaching conse- “How many divisions has the Pope?” It’s Storm Headlamp quences for our county’s future. called Realpolitik—a term invented by 4 4 —Henry Bierlink, Whatcom Farm Friends the Communists—and refers to how is- Half Dome Helmet MAIL MAIL sues are decided in the real world. Couloir Harness MAIL

SHOOTERS OR TUBERS? Whether it’s Ms. Akins and her heart- 2 It was heartbreaking to hear of the felt treatise on Cherry Point and Lummi C.A.M.P. GEAR DO IT IT DO death of the young Bellingham woman Tribal rights, or Mr. Johnson and his es- killed by a stray bullet in Ferndale. My say on the proposed county jail, or Mr. Blowout Pricing thoughts and prayers are with her family. Bliss on the economic downside of the Rain and wind shells 13 Neighbors say that nearby gunﬁre is Gateway Paciﬁc Terminal—all of these 26.

lightest in its class 06. common, and it’s legal. This scenario is impassioned pieces spring from a simi- repeated in many areas around the coun- lar juvenile view of how things should .08 ty, including mine on King Mountain: happen in their idealized world, instead ALSO 26 shooters less than ¼ mile away are en- of dealing with how things are actually # TH ONLY • dangering many who live in the city. It’s done and projects realized, and trying FO 9 R 2 just a matter of time until another stray to come to terms with (and accomodate) E C U N bullet causes more grief. the essential self-interested nature of S U T

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of No Shooting Zones within ½ mile of all At the end of the day, that’s really all G 5 city limits throughout the county. It is we have to work with, and the approaches ridiculous that people in the county can to human problems that fail to take this ﬁre guns in their backyards, endangering seriously are pretty much doomed. 214 W Holly • Bellingham, WA 98225 • 360-543-5678 others up to ½ mile, or more, away. If —Tom Green, Lynden Monday –Saturday 10-7 • Sunday Noon-5pm THE GRISTLE

12-STEP PROGRAM: Once was an easy path to wealth in

34 34 the latter third of the last century: Acquire resource land at bargain prices. Strip the resource, and use the

FOOD proceeds to inﬂuence government to then upzone the property, creating new development rights and land views value. Flip the property to another buyer for proﬁt. 27 OPINIONS THE GRISTLE Call it the Strip-&-Flip; and notice the central role government plays in creating wealth for very little

B-BOARD investment and low marginal cost to those gaming this out.

24 It’s not a process that can go on forever, as the conversion of rich farmland in fertile places like the

FILM FILM Kent Valley to asphalt jungle can illustrate, and as BY ALAN RHODES the slow ﬁnancial collapse and personal misfortunes

20 of early pioneers of the Strip-&-Flip locally can attest. The boom was mostly over by the mid-1990s, the easy

MUSIC money gone, just about the time our local politics grew increasingly surly as a second tier of “investors” A Bookworm’s Odyssey 18 tried to reproduce the easy successes of the ﬁrst tier. IN SEARCH OF THE PERFECT BOOK GROUP

ART ART The grave sin of the Whatcom County Council ma- jority is not merely their inability to understand that love books and devote a patho- Susan Vreeland. era is well and truly over, but their failure to recog- logical amount of time to daily My ﬁnal stop is at the Engaged 16 nize that they are the governing body that will usher Ireading. I usually have several Citizens group. They have read Su-

STAGE STAGE in a more modern, profitable, different way of doing books going at once and I listen to san Cain’s Quiet: the Power of Intro- things. Instead they huff and they puff, trying to a book on CD while shaving in the verts in a World That Can’t Stop Talk- blow new air into an old shredded balloon. morning. But I don’t belong to a ing, a book I just recently finished. 14 But the game is over; and the State of Washington book group. Should I? To find out, Cain argues that while American and 38 of its 39 counties have moved on, leaving What- I decide to sit in on every reading society seems to admire the ag-

GET OUT com County increasingly isolated and vulnerable. group at Village Books (except one— nance. At age 58, Steinbeck climbed gressive, confident, glad-handing A council supermajority last week approved, 5-2, more on that later). into his camper with his dog Charlie extrovert, it is the quiet and reflec- tive introvert who is more likely to 12 another $40,000 payment to a Seattle law firm to My first visit is with the General and started off across America to re- again challenge the findings of a state board that the Literature group. Tonight they are visit a land that he realized he was make important contributions to county insufficiently protects its land and water re- discussing Aldo Leopold’s A Sand now writing about only from mem- society, such introverted individu- WORDS sources. The Growth Management Hearing Board rul- County Almanac, a sacred text of the ory. His book is a national treasure als as Sir Isaac Newton, Einstein,

8 ing was issued earlier this month. The county has now environmental movement. It’s been and still timely. I stick around for Chopin, Proust, and George Orwell. spent more than a quarter of a million dollars in direct 40 years since I read it. I open ran- the full hour. Cain is sharply critical of the trend costs ﬁghting related rulings, and has lost on every domly to a chapter on the pleasure of A few days later I sit down with toward groupthink, whether it’s in

CURRENTS substantive issue. The county ﬁnds its ass gets kicked hearing birds you can’t see. Leopold the Environmental Conservation the corporate world where people harder in each iteration. Each time, their responses writes, “There is a peculiar virtue group, and there’s a problem (mine, are forced into team projects, or 6 6 grow weaker. Signiﬁcantly, despite the talents of the in the music of elusive birds.” Wow, not theirs). They are discussing a in so-called “cooperative learning” $375-per-hour attorney, the county didn’t even bother that sounds like the observation of a writer I hate: Susan Vreeland. If bad groups in classrooms—situations VIEWS VIEWS VIEWS to defend a number of issues last time around. Why Taoist sage. How could you not read writers had a prom, Vreeland would that can smother the potentially

4 bother; they’re indefensible under state law! a book by a writer who can craft a be queen. I grit my teeth and open valuable contributions of introverts Council is still reeling from an earlier GMHB ruling, sentence like that! her novel The Forest Lover to the while advancing the dimwitted no- MAIL MAIL issued in January, that invalidated portions of the rural A woman says she was disturbed ﬁrst sentence: “Letting her cape tions of charismatic loudmouths.

element of the county’s comprehensive plan. There, the by how much time Leopold spent snap in the wind, Emily gripped her It’s an interesting book that pro- 2 board noted the ﬁndings of the state Dept. of Ecol- shooting the very birds he loved, carpetbag and wicker food hamper, vokes a spirited discussion. DO IT IT DO ogy requiring a zero-discharge policy for Lake What- but someone else comments that and hiked up the beach, feasting The only book group I don’t visit com to limit phosphorous pollutants from entering the Theodore Roosevelt, an ardent con- her eyes on Hitats’uu spread wide is called Motherhood by the Book.

13 reservoir. Ecology established the requirement to re- servationist who preserved millions beneath ﬁne-spun vapor.” Yep, pure Nothing against motherhood, but it’s 26. duce these pollutants by 86.75 percent, approaching a of acres of American wilderness, was crap. It sounds like the opening of pretty far down on my list of inter- 06. natural forested condition, by any means available; the also an avid hunter. The debate that a cheesy romance novel written by a esting topics, ranking a little below board ran this much farther down the ﬁeld, reasoning: follows is interesting, but it’s a beau- bad Thomas Hardy impersonator with 19th Century Icelandic parliamentar- .08

26 “The 86 percent target already assumes no addition- tiful spring evening and suddenly my a talent for forced imagery (“ﬁne- ians and folk dancing. # al phosphorus run-off (zero discharge) from new lots. need to be in nature is stronger than spun vapor”) and hackneyed usage So, what’s the result of my explo- Steve Hood [DOE water quality engineer] made it clear my need to talk about it. I excuse (“feasting her eyes”). rations? While I enjoyed my sessions that to the extent new development was not required myself early and head for a sunset Vreeland’s prose is wretched, but with fellow bibliophiles, I decide not to meet a zero-discharge standard, additional require- walk along the South Bay trail. the discussion is engaging. The to join a book group. I still have 426 ments (i.e., beyond 86 percent reduction) would have My next visit is with the Afternoon novel is based on the life of the pages to go in Haruki Murakami’s to be imposed on existing developments in the water- Book Chat group. Today they are dis- Canadian artist Emily Carr, who massive novel 1Q84, I’m right in the

CASCADIA WEEKLYshed. Ecology has made it clear that restricting new cussing John Steinbeck’s Travels with spent much of her time among the middle of Stephen Mitchell’s transla- lot development is only part of the solution; pollutants Charley which, for me, is one of the aboriginal peoples of British Co- tion of The Iliad, and I just started 6 from existing development and from development of Big Four road trip books, along with lumbia, capturing their culture in rereading Madame Bovary. I don’t previously-platted parcels must also be brought under On the Road, Blue Highways and Zen haunting paintings. I’d like to learn have time to join a book group. I’m control. Thus, the necessary measures to protect water and the Art of Motorcycle Mainte- more about Emily Carr, but not from too busy reading. quality must go beyond down-zoning.” In the opinion of the board, down-zoning in Lake VIEWS EXPRESSED ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF CASCADIA WEEKLY THE GRISTLE Divorce is an ending, Whatcom is de minimis and an obliga- tory component of a much more exten- but not The End. 34 34 sive set of actions required from the

Out of court solutions that help you close one chapter of your life… FOOD county. Indeed, only a math illiterate could look at an 86 percent reduction And build the next. target and see much “wiggle room.” 27 Ecology has not gone so far as to prescribe speciﬁc acts to reach the Collaborative reduction target, but that forbearance B-BOARD may be changing, council learned with Divorce & Mediation unpleasant surprise last week. Unbundled drafting and consultation 24 On May 28, Ecology received an ad- services at an hourly rate. mission from County Public Works that FILM ”retroﬁtting 87 percent of the existing Find out more with a FREE half hour consultation Adella Wright

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told council members last week. STAGE “I no longer believe that is an option we can unequivocally support,” Hood said. “If meeting the 87 percent 14 reduction from existing development is not considered feasible, we really GET OUT need to look at much of that excess [development] capacity should be re- 12 served to address some of the existing development.” WORDS Hood said later, “In the past I’d been supportive of the county doing a water 8 quality offset program for dealing with new development. But the county was

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34 34 the conversation now, so the port and city can learn their response to plans before they FOOD currents are ﬁnalized by the Port Commission and City Council later this year. NEWS POLITICS FUZZ BUZZ INDEX “This is another key step forward in our work 27 together to redevelop our downtown waterfront, bringing with it environmental cleanup

B-BOARD and opportunities for jobs, parks and trails step-by-step process required by the Washing- and other community amenities,” she said.

