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CLIMATE STRIKE P.12 + FREE WILL P.22 + SEAFEAST P.26 c a s c a d i a PICKFORD CALENDAR INSIDE REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIA WHATCOM*SKAGIT*SURROUNDING AREAS 09-18-2019 • ISSUE: 38 • V.14 BEST OF BELLINGHAM Last chance to vote! P.20 BADERSON Beyond Cody Rivers P.13 DISTURBING GEORGE WINSTON THE PEACE More than Ed Bereal is a a piano wanted man P.14 man P.16 COMMUNITY A brief overview of this Tag Sale: 9am-4pm, Syre Education Center 26 Fall Garage Sale: 9am-4pm, Skagit County Fair- grounds FOOD week’s happenings THISWEEK International Day of Peace: 6pm-9pm, the Majestic FOOD Mount Vernon Market: 9am-2pm, Riverwalk Park Anacortes Farmers Market: 9am-2pm, Depot Arts Center REAR END 22 Saturday Market: 9am-3pm, Concrete Community Center Saturday Market: 10am-1pm, Lummi Island 21 Twin Sisters Market: 10am-2pm, North Fork Library Lynden Farmers Market: 10am-2pm, Centennial FILM Park Blaine Farmers Market: 10am-2pm, H Street Plaza Bellingham Farmers Market: 10am-3pm, Depot 16 Market Square Bellingham SeaFeast: 10am-8pm, Zuanich Point MUSIC Park Sedro-Woolley Brewfest: 2pm-7pm, Metcalf Street 14 GET OUT ART Skagit Valley Giant Pumpkin Festival: 9am-4pm, Christianson’s Nursery 13 Nooksack River Walk: 3pm, Horseshoe Bend Trailhead STAGE VISUAL Fall Show Reception: 2pm-5pm, River Gallery, 12 Mount Vernon Find out why love is the only thing that matters at a 20th Drie Chapek Talk: 4pm, i.e. gallery, Edison GET OUT anniversary touring production of RENT Mon., Sept. 23 at the SUNDAY [09.22.19] Mount Baker Theatre. ONSTAGE 10 And Then There Were None: 2pm, Bellingham Theatre Guild PHOTO BY AMY BOYLE BY PHOTO On Approval: 2pm, Claire vg Thomas Theatre, Lynden WORDS Miss Fitts: 4pm, Cirque Lab WEDNESDAY [09.18.19] International Comedy Competition: 7:30pm, 8 Upfront Theatre WORDS Write More Letters Club: 7pm, Bison Bookbinding & MUSIC CURRENTS Letterpress George Winston: 2pm, McIntyre Hall, Mount Vernon 6 FOOD Scottish fiddling master Skookum Rocks the Farm: 7pm, Bellewood Acres Eat Local Month: Through September, throughout VIEWS Whatcom County Alasdair Fraser will be GET OUT Wednesday Market: 2pm-6pm, Barkley Village Green Oyster Run Motorcycle Rally: 9am-5pm, Anacortes joined by cellist Natalie 4 Sedro-Woolley Farmers Market: 3pm-7pm, Hammer Heritage Square Hass for a Thurs., Sept. 19 FOOD MAIL Birchwood Market: 10am-3pm, Park Manor Shop- GET OUT performance at the Sylvia ping Center 2 2 Whatcom Water Week: Events continue through Sept. Center for the Arts. Bellingham SeaFeast: 10am-4pm, Zuanich Point 21, throughout Whatcom County Park DO IT DO IT Bellingham Veg Fest: 11am-5pm, Depot Market Square THURSDAY [09.19.19] IRENE YOUNG BY PHOTO ONSTAGE MONDAY [09.23.19] Singin’ in the Rain: 7pm Ferndale High School 09.18.19 Good, Bad, Ugly: 7:30pm, Upfront Theatre Singin’ in the Rain: 7pm Ferndale High School SATURDAY [09.21.19] ONSTAGE And Then There Were None: 7:30pm, Bellingham Edgar Allan: 7:30pm, Firehouse Arts and Events RENT: 7:30pm, Mount Baker Theatre .14 Theatre Guild Center Guffawingham: 9pm, Firefly Lounge 38 ONSTAGE # Tuesdays with Morrie: 7:30pm, Claire vg Thomas And Then There Were None: 7:30pm, Bellingham Tuesdays with Morrie: 2pm, Claire vg Thomas Theatre, Lynden Theatre Guild Theatre WORDS Improvised Twilight Zone: 9:30pm, Upfront Theatre Godlike: 7:30pm, Sylvia Center for the Arts Singin’ in the Rain: 2pm Ferndale High School Carlos Gil: 6:30pm, Mount Vernon City Library On Approval: 7:30pm, Claire vg Thomas Theatre, Baderson: 6:30pm and 8:30pm, Sylvia Center for MUSIC Lynden the Arts COMMUNITY Alasdair Fraser, Natalie Hass: 7pm, Sylvia Center