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KEYSTONE CANDIDATES plies for a responsible position one is ART Has the presidential campaign required to submit a detailed résumé. OR THE ATTRAC really dragged on for 16 months This résumé must have a chronologi- ME F TIO 18 and all we have to show for it is cal listing of employment and edu- CO N

the Dems in an elementary school cation. Each employment should in- STAGE playground and the GOP checking clude periods of employment, duties, their health insurance to be sure responsibilities, etc., and the reason 17 they can have White House health for leaving if applicable. Two coolcool bikes. care in a year or two? It’s not even This same requirement should ap- funny. No! Wait a minute! It is fun- ply everywhere. If not employed in GET OUT ny—like Laurel and Hardy pushing a paying job, it should be so indi- lucky Two lucky winners. 16 a piano up a long ﬂight of concrete cated. steps and Charlie Chaplin on roller- We have a right to know whom we

WORDS skates at the edge of a big hole in are voting for—i.e. the candidate’s Onespringi nghot into giveaway. summer the ﬂoor. I have tears in my eyes real life experiences. because I’m laughing so hard, not If the U.S. Senate can require harley-davidsondavidsonavidson giveawgiveaway ay 8 because I’m so sad! nominees to the U.S. Supreme Court earn entries A slapstick movie was made 60 to have complete disclosure and starting may 12 years ago called Abbott and Costello transparency, then “we the people” drawings june CURRENTS In The Haunted House. This year the can demand the same from anyone 7 & june 14 Democratic Party is remaking the holding or running as a candidate at 6 pm 6 movie with a couple of contempo- for any public ofﬁce. $IAMOND$IVIDENDSMEMBERS rary politicians, who shall remain The complete detailed résumé EARNONEFREEENTRYDAILY VIEWS EARNMOREWHENYOUPLAY STAY pointless probably into November, for anyone who is a candidate for, DINEORRELAXAT3ILVER2EEF 4

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STORMWATERS RISING I: As they say, all waters ﬂow downhill; and likewise all costs associated with the protection of that water ﬂow down to their lowest basin of responsibil-

ity under Washington law, the taxpaying public. Listen now 38 38 as the shrieks from individual landowners in a community views watershed—shrieks that have served over the decades to de- FOOD OPINIONS THE GRISTLE liver to them their every desire by fainthearted and, at times,

31 addle-witted ofﬁcials—are drowned by howls of anguish as taxpayers begin to calculate the tab for this largesse. The state Department of Ecology released a draft of its long-delayed study of pollutants entering Lake Whatcom CLASSIFIEDS last month—just as Robin Matthews, director of Huxley College’s Institute for Watershed Studies, delivered her 26 annual report on the health of this drinking water supply

FILM FILM for 86,000 people. The health of the lake, Matthews reported, continues to decline at an accelerating pace; stormwater systems, while 22 22 showing some promise, are largely ineffective and frequently nonexistent. Ecology ofﬁcials, meanwhile, say stormwater BY ALAN RHODES MUSIC runoff into the lake, the byproduct of urban levels of development in a largely rural watershed, must be reduced by at 20 20 least 74 percent and are prepared to force compliance.

ART Given Matthews’ dismal review of our best stormwater ef- Ski to Sea Weekend forts currently in use, is Ecology’s proscribed reduction even

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18 technologically possible, given current (and projected) build- out of Lake Whatcom? Perhaps not; but we’re all going to pay

STAGE to have this demonstrated, one way or the other. “YOU ONLY have to do that winds through downtown How nice it would be if the money we must now pay actu- it once.” I’ve been compiling Bellingham. This little slice of

17 ally did some good! a helpful guide for Bellingham Americana, straight out of Sin- This is the dialectic into which discussions of compromise newcomers of things you prob- clair Lewis, features the usual and half-measures—minimal tax increases, marginal public ably should do once, just be- obligatory high school march- GET OUT policy alterations—ought to be weighed. cause everybody else around ing bands, public ofﬁcials with That weighing was done by Whatcom County Council in a here has done them, but then strained smiles, conscripted 16 special session this week after the administration asked for you never have to do them Washington Fair and just about livestock, emergency vehicles guidance on what levels of expense the county should pursue again. The list includes such anything that has the word and cheesy ﬂoats.

WORDS in the protection of our water resources. Irritations ﬂared as events as the Skagit Valley Tu- “Celtic” in the title—but let’s the council—which has been at this for some time, with hun- lip Festival, in which you drive go straight to one of the big- THE RACE. The actual race is a

8 dreds of projects awaiting funding and priority—wrestled in bumper-to-bumper trafﬁc, gest of the one-timers: Ski to grueling, multi-phase relay that with their level of response and commitment. choking on gasoline fumes Sea weekend. If you just moved starts on skis on Mt. Baker and Former Bellingham City Council member John Watts apt- while squinting through fog here and don’t know anything ends hours later in kayaks on

CURRENTS CURRENTS ly describes this range of options on his freshly revived and heavy rain at tulip ﬁelds about it, it’s coming up this the bay. Even though this race Hamster Talk blog. As he notes, each successive level of ser- that haven’t bloomed yet. Or month, so let me give you some is ostensibly the reason for the 6 6 vice response progressively adds programs to the previous the Christmas Gingerbread idea of what to expect. whole weekend, you can ignore LOS, “until the ﬁnal contains all of the water programs con- VIEWS VIEWS VIEWS sidered necessary” to be effective. Watts explains: t-04—This level of service actually decreases the amount 4 THIS LITTLE SLICE OF AMERICANA, STRAIGHT OUT OF that would be spent on water programs to help balance the

MAIL MAIL Flood Fund budget, which has been spending more than it is SINCLAIR LEWIS, FEATURES THE USUAL OBLIGATORY HIGH bringing in for the past few years (approximately $43/year on

3 a home valued at $300,000), Watts writes. SCHOOL MARCHING BANDS, PUBLIC OFFICIALS WITH

DO IT IT DO This trade-off would require sunsetting certain projects STRAINED SMILES, CONSCRIPTED LIVESTOCK, EMERGENCY already underway to enact those now required by state and

08 federal mandates, Assistant Public Works Director Jon Hutch- VEHICLES AND CHEESY FLOATS.

.14. ings explained to County Council. Watts continues: 5 t-04—This level of service would increase the county-wide

.03 Flood Tax by about $14/year on a $300,000 home (total $57/ House Contest, which involves THE PARADE. Picture a it, since nobody except the ac- 20

# year) to maintain services pretty much at the current level of meandering up and down rows vintage Hollywood musical in tual competitors—compulsive spending. In other words, not moving the hundreds of proj- of gingerbread houses until which an adolescent Mickey adrenaline junkies—pays much ects forward or addressing Lake Whatcom, Watts writes. you are struck by an epiphany: Rooney exclaims to Judy Gar- attention to it. “This level of service is based on what is currently spent; “Why did I think that looking land, “Let’s organize a parade! and you all have a sense of what you get for that,” Hutchings at gingerbread houses would We can set up in my uncle’s IT ALL ENDS IN FAIRHAVEN. commented to council. Watts continues: be interesting?” barn.” Their sweetly clumsy This is the celebratory street t-04—At this level of service the county would be able There are many other one- and amateurish production fair that wraps up the whole CASCADIA WEEKLY to meet our legal obligations to come into compliance with time experiences—summer wouldn’t look much different weekend. The experience goes