24 ton Department of Ecology, which oversees "We’re excited to see what kinds of responses the port’s cleanup work. All the data gathered the request for proposals generates.” FILM FILM North by the port is laid out and described in a for- In May, the port released its request for pro- mal report known as a remedial investigation. posals (RFP) for the northern section of the

20 Breaking the site into two sections requires a site, which the agency terms the initial devel- revision of an agreed order between the port opment opportunity, or IDO. At full build-out,

MUSIC by and Ecology that deﬁnes the cleanup areas. the port estimates the Waterfront District will “With the contamination where it is on the create about 6,500 new jobs and as much as

18 site, we have a good opportunity to separate 5.3 million square feet of development, with

ART ART the site into two cleanup areas and advance roughly 60 percent of that dedicated to com- South cleanup and redevelopment on the northern mercial and industrial uses. For comparison, portion,” said Brian Gouran, Port of Belling- the City of Bellingham’s central business dis- 16 FOUR LITTLE STORIES ON A BIG ham site manager. trict contains about 3.5 million square feet of STAGE STAGE On the northern end of the site where buildings developed over a century. REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT Georgia-Paciﬁc West operated a pulp-and- “The IDO will beneﬁt from substantial tissue mill, the investigation found contami- near-term public investment in roadways, 14 BY TIM JOHNSON nants including metals, petroleum product, utilities, parks, and open space,” the port volatile organic compounds, dioxins/furans describes in an RFP prepared by Heartland

GET OUT and acidic soil. LLC, Seattle-based real estate consultants. “The dioxin is minor,” Sato admitted, “but “The IDO’s edge along the Whatcom Water-

12 that word has a large stigma attached to it. way will be improved with parks and trails But of all the things we have to ﬁx in that and public access to the water. Granary Av- pulp-and-tissue area, the dioxin is relatively enue will be constructed through this area WORDS minor in comparison to everything else.” leading the public from the City’s existing

8 Where a chlor-alkali plant operated on the central business district and into the heart southern portion of the site, the investiga- of the Waterfront District.” tion found mercury, polycyclic aromatic hy- The division will create two large initial CURRENTS CURRENTS 8 drocarbons (PAHs), petroleum hydrocarbons development areas of approximately 6.7 and and alkaline soil. Ecology continues to over- 3.6 acres. The larger of the two develop- 6 see a cleanup and removal of mercury in that ment areas parallels the railway just below area. The work is expected to be completed the center of the downtown. The proposed VIEWS VIEWS by the end of the summer, Sato said. zoning in this area allows for buildings up to

4 “The port wants to accelerate redevelop- 200 feet tall, the port asserts, roughly the ment of the northern portion” he explained. height of Bellingham Towers in the central MAIL MAIL “By separating the two sites, it allows clean- business district. Parcel 2, the smaller of the

up on the northern piece to proceed quicker. two development areas, parallels Whatcom 2 From Ecology’s perspective, we don’t have an Waterway. The proposed zoning there allows DO IT IT DO interest in land use or redevelopment, but for buildings up to 100 feet tall. anytime there is an opportunity to accelerate The port in turn seeks proposals that will

13 cleanup, we’ll look into that. We’ll gladly say employ all or most of the IDO, with a con- 26. ‘yes’ whenever anyone asks, ‘Can we clean up centration on sustainability and job creation 06.

PHOTO PORT COURTESY BELLINGHAM OF this contamination sooner?’ and that attempts to minimize parking and The northern section of the Waterfront District, showing the rough outline of the early develop- “In relative terms, the northern piece is transportation impacts on the site. .08 ment proposed by the Port of Bellingham. Heavier lines illustrate specific development areas of 6.7 26 simpler and easier to address,” Sato said. “If The port assures potential developers that # and 3.6 acres respectively, along with the Granary Buiulding development site lower right. we did not separate the pieces, the cleanup master planning will be complete with sub- on the northern portion would not happen stantial roadbuilding finished on the site by he Port of Bellingham wants to divide the 74-acre Georgia-Pacific until the southern piece was done. But let 2016. According to planning documents, pub- West mill site on the Bellingham waterfront into two separate me be clear: Ecology’s condition for allowing lic money will pay for this infrastructure, at T cleanup areas, so the northern half of the site can be cleaned and the division is, we will not accept the mer- an estimated cost of $15.9 million, according redeveloped sooner. cury portion to be put on the back burner. to City of Bellingham Public Works. The trans-

CASCADIA WEEKLY An in-depth investigation by the port and state Dept. of Ecology shows We’re not horse-trading to delay the southern portation improvement plan (TIP) for the Wa- extensive soil and groundwater contamination in 76 areas across the site, piece. We’re allowing the port to accelerate terfront District includes a new access point 8 but may be considered in two separate and distinct areas, according to their schedule on the northern piece.” near the Granary Building, improvements to Brian Sato, Ecology site manager. The contamination was left behind by In order to divide the site, Ecology and the Cornwall Avenue and the Laurel Street en- Georgia-Pacific West, which operated a pulp mill on Bellingham’s water- port have to amend their legal agreement— trance, along with a new Commercial Green front for much of the 20th century. known as an agreed order—to define two Loop promenade at the center of the site. The The port now owns most of the land and sampled the site as part of the cleanup areas. Ecology is making the pro- construction of a roundabout at Wharf Street is scheduled to begin later this month, at a con- cally important MOU that moves Western closer z+ tracted cost of about $1.1 million. to being part of what will be a dynamic develop- “With the port moving forward with the en- ment of the Bellingham waterfront,” said West- vironmental remediation and shoreline restora- ern President Bruce Shepard. “Western has been The Waterfront District reached another mile- tion, the city designing and building the major committed to a presence at the waterfront since stone earlier this month when the Bellingham 34 34 infrastructure and open space, and the program- community discussions and planning first began Planning Commission voted unanimously to rec- matic regulatory approvals currently in the City’s in 2006, and that commitment is being lived out ommend approval of the waterfront master plan FOOD formal review process, a developer can focus by the acquisition of property in the Waterfront to the Bellingham City Council. City Council is entirely on creating great places,” the agency District. The eventual expansion of our campus expected to begin its deliberations on the pro- 27 asserts. “Infrastructure supporting the IDO will to the waterfront creates possibilities for new posal in early August. be coordinated between the port, city, and de- partnerships and collaborations for Western and The Bellingham Planning and Development veloper. Construction of the Whatcom Waterway community partners.” Commission on June 6 completed its review of B-BOARD Park and Granary/Bloedel/Cornwall arterials According to the MOU, the port will transfer draft regulatory documents and plans for the 3+'*- should commence by mid-2015 and is expected ownership of six acres of Waterfront District land Waterfront District. The commission voted 7-0 WHAT: Fireworks from 24 to take 12 months to complete.” between the Downtown Development Area and the to accept the proposal with a few amendments Port of Bellingham Pier WHEN: 9:30pm Thurs., After the RFP response deadline, the port will Log Pond Development Area into Western Cross- crafted in their discussions. FILM July 4 bring together a team from the port, the city, the ing. In exchange, Western will transfer ownership The commission worked through the Water- WHERE: Waterfront

county, Western Washington University and its de- of a 24-acre parcel of land at the intersection of front District proposal at 10 meetings during District pier 20 velopment consultants to evaluate responses and Hannegan Road and Bakerview Road into Western the past three months. City Council is expected INFO: Enter through Granary Building, prepare recommendations to the Port Commission Crossing. Once the Hannegan property is sold, the to hold a public hearing on the recommenda- MUSIC Roeder Avenue and for consideration. Once the Commission selects a value of the Hannegan land sale will be assigned tions in early August. The council is expected Central Street preferred developer or developers, the port will to the university and the value of the waterfront to consider the plans in a series of work ses- INFO: 676-2500. 18 enter into exclusive negotiations to complete the parcel will be assigned to the port within their sions through the summer and early fall, with ------ART ART transaction and bring a final development agree- shared Western Crossing Development entity. the goal of completing its work before the end WHAT: Waterfront Plan ment to the commission for approval. In addition to Western acquiring a tract of land of 2013. Information Fair WHEN: Noon and 16 In 2005 the Port acquired 137 acres from Geor- at the waterfront, which will allow for future de- Specific elements of the draft agreements have 5:30pm Mon., July 17 gia Pacific. The site had served historically for velopment, potentially a public/private partner- been reviewed by the Bellingham Transportation WHERE: Bellingham STAGE logging and shipping operations and, since 1928, ship, the memorandum also states that Western Commission, Historic Preservation Commission, City Hall as a pulp, paper, and tissue mill. In addition to be- may lease building space from a developer in the the Parks Board and Waterfront Advisory Group, INFO: www.cob.org ing the primary landowner, the port is responsible 10.8-acre parcel the port is now offering for pri- in addition to the Planning Commission’s review ------14 WHAT: Mayor's ASB for the management of environmental cleanup of vate development parcels. This would establish and recommendations. Lagoon Lunchtime five of six sites within it listed by Ecology. Western as an early tenant for the Waterfront Walks GET OUT Those interested in reviewing the draft remedial District, officials say. WHEN: Noon Weds., investigation report and the proposed amendment Large land developments across the country {+ July 19 and Weds., 12 to the agreed order can find them on Ecology’s have demonstrated the value a university anchor July 26 WHERE: Georgia Pacific website and at the Bellingham Public Library. Pub- tenant adds by attracting additional develop- Treatment Lagoon WORDS lic comment on the report ends July 17. ment, creating new jobs and increasing sur- INFO: www.cob.org

