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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY, P.25 + ADVICE GODDESS, P.27 + EAT SUSTAINABLY, P.30 c a s c a d i a REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIA WHATCOM SKAGIT ISLAND COUNTIES 02-14-2018* • ISSUE:*07 • V.13 Human Rights FILM FESTIVAL P.08 I’LL TAKE The Power of YOU PROTESTS P.12 Mom JOKES P.15 MavisTHERE Staples in Skagit, P.18 Theatre, Lynden 30 A brief overview of this Invincible Ones: 2pm and 7:30pm, DUG Theater, WWU My Circus Valentine: 6pm and 9pm, Cirque Lab FOOD week’s happenings Circle Mirror Transformation: 7:30pm, Sylvia THISWEEK Center The Comic Strippers: 7:30pm, Lincoln Theatre, 24 Mount Vernon Enchanted April: 7:30pm, Anacortes Community Theatre B-BOARD Cupid’s Arrow: 8pm, Upfront Theatre Backyard Brawl: 10pm, Upfront Theatre 22 DANCE Highland Dancing Competition: 9am-5pm, What- FILM com Community College MUSIC 18 Mock and Maher: 7:30pm, Fairhaven Library MUSIC WORDS Correspondence Club: 10:30am-12:30pm, Mindport 16 Exhibits Christopher Loperfido: 4pm, Village Books ART COMMUNITY 15 Tax Help: 12:30-4:30pm, First Congregational Church STAGE GET OUT Fragrance Lake Half Marathon: 8:30am, Larrabee 14 State Park Orchid Society Show: 9am-5pm, Skagit Valley Gardens GET OUT FOOD Pancake Breakfast: 8-11am, Ferndale Senior Center 12 The Sky Colony will join regional favorites Polecat and Winter Farmers Market: 10am-3pm, Depot Market WORDS Scarlet Locomotive for a WinterStock show Fri., Feb. 16 SUNDAY [02.18.18] ONSTAGE 8 at Mount Vernon’s Lincoln Theatre A Murder is Announced: 2pm, Claire vg Thomas Theatre, Lynden My Circus Valentine: 4pm, Cirque Lab CURRENTS Jo Koy: 6pm, Mount Baker Theatre WEDNESDAY [02.14.18] Take Me to Church: 8pm, Rumors Cabaret 6 ONSTAGE The Mt. Baker MUSIC VIEWS My Circus Valentine: 6pm and 9pm, Cirque Lab Orchid Society Jim Malcolm: 2pm, Nancy’s Farm Invincible Ones: 7:30pm, DUG Theater, WWU Mock and Maher: 3pm, Deming Library 4 Cupid’s Arrow: 8pm, Upfront Theatre will host its annual show Tracy Spring: 4pm, Firehouse PAC and sale Feb. 17-18 at MAIL DANCE WORDS A Valentine’s Cabaret: 7pm, Underground Nightclub Skagit Valley Gardens Shirley Melis: 4pm, Village Books 2 2 MUSIC GET OUT DO IT DO IT Taylor Zickefoose Quartet: 7pm, Sylvia Center for Rabbit Ride: 8:30am, Fairhaven Bicycle the Arts Orchid Society Show: 9am-4pm, Skagit Valley Gardens Valentine’s Day Baroque: 7:30pm, the Majestic My Circus Valentine: 8pm, Cirque Lab MUSIC Backyard Brawl: 10pm, Upfront Theatre FOOD Jazz Jam: 5:30-8:30pm, Illuminati Brewing Community Breakfast: 8-11am, American Legion 02.14.18 GET OUT Group Run: 6pm, Skagit Running Company, Mount A Night with Janis Joplin: 7:30pm, Mount Baker MUSIC Post #43, Sedro-Woolley Vernon Theatre WinterStock: 7:30pm, Lincoln Theatre, Mount .13 Vernon 07 [02.19.18] # MONDAY THURSDAY [02.15.18] FILM Human Rights Film Festival: Through Feb. 24, WORDS FOOD ONSTAGE throughout Bellingham Family Story Night: 7pm, Fairhaven Library Bite of Blaine: 6-8pm, Semiahmoo Resort Vaudevillingham: 7pm and 9pm, Cirque Lab Invincible Ones: 7:30pm, DUG Theater, WWU FRIDAY [02.16.18] GET OUT TUESDAY [02.20.18] A Murder is Announced: 7:30pm, Claire vg Thomas Wild Things: 9:30-11am, Interurban Trail Theatre, Lynden ONSTAGE ONSTAGE Enchanted April: 7:30pm, Anacortes Community Invincible Ones: 7:30pm, DUG Theater, WWU FOOD Comedy Open Mic: 7:30pm, the Shakedown CASCADIA WEEKLY Theatre Circle Mirror Transformation: 7:30pm, Sylvia Coffee Tasting: 3pm, Camber Cafe Good, Bad, Ugly: 8pm, Upfront Theatre Center Food Not Bombs: 4-6pm, downtown Bellingham 2 MUSIC The Project: 10pm, Upfront Theatre A Murder is Announced: 7:30pm, Claire vg Jazz Soiree: 7-9pm, Pegasus Gallery Thomas Theatre, Lynden SATURDAY [02.17.18] DANCE Enchanted April: 7:30pm, Anacortes Community FOOD Balkan Folk Dance: 7-9:30pm, Fairhaven Library Theatre ONSTAGE Farm-to-Table Trade Meeting: 8:30am-5pm, Bell- A Valentine’s Cabaret: 7pm, Underground Nightclub Cupid’s Arrow: 