6 stormwater and [pollution discharge] permits, and start alley concerts, the Northwest than the Ski to Sea Parade something like this: You pack some planning for stormwater outside of the Lake Whatcom watershed. This could be accomplished by creating a storm- VIEWS EXPRESSED ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF CASCADIA WEEKLY everybody into the family car and THE GRISTLE A=CB6A723B@3<2A drive to Fairhaven. There are, of course, no parking spaces, since half water utility in areas developed to urban consignment + new clothing + more! of Washington and most of the lower densities outside of the city limits (main-

Canadian mainland arrived long be- ly around Bellingham and Ferndale) and fore you did, grabbed every parking charging people in those areas $120/year OPEN DAILY 38 spot for miles, and started roaming in stormwater fees, Watts writes. FOOD the streets of Fairhaven in quest of “Council asked us to differentiate be- 9th & Harris Fairhaven 734-1109 big fun. tween those things that are mandated ˙ ˙ 31 You drive around looking for a under the law and those things we collec- www.southsidetrends.com space, circling farther and farther tively as a community agree are actions from the center of Fairhaven. You the county ought to be taking,” Hutch- circle… and circle… and circle… ings observed. “This is a level of service CLASSIFIEDS until you ﬁnally ﬁnd a place to park, that addresses urban stormwater manage- somewhere out around Cordata. As ment.” 26

you and the family begin trudg- t-04—At this level of service, Watts FILM ing back to the revelry, one of your tells us, the county would start chipping

children, already bored and whiny, away at many of the important projects 22 is riding on your shoulders, kicking in the existing plans. We would move be- you in chest and yelling “Giddy-up” yond just legal obligations to start ad- MUSIC in your ear. It’s about this time that dressing land acquisition to protect wa- an unexpected torrential rainstorm ter, restoration of shorelines, low-impact starts pouring down. development regulations, enhanced ef- 20

Tramping wearily into Fairhaven forts in shellﬁsh protection districts and ART a couple of hours later—wet and marine resource areas, and increase ﬂood

dispirited and rapidly losing your hazard reduction projects. This would be 18 tenuous grip on the will to live—you accomplished by increasing the county-

hear the music of a local band, who wide Flood Tax by $33/year over current STAGE are quite good, but they’re playing levels on a $300,000 house (total of $76/

at full volume and you’ve developed year), and charging the $120/year fee in 17 a migraine headache. the new stormwater utility area. Throughout the day you are jos- “This is an enhancement that focuses tled, bumped and elbowed by thou- on greater stewardship,” Hutchings not- GET OUT sands of merry-makers, including ed, cautioning this would be the highest roistering hordes of boozy, sinis- level of service the county could manage 16 ter-looking interlopers with tank under current stafﬁng. tops, Nazi tattoos, beer bellies and t-04—At this level of service, Watts WORDS stubbly faces (and these are just tells us, the county would accelerate the women). implementation of all of the above, plus 8 Most of the Fairhaven event con- be able to increase culvert replacement sists of booths selling the same stuff for salmon, and support in-stream ﬂow you see at every street fair in North setting activities and monitoring. This CURRENTS America. There are also bounteous op- would be accomplished by increasing the 6 portunities to gorge on heavily salted, countywide Flood Tax by $56/year over 6 artery-clogging, nutrient-free junk current levels on a $300,000 house (total VIEWS VIEWS foods. The deep-fried Ho-Hos rolled in of $99/year), and charging the $120/year VIEWS crushed pork rinds are quite good. fee in the new stormwater utility area. 4 By this time, your wrist watch has “In order to get substantially more been broken by a jealous hula-hoop- done, you need to add staff and addresses MAIL

er, your kids are crying that they that threshold,” Hutchings commented. want to go home, and the young- t-04—At this level of service, Watts 3

est has vomited a corn dog on your tells us, the county would be able to ac- IT DO pant leg. Too tired to hang around complish most everything in all of the ap-

until day’s end to watch the kayaks proved plans over the next 20 years. This 08

come in, you start the death march would be accomplished by increasing the .14. 5 back to Cordata. As you slog along, countywide Flood Tax by $107/year over

it occurs to you that you didn’t see current levels on a $300,000 house (total .03 20

anyone you know at the event. This of $150/year), and charging the $120/year # is because they figured out long ago fee in the new stormwater utility area. that Ski to Sea is the perfect week- “If we’re going to get all of this stuff end to leave town. They’re probably done in 20 years, that is what is repre- in British Columbia, which is desert- sented by the scope of this level of ser- ed because everyone is down here. vice,” Hutchings commented. Well, that’s Ski to Sea in a nut- Council—unable to break a deadlock of shell. Have fun and remember: you fiscal conservatism versus meaningful pro- CASCADIA WEEKLY only have to do it once. We might tective response—stalled their choice un- 7 run into each other around this time til their regular meeting next week. Their next year, maybe up in Whistler or division is instructive; as is the inevitable Harrison Hot Springs. balance this council must strike. do to succeed, but I tell them if they can do the currents work they can succeed. news commentary briefs I see many of these students, some of whom have been written off by my colleagues, with whom I have been able to work who have gone on to do very well in college and beyond. Par- ticularly with African-American students, I think they’re more comfortable approaching me than other faculty. CW: How important is mentorship to students with- ALISON WILLIAMS has won awards out a strong academic background? for her lectures on enhancing the role of women AW: It is so important. Especially if they’re first- and minorities in science, a topic on which she generation college and there is no one in their INTERVIEWS BY TIM JOHNSON is not only an expert but a participant. In an occupation where women are under represented, where people of color—and African-Americans KNOWING AND in particular—are underrepresented, Williams is ATTEND rare indeed. WHO: Alison Williams She is a member of the National Organization WHAT: Lessons from the Lab: An African-American LEARNING of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers, a Woman’s Journey faculty member at Princeton University’s depart- WHEN: 6:30pm Wed., May 14 WHERE: Science Lecture Hall 120, Western Washington HOW THE ment of Chemistry, and an Advance Fellow for University campus the National Science Foundation. At Princeton, COST: Free WORLD WORKS Williams leads a research team investigating the INFO: wwu.edu properties of nucleic acids—DNA—and the envi- SCIENCE ronmental factors that affect them. Outside the family who can help them through their earliest lab, Williams is a semi-professional musician. experiences in college. They just don’t know what CW: I know other scientists who are also musi- the expectations are; they don’t know how to ne- cians. There must be something compatible; or gotiate the system. They’re thrown in with other perhaps it exercises all parts of your mind. students who have had every privilege given to AW: Yes; I play the oboe and French horn. I gave them, and they feel very intimidated. a performance twice this week. There must be In that regard, I tell people I am not neces- some connections between experimentation sarily a role model because I am fourth-gener- and musical practice, but when I’m doing one ation college. My grandfather had a pharma- I don’t think much about the other. cy degree but wasn’t allowed to practice. My CW: You’re rare; and I suppose in part that’s what great-grandfather on my mother’s side was a you will be talking to Western students about. physician. And my parents were both profes- AW: Yes; I suppose my experiences have given sors. So I have that advantage. me a sympathetic view toward students who But I went to a very small high school in Ohio are struggling. Early in my scientific career in where I was not challenged, and I had no study college I was not a stellar student, and I had discipline when I entered college. That’s how I people sort of dismiss me because of that. identify with many of my struggling students. Once I figured out how to study and do the Someone I babysat for in Ohio gave me a job work I was fine, but it took me a while to get in his lab, which did animal science. I worked it together. after school washing glassware. I eventually got Oftentimes, students are expected to per- promoted, and then my job was I weighed out form at very high levels, but students have manure. [laughs] It was a dairy science lab; I was very different backgrounds and the ones who thrilled, but my mother was appalled. are not prepared can find it very difficult. I But by the end of high school, I had all the am honest with them about what they have to CONTINUED ON PAGE 15 is being caused (or, say that the harm is minimal, is being ‘studied’ or that the harm is ‘the price of