rounding property values, said Port Executive Bellingham City Council earlier this month ------8 8 Director Rob Fix. Examples can be found with urged Mayor Kelli Linville to enter into a non- WHAT: San Juan y0 + Oregon State University on Portland’s riverfront binding agreement with the Bellingham Public Cruises Waterfront Tours CURRENTS and the University of Washington in Bothell and Development Authority (BPDA) representing CURRENTS WHEN: 6:30pm Tues., Tacoma. Where some developments must recruit several land owners in a key development area July 18 and Thurs., 6 universities, the port has beneﬁted by having adjacent to the Waterfront District. The agree- Aug. 22 Western Washington University took a major Western dedicated to being part of the Water- ment paves the way for a potential redevel- WHERE: Departs from step closer to the Bellingham waterfront last front District for nearly a decade, he said. opment of properties between Bay Street and Alaska Ferry Terminal in VIEWS Fairhaven week as both the university and the Port of Bell- Western participated in both the Waterfront Central Avenue across from the Granary Build- 4 COST: $20 adults; $10 ingham approved a memorandum of agreement Futures Group and the Waterfront Advisory Group ing in Old Town. children that spells out how each could dedicate land and the university has undertaken a comprehen- The BPDA governing board imagines assem- INFO: 738-8099 MAIL

to their shared waterfront development entity, sive evaluation of the development area and its bling the properties and several other small par------2 Western Crossing Development, and facilitate educational programs with a goal of ﬁnding the cels at the gateway to the District, consolidat- WHAT: Waterfront Twilight Walking Tours DO IT IT DO the purchase of waterfront property by WWU. best ﬁt for waterfront-based programs that would ing them in a way that could provide parking and WHEN: 4:30, 5:30, “Having Western on the waterfront will add tre- result in stronger community and business con- support infrastructure to assist redevelopment 6:30pm Thurs, July 25 mendous value to the Waterfront District because nections. The memorandum anticipates Western of both the central waterfont and Old Town, ty- and Thurs., Aug. 1 13 it will enhance Western’s connections with the completing a University Development Plan for the ing both more strongly into downtown. WHERE: Granary 26. community and will attract developer investment,” waterfront area by December 2015. The Army Street consolidation could pro- Building, Roeder 06. Avenue and Central said Port Commissioner Scott Walker, who also In 2009, WWU Trustees and the Port Commis- vide as many as 300,000 square feet of build-

Street .08 serves on the board of Western Crossing. "Western sion approved creation of the nonprofit corpora- ing floor area, with approximately 400 park- INFO: 676-2500 26 is the second largest employer in Whatcom county, tion and development entity, Western Crossing ing spaces, BPDA Executive Director Jim Long # and that economic engine and student population Development, so that a public/private water- said. Five of nine separate private property has a large impact on local businesses.” front development could move forward. owners have signaled their interest in such an Last week, commissioners and Western’s Board of Western Crossing is jointly owned by the port assembly in agreement with the BPDA, with Trustees agreed to a memorandum of understand- and Western and they have created a capital potential to add a significant property along ing (MOU), creating a broad framework agreement account that will track the value of their con- Bay Street. The city owns a central piece—the between the port and Western that defines how tributions and those will be reflected in their actual Army Street itself—and holds an option CASCADIA WEEKLY land can be moved into their shared development percentage of ownership of the entity and its on another parcel in agreement with the Port authority, Western Crossing Development, to en- developments. The port and Western also have of Bellingham. 9 able development of the WWU presence in the Wa- agreed that there will be a payment in lieu of “The buildings would be on the platform pro- terfront District. The Western Crossing Board unan- property taxes as the property develops to help vided by the upper deck of an understory park- imously approved the memorandum last week. compensate for the site infrastructure developing facility bringing building pads to grade with “We are pleased and excited about this criti- ment and cleanup costs. West Holly Street,” Long explained. currents ›› last week’s news

34 34 charge rules for Lake Whatcom after learning their proposed rules may be deemed insufﬁcient FOOD ek tha by the state Dept. of Ecology. 27 e 06.y.13 t THURSDAY B-BOARD W A federal Farm Bill that could provide clarity to local agriculture stalls in Congress after House LAST WEEK’S W

24 Republicans lard the bill up with big cuts to social e programs for disadvantaged families. The House

FILM FILM also passed an amendment that removed key pro-

NEWS a visions of a section known as the “Dairy Security

20 Act,” which would have stabilized dairy prices

T JUNE 17-25 for farmers and consumers. “Major reforms would MUSIC BY TIM JOHNSON s have helped stabilize the dairy market in ways that would protect consumers and dairy farmers,”

18 Rep. Suzan DelBene noted. “Unfortunately, House

ART ART leadership took a Farm Bill with broad bipartisan support and hijacked it, giving us a bill that wasn’t good enough for our farmers and would have dev- A quarry on Lummi Island has been ﬁned $10,300 for spilling 79 16 gallons of oil in Smuggler’s Cove last year. The quarry is owned by astating impacts on millions of working families 06.x~.13 Lummi Rock and operated by Aggregates West Inc. Between March STAGE STAGE struggling to make ends meet,” she said. and September 2012, Ecology documented ﬁve separate oil spills into MONDAY the cove from a pair of sunken barges owned by the companies. In Ferndale City Council decline taking a position on whether the addition to the penalty, Ecology has also billed the companies to re- 14 06.yx.13 new Whatcom County jail should be sited on 40 acres of indus- cover costs and compensation for damage to state natural resources. Lummi Rock may appeal the penalty. trial land on LaBounty Drive, a key entry point to the city. Council FRIDAY

GET OUT members debate whether to pass a resolution for or against the Associated Press reports Washington state's jail, or ask Ferndale residents to cast a nonbinding vote on the transportation department has known since the support for Paciﬁc Northwest coal export termi-

12 county's lone option for a new jail site. They decide against a reso- 1970s that the Interstate 5 bridge that recently nals has declined in the past year, as residents lution or advisory vote. collapsed after being clipped by a truck hauling an have gained more information about the proposed oversize load had been struck repeatedly by similar projects. The public opinion poll sampled 483 re- WORDS 06.x.13 big rigs. Even knowing that history, state ofﬁcials spondents in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. Com-

8 didn't take precautions to prevent truckers from pared to a similar poll conducted about this time TUESDAY hitting overhead structures, raising questions last year, the margin of support for coal exports has The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will not conduct an inclusive about whether the state could have done more to fallen by 23 percent, with the biggest drop in sup- CURRENTS CURRENTS 8 review of the three coal export projects proposed in the North- prevent the collapse from happening, AP reports. port among Washington residents. According to the west, rejecting requests from Oregon and Washington's governors survey, 86 percent of residents supported a review 6 and project opponents. The Corps tells a House subcommittee the A wrong-way driver on I-5 causes a head-on col- of “the cumulative environmental impact” on the agency will review the three proposed export terminals separately, lision that leaves two people injured in Mount Ver- rail lines and shipping corridors, the entire region, VIEWS VIEWS and would not directly address some of the opposition's top con- non. A 78-year-old Oak Harbor woman was driving or globally. A comprehensive review was rejected by

4 cerns. Many of the activities of concern to the public, such as rail northbound in the southbound lanes of the inter- the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers last week. trafﬁc, coal mining, shipping coal outside of the United States, state at about 5:30am when she collided head-on MAIL MAIL and the ultimate burning of coal overseas, are outside the Corps' with a car driven by a 29-year-old Mount Vernon Domestic coal burning takes a pounding in the

control and responsibility, a spokesperson tells Congress; other im- man. Both drivers were injured and taken to Skagit climate plan released by President Barack Obama 2 pacts are independent and not interrelated, she said, and some Valley Hospital. Troopers say the elderly driver was today. The plan includes new energy efﬁciency DO IT IT DO activities predate these applications. impaired and faces a charge of vehicular assault. standards for federal buildings and appliances, scales up responsible clean energy production on

13 Whatcom County Council delays action on an ordinance to allow 06.y|.13 public lands with an ambitious new commitment 26. slaughterhouses as an accessory use in the county’s 88,000 acre to power 6 million homes by 2020, and uses the 06. agricultural zone, pending a new draft of their proposed amend- TUESDAY full authority of the Clean Air Act to cut danger- ments. Council also delays introduction of new stormwater dis- A new National Public Radio poll shows public ous carbon pollution from power plants. .08 26 #

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100 N. Commercial St. next to Mount Baker Theatre X 360-594-6000 X bellinghampasta.com SORTING IT OUT index FUZZ On June 14, a husband called Blaine Po- lice for assistance after he and his wife had

had an argument. The man, unable to re- 34 34 BUZZ solve matters, asked for police assistance

with ﬁnding another place to stay for the FOOD HE PLUMBETH THE night. ”While interviewing the pair, po- HEAVENS lice discovered that a conﬁrmed Whatcom 27 On June 19, Bellingham Police spoke to County Superior Court felony / no bail war- a man they observed walking down the rant existed for the wife's arrest,” police

road carrying expensive piping and valves. explained. She was hauled off and booked B-BOARD “When questioned about why he had the into jail. The husband remained home to items, he became hostile and told ofﬁcers care for their children. 24 they could have the items as it was his gift

to them,” police reported. “He then went On June 14, Blaine Police received a call from FILM on to talk about God and Satan.” a husband who was ordered from his home by

his wife following a disagreement. He hoped 20 HE LIETH AMONG ofﬁcers could help him collect some clothes