for Miss Fitts: 8pm, Cirque Lab Comedy Show: 7pm, Blue Abode Bar Climate Action Week: Events take place through the Arts Improv Evolution: 9pm, Upfront Theatre And Then There Were None: 7:30pm, Bellingham Sept. 29, throughout Whatcom County Theatre Guild CASCADIA WEEKLY WORDS WORDS Godlike: 7:30pm, Sylvia Center for the Arts TUESDAY [09.24.19] Joy Wiggins: 7pm, Village Books Family Story Night: 7pm, Fairhaven Library On Approval: 7:30pm, Claire vg Thomas Theatre 2 Heather Hansman: 7pm, Village Books Miss Fitts: 8pm, Cirque Lab WORDS FRIDAY [09.20.19] Improv Evolution: 9pm, Upfront Theatre Chuckanut Radio Hour: 7pm, Heiner Theater, WCC FOOD ONSTAGE Ferndale Farmers Market: 2pm-6pm, LaBounty DANCE FILM Baderson: 6:30pm and 8:30pm, Sylvia Center for the Arts Drive Salsa Night: 9pm, Cafe Rumba Winterland: 7:30pm, Mount Baker Theatre 26 FOOD REAR END 22 21 FILM 16 MUSIC 14 ART 13 STAGE Downtown — 1220 N. 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I suspect this VIEWS 16: George Winston Erik Burge on the pending Cherry Point amendments was a matters more to BP. distribution@ 18: Clubs 4 4 cascadiaweekly.com farce. Although the doors were not supposed to If the majority of the residents in Whatcom 20: Reel truths Whatcom: Erik Burge, open until 6pm by that time the chambers were County are going to have any control over the MAIL MAIL 21: Film Shorts Stephanie Simms already filled with mostly Phillips 66 employees industrial activities at Cherry Point, some varia- 2 Skagit: Linda Brown, (in uniform) plus some of their contractors. I ar- tion of the proposed amendments to the county Rear End Barb Murdoch rived at 6pm and was the 97th person out of 150 codes must be passed. If the county government DO IT to sign up to speak. lacks the expertise to oversee the reviews built 22: Free Will, Advice Goddess Letters SEND LETTERS TO LETTERS@ By 8:30pm, only 37 people (including 21 Phil- into the plans, that can be remedied by the utili- 23: Crossword CASCADIAWEEKLY.COM lips employees) had spoken: 33 all virulently zation of outside counsel on an as-needed basis. 24: Comix against the amendments and only four in support. Surely there are enough retired refinery chem- CLIMATE STRIKE P.12 + FREE WILL P.22 + SEAFEAST P.26 09.18.19 c a s c a d i a PICKFORD CALENDAR INSIDE REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIA Although the chair asked the audience not to ists and engineers in our midst, plus WWU pro- WHATCOM*SKAGIT*SURROUNDING AREAS 25: Slowpoke, Sudoku 09-18-2019 • ISSUE: 38 • V.14 applaud or heckle opposing speakers, his ad- fessors, who could act as objective advisors to BEST OF .14 BELLINGHAM 26: Bellingham SeaFeast Last chance to vote! P.20 38 monitions were ignored—both prolonging the the county government on technical issues. # meeting and serving to intimidate any opposi- In any case, we can’t allow the refineries to ©2019 CASCADIA WEEKLY (ISSN 1931-3292) is published each Wednesday by tion. At that point I left the meeting disgusted continue to govern themselves when it comes to BADERSON Cascadia Newspaper Company LLC. Direct all correspondence to: Cascadia Weekly Beyond DISTURBING Cody Rivers P.13 by the process. matters that impact all our air, water and marine PO Box 2833 Bellingham WA 98227-2833 | Phone/Fax: 360.647.8200 GEORGE THE PEACE WINSTON Ed Bereal is a More than [email protected] a piano wanted man P.14 man P.16 If you believe what the refinery employees say, resources. And the Planning Commission needs Though Cascadia Weekly is distributed free, please take just one copy. Cascadia Weekly may be distributed only by authorized distributors. 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