our success’). “When the harm becomes massive and irrefut- 38 able, blame someone else. Insist that the people FOOD who warned you about the harm have a respon-

sibility to ﬁx it. Apply a short term, quick-ﬁx 31 solution that is as bad as the original solution. Continue ignoring….” CW: What do you mean when you say you want to CREATING A create a “world that works?” CLASSIFIEDS SA: Out of the mess we’ve got right now, the WORLD THAT mess that all of us contributed to creating— 26

how can we create a world that actually works FILM WORKS for all beings? Not just all human beings, but

all beings? 22 I believe that world is possible, which is why I do the work that I do. I believe that we won’t MUSIC get to it by wishing it in place, but I think we ATTEND will get to it by visioning it in place and acting WHO: Sharif Abdullah

WHAT: Creating A Bellingham That Works For All— 20 on that vision. 21st Century Challenges and the Transformation of We’ve got a number of challenges in front of Consciousness ART us, and they’re not lightweight. Some of them WHEN: 7pm, Wed., May 14 WHERE: Christ The Servant Lutheran Church, 2600

are relatively easy to handle, like global warm- 18 ing. [laughs] Others are really difﬁcult! Some Lakeway Drive COST: Suggested donation, $10

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& SPIRIT 6 the level of us even being able to perceive the guiding values?” SHARIF ABDULLAH quotes Einstein: problem—the way that, 20 or 30 years ago, we Unfortunately, we don’t ask and answer ”No problem can be solved from the same level couldn’t see that all the stuff that we were put- those questions as frequently as we need to. VIEWS of consciousness that created it.” ting in the air was going to create a greenhouse Once we start asking the right questions—and 4 The solution, he says, involves climbing effect and threaten our lives on this planet. these are hard questions—we will then start

above the problem, catalyzing community and What we have to develop is the kind of con- to come up with the right answers. MAIL

spiritual development to empower a social sciousness that can deal with the things that CW: I’m curious—if global warming is one of the change. Through his organization, Commonway we can identify now, and the kind of conscious- easier problems, what is a difﬁcult problem? 3

Institute, he helps build understanding and ness that can deal with all of the other things SA: Here’s one, relatively off the top of my head: IT DO

connection between diverse groups of people. the future may throw at us. We have had about a century of widespread

He has crisscrossed the planet, taking his work CW: You’re saying that understanding the problem, corporatism. Several hundred years ago there 08

to more than 30 different countries and close being able to conceptualize it, goes a long way to were corporations, but they were very care- .14. 5 to 100 distinct cultures, working with groups helping solve it. But ﬁrst you have to agree there fully crafted by a state to achieve a particular

who struggle with their differences. is a problem. purpose and then they went away. Then, about .03 20

In his writings, Sharif Abdullah identiﬁes the SA: Exactly. And so, it’s about consciousness; it’s a hundred years ago, we started creating cor- # patterns of our inability to solve complex prob- about how we think about the world that we porations willy-nilly to achieve not broad- lems, the treadmill of a broken world: live in. based state purposes, but some very narrow “There’s a formula to this: First, blindly set in But it’s not—and this is where it gets a lit- individual or group purpose. motion circumstances that will cause massive tle tricky—it’s not a linear doing and undoing. One nature of these beings, these corpo- harm. Don’t listen to anyone who disagrees with What we have to be able to do is think not just CONTINUED ON PAGE 14 you; only listen to the experts who tell you that in cause-and-effect, but in vision-belief-and- it’s OK to do what you want to do (global warm- manifestation. CASCADIA WEEKLY ing, Iraq, the economy…). Deny that any harm One of the things I get people to try to ask 9 is, “What is the nature of the society we’re living in? What are our guiding principles, our currents POLICE BEAT

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FILM FILM Bakerview Starbucks. Bellingham Po- had reported her tire had blown out, lice say, “Instead of braking to causing her to lose control. Speed a stop, the car acceler- appears to have been a 22 22 ated rapidly causing the factor in the overnight vehicle to crash through mishap,” police observed MUSIC the front windows and dryly. “Fortunately, no one continue through the was injured, and the car 20 20 busy seating area. The is being removed from its

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8 8 and sped off, blasting through the cials say the smugglers were probably NET DELEGATE COUNT of presidential candidates busy intersection of Railroad and stashing the drugs for someone else 1859/1691 Barack Obama versus Hillary Clinton as of May 12 Chestnut Street at an estimated 50 to pick up later. CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS mph before striking a curb, ﬂipping onto its side and smashing into two PBJ-ICIDE 6 unoccupied parked cars. Witnesses On May 3, a Blaine resident reported PERCENT OF DEMOCRATS who favor Obama versus percent who favor Clinton as of May 12 (same data say the driver was either smiling, or hearing glass breaking in the neigh- set in January: 31/47).

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Courtesy of the City of Bellingham 05.06.08 The week begins and ends with spectacular car crashes in Bellingham, this one through the front window of Starbucks on West Bakerview ART Road; another while exiting Saturday’s Farmers Market on Railroad Avenue.

TUESDAY 18 The odor of natural gas is reported by residents in Belling- egate to endorse Obama; ﬁve other state su- Five Bellingham Fire Department engine

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ishes in the ﬁre. 17 05.07.08 Blaine, Ferndale, and Meridian school districts agree to cut staff and programs to avoid 05.12.08

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scheme. Ofﬁcials say the state exceeded its organize an evening meeting to address crime 8 05.08.08 authority when gathering evidence against issues in the park. THURSDAY the couple. Without that evidence, prosecu- CURRENTS CURRENTS tors cannot proceed with charges. Regular gasoline tops $3.88 per gallon in CURRENTS President George Bush signs a bill sponsored by U.S. Congress- Bellingham, the highest fuel prices in the state. man Rick Larsen and Senator Patty Murray 05.10.08 6 creating the Wild Sky Wilderness. The SATURDAY Ofﬁcials in central China continue to dig out bill designates 167 square miles in the from one of the worst earthquakes in decades. VIEWS Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National For- The Edmonds-Kingston ferry route is shut The 7.9 magnitude quake in Sichuan province 4 est for the government’s highest level of down for two runs after police say a passen- kills at least 12,000 people. protection. Larsen says he’s spent seven ger overheard two other passengers talking MAIL 05.13.08 years working to make the wilderness des- about a bomb. The State Patrol evacuated ignation a reality. the ferry as well as the ferry terminal for TUESDAY 3

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FRIDAY CASCADIA WEEKLY A 20-year-old Mount Vernon man is fatal- outside the classroom. At nearly 15 percent Congressman Rick Larsen says he’s decided to support presi- ly stabbed during a ﬁght on James Street in below the average incomes of peers at other 13 dential candidate Barack Obama at the Democratic National Bellingham. universities, Western faculty are among the Convention in August. Larsen is the ﬁfth Washington superdel- lowest among comparable institutions. currents INTERVIEW