BRAMBLES AND BROMIDES for the night. “Prior incidents of domestic MUSIC On June 14, a Blaine patrol ofﬁcer assisted violence between the couple had ended in

a U.S. Border Patrol agent who searched for one spouse stabbing the other,” police ex- 18 a man reported hiking in a forest near the plained. Things were calmer this time. ART ART Canadian border. The officer and agent located a transient resting amid the brambles WRONG EXTENSIONS 16 and mosquitoes. The U.S. citizen was ad- On June 14, a Blaine patrol officer con- |{ vised that he would be instructed to leave tacted a construction crew working on STAGE THE U.S. Supreme Court struck down Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act this week, if the property owners did not want people a building downtown. ”The craftsmen's the provision of the landmark 1964 civil rights law that designates which parts entering uninvited on to their land. A cou- compressor and saw were plugged into a of the country must have changes to their voting laws cleared by the federal 14 ple of hours later the officer re-contacted city-owned sidewalk outlet maintained government or in federal court. The ruling undercuts Section 5, which freezes the gentleman and advised him not to re- for street-side decorations and special election practices or procedures in certain states until the new procedures have

turn to the property. He said he under- events,” police reported. “The crew's man- been subjected to review by the United States Attorney General. GET OUT stood and left. ager explained the building they were working on had no outside outlets and 12 On June 12, “while checking undevel- they did not have a key to the inside. The |y }{| } } oped city property, ofﬁcers came upon a ofﬁcer explained the power outlet and the

PERCENT of black vote versus white PERCENT of black vote versus white WORDS road-weary bicyclist reclining beneath the electricity they were using without permis- vote in states subject to Section 5 of vote in states subject to Section 5 of the Voter Rights Act in 2004. the Voter Rights Act in 2005. stars,” Blaine Police reported. “The cycling sion were owned and maintained by Blaine 8 8 Californian had not realized that camping City Light.” Police provided information so without basic services was not permitted in the utility could contact the contractor to CURRENTS the city limits. He apologized, collected his obtain payment for the service. CURRENTS gear and pedaled off to ﬁnd a patch of sky {{ || ~ ~} 6 over some place less patrolled.” On June 18, “while patrolling a residential PERCENT of black vote versus white PERCENT of black vote versus white neighborhood, ofﬁcers found that a hom- vote in the South, states subject to vote in the North Central United PUNCH DRUNK eowner had connected an electrical exten- Section 5, when the VRA passed in States, states not subject to Section VIEWS 1964. 5, when the VRA passed in 1964.

On June 18, Bellingham Police arrested a sion cord from his home out to his travel 4 transient for assaulting his female com- trailer parked on the city street,” Blaine panion in a wooded area near Fred Meyer Police reported. ”The cord crossed a city MAIL

on Lakeway Drive. “They had been camping sidewalk and created a safety hazard for 2 in the area and after drinking a number of passersby. The resident had been previous- ~ DO IT IT DO

beers they got into an argument and began ly warned by police for the same offense, so ﬁghting,” police reported. “Both individu- he received a citation this time.” IN a poll of 1,000 people, a candidate IN a poll of 1,000 people, a candidate who is ahead 52-48 has a 90 percent who is ahead 53-47 has a 97 percent als were treated by medics and taken to chance of holding the lead in an chance of holding the lead in an 13 the hospital for further care.” The man was YABLO election. election. 26. booked into jail. On June 18, a Blaine woman discovered yet 06. another bomblike object. what appeared to .08

On June 18, Bellingham searched the woods be a piece of old military ordinance, while 26 in Birchwood neighborhood for a drunk sus- cutting down the underbrush in a vacant # pected of harassing and punching a woman. lot. Border Patrol agents helped police es- { tablish a perimeter while explosives techni- NUMBER of times Congress has renewed the Voting Rights Act, most recently in LEATHER FETISH cians from Whidbey Island Naval Air Station 2006. In 2006, Congress strengthened portions of Section 4. On June 24, Bellingham Police arrested a responded to make sure the device was no man and woman for stealing a boy’s belt longer a threat and removed it.

and shoes. The 14-year-old boy told police CASCADIA WEEKLY he was walking on Railroad Avenue in the THE CONTINUING CRISIS zzz early evening when the couple grabbed him On June 21, a Bellingham patrol ofﬁcer on 11 and demanded his belt and shoes. He said the Southside reported, “I responded to a VOTE of the U.S. House of VOTE of the U.S. Senate in support of he felt threatened and turned the items report of a number of people on the rail- Representatives in support of the Voting the Voting Rights Act in 2006. Rights Act in 2006. over. Police spotted the suspects nearby road tracks climbing on trains and stopping and booked them into jail. train trafﬁc.” SOURCES: Associated Press; American Research Group; American Civil Liberties Union doit WORDS

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34 34 PRO EDITING INFO SESSION: Learn more about Western Washington University’s Ex-

FOOD tended Education Class, “Professional Editing words for Print & Online,” at an info session from COMMUNITY LECTURES BOOKS 5:30-6:30pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St. 27 Classes start in September. WWW.ACADWEB.WWU.EDU

B-BOARD BOYS IN THE BOAT: Seattle’s Daniel James Brown reads from The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and the Epic Quest for Gold at the 24 The action takes place starting at 11am at Bell- 1936 Berlin Olympics at 7pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St.

FILM FILM ingham’s Zuanich Point Park with free old-fash- WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM ioned picnic games—including sack races, bean bag tossing, a scavenger hunt and the ever-popu- THURS., JUNE 27 20 lar tossing of water balloons. WONDER OF AGING: Bestselling author and therapist Michael Gurian shares ideas from his

MUSIC There’ll also be an art show book The Wonder of Aging at 7pm at Village at the Squalicum Boathouse Books, 1200 11th St. The book offers a compre-

18 and, beginning at 2pm and hensive look at the emotional, spiritual, and continuing until dark, a va- cognitive dimensions of life after 50. ART ART riety of live music designed 671-2626 for both your listening and 16 SAT., JUNE 29 dancing pleasure. Food stalls SPEAKEASY 11: Eleven poets will give an

STAGE STAGE will be onsite, but attendees expanded presentation of a single poem at // ) are also welcome to bring tonight’s “SpeakEasy 11” reading at 7pm at WHAT: Haggen picnics and settle in for the the Firehouse Performing Arts Center, 1314 14 Family 4th of July long haul. By the time the Harris Ave. Each poet will have up to 10 Celebration minutes to read and discuss an original poem WHEN: 11am- ﬁreworks display over Bell- and then answer questions about it from the GET OUT 10:30pm Thurs., ingham Bay kicks off about audience. Participating poets include Nancy July 4 10:30pm, you should be in Pagh, Matthew Brouwer, J.I. Kleinberg, Luther WHERE: Zuanich the mood for that aforemen- Allen, Jeanne Yeasting, Sue Erickson, Caitlin 12 12 Point Park tioned “blast.” Thomson, Caleb Barber, Sheila Sondik, and COST: Free Ryler Dustin. Entry is by donation. If being at Zuanich Point

WORDS WWW.OTHERMINDPRESS.WORDPRESS.COM WORDS INFO: www. portofbellingham. Park to watch the ﬁreworks com doesn’t appeal to you, the MON., JULY 1 8 ------Port of Bellingham has an- WHERE’S WALDO?: Kids, parents and Waldo- WHAT: Blaine nounced it will open up the lovers of all ages can take part in the annual Old-Fashioned 4th “Where’s Waldo?” scavenger hunt taking place

CURRENTS of July former Georgia-Paciﬁc mill through July throughout historic Fairhaven. WHEN: 8am-10pm pier for one night only for Pick up a “Find Waldo in Fairhaven” passport 6 WHERE: Throughout viewing purposes. While you’ll at any of 25 participating business in the BY AMY KEPFERLE Blaine have to leave the booze and district. A grand celebration happens July 31. VIEWS VIEWS COST: Most events grills at home, lawn chairs Waldo books and products will be among the are free prizes awarded.

4 and picnics are welcome. The INFO: www. WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM Fun on the Fourth blainechamber.com pier will only accommodate MAIL MAIL about 1,000 people, so come POETRYNIGHT: Those looking to share their verse as part of Poetrynight can sign up at SUMMER LOVIN’, HAD ME A BLAST early for a good spot. Other viewing parties in- 2 clude a July 4 celebration at the Community Boat- 7:30pm at the Black Drop Coffeehouse, 300 W. Champion St. Readings start at 8pm. Entry DO IT IT DO f you’re of a certain age, you might remember when Grease came ing Center (www.boatingcenter.org), and a “Fire- is free. out on the big screen and the main characters, Sandy and Danny, works for Futurewise Whatcom” fundraiser on the WWW.POETRYNIGHT.ORG 13 I crooned to their friends about the love they’d found—and thought roof of the Herald Building (www.futurewise.org/ 26. they’d lost—over the long, hot days of summer. “Summer lovin’, had whatcom). JULY 4-6 06. me a blast,” Danny informed his greaser friends, while Sandy blinked Residents and visitors to Blaine can also get in HOLIDAY BOOK SALE: As part of the “Old Fashioned 4th of July,” attend a Holiday Book demurely and noted that it all “happened so fast.” on the fun at the 12th annual “Old-Fashioned 4th Sale from 10am-4pm Thursday through Satur- .08 Decades later, that song still comes to mind when the 4th of July of July Celebration.” Activities begin early with an 26 day at the Blaine Public Library, 610 3rd St. # weekend rolls around. It all starts with a blast—that would be the 8am Pancake Breakfast at the city’s Senior Center WWW.WCLS.ORG Independence Day fireworks, natch—and then the flurry of summer- and continue with a noontime parade, a “Show and time activities fills your calendar until, one day in mid-September, Shine” car show featuring more than 200 classic you notice the nights are becoming longer and a chill is permeating vehicles, an arts and crafts street fair, live music, COMMUNITY the mornings. rides on the Plover ferry and, at 10:15pm, fireworks With the personal fireworks ban coming into effect throughout Bell- originating at Blaine Marine Park. WED., JUNE 26

