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ALAN RHODES, P.06 + FUZZ BUZZ, P.11 + ACME FARMS + KITCHEN, P.30 c a s c a d i a REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIA WHATCOM SKAGIT ISLAND COUNTIES 07-19-2017* • ISSUE:*29 • V.12 PRIMARY FIELD GUIDE PICKS Explore a new season at the Mount A guide to Baker Theatre, P.15 summer voting, P.08 CLASSICAL CAMP Marrowstone Music Festival, P.18 FOREST THE WONDER OF FUNTHE WOODS P.14 Vintage Fly-In: Through Sunday, Concrete GET OUT c a s c a d i a 30 Sin & Gin Tour: 4pm, downtown Bellingham FOOD ThisWeek FOOD Ferndale Farmers Market: 3-7pm, Centennial A glance at this week’s Riverwalk Park 24 happenings VISUAL Night Market: 6-10pm, 1300 block of Commercial B-BOARD Street WEDNESDAY [07.19.17] SATURDAY [07.22.17] 22 MUSIC ONSTAGE FILM Jazz Underground: 6-8pm, Seafarers Park, Ana- The Drowsy Chaperone: 2pm and 7pm, Bellingham cortes Arts Academy for Youth Downtown Sounds: 6-9pm, Bay and Prospect Beauty Lou and the Country Beast: 3pm and 7pm, 18 streets Mount Baker Theatre Edward II: 7pm, Rexville Grange Amphitheater MUSIC FOOD I and You: 7:30pm, Bellingham Theatre Guild Wednesday Market: 12-5pm, Fairhaven Village Sandcastle: 7:30pm, Firehouse Performing Arts Center 16 Green An Improvised Musical: 9pm, Upfront Theatre Sedro-Woolley Farmers Market: 3-7pm, Hammer ART Heritage Square MUSIC Brewers Cruise: 6:30pm, Bellingham Cruise Terminal Anne Feeney: 7pm, Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship 15 THURSDAY [07.20.17] FILM Rogue One: Dusk, Fairhaven Village Green STAGE ONSTAGE I and You: 7:30pm, Bellingham Theatre Guild COMMUNITY 14 Good, Bad, Ugly: 8pm, Upfront Theatre Steampunk Festival: 10am-5pm, Fairhaven Village The Project: 10pm, Upfront Theatre Green GET OUT DANCE GET OUT Folk Dance: 7-9:30pm, Fairhaven Library Sandcastle Competition: 10am, Birch Bay Com- munity Park 12 MUSIC River Walk: 3pm, Horseshoe Bend Trailhead, Glacier The Atlantics: 5-9pm, Hotel Bellwether Sin & Gin Tour: 4pm, downtown Bellingham Heroes: 6-8pm, Elizabeth Park Sin & Gin Tour: 7pm, historic Fairhaven WORDS Mojo Cannon: 6-8pm, Riverwalk Plaza, Mount Vernon FOOD 8 WORDS Anacortes Farmers Market: 9am-2pm, Depot Arts Chuckanut Radio Hour: 7pm, Whatcom Community Center College Mount Vernon Market: 9am-2pm, Riverfront Plaza CURRENTS Saturday Market: 10am-1pm, Lummi Island FOOD Blaine Gardeners Market: 10am-2pm, H Street Plaza 6 Lynden Farmers Market: 12-6pm, 324 Front St. Twin Sisters Market: 10am-12pm, North Fork Library Bow Farmers Market: 1-6pm, Samish Bay Cheese Bellingham TheatreWorks presents WWU Bellingham Farmers Market: 10am-3pm, Depot VIEWS Market Square Summer Harvest Day: 10am-5pm, Cloud Mountain FRIDAY [07.21.17] graduate Teague Parker’s dark comedy, 4 Farm Center, Everson ONSTAGE Summer Garden Party: 11am-3pm, Skagit Valley MAIL The Drowsy Chaperone: 7pm, Bellingham Arts Sandcastle, July 21-22 at the Firehouse Food Co-op, Mount Vernon Academy for Youth 2 Performing Arts Center 2 The Comedy of Errors: 7pm, Rexville Grange VISUAL Amphitheater Clayton James Celebration: 1-3pm, Museum of NW DO IT DO IT I and You: 7:30pm, Bellingham Theatre Guild Art, La Conner Sandcastle: 7:30pm, Firehouse Performing Arts Center An Improvised Musical: 9pm, Upfront Theatre Sample SUNDAY [07.23.17] 07.19.17 DANCE microbrews ONSTAGE Dancing on the Green: 7-9:30pm, Fairhaven Village Open House: 2-5pm, Mount Baker Theatre Green from around the I and You: 7:30pm, Bellingham Theatre Guild .12 Drowsy Chaperone: 2pm, Bellingham Arts Academy 29 region while # MUSIC for Youth MIssion Folk Music Festival: Through Sunday, raising funds for The Comedy of Errors: 4pm, Rexville Grange Amphi- Fraser River Heritage Park, Mission, BC theater Rivertalk: 6-8pm, Seafarers Park, Anacortes family-focused Ranger and the Re-Arrangers: 7-9pm, Burlington charities at the MUSIC Visitor Center Amphitheater Swingnuts: 1-4pm, Gilkey Square, La Conner Festival of Music Finale: 7:30pm, Performing Arts 11th annual Alma Villegas: 2-5pm, Fairhaven Village Green Center, WWU CASCADIA WEEKLY Brewers by the COMMUNITY WORDS Vietnam Veterans Car Show: 10am-2pm, Barkley 2 Sun., July Family Story Night: 7pm, Fairhaven Library Bay Village 23 at the Depot COMMUNITY FOOD Project Homeless Connect: 9am-4pm, Bellingham Market Square Edison Farmers Market: 10am-2pm, Edison Granary High School Brewers by the Bay: 1-5pm, Depot Market Square JOIN US EVERY WEEKEND LIVE 9:00 PM - 1:00 AM! 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The article states, “The troubled commu- DO IT Letters nity on Bellingham’s southeastern doorstep had A WONDERFUL COMMUNITY SEND LETTERS TO LETTERS@ just disposed of a plan to rescue its aging roads As a Sudden Valley resident, I am dismayed CASCADIAWEEKLY.COM and other assets.” Here the ballot measure is that you have chosen two of the most polarizing misrepresented as a logical and appropriate fix figures in our community to represent our recent 07.19.17 for a straightforward problem of deferred main- election regarding a dues increase. tenance. When in actuality, a bulk of the pro- We have long had a small group of people who .12 29 ©2017 CASCADIA WEEKLY (ISSN 1931-3292) is published each Wednesday by posed loan would fund an investment in a new seem to exist for conflict and who have produced # Cascadia Newspaper Company LLC. 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To be considered for calendar list- knowledge the need to pay higher dues to man- choose to simply live our lives, and to let those ings, notice of events must be received in writing no later than noon Wednesday age and improve existing assets. But the board who thrive on shouting at each other do so to the week prior to publication. Photographs should be clearly labeled and will be CASCADIA WEEKLY returned if accompanied by stamped, self-addressed envelope. of directors’ proposal went beyond that, asking their content. 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. members to finance new development and a new Personally, I wish they would stop shouting at 4 In the interests of fostering dialog and a community forum, Cascadia Weekly does not publish letters that personally disparage other letter writers.