SHARIF ABDULLAH, Keepers, Breakers and Menders. These are the three FROM PAGE 8 ALISON WILLIAMS, dominant forms of consciousness on our planet. 38 38 FROM PAGE 9 Keepers are indigenous people who know how to techniques under my belt that the master’s level chemist live and have always lived within the earth’s toler- FOOD in the lab had. I had a great experience in that lab. rate entities, is they live forever. So while we have ances and with a deep respect for their place as an

31 CW: Tell me about your research now. gone through four or ﬁve generations, Coca-Cola integral part of the Earth Family. AW: I’m trying to understand how the environment that has just lived on and has amassed a wealth that Breakers are the breakers of the sacred hoop, DNA is in affects its behavior, affects its shape, affects is almost unthinkable. And Coca-Cola is not the the ones who say, “I am better than everything how much energy it takes to change from one shape to largest or wealthiest of these entities. and everyone on the earth,” which gives us all CLASSIFIEDS another, the rate at which it forms a double-helix or Obviously, I want to distinguish between the of our -isms. Breakers cherish their status as falls apart. I work with very, very tiny pieces of synthe- many mom-and-pop, small corporations that are individuals and rebels; American culture is a 26 sized DNA under ultraviolet light, so I know exactly what making human decisions and the larger entities Breaker culture.

FILM FILM chemical reactions are happening. where there is a removal or reduction of human The last group are Menders, who were raised as I am particularly interested in ions, in things like beings from the decision-making loop. Breakers—they have the consciousness of being a common table salt, because there are places in the body In this economic competition between human Breaker—but who are trying to give it up. Mend- 22 22 where ions have a huge effect. DNA itself is an ion; it beings and these latter corporations, the ones ers identify themselves as ones who are ﬁxing the has a charge on it. with all the resources and unlimited life span will problems by adopting the values of the Keepers MUSIC CW: For young people choosing a career, I would imagine inevitably win. but applying the technological savvy of the Break- there are ample opportunities for women and people of How do we get a grip on this? ers to resolve problems and create a vision of an 20 20 color in the sciences? Global corporatism is something I see as a ma- awakened society.

ART AW: There are; but the pipeline problem is huge. In competition for limited resources, scientists at every point

18 along the academic research pipeline feel the effects. It WE’VE GOT A NUMBER OF CHALLENGES IN FRONT OF US, AND really takes our minds, as researchers, off our students. THEY’RE NOT LIGHTWEIGHT. SOME OF THEM ARE RELATIVELY STAGE I see a tremendous number of students get discour- aged in their ﬁrst year. I ﬁnd it very frustrating. Princeton EASY TO HANDLE, LIKE GLOBAL WARMING. OTHERS ARE

17 doesn’t see a need to support students of color; there are some groups of students who have self-formed to help each REALLY DIFFICULT! other out, but the university itself doesn’t have any sort of GET OUT formal mentoring program in the sciences. And I don’t think it is just women and people of jor issue, and one that gets to the root of what CW: You talked about race, you talked about gender. 16 color who need mentoring. All ﬁrst-generation college sort of society we want to be. But it’s one I can’t How about religion? students need it. In general, there just aren’t enough really talk about because it takes hours to really SA: Oh, there’s no problem with religion, is there?

WORDS Americans—period—going into science. get your mind around it. [laughs] While the opportunities are there, students have no CW: What’s led you to perceive these large-scale CW: It seems our faith is the keeper of the values

8 8 idea what they can do in science. Especially younger issues? we hold? I assume you became a practicing Muslim people before college whom I talk to; they’ve just never SA: I was born and raised in the Philadelphia area— through your involvement in the Black Power move- been exposed to scientists except for quacks in the mov- Camden, New Jersey, which is Time magazine’s ment. Are you still? CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS ies. I mean, CSI has changed lives! A lot of people want worst city in America. I was raised in the worst SA: Good questions. My ﬁrst 15 years on the planet to do forensics now because they’ve watched CSI. parts of the worst city in America, which gives me were spent as a practicing Episcopalian; I prac- 6 It’s gotten tougher in academia because the war has great bragging rights. ticed Christianity exclusively. The next 15 years taken away so many resources. People are not getting I understood how societies don’t work, from or so, I was a practicing orthodox Muslim, and VIEWS VIEWS funded to do research; and people are becoming much the inside out and from a very early age. I practiced that exclusively—ﬁve prayers a day, more closed with how they spend their research grants. My awareness of, and my concern for, the nature and so on. 4 CW: The war in Iraq has created a shift of priorities in of society grew through my political-social-cultural Then I realized that the problem—the problem

MAIL MAIL science? involvement with the various Black Power move- you identiﬁed—is that religion can act as a kind AW: Yes; I see people who are ranked in the top 10 to 12 ments. I believed at that time that the world worked of super-charger that sits on top of all these other

3 percent of grants who are not getting funding for their for all white people, and the solution was to get it problems and ampliﬁes them. But the problem is not

DO IT IT DO projects—I mean really good scientists. to also work for all black people. faith, but religious exclusivity.

They’re feeling under siege and beleaguered, and What I got to college, I realized the world The Breaker mindset—the mindset that says,

08 they’re not necessarily transmitting their enthusiasm for wasn’t working for white people, either. I was “I am different from you”—is extended into re-

.14. science to students in the same way they used to. They’re shocked! How could this be? ligion to say, “My form of religion is better than 5 struggling to keep their labs going. As years passed, I increasingly saw that the yours. My form of religion is the only possible

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# see science in action. So we as a society have to do a saw black people who were perpetuating the same going to hell.” better job of exposing students to options. There are problems, the same activities and consciousness, That consciousness—which is at odds with all tremendous opportunities, but students don’t get wind as others. Therefore, the problem couldn’t be ra- of our wisdom teachings—is the thing that gives of them as often as they should. cially based. Then the women’s movement came us all the forms of religious alienation and the I try to take students to conferences. There’s a na- along and said the problem was sexually based— violence that causes. That violence is not conﬁned tional association of black chemists and chemical engi- that men were the problem, and women were the to any particular religion; and every religion that neers that holds a conference every year; a microbiol- victims of the problem. But I also saw lots of wom- I know of, there is a branch that supports some CASCADIA WEEKLY ogy society holds a conference on biomedical research en acting exactly as men were acting. So it can’t kind of religious exclusivity.

14 for minority students—if you can get students to go to be gender based; and it is not even ideologically Yet, as I practice various forms of religion—what those meetings where they see other people like them, based. It’s something within our consciousness. I call the Common Faith—I don’t see any signiﬁcant that can go a long way to getting them involved. That’s when I began to formulate this concept of difference in any of these religions. Now it doesn’t Ready to Ride?

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THURS., MAY 15 COLLECTIONS: Nancy Van azine—WWU’s annual literary 38 38 words Winckel reads from her poetry arts publication—at 4pm at the collection, No Starling, at 7pm at university’s Viking Union, room FOOD COMMUNITY LECTURES BOOKS Village Books, 1200 11th St. For 565. For more info: 650-3118.

more info: 671-2626. 31 MAY 15-17 COMMUNITY POETRY FESTIVAL: The Skagit River Poetry Festival features FRI., MAY 16

CLASSIFIEDS readings, workshops, panels, JUNIOR PARADE: Adults can music at various locations in La watch while kids take part in the Conner throughout the weekend.

26 Ski to Sea Junior Parade starting For more info: (888) 290-6398 or at 6pm at Cornwall Avenue near BY AMY KEPFERLE skagitriverpoetry.org.