CASCADIA WEEKLY ingham next year, chances are good residents are in for a whole of noise If you think it’ll help get you in the mood, you DOWNTOWN MEETING: Mayor Kelli Linville and raucous behavior come Thurs., July 4, as citizens take advantage of might want to listen to “Summer Nights” before will share her vision for downtown Belling- 12 ham as part of our “City Center”—which their right to blow things up in their driveways one last time. heading out on your holiday excursions. “Summer includes Old Town and the waterfront—at the Hopefully, those who want to celebrate the holiday with explosives days drifting away to, oh, oh, the summer nights” Downtown Bellingham Partnership’s meeting will also take part in community activities that include more than aren’t the most complex lyrics in the world, but they at 6pm at the Leopold, 1224 Cornwall Ave. She things that go boom (but also include things that go boom). do the job of encapsulating that moment in the be- will also be open to answer questions from The Haggen Family 4th of July Celebration is a good place to start. ginning of summer when anything is possible. doit

attendees. All are welcome at the monthly community gathering. 527-8710 OR

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THURS., JUNE 27 FOOD HEALTHCARE MEETING: United for Na- tional Healthcare will host a viewing of the

ﬁlm Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American 27 Healthcare at 7pm at St. Luke’s Community Health Education Center, 3333 Squalicum Pkwy. The ﬂick will show again at 1pm Sat., B-BOARD June 29 at the Blaine Library, 610 Third St. 398-2295 OR WWW.UNITEDFORHEALTHCARE.ORG 24

FRI., JUNE 28 FILM GIRLS NIGHT OUT: Women, men and everyone in between can help raise funds for the 20 PeaceHealth St. Joseph Cancer Research Cen- ter as part of “Girls Night Out” festivities taking place throughout historic Fairhaven. MUSIC From 4-8pm, participants can purchase a $15

“passport” for the evening, get it stamped 18 at participating businesses—who’ll be of- ART ART fering discounts, giveaways, food samples and more—and be eligible to win a variety

of prizes. From 8-11pm, those with tickets #$" "$ 16 can head to the Bellingham Cruise Terminal Saturday, June 29th, 9am

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MUSIC as the small town resembles a place that may have FRI., JUNE 28 been visited by the apocalypse—you can tell that WILD THINGS: Kids, adults and adventur- ers can join Wild Whatcom Walks for a “Wild

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STAGE STAGE We visited three powerhouses, and got to go in- plants, animals and other organisms living side one and back in time in two. We ate an amaz- along Cemetery Creek takes place at 12:30pm ing, locally sourced lunch at the North Cascades at Bayview Cemetery, 1420 Woburn St. Entry is 14 14 Institute and got a short-but- free, but reservations are a must. sweet tour of the nonproﬁt’s 778-7150 GET OUT GET OUT Learning Center on the shores FERRY FAREWELLS: Starting this week, attend of Diablo Lake, which, in addi- “Free Friday Ferry Farewells” at 5:30pm at the tion to being part of the Skagit Community Boating Center, 555 Harris Ave. 12 Tours lineup, also hosts a sea- Attendees can snag a ride aboard The Coot and sonal roster of classes, excur- head out on the water to say “bon voyage” to WORDS sions and volunteer opportu- the Alaska ferry, which departs from Belling- ham Bay every Friday. Attendance is by dona- nities focusing on connecting

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hen I got the press release from Skagit Tours inviting me key island”—among many, dams and a few of my media cohorts to experience four of the many other historical tidbits ing at 9am at the Fairhaven Village Green. COST: Costs vary; The race will be followed by live music, food, 13 W upcoming excursions that will be offered this summer, I Newhalem Walking of interest. awards and prize drawings. Entry is $15 per 26. wondered if I’d be able to gather the fortitude to cram that much Tours are free I’ve been to the area before, person or $25 per family; funds raised benefit 06. sightseeing into one day. I took a deep breath and realized: Of course INFO: www. so even though it was raining the Whatcom Literacy Council. I could. (I didn’t know then I’d be adding an extra stop that wasn’t skagittours.com and the postcard-perfect views WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM OR WWW. .08 even on the press junket.) were compromised, I know there’s much more to what FAIRHAVENRUNNERS.COM 26 # It wasn’t until we were about 45 minutes outside of Bellingham that lies off Highway 20 than what you can see from your ROSE FESTIVAL: “A Rosy Day Out” will be my photographer/chauffeur commented that it appeared to be raining. car on your way to Eastern Washington. As was point- the theme of the 10th annual Rose Festival Hard. We shrugged at the vagaries of the Pacific Northwest weather, and ed out during the course of the day, the area is thick happening from 9am-6pm at Mount Vernon’s continued on along Highway 20 to our first stop in the tiny, weird town with hiking trails and boating opportunities—and, Christianson’s Nursery, 15806 Best Rd. The of Newhalem, where we joined representatives from Seattle City Light, as we’d find out during our plethora of stops, learning festival features a rose display, workshops, keynote speakers Ciscoe Morris and John the North Cascades Institute, and the National Park Service. opportunities galore. Plus, even in the rain, the lush, Christianson and open time to talk to the

CASCADIA WEEKLY Before leaving Newhalem, we’d learn that the three hydroelectric dramatic beauty of the area simply can’t be ignored. experts from the Tri-Valley Rose Society. dams we’d be visiting during the course of the day—Gorge, Diablo, By the time the tours ended around 3pm, I’d di- WWW.CHRISTIANSONSNURSERY.COM 14 and Ross—supply nearly 20 percent of the electricity for Seattle City vulged to my driver/photographer that I’d never Light customers. We’d also discover that the mastermind behind in- been over the pass to Winthrop. She got a gleam SMALL SPACE GARDENING: “Gardening in Small Space: Dwarf and Miniature Plants” will stalling the dams, Seattle City Light’s second superintendent, J.D. in her eye and told me today was the day. In short be the focus of a free class at 10am at Bak- Ross, was a guy who liked to show visitors to the area a really good order, we got back in her Volkswagen and headed erview Nursery, 945 E. Bakerview Rd. Please time. (For example, those who visited in the mid-1930s could expect east. But that’s another story. doit

BELLINGHAM KIDS TRAVERSE: The inaugu- 34 ral Bellingham Kids Traverse—which, like its FOOD parent event, celebrates the lifecycle of wild MON - SAT, 5 - 11 P.M. salmon through various feats of athleticism— kicks off at 11am at Civic Field, 1355 Civic 27 Field Way. Kids ages 6 to 14 can compete solo, Happy Hour tandem or on relay teams. Cost is $25-$60. WWW.RECREATIONNORTHWEST.ORG Monday-Friday, 3-Close RHUBARB MEAD B-BOARD BIKERS BELL RIDE: A celebration for the Thursday-ALL DAY Cascade Bicycle Club’s fundraising “Red-Bell All Sandwiches $5 NOW IN BOTTLES 24 100” ride—which begins in Redmond and ends in Bellingham—takes place from 2-8pm Saturday Night FILM at Boundary Bay’s Beer Garden, 1107 Railroad LIVE MUSIC Ave. Entry to the festivities is free. Salsa Parties WWW.WORLDBICYCLERELIEF.AKARAISIN.COM Open Sundays 11-4 EVERY NIGHT 20

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MUSIC taneous musicals, making Bellinghamsters season this month at Vancouver, BACK ALLEY CATS: Song and into ‘celebrities’ on the street, and Europe- B.C.’s Vanier Park. Showings of dance routines, vaudevillian the two Shakespearean favorites sketches, comedy and more

18 an clowning techniques.” “Wutcracker Boot be joined by Measure for Measure when the new in-house cabaret Camp,” “Spring Park: The Musical” and “Wo- ART ART and Elizabeth Rex in July, troupe, the Back Alley Cats, per- zard of Iz” camps will follow. Each class hap- August, and September. Tickets form at 8pm at Mount Vernon’s pens from 12-5pm at various locales around are $24-$43 (Canadian). 1st Street Cabaret, 612 S. 1st St. 16 16 Bellingham, costs $150, and is guaranteed WWW.BARDONTHEBEACH.ORG Entry is $5 at the door. WWW. STAGE STAGE

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34 34 QUILT OPENING: “From Nature’s Studio: Work by Regina V. Benson” and “Kaleidoscope:

FOOD Fiber Embroidery by Liz Whitney Quisgard” can be seen starting today at the La Conner visual Quilt & Textile Museum, 702 S. Second St. The 27 GALLERIES OPENINGS PROFILES works can be viewed through Oct. 6. WWW.LACONNERQUILTS.COM

B-BOARD THURS., JUNE 27 JAZZ AND SKETCHING: Local jazz historian Mostly, I let him know what he’s in for ahead of time. Milt Krieger leads an After Hours Art program 24 from 5:30-7:30pm at Whatcom Museum’s But sometimes I like to surprise him—and the bigger and Lightcatcher Building, 250 Flora St. A jazz

FILM FILM weirder the surprise, the better. art display, live drawing demos by Trish Not to toot my own horn, but a few weeks ago, during Harding and readings of Bellingham Jazz by his most recent visit, I managed to devise an activity that poet Clayton Mederios will be part of the fun. 20 proved to be, in my bro’s own words, a “real shocker.” Entry is $5. WWW.WHATCOMMUSEUM.ORG