8pm, Upfront Theatre A Murder is Announced: 2pm, Claire vg Thomas ingham Technical College THISWEEK 30 FOOD Contact Cascadia Weekly: 360.647.8200 24 mail TOC LETTERS STAFF Editorial B-BOARD Editor & Publisher: Tim Johnson ext 260 22 editor@ cascadiaweekly.com FILM Arts & Entertainment Mirai Nagasu, 24, powered her way into Olympics history, Editor: Amy Kepferle having accomplished something only two women before her ext 204 18 have done in figure skating: land the vaunted triple axel. calendar@ Less than 30 seconds into her program in the team competi- cascadiaweekly.com tion Monday, the Japanese-American medalist spun into MUSIC the air with such strength and landed with such surety, she Music & Film Editor: made the most difficult jump in sports look easy. 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CURRENTS 20: Clubs advertising@ would like to see your publication turn its jour- Polley, B.C., where a 4 square kilometer tailings cascadiaweekly.com nalistic focus to the most pressing threat to wild pond spilled its contents in 2014. 6 23: Film Shorts Distribution salmon of our times—the ongoing efforts of the In 2014, the Environmental Protection Agency Canadian Northern Dynasty Minerals to develop a invoked the powers of the Clean Water Act to pre- VIEWS Rear End Distribution Manager: massive pit mine at the headwaters of the Bris- emptively deny permitting for the Pebble Mine. Erik Burge 4 4 24: Wellness 360-647-8200 tol Bay watershed in Southwest Alaska where the Fast forward to May 1st, 2017, however, when 25: Free Will Astrology distribution@ world’s largest wild salmon run spawns. our current EPA head, Scott Pruitt, had brunch MAIL MAIL cascadiaweekly.com Bristol Bay is important to Western Washing- with the CEO of the Pebble Limited Partnership, a 26: Crossword Whatcom: Erik Burge, 2 ton. The commercial salmon fishery in Bristol subsidiary of Northern Dynasty Minerals, and on Stephanie Simms 27: Advice Goddess Bay generates $1.5 billion each year and employs the very same day reversed the EPA’s position and Skagit: Linda Brown, DO IT 28: Comix Barb Murdoch over 14,000 people. Many of those employed are gave a green light to the permitting process. In 29: Sudoku, Slowpoke from Western Washington, and the connections December 2017, the Pebble Limited Partnership Letters are visible in the high number of Washingtonians submitted its permitting proposal with the US Eat Sustainably SEND LETTERS TO LETTERS@ 30: who own Bristol Bay permits and fishing vessels, Army Corps of Engineers. At some point there will CASCADIAWEEKLY.COM 02.14.18 work as deckhands, processors, technicians and be a period for public comment, but until then FREE WILL ASTROLOGY, P.25 + ADVICE GODDESS, P.27 + EAT SUSTAINABLY, P.30 c a s c a d i a REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIA mechanics, and the prominence of Washington- the permitting process is opaque to the public. WHATCOM SKAGIT ISLAND COUNTIES .13 02-14-2018* • ISSUE:*07 • V.13 07 ©2018 CASCADIA WEEKLY (ISSN 1931-3292) is published each Wednesday by based seafood companies like Trident Seafoods. Cascadia Weekly is well-poised to research Human # Rights Cascadia Newspaper Company LLC. 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Manuscripts will be returned if you Mom JOKES P.15 MavisTHERE Staples in Skagit, P.18 include a stamped, self-addressed envelope. To be considered for calendar list- to Alaskan fisheries and Bristol Bay in particular. mitting process is especially difficult for normal ings, notice of events must be received in writing no later than noon Wednesday The Pebble Mine project is the single greatest concerned citizens. the week prior to publication. Photographs should be clearly labeled and will be COVER: Photo by Chris CASCADIA WEEKLY returned if accompanied by stamped, self-addressed envelope. Strong Photography threat to Bristol Bay’s watershed and the 50-plus I am sure that many of your readers would ap- 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.