FILM FILM Kearney Street. For more info: FRI., MAY 16 734-1330 or skitosea.org. FAMILY TALES: Members of the 22 22 SAT., MAY 17 Bellingham Storytellers Guild SWEDISH PANCAKES: Nosh on Groovin’ for Grizzlies will share stories “of spring fun “Swedish pancakes made by Nor- MUSIC and adventure” at 7pm at the wegians” at the monthly Swedish THE BEAR NECESSITIES Fairhaven Library, 1117 12th St. Pancake Breakfast from 8-11am For more info: 714-9631.

20 20 at Norway Hall, 1419 N. Forest WHALE MUSIC: David Rothen- St. Cost is $3 for kids and $6 for

ART ALTHOUGH THERE won’t be hairy creatures burg talks about his book, Thou- adults. For more info: 733-6618. with claws and paws dancing alongside attendees sand-Mile Song: Whale Music in a BELLINGHAM MARKET: The

Sea of Sound, at 7pm at Village Bellingham Farmers Market is

18 at Conservation Northwest’s “Groovin’ for Grizzlies” Books, 1200 11th St. For more open from 10am-3pm every Sat- soiree May 16 at the Boundary Bay “Bear” Garden, info: 671-2626. urday through December at the

STAGE they’ll be there in spirit. ENDGAME: Derrick Jensen, au- Depot Market Square. For more Combining activism with entertainment, the sec- thor of Endgame: The Problem of info: 647-2060 or bellingham- Civilization, talks about human’s farmers.org. 16 17 ond annual event is meant to draw attention to the assault on the natural world at plight of the North Cascades grizzly bear. Event orga- HUMAN ORIGINS: Take part in a free presentation at 7:30pm at the battle of the ages at today’s nizer and emcee Rose Oliver says it’s estimated that

WORDS WWU’s Fraser Hall, room 4. For

GET OUT “Human Origins: A Middle Way” less than a dozen grizzlies are left in the mountain more info: 650-6129. conference from 12-8pm at Wise range, and points out that “we have a unique oppor- SAT., MAY 17 Awakenings, 314 E. Holly St. Cost 16 is $25. For more info: 752-1824 tunity and responsibility to recover the North Cas- JOHN STRALEY: Alaskan au- or [email protected]. cades grizzly bear and, in doing so, leave a legacy of thor John Straley reads from his FOOD FAIR: A Gluten-Free Food WORDS new thriller, The Big Both Ways, wildness rather than one of extinction.” Fair happens from 1-6pm at the at 7pm at Village Books, 1200 Like salmon, Oliver says the Fairhaven Food Pavilion, 3125

11th St. Straley will also be the 8 bears are key indicators of our Old Fairhaven Parkway. Entry is featured speaker on a two-day free. For more info: 332-7435. ecosystem’s health and biodi- cruise around the San Juan Is- versity. Dubbed “the rototill- lands May 18-19. For more info: MAY 17-18

CURRENTS CURRENTS ers of the forest,” grizzlies 671-2626 or (877) 831-7427. DOG SHOW: The Mt. Baker Ken- do nifty things like transport SUN., MAY 18 nel Club/AKC All Breed Dog Show

6 happens from 8am-6pm at Lyn- seeds and fertilizers via their TRIO OF TALES: Young adult den’s Northwest Washington Fair- authors Liz Gallagher, Amber scat (yes, a bear does shit in grounds, 1775 Front St. Admission VIEWS VIEWS Kizer, and Trudi Trueit read from the woods), leave remain- is free. For more info: 733-7138 or ATTEND their latest works at 4pm at Vil-

ders of their meals behind for WHAT: Groovin’ for Kinsman Jesse mtbakerkennelclub.org. 4 lage Books, 1200 11th St. For Grizzlies smaller animals and aerate Emcees Krissa Woiwod and Rose Oliver more info: 671-2626. SUN., MAY 18 7pm Fri.,

MAIL MAIL WHEN: soil while digging for insects FUNDRAISING BREAKFAST: May 16 MON., MAY 19 and roots. specials—care for a Mountain Huckleberry martini at Help raise funds for repairs at

3 WHERE: Boundary POETRY NIGHT: Sign up to read Ten Mile Grange and North Bell- Washington state Governor Bay Brewery, 1107 Nimbus, a Honey Latte at the Black Drop, or a Salmon your creations at Poetry Night at ingham Grange at a fundraising

DO IT IT DO Christine Gregoire agrees at- Railroad Ave. Crepe with Blueberries at the Mount Bakery? 8:30pm every Monday at Fanta- breakfast from 8-11am at the COST: $10-$12 sia Espresso, 1332 Cornwall Ave. tention must be given to the Grizzly Brown Cask Conditioned Ale will be anoth- Rome Grange, 2821 Mt. Baker INFO: 671-9950 or For more info: 715-1634 or poet- 08 importance of keeping the er bear-themed item at “Groovin’ for Grizzlies,” and Hwy. For more info: 671-7862. conservationnw.org rynight.org.

.14. species viable, and has de- you can expect to see a few furry caps among those SHOW & SHINE: Custom and 5 clared May 12-18 to be Bear dancing along to music by Yogoman’s Wild Rumpus, TUES., MAY 20 antique motorcycles, rafﬂes, RADIO HOUR: Pulitzer Prize- live music and food will be part

.03 Awareness Week. Closer to home, the Whatcom County one-man band Wisconsin Slim, and the funk stylings winning author Bill Dietrich will of the Motorcycle Show & Shine 20

# Council recently voted 6 to 1 in favor of a resolution of Lucky Brown. Oliver will be joined by local enter- be featured at tonight’s “Chucka- from 10am-3pm at Bellingham’s in support of the long-planned Grizzly Bear Recovery tainer Krissa Woiwod to emcee the show, making sure nut Radio Hour” at 6:30pm at the Depot Market Square. Bike entry Plan. In addition, 48 business sponsors in Whatcom, people learn more about the bears that share our cor- American Museum of Radio and is $10. For more info: 676-2164. Skagit, and Okanogan counties have contributed to ner of the world while managing to have a fun night Electricity, 1312 Bay St. Cost is WED., MAY 21 $5. For more info: 671-2626. the effort via specials and related events. out on the town. WORLD ISSUES: “Reﬂections If you can’t make it to the action-packed party on “If you can make education and activism fun, why WED., MAY 21 on the Status of Ethics, Law and Friday, Oliver says you can do a lot to make up for it. not?,” Oliver says. “Education via entertainment VAMPIRE TALE: Susan Hubbard Justice After 9/11” will be the CASCADIA WEEKLY A couple suggestions include going to conservationnw. seems to break down barriers that people might not reads from her latest vampire topic of a free World Issues Fo- tome, The Year of Disappear- rum at noon at WWU’s Fairhaven org and signing their online petition or getting on their even know they had. If people are laughing and hav- 16 ances, at 7pm at Village Books, College Auditorium. For more volunteer roster, or visiting bearinfo.org and learning ing fun while they’re learning, the lesson might just 1200 11th St. For more info: info: 650-2309. to be “Bear Smart.” Local businesses are also offering stick a little longer.” doit

WED., MAY 14 more info: 778-7000. MEMORIAL RIDE: Take part in INTRO TO SAILING: Learn the a Ride of Silence and Celebra- basics at an “Intro to Sailing” class at 1:30pm at the Belling-

tion of Trail Bridges from 6-8pm starting at the Fairhaven Village ham Bay Community Boating 38 38 get out Green. You’ll be riding to honor Center, 501 Harris Ave. Cost is $35 and the class will be held

HIKING RUNNING CYCLING the memory of people injured or FOOD killed while walking or biking. again May 24. For more info: For more info: 671-BIKE. 714-8891. PLANT EATERS: Marlee Oster- 31 THURS., MAY 15 bauer will lead a “Wild Edible WAKE UP: The Whatcom Asso- Plants” walk at 2pm at Mount ciation of Kayak Enthusiasts will Vernon’s Breazeale-Padilla Bay

hold a meeting and talk by Chris Interpretive Center, 10441 Bay CLASSIFIEDS Mitchell at 7:30pm at the Bell- View-Edison Rd. The event is ingham Public Library, 210 Cen-

free, but registration is required. 26 tral Ave. For more info: 738-3617 For more info: 428-1558. or wakekayak.org.