MUSIC We spent four days making our own action figures. We didn’t build them from scratch, but we did go rum- SKAGIT ARTISTS MEETING: Dee Doyle will 18 18 18 maging through various local thrift shops looking specifi- illustrate how artists can move forward in cally for whichever secondhand ac- their artistic journeys at the tonight’s Skagit ART ART ART ART tion figures seemed most closely to Artists Together meeting at 6pm at the Ana- cortes Library, 1220 10th St. All are welcome. approximate the general dimension- 16 WWW.SKAGITART.COM al anatomy of the specific characters JUNE 27-30 STAGE STAGE we intended to create and scooped those puppies up for a song. OPEN NEST: The Whatcom Museum will open Then we set up a serious repurpos- the Syre Education Center’s doors to the

14 public for the final week of “Open Nest” from " /$/ ing laboratory—including, but not 12-5pm Thursday through Sunday at the venue WHAT: Make your limited to: scissors, X-Acto knives, at 201 Prospect St. At the rare public opening own action figure GET OUT of the space, you can view the 500-plus-bird WHERE: Any place bailing wire, modeling clay, paint, collection and see native peoples’ displays you want markers, sand paper and a flat file— and historical pioneer, Victorian era and log- COST: Negligible on the dining room table and com- 12 ging exhibits. Admission is $5 for all exhibits EFFORT: menced experimenting zealously during “Open Nest,” and special events will Considerable and with reckless abandon to our be happening throughout. WORDS SUGGESTED AGE: Five years and above boyish hearts’ content. WWW.WHATCOMMUSEUM.ORG On our first day, doing Michel-

8 INFO: www.youtube. com/watch angelo proud with the clay, my FRI., JUNE 28 BIRD ART WORKSHOP: Take a look at the ?v=Ryx42juOOXk brother managed to ﬂesh out the birds in the Syre Education Center and then

CURRENTS sleek, futuristic body of a Mighty attend a “Clay Bird Art” workshop starting at Morphin Power Ranger we picked up at Value Village 2pm at the center at 201 Prospect St. Please 6 into a scruffy, plaid-shirted mountain man he named register in advance. Entry is $5. “12-Foot Davis.” 778-8960 OR WWW.WHATCOMMUSEUM.ORG VIEWS VIEWS And on our second day, exhibiting surgeon-like preci- ART WALK: Peruse galleries and businesses

4 sion with an X-Acto Knife, he whittled down the hard from 5-8pm in downtown La Conner at part plastic, swivel grip likeness of pro-wrestler John Cena of the monthly Final Friday Gallery Art Walk. MAIL MAIL into a distinctively more plebian-looking yeoman hero Entry is free. WWW.LOVELACONNER.COM

named “Meat Fist.” 2 BY TRAIL RAT Meanwhile, although I did manage to transform a rather SAT., JUNE 29 DO IT IT DO

plane-Jane-looking plastic horse into a character called FEATHERS AND FLIGHT: Create bird art with “Dynamite Mule,” the effeminate, Barbie Doll-like pro- Laurie Potter at a “Feathers and Flight in Fine Art” workshop from 1-3pm at Whatcom Mu- 13 Toy Story portions of the Justin Bieber figurine I scored at Goodwill seum’s Syre Education Center, 201 Prospect St. 26. ultimately proved completely inadequate in my repeated Entry is $5 and pre-registration is required. 06. attempts to conjure forth Meat Fist’s yeoman partner—a A DIY ADVENTURE 778-8960 OR WWW.WHATCOMMUSEUM.ORG squat, super-brawny lunkhead named “Gronk.” .08 peaking both as an incurable outdoors crusty and a con- Thus, the lion’s portion of day three was consumed by JUNE 29-30 26 # summate artiste, I cannot, for the life of me, think of a an extended foray into the deepest depths of Belling- ART AND GARDENS: As part of the Sandy more suitable home than Bellingham. From tide pools to ham’s O’Donnell’s Flea Market where, after almost a full Point & Neptune Beach Garden Walk happen- S ing this weekend, view and/or purchase art by tree lines, there is an awesome convergence of energy in this hour of studious searching, we considered ourselves for- local artists from 10am-4pm near Ferndale at place. It slants down off the mountains. It washes in on the tunate to find an Incredible Hulk. the Sandy Point Fire Hall, 4332 Sucia Dr. tides. It sprouts and it sings. It raises its wings and goes flap- After working late into the night under a heat lamp on 384-6409 ping around all over the place. It nurtures my urge to create. the backyard picnic table, making Gronk out of Hulk, we

CASCADIA WEEKLY Meanwhile, back in Minneapolis, my younger brother—a fellow promptly lit out into the wilds of Whatcom Falls Park for artiste—continues to play the big-city game. From skyscraper to a photo shoot of our newly hatched creations early the ONGOING EXHIBITS 18 suburbs, his surroundings move faster. And so does his life. fourth morning. ALLIED ARTS: View “On the Edge” through Fortunately, City Mouse knows how to unwind. Whenever the “Please, don’t take this the wrong way,” my 37-year-old June 29 at Allied Arts, 1418 Cornwall Ave. day-to-day grind of the Upper Midwest starts getting to him, sibling said as he struggled through misting rain to sta- WWW.ALLIEDARTS.ORG he zips out here to the City of Sublime Inspiration for a quality bilize Gronk in the stump moss. “But this seems like way ARTWOOD: New works by members of the dose of brotherly Paciﬁc Northwest adventure. more fun than we should be having.” doit

creative collective can be viewed through June at Artwood Gallery, 1000 Harris Ave.

WWW.ARTWOODGALLERY.COM 34 34 BELLEWOOD: Watercolors and mixed media

collages by Candace Buethorn and scroll saw FOOD art by Don Hurd can be viewed through July 31 at BelleWood Acres, 6140 Guide Meridian. Stainless Steel Food Mills WWW.BELLEWOODFARMS.COM Food Preservation Books 27 CHUCKANUT BREWERY: Jessamyn Tuttle’s Garden Baskets of Ghana

“fun photos of fresh fruits and vegetables” B-BOARD can be seen through July 13 at Chuckanut Organic Fruit & Veggies Brewery & Kitchen, 601 W. Holly St. Foam Rocket & Fart Bombs WWW.CHUCKANUTBREWERYANDKITCHEN.COM 24 Tater Guns & Water Pistols

DEMING LIBRARY: Debbie Velacich’s photo- FILM graphs will be on display through July 27 at ͙͝άơ͛ the Deming Library, 5044 Mt. Baker Hwy. 20 592-2286 Summer of Fundamentals FISHBOY GALLERY: Check out the contem- MUSIC porary folk art of RR Clark from 1:30-5pm 360-592-2297 www.everybodys.com 18 18 every Mon.-Fri. at the FishBoy Gallery, 617 18 Virginia St. Hiway 9 – Van Zandt ART ART ART ART WWW.FISHBOYGALLERY.COM

FOURTH CORNER: Bellingham painter Nancy 16 Lou Canyon’s works can be seen through June at Fourth Corner Frames, 311 W. Holly St. STAGE STAGE WWW.FOURTHCORNERFRAMESANDGALLERY.COM

GALLERY CYGNUS: View the works of Paciﬁc 14 Northwest icons Mary Randlett (photography), Clayton James (sculpture), and the late Bar-

bara James (drawings) through July 14 at La GET OUT Conner’s Gallery Cygnus, 109 Commercial Ave. WWW.GALLERYCYGNUS.COM 12 GOOD EARTH: Chris Moench’s prayer wheels will be highlighted through June at Good WORDS Earth Pottery, 1000 Harris Ave. WWW.GOODEARTHPOTS.COM 8

HOTEL BELLWETHER: View photographer John D’Onofrio’s work through June 29 at the

Hotel Bellwether, 1 Bellwether Way. CURRENTS WWW.ALLIEDARTS.ORG 6 JANSEN ART CENTER: Sign up for classes

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MAKE.SHIFT: James Mey’s “I Am African” exhibit can be viewed through June 27 at 13 Make.Shift Art Space, 306 Flora St. 26. WWW.MAKESHIFTPROJECT.COM

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SMITH & VALLEE: “From Here to There,” shows through June 30 at Edison’s Smith & .08 26 Vallee Gallery, 5742 Gilkey Ave. # WWW.SMITHANDVALLEE.COM WHATCOM ART MARKET: From 10am-6pm every Friday through Sunday, stop by the Let us help you get started. Whatcom Art Guild’s Art Market at Fairhaven’s Waldron Building, 1314 12th St. everybodyBIKE offers guided bus rides, customized walking routes, and WWW.WHATCOMARTGUILD.ORG comfortable bicycles to test ride—for free! Try a new way of getting there. CASCADIA WEEKLY

WHATCOM MUSEUM: “Clearly Art: The Call 671-BIKE, or email [email protected] for more information. 19 Beauty of Glass” and “Romantically Modern: 306 w. champion st. Paciﬁc Northwest Landscapes” can currently be viewed at the Whatcom Museum’s Light- monday - saturday 11am-close catcher Building. sunday 3pm-close WWW.WHATCOMMUSEUM.ORG Rumor Has It SOMETIMES, THE MUSIC scene has more to do 34 34 with just the music part of the music scene. A

FOOD couple of examples: First up, while this isn’t an entertainment music event, per se (hey, you never know what could 27 SHOW PREVIEWS ›› RUMOR HAS IT go down at one of these things), the Downtown Bellingham Partnership will play host to Mayor

B-BOARD Kelli Linville at its next meeting, which will take Boulevard Park shows for the summer of 2013, place at 6pm Wed., June 26 at the Leopold. rather it’s construction work taking place in the Mayor Linville’s stated purpose in being at the 24 park that has supplanted the shows. Parks and meeting is to share her vision for Bellingham’s