ROLLER BETTIES: Everett’s Jet FILM HORT SOCIETY: Landscape and City Roller Girls will take on the garden photographer Andrea Bellingham Roller Betties at a Jones will talk about “Garden 5pm “Mama Said Knock You Out” 22 Exposures” at the Whatcom Hor- bout at the Sportsplex, 1225

BY ABBY SUSSMAN ticultural Society’s meeting at Civic Way. Food vendors and a MUSIC 7:30pm at the Whatcom Museum, beer garden will be part of the 121 Prospect St. Entry is $5-$10. gig. Tickets are $12-$15 ($5 for

For more info: 738-6833. kids). For more info: 441-5477 or 20 bellinghamrollerbetties.com. SAT., MAY 17 ART Bike to Work WORK PARTY: Village Books will JUNIOR RACE: The Ski to Sea host a work party from 1-3pm on

Junior Multi-Relay race kicks the South Bay Trail. Meet at the YOUR THIGHS WILL THANK YOU 18 off at 8am at Lake Padden Park, trailhead at the corner of 10th 4882 Samish Way. The event is Street and Douglas Avenue. For

free for spectators. For more STAGE more info: 671-2626 or chuck@ info: 734-1330 or skitosea.net. villagebooks.com. BOATING SAFETY: Sign up for WHEN YOU wake up Friday, don’t even bother look- 17 ing for your car keys—May 16 is Bike to Work and School a “Boating Safety Class” hap- MAY 17-18 pening from 8am-4:30pm at the WATERFRONT FEST: The Ana- Day. Inspired by the national event, Bellingham and What- Bellingham Yacht Club. Cost is

cortes Waterfront Festival hap- GET OUT com County residents will take to the streets, infusing a $45 and includes materials and pens throughout the weekend typical commute with two-wheeled fun. lunch. For more info: 647-9715 at Fidalgo Bay and includes 17 The ﬁrst Bike to Work Day was organized by the League or bliaux.com. water safety demos, a marine 16 of American Bicyclists 51 years ago and has since been cel- PLANT SALE: The annual Com- swap meet, walking tours, munity Plant Sale at Cascade boat rides and much more. For WORDS ebrated in cities around the country every year, with Bell- Cuts happens from 9am-4pm at more info: (360) 293-7911 or GET OUT ingham joining the ride in 1998. 632 Montgomery Rd. The event Anacortes.org.

According to Whatcom Smart- beneﬁts the Food & Farming 8 Program of Sustainable Connec- SUN., MAY 18 Trips, about 10 percent of Bike to Central to the local bike community is the PLANT WALK: Members of the Work Day riders become regular bike Hub, a nonproﬁt bike shop that also serves as tions. For more info: 709-3103 or s-connect.org. Washington Native Plant So- commuters, making the gradual a public gathering spot. The Hub’s location on HISTORY HIKE: Hook up with ciety will host a free “Spring CURRENTS transition from recreational biking the Interurban Trail just south of the Belling- the Whatcom Land Trust at Introductory Plant Walk” at to biking for transportation—a line ham Farmers Market allows for both spontane- 10am for a “Squire’s Lake His- 1pm at Lake Padden Park, 4882 6 tory Hike.” The event is free, Samish Way. For more info: that blurs once it becomes habit. ous and organized community events, one of 319-6988. Designating a Bike to Work Day not the objectives of Kyle Morris, founder and di- but registration is required. For VIEWS DO IT more info: 650-9470 or what- FUN RUN: Fairhaven Runners only encourages commuters to try an WHAT: Bike to rector of the Hub. “We’re a place where the com- will host a Stewart Mountain

comlandtrust.org. 4 Work and School alternative way of getting to work, munity can organize, where people can get their WOMEN’S RUN: The 26th an- Fun Run today. Meet at 8am at Day Bellingham’s Sunset Square Star- but also applauds the consistent ef- bikes fixed and where we can educate people on nual Bay View Women’s Walk/ MAIL WHEN: Fri., May 16 bucks to caravan to the trail- forts of the hamstrings and quads of an unorthodox consumer experience.” Run starts at 10am at Mount WHERE: Support head. The 11-mile run is free. Vernon’s Bay View State Park. 3 dedicated bike commuters. stations will be For a suggested donation of $5 per hour, the The event benefits the Skagit For more info: 676-4955. set up between Riding to work or school in the Hub provides all cyclists with a space to fix IT DO Domestic Violence and Sexual 6:30-9am at TUES., MAY 20 morning is “energizing and a great derailers and patch flats, or just bring their Assault Services. For more info: Railroad and Holly, COMPASS SKILLS: Learn how way to start the day,” says Belling- bikes in for a tune-up from professional me- skagitdvsas.org. 08 Fairhaven Vil- to keep yourself found at a free BOW RIDE: Join the Mount Bak- ham bike enthusiast Casandra Nelson, chanics. “My ultimate goal is to get people “Map & Compass Skills” clinic .14.

lage, Red Square, 5 er Club at 10am for a 20-mile ride adding that bike commuting naturally Sehome Village, on their bikes and be stoked about it,” Morris at 6pm at REI, 400 36th St. For in the Bow area. For more info Barkley Village, more info: 647-8955.

“integrates exercise into my day.” explains, waving to nearly everyone pedaling .03 and meeting details: 734-6602. W.E.B. MEETING: Whatcom

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Human-powered transportation is by the Hub—all who look plenty stoked to be POKER RIDE: Animals as Natu- # tary, Whatcom W.E.B. (Women Expanding just one aspect of a larger movement on two wheels. ral Therapy will hold a Poker Community College, Boundaries) will hold an Open Ride fundraiser starting at 10am toward local living. For bike advo- Cornwall Park, With gas at nearly $4 a gallon, there’s even House from 7-8:30pm at the at the Les Hilde Trailhead in Sk- cate Shawn Collins, commitment to Bellingham Public more incentive to rely on your own muscles. On Fairhaven Park Pavilion, 107 agit County. Cost is $10-$20. For Market, and more. Chuckanut Dr. If you want to biking involves “lifestyle choices Friday, rather than fueling your tank, ﬁll up on more info: 671-3509. COST: Free network with other women in- and a change in how you see yourself free snacks and schwag at Celebration Stations ADAPTIVE CYCLE EXPO: Rid- INF: 671-BIKE or terested in outdoor recreational in relation to distances… biking to around town. Once you get out of your car, you’ll ers of all abilities can take a spin activities, show up. Suggested

everybodybike.com CASCADIA WEEKLY some extent shapes my social life.” not only feel your grin growing, but you’ll actu- on specialized bikes at today’s donation is $2. For more info: Adaptive Cycle Expo from 11am- 778-7000 or Washingtonout- Riding with friends downtown to ally be able to see broad smiles on the faces 17 2pm at Bellingham City Hall, 210 doorwomen.org. grab a bite to eat or see live music is an extension of a night of your friends and neighbors—an experience Lottie St. The event is free. For out—a commute becomes a community experience. that’s easy to miss at 25 miles per hour. doit STAGE MAY 16-17 BRIGADOON: Witness a town WED., MAY 14 come alive for the ﬁrst time in DRAG SHOW: Whatcom Com- 100 years when Brigadoon shows munity College’s Queer Straight

at 7:30pm at the Blaine Per- Alliance presents a Drag Show at forming Arts Center, 975 H St. 38 38 stage 6pm at the Syre Student Center, The musical will also feature a 237 W. Kellogg Rd. Short skits,

FOOD THEATER DANCE PROFILES live 13-piece orchestra. Tickets song-and-dance and music will are $9-$13. For more info: (360) be part of the fun. Tickets are 733-7063 or nwtg.org. 31 $3-$5. For more info: 927-0341. WED., MAY 21 MAY 14-18 HUMAN COMEDY: Follow the MALE INTELLECT: Actor and lives of the Macauley family dur- writer Robert Dubac brings his CLASSIFIEDS ing World War II when The Human one-man show, The Male Intel- Comedy opens tonight at 7:30pm lect: An Oxymoron?, to town at

26 at WWU’s Performing Arts Cen- 7:30pm Wed.-Thurs., 6pm and ter Mainstage. The opera can be 9pm Fri.-Sat., and 7:30pm Sun. at

FILM FILM perform their way through the midnight hour, then seen at various times through into dawn, daylight and dusk again before coming to the Mount Baker Studio Theatre, May 31. Tickets are $9-$13. For 104 N. Commercial St. Tickets an exhausted, exhilarated end. more info: 650-6146. 22 22 are $45. For more info: 734-6080 What does it feel like to be performing during the or mountbakertheatre.com. cracks and crannies of time? “We were a cesspool of MUSIC THURS., MAY 15 DANCE improvised energy,” says Mainstage member Robin GOOD, BAD, UGLY: Catch “The THURS., MAY 15 Corsberg, who took part in Good, the Bad and the Ugly”

20 20 DANCE FILM: The Bellingham last year’s inaugural event at 8pm at the Upfront Theatre, Repertory Dance Company will

ART 1208 Bay St. At 10pm, stick and lived to tell the tale. present a showing of the docu- around for “The Project: Mad “I had to push myself to mentary Ballet Russe at 7:30pm

Comedy in the Making.” Cost at the Firehouse Performing

18 be able to function in a for- 18 18 is $5 for the early show, $3 for Arts Center, 1314 Harris Ave. mat, and function with in- the late one. For more info: Tickets for the fundraiser are $7. 733-8855 or theupfront.com.

STAGE dividual players and func- STAGE For more info: 306-0595. tion as myself with a lack YOU WOULD: Improv comedy with the Dead Parrots Society FRI., MAY 16 17 of sleep,” Corsberg says. and more will be part of a free ALL-CITY DANCE: The Reﬂec- “You’re in another world. ATTEND “You Would!” performance at tions will play music at tonight’s Improv is about ﬂow, and 8pm at WWU’s Fraser Hall, room Ski to Sea All-City dance at 7pm

GET OUT WHAT: 2nd annual Improvathon you’re constantly in the 4. For more info: 650-2343. at the Bellingham Golf & Coun- WHEN: 7:30pm, Fri., ﬂow of it... It’s pretty in- MAY 15-17 try Club, 3729 Meridian St. Sug- 16 gested donation is $10. For more May 16-11pm Sat., May tense and amazing.” THE LARAMIE PROJECT: info: 319-5933. 17 Performer Ben Eisner If you remember Matthew WHERE: Upfront The- DANCE BLAST: The Belling- WORDS Shepard, you’ll remember The says planning before- ham and Squalicum High School atre, 1208 Bay St. Laramie Project, the theater hand—ﬁguring out who dance teams will perform at the COST: $40 all-access, piece that was created from

8 6th annual “Dance Blast” at 7pm come-and-go pass; $20 was playing in and hosting interviews with more than at Bellingham High, 2020 Corn- die-hard challenge (stay each show, when people 200 people from the Wyoming wall Ave. Hip-hop, jazz, ballet, up from beginning to were scheduled for breaks, town. See the play at 7:30pm swing, belly dancing and more end without falling at Syre Black Box Theatre at CURRENTS CURRENTS etc.—helped alleviate are on the lineup. Tickets are asleep and win free Whatcom Community College. Beckie Rosillo some of the stress when $5 at the door. For more info: tickets every weekend Additional showings happen 6 676-6575, ext. 7112. for a year); $5 one-hour players “got too tired to May 22-23. Tickets are $4-$6. BY AMY KEPFERLE increment tickets from really function.” For more info: 647-9242. SAT., MAY 17 VIEWS VIEWS 11pm Fri. - 6pm Sat.; Matt Slater agrees that SHORT PLAYS: The Man Who TRADITIONAL JAZZ: Dance $8-$10 for 7:30pm and organization was key to Fell Off His Bicycle features sev- to the music of the Bellingham 4 9:30pm shows making the ﬁrst Impro- en short, reworked plays from Dixieland All Stars from 2-5pm INFO: 733-8855 or past shows at 8pm at the iDiOM at the VFW, 625 N State St. MAIL MAIL theupfront.com vathon work, but points Improvathon Theater, 1418 Cornwall Ave. Entry is $8-$10. For more info: out that even things that Tickets are $10. For more info: 734-2973 3 THE SHOW WILL GO ON weren’t happening onstage were being made up as 201-5464. MIND OF ANXIETY: Human emo- tions will be expressed through DO IT IT DO they went along. “We were improvising everything,” MAY 15-18 (AND ON) dance, music and sculpture when he says. GREASE JR.: Bellingham Arts HsiuChing Lin’s collaborative

08 Whether you choose to catch the late-night “Hour Academy for Youth presents the piece, “The Mind of Anxiety,” musical Grease Jr. at 7pm Thurs.- .14. CAN YOU stay awake for 27 hours? Let me re- of Debauchery,” a showing of “Hellingham,” “The shows at 7:30pm at WWU’s Old 5 Sat. and 2pm Sun. at Sehome phrase that: Do you have the mettle to watch a rotat- Dawn of Improv,” or everything in between, you’ll Main Theatre. The event is free. High School, 2700 Bill McDonald For more info: 389-6033. .03 ing roster of 16-plus actors perform various forms of be treated to the spectacle of what happens when Parkway. Tickets are $10-$12