FILM FILM Rec assures us the absence of music in Boule- ever-evolving downtown (“downtown” in this vard Park is a temporary one, and promises the instance also to include Old Town and the wa- return of concerts there in 2014. terfront). I’m aware this is not the kind of event 20 20 20 Which brings us back to the Columbia neigh- I’m typically trying to drum up attendance for,

MUSIC but as I’ve grown older and potentially wiser MUSIC borhood and Elizabeth Park. The concerts kick off Thurs., June 27 with the funk of Snug Har- (jury’s still out), I’ve learned that any kind of big-picture vision that takes place with regard 18 bor. This is a band that is no stranger to just about all of the stages in Bellingham—and to the future of our fair city should also include ART ART some beyond—but they don’t generally get a discussion of where funky in close proximity to latticed gazebos. the arts ﬁt into that 16 Until now. After that you can start your In- vision. And as music is a part of the arts

STAGE STAGE dependence Day celebrations with the jazz of Brian Forsloff (July 4), follow it up with the community that has homegrown folk of the ever-entertaining Dana impacted and, on 14 Lyons (July 11), before Amber Darling shows up occasion, struggled to show off her brand of folk (July 18). to coexist peacefully

GET OUT with an urban area Klezmer music—always a popular draw in BY CAREY ROSS BOSSA 31 the park—is on tap July that is—rightfully— 25, courtesy of What the focused on things like drawing more people 12 Chelm, while the Holmes to actually live and make their lives downtown, Shea Band ushers in Au- what space we don’t create for ourselves now,

WORDS BY CAREY ROSS gust with some R&B (Aug. we’ll have to eke out later. And eking things 1). Vocal harmonies will be out can be a painful and prolonged process. 8 front and center when the In short, while Downtown Bellingham Partner- Concerts in the Parks // ) Honeybees take their turn ship’s meeting and the mayor will likely focus on issues outside the arts community in general

CURRENTS WHAT: Elizabeth in the park Aug. 8, things A LOVE LETTER Park Concert take a turn for the semi- and the music scene in particular, showing up, 6 miss the Columbia neighborhood. Series exotic with Bossa 31 come paying attention and getting involved are all Don’t get me wrong, where I live now is great. I can wake WHEN: 6pm-8pm Aug. 15, and JP Falcon— good ways to ensure that when matters perti- VIEWS VIEWS Thursdays, June nent to our corner of the community are up for I up every morning and gaze upon Bellingham Bay just out my 27-Aug. 29 one of this area’s busier discussion, we’ll have a seat at the table. Plus, if 4 window. It’s a lovely view, and I’ve grown rather attached to it. WHERE: Elizabeth musicians—makes time in However, for a few years I lived in a little house in the Columbia Park his schedule for an Aug. you’ve never done so, you can meet the mayor. MAIL MAIL neighborhood, and I still think fondly back upon that locale, even COST: Free 22 show. The closing act of Who doesn’t want to meet a mayor? MORE INFO: And now for the sad stuff. Last week, our mu- if my life there left a thing or two to be desired some of the time. this incarnation of the Con- 2 www.theeldridge sic community lost one of its own, Tim Randall. With its blend of stately historical homes and smaller, bungalow- society.org certs in the Park series will

DO IT IT DO A longtime musician, Tim wasn’t in any of our

style houses, the neighborhood is idyllic and, well, neighborly. be David Weiss and his band While the Columbia neighborhood is rife with charms, its crown Takes All Kings, who will rock the park Aug. 29. favorite bands—he was, however, a force to be

13 jewel is no doubt Elizabeth Park. From its quaint gazebo and col- Some things to remember when you’re reckoned with when it came to karaoke—and

26. lection of catalogued and carefully curated trees to its tennis and planning your al fresco musical sojourn: The he loved music, maybe more than any single 06. basketball courts, the park is a ﬁne place to play and an even bet- concerts kick off at 6pm (or thereabouts) and other person I’ve known. And he shared that ter place to simply hang out. run for a couple of hours or so. They’re fully love freely with everyone he encountered. .08 Thanks to the nice folks at Bellingham Parks and Recreation, for family-friendly, so don’t hesitate to bring the But Tim also suffered from Huntington’s Dis- 26 # several weeks each summer, Elizabeth Park is also an ideal setting kids (it’s wise to indoctrinate them into Bell- ease, a particularly cruel genetic disorder that in which to take in some live music. For years, Parks and Rec has ingham’s rich musical tradition while they’re would’ve subjected him to prolonged suffer- spearheaded a summer concert series there, with free shows taking still young). The last suggestion comes via ing and eventual death. Knowing that doesn’t place every Thursday throughout the season. And unlike outdoor Parks and Rec but can be duly echoed by make losing him any easier, but it does serve to concerts to be found in other cities and towns, the Concerts in me: unless you want to spend a frustrating give that loss much-needed context. For a com- the Park series is free, family-friendly and open to all who might amount of time searching out a parking spot munity of people stunned by and reeling from

CASCADIA WEEKLY want to attend. in the already crowded streets of the Columbia his death, such explanations are important. Typically, the Parks and Rec concert series isn’t limited to just neighborhood, it is wise to walk, bike or en- However, when it comes down to it, we already 20 Elizabeth Park. During summers past, concerts have taken place in gage some other form of alternative transport know the pertinent facts as they relate to Tim: other city parks, Saturdays in Boulevard Park proving to be a huge- should you decide to make your way to this He was a sweet man with a big heart. Music was ly popular draw. However, over the past couple of years, probably particular musical endeavor. Other than that, his world, and the more people who inhabited owing to budgetary constraints, the series has been scaled back the only mandate is to enjoy yourselves—and that world with him, the happier he was. And he somewhat. But money is not at the root of the cancellation of the say hi to my old hood for me. will be truly, profoundly missed by all of us.

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people to the family-friendly mix of mov- 34 34 ies and music that take place on the Vil-

FOOD lage Green every week for most of the ﬁlm summer. The 30-foot screen is part of a mural painted years ago by beloved local

27 MOVIE REVIEWS ›› SHOWTIMES artist Lanny Little, and Borneman’s Epic Events crew is responsible for swooping

B-BOARD in, setting up the stage and projection equipment, wrangling concessions and performing whatever tasks are required to 24 24 essentially build a temporary movie the- FILM FILM FILM FILM ater on a grassy stretch in the middle of a bunch of businesses. A little more than an hour before dusk, people start to arrive on 20 the Village Green, singly, as couples and in

MUSIC groups comprising whole families, where they spread out blankets, unfold chairs

18 and generally make themselves at home. Signaling that the proceedings are about ART ART to begin, expert em- cee Joe Olmstead— 16 who has been intro-

STAGE STAGE ducing the bands and the ﬁlms for eight years now—takes the 14 stage and tells the crowd what is in store

GET OUT 2/# for them. WHAT: Fairhaven As for what’s in Outdoor Cinema store this year, while 12 WHEN: At dusk, Ferris Bueller’s ship Saturdays thru Aug. 24 may have sailed, WORDS PITCH PERFECT WHERE: Fairhaven there’s plenty of Out- Village Green door Cinema left for 8 COST: $5 you and yours to take MORE INFO: in. On Sat., June 29, www.fairhaven BY CAREY ROSS CURRENTS outdoorcinema.com the Village Green will witness the Rise of the 6 Guardians with One Fine Fool providing the preshow entertainment. After that comes a VIEWS VIEWS Fairhaven Outdoor Cinema couple of doses of Wes Anderson on July 6

4 STARS UNDER THE STARS (Moonrise Kingdom) and Aug. 10 (Fantastic Mr. Fox). In between is the pairing of Back MAIL MAIL reparations for the Fairhaven couple of weeks of the series can be dicey to the Future with musical act the Dev-

Outdoor Cinema begin months with regard to relying on steady sunshine, illy Brothers (July 13), Pitch Perfect with 2 P before the summer movie series longtime Fairhaven Outdoor Cinema orga- Strangely and Jeremiah (July 20), Brave DO IT IT DO

actually kicks off. Movies are carefully nizer Doug Borneman was likely holding with Amber Darland (July 27) and The Hun- chosen and procured, equipment is in- his breath last Saturday, waiting on the ger Games with Rattletrap Ruckus (Aug. 3).

13 spected and repaired as needed, person- vagaries of our area’s notoriously ﬁckle The 2013 Fairhaven Outdoor Cinema series

26. nel is rounded up to staff the weekly weather patterns. After all, the kickoff to closes out with a classic musical—Singin’ 06. event, press releases are sent and minu- the series was set to take place June 22 in the Rain (Aug. 17)—and a cult classic— tiae is attended to. with a showing of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, The Princess Bride. .08 But no matter how well-prepped every- and when the sun went down on Friday Although the Outdoor Cinema has been 26 # thing is, one factor is decidedly outside night, it did so on a day that had been rained out a time or two, Borneman knows the control of every single person who ﬁlled with intermittent rain showers. Paciﬁc Northwesterners are, generally speak- has anything to do with the Fairhaven HUNGER GAMES Those showers made an emphatic return ing, a fairly waterproof bunch, and usually Outdoor Cinema: the weather. Always on Sunday, but somehow, Borneman and doesn’t let the weather get in the way of the wild card of the ever-popular cinema Cinema, however, is exactly the opposite. his Outdoor Cinema escaped the effects having a good time. Per usual, he’s optimis- series, the weather is the make-or-break Given that its shows take place outside, of the weather on Saturday. tic about what this year’s series holds.