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# improvisational comedy for 27 hours straight without people push themselves to the limit and emerge bet- and additional showings hap- tunes at tonight’s Contra Dance interrupting their shows with your snoring? If you ter for it on the other side. pen May 15-18. For more info: from 8-11pm at the Fairhaven 306-1543 or baay.org. accept the challenge to make it through the entire Oona Sherman says she found herself in a “weird Library, 1117 12th St. Suggested POLYANNA: See an optimistic Improvathon without losing consciousness—and do head space” during last year’s Improvathon, but re- donation is $8-$10. For more orphan do her thing when Poly- info: 676-1554 or bellingham- so—there’ll be a big reward for you at the end. ports she kept focused by pretending what she was anna shows at 7:30pm Thurs.- countrydance.org. The Improvathon is exactly what it sounds like— doing was normal. By the ﬁnal Theatresports match, Sat. and 2pm Sun. at Lynden’s BALLROOM MOVES: A monthly it’s a long-distance marathon for theater geeks. when the show had gone on (and on), Sherman says Claire vg Thomas Theatre, 655 Ballroom Dance happens from CASCADIA WEEKLY Front St. Tickets are $11-$13. Starting at 7:30pm Friday night and continuing on the players who had been there the entire 27 hours 8:45-10:45pm at Melody Hall, For more info: 354-4425 or until the late show typically ends on Saturday eve- were bone tired, but elated to have made it to the 4071 Home Rd. Admission is 18 clairevgtheatre.org. ning, the “racers” at the Upfront Theatre will push ﬁnish line: “It felt like we were all winning gold $5-$7. For more info: 734-5676. themselves to the edge of sanity and beyond as they medals.”

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22 22 May 31. Cost is $50. For more For more info: (360) 466-4446 info: 734-4160. or museumofnwart.org. Welding Rodeo PAPERDOLL: Andrea Heim- MUSIC SUN., MAY 18 er’s text-based “Encouraging ART AUCTION: An “Eclectic METAL AND MOTION Words” exhibit is on display Art Auction and Extravagan- until May 30 at the Paperdoll, 20 20 20 20 za” begins at 1:30pm at the 1200 10th St. For more info: Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce ART ART THE RODEO is coming to town. But instead of 738-DOLL. St., Conway. In addition to PEACE ARCH PARK: The an- watching hefty steers getting lassoed or seeing how the work of 18 Skagit County nual Peach Arch Park Inter-

18 long rugged cowboys can clutch their thighs to bucking artists, performing artists will national Sculpture Exhibit is take the stage to be auctioned broncos, viewers can drop by the ranch—also known open through Oct. 1 at Blaine’s off. Cost is $20-$25. For more

STAGE as the Bellingham Technical College—and watch heaps Peace Arch Park. Sculptors info: (360) 445-3000. upon heaps of scrap metal get turned into works of art from Canada and the United States contributed to the 17 by torch-wielding welders. MON., MAY 19 As the brainchild of instructors Don Anderson and JEOPARDY: A ﬁne art ex- show. For more info: 332-7165 hibit, “Jeopardy on Display,” or peacearchpark.org. Jere Donnelly—who also both happen to be top-notch QUILT MUSEUM: “Spice of GET OUT opens today from 10am-4pm industrial welders as well as acclaimed metal artists— at WWU’s B-Gallery in the Fine Life” and “Creative Clothing: the 7th annual Welding Rodeo is much more than a Arts building. The show, which One Woman’s Journey” will be 16 fun way to spend a weekend. In addition to bringing is on display through May 23, on display through July 13 at professional and amateur welders together to turn dis- is culled from Jeopardy maga- the La Conner Quilt & Textile Museum, 703 S. 2nd St. For WORDS carded steel into eye-catching outdoor sculptures, the zine, the college’s annual literary art offering. For more more info: (360) 466-4288 or event showcases the career opportunities available info: 650-3118. laconnerquilts.com.

8 as part and parcel of the college’s welding program. ROEDER HOME: Ron Pattern’s Booths providing details on “Local Landscapes” watercolor the many jobs available to ONGOING exhibit will be on display through May 22 at the Roeder CURRENTS CURRENTS both male and female weld- EXHIBITS Home, 2600 Sunset Dr. For ers will be front and center. ALLIED ARTS: Children’s more info: 733-6897. 6 For those not familiar art that has been translated SEASIDE GALLERY: “Tulip with how the Welding Rodeo into quilted fabric hangings Mania” runs through May 15

VIEWS VIEWS by Patty Mitchell—and other comes together, here’s how at La Conner’s Seaside Gallery, works by local kids—can be 112 Morris St. For more info: it works: each morning of seen through May 17 at Allied 4 laconnerseasidegallery.com. the event, 10 teams of four Arts, 1418 Cornwall Ave. For SMITH AND VALLEE: View

MAIL MAIL sculptors each peruse a swath SEE IT and metal trades craftspeople—will be sold off at a more info: 676-8548 or allie- “Jennifer Eaton and Jason of scrap piles to cull their WHAT: 7th annual live auction. On the table will be the top amateur, darts.org. Williamson: New Paintings and

3 BLUE HORSE: Gallery art- material from. During the Welding Rodeo professional and “people’s choice” sculptures, and Drawings” through June 1 at WHEN: 8am-5:30pm ists will be on display through Edison’s Smith and Vallee Gal-

DO IT IT DO following six hours, they’ll chances are good you’ll be paying a lot less than you May 16-17 June 7 at the Blue Horse Gal- lery, 5742 Gilkey Ave. For more come up with an idea related WHERE: Bellingham would if you were purchasing the piece through an art lery, 301 W. Holly St. For more info: (360) 305-4892. info: 671-2305. 08 to the theme—this year’s is Technical College, gallery (Welding Rodeo works have sold for anywhere WESTERN GALLERY: Peruse 3028 Lindbergh Ave. GOOD EARTH: Pieces by pot- “Field Notes: Photographs by .14. “Motion”—and do what they from $200-$3,000 each). 5 ter Linda Stone will be fea- can to make it a work of art. COST: Entry is free Part of the draw, of course, comes from watching Dianne Kornberg” through May INFO: 752-8346 or tured through May at Good 31 at the Western Gallery on

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# abstract, most will be larger come up with based on the theme and the materials For more info: 671-3998 or info: 650-3963. than life, and some will sim- on hand (last year’s “Wonderful World of Bugs” com- goodearthpots.com. WHATCOM MUSEUM: “John ply blow you away. The pieces will be judged, awards prised everything from a guitar-playing ﬂy to an over- HISTORICAL MUSEUM: View Franklin Koenig: Northwest “Lost Cities of Skagit: Redis- will be given and, on day two, many of the works will sized scorpion). Master, Home and Away,” covering Places of Our Past” “Logging Days: Recent Dona- be auctioned off to the highest bidder. The two-day event, which begins May 16, will also through Nov. 2 at La Conner’s tions of Darius Kinsey,”and If you want to take a piece home with you, you’ll feature a vendor fair, a welding skills competition, a Skagit County Historical Mu- “The Melville Jacobs Legacy” have to stick around for Saturday’s grand ﬁnale. After campus-wide art exhibit, ice sculpture displays, music seum, 501 S. 4th St. For more are currently on display at CASCADIA WEEKLY seeing what the high school and college teams have and, for those still following the rodeo theme, a me- info: (360) 466-3365 or sk- the Whatcom Museum, 121 agitcounty.net/museum. created on Friday, the creations conjured by Saturday’s chanical bull. The motion will be made of metal, and Prospect St. For more info: 20 INSIGHTS: Works by Dianna 676-6981 or whatcommuseum. welders—comprised of professional teams of artists the cowpokes will be busy. Join us Saturday May 31st for a fabulous night of great food and lattes of laughs! Then relax in your deluxe newly upgraded cozy guest room. Channel Lodge waterfront room packages also available.

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SOMETIMES, DOING GOOD can be as