CASCADIA WEEKLY element (so to speak) that determines on Fairhaven’s Village Green, if the sky In fact, the weather was as perfect as “It’s going to be another great sea- whether the show will go on. should happen to open up during one only a Paciﬁc Northwest summer night son,” he says. “We’re fortunate to have so 24 Generally speaking, movie theaters of the Saturday nights during the series can be, and when Jasmine Greene—the many talented local artists performing. pray for rain during the summer months, run, all is shut down (a very rare occur- evening’s musical entertainment—took The combination of live acts and outdoor as bad weather drives people to explore rence) and put on hold until—weather the stage before the show, conditions movies makes the Fairhaven Outdoor Cin- indoor entertainment pursuits such as willing—the following Saturday. could not have been better for a night ema one of the best summer attractions watching movies. The Fairhaven Outdoor Given that, and knowing that the ﬁrst of cinema under the stars. in the region.”

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woman will be coming to your neighborhood. 34 34 FREE WILL LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): During the past 10

FOOD months, you have been unusually adventurous. The last time you summoned so much courage and expansive- ASTROLOGY ness may have been 2001. I’m impressed! Please accept

27 my respect and appreciation. You’ve had a sixth sense 27 ARIES (March 21-April 19): “To know when to stop about knowing when it’s wise to push beyond your lim- is of the same importance as to know when to begin,” itations and boundaries. You have also had a seventh said the painter Paul Klee. Take that to heart, Aries! You sense about intuiting when to be crafty and cautious B-BOARD B-BOARD are pretty adept at getting things launched, but you’ve as you wander through the frontiers. Now here’s one got more to learn about the art of stopping. Sometimes of your assignments for the next 12 months: Distill all you finish prematurely. Other times you sort of disap- you’ve learned out there in the borderlands and decide 24 pear without officially bringing things to a close. Now how you will use your wisdom to build an unshakable would be an excellent time to refine your skills. power spot back here in the heart of the action. FILM FILM TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “The problem with SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Michael Faraday quotes on the Internet is that it’s hard to determine (1791-1867) was one of the most influential scien- 20 whether or not they are genuine.” So said Joan of tists in history. He produced major breakthroughs in mon-sat 10-5, sun 11-4 Arc back in 1429, right before she helped lead French both chemistry and physics. Have you ever used de- beginning July 1: wed-sat 10-5, sun 11-4 MUSIC troops in the battle of Patay. JUST KIDDING! Joan vices that run on electricity? You can thank him for We’re here to help with 6906 goodwin road, everson | (360) 966-5859 of Arc never had the pleasure of surfing the Web, of playing a major role in developing that wonderful www.cloudmountainfarmcenter.org course, since it didn’t exist until long after she died. convenience. And yet unlike most scientists, he had

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ART ART for you to keep in mind, Taurus, which is: Be skepti- fact, his formal education was negligible. I propose cal of both wild claims and mild claims. Stay alert that we name him your role model of the week. He’s for seemingly interesting leads that are really time- a striking example of the fact that you can arrive 16 wasting half-truths. Be wary for unreliable gossip at your chosen goal by many different paths. Keep that would cause an unnecessary ruckus. that in mind if you’re ever tempted to believe that

STAGE STAGE there’s just one right way to fulﬁll your dreams. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): French Impressionist painter Claude Monet loved to paint water lilies, and he SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “The only thing

14 did so over and over again for many years. Eventually that we learn from history,” said the German philoso- he created about 250 canvases that portrayed these pher Georg Hegel, “is that we never learn anything ﬂoating ﬂowers. Should we conclude that he repeated from history.” I’m urging you to refute that statement

GET OUT himself too much? Should we declare that he was bor- in the coming weeks, Sagittarius. I’m pleading with ingly repetitive? Or might we wonder if he kept ﬁnd- you to search your memory for every possible clue ing new delights in his comfortable subject? Would we that might help you be brilliant in dealing with your

12 have enough patience to notice that each of the 250 immediate future. What have you done in the past paintings shows the water lilies in a different kind of that you shouldn’t do now? What haven’t you done in light, depending on the weather and the season and the past that you should do now? WORDS the time of day? I vote for the latter view, and suggest that you adopt a similar approach to the familiar things CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): According to

8 in your life during the coming weeks. my analysis of the astrological omens, now would be a pretty good time to talk about things that are hard CANCER (June 21-July 22): “In order to swim to talk about. I don’t necessarily mean that you’ll one takes off all one’s clothes,” said 19th-century ﬁnd it easy to do. But I suspect it would be rela- CURRENTS Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard. “In order to tively free of pain and karmic repercussions. There aspire to the truth one must undress in a far more in- may even be a touch of pleasure once the catharsis 6 ward sense, divest oneself of all one’s inward clothes, kicks in. So try it if you dare, Capricorn. Summon of thoughts, conceptions, selﬁshness, etc., before one the courage to express truths that have previously

VIEWS VIEWS is sufﬁciently naked.” Your assignment in the coming been hard to pin down. Articulate feelings that have week, Cancerian, is to get au naturel like that. It’s been murky or hidden. For best results, encourage

4 time for you to make yourself available for as much of those you trust to do the same. the raw, pure, wild truth as you can stand. MAIL MAIL AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Are you familiar LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Gertrude Stein was an with Quidditch? It’s a rough sport played by wiz-

2 innovative writer. Many illustrious artists were her ards in the ﬁctional world of Harry Potter. All seven friends. But she had an overly elevated conception books in the series mention it, so it’s an important DO IT IT DO

of her own worth. “Think of the Bible and Homer,” element. Author J.K. Rowling says she dreamed up she said, “think of Shakespeare and think of me.” On the sport after having a quarrel with her boyfriend. another occasion, she proclaimed, “Einstein was the “In my deepest, darkest soul,” she reports, “I would 13 creative philosophic mind of the century, and I have quite like to see him hit by a bludger.” (In Quid- 26. been the creative literary mind of the century.” Do ditch, a bludger is a big black ball made of iron.) I 06. you know anyone like Stein, Leo? Here’s the truth, bring this up, Aquarius, because I suspect that you, in my opinion: To some degree, we are all like Stein. too, are in position to use anger in a creative and

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# ourselves—a conceited self-conception that doesn’t tion to make a lasting improvement in your life. match reality. It was my turn to confront my ego- tistical delusions a few weeks ago. Now would be PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In his erotic poem an excellent time for you to deal with yours. Don’t “Your Sex,” Joe Bolton exults: “My heart simpliﬁed, be too hard on yourself, though. Just recognize the I touch the bud of happiness—it’s in season. And inﬂation, laugh about it, and move on. whatever grief I might have felt before simply dies inside me.” You might want to write that down on a VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): When I close my slip of paper and carry it around with you this week, eyes, I get a psychic vision of you as a kid playing Pisces. According to my understanding of the astro- CASCADIA WEEKLY outside on a warm summer day. You’re with friends, logical omens, the bud of happiness is now in sea- 28 immersed in a game that commands your full at- son for you. You have good reason to shed the un- tention. Suddenly, you hear a jingling tune wafting dertones of sadness and fear you carry around with your way from a distance. It’s the ice cream truck. you. I’ll tell you the last lines of Bolton’s poem, You stop what you’re doing and run inside your home because they also apply: “Sometimes I think it’s to beg your mom for some money. A few minutes lat- best just to take pleasure wherever we want and er, you’re in a state of bliss, communing with your can. Look: the twilight is alive with wild honey.” Fudgsicle or ice cream cone or strawberry-lime fruit (The full poem: tinyurl.com/JoeBolton.) rearEnd ›› ”You’re an Animal”— and this is what animals do.

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26. and dreamed of climbing the stairs of the Eiffel Tower and walking proud and culturally distinct peninsula that ½ cup water

06. W along the Seine at midnight to visit Notre Dame Cathedral. So, like any young reaches purposefully into the Atlantic. ¼ teaspoon salt and romantic Francophile, I signed up for high school French. Brittany is the largest peninsula in France, 2 tablespoons melted butter .08 My French teacher was a big, beautiful African-American woman with an Afro that and, like most of France, it is an eating para- 26 # encircled her head like a halo in Byzantine paintings. Mrs. Thomas used her hands dise. For breakfast we ate sausages, crois- DIRECTIONS to express herself; her ﬁngers were long and slender and as dark as chocolate. sants and strawberry jam; lunch consisted In a blender, combine eggs, milk, ﬂour, We didn’t read French literature or learn about the culture. Instead I learned of Camembert cheese, crusty bread and hard salt and butter. Process until smooth. to say “I’m hungry” (j’ai faime), “How are you?” (comment ca va?) and “I love cider; for dinner there were mussels steamed Cover and refrigerate one hour. you” (je t’aime), along with the numbers one to 100 and conjunctions. in white wine and garlic. And wine, of course, Heat a skillet over medium high heat During class, when someone misbehaved or got an answer wrong, Mrs. Thom- there was always wine. We stayed only a week, and brush with melted butter. Pour one-

CASCADIA WEEKLY as would shake her head and say mon dieu, mon dieu! (“My god, my god!”). but I managed to gain ﬁve heavenly pounds fourth of a cup of crepe batter into pan, She spread her hands out wide and her ﬁngers would curve so far backwards it while we were there. tilting completely to coat the surface of 34 seemed they would slip away at the bottom knuckle. My sisters and I still say But of all the simple, delectable and indul- the pan. Cook 2-3 minutes, turning once, mon dieu, mon dieu! when something goes awry. gent fare, the crepes were most memorable. until golden on both sides. Repeat with When my family and I traveled to Brittany, France a few years ago, I silent- The humble crepe has been called “an art remaining batter. Makes eight crepes. ly thanked Mrs. Thomas for knowing how to say “I’m hungry” and “thank you” form; a canvas on which Brittany’s poetic in mottled French. We took the ferry from Dover, England, to Calais, and drove character expresses itself.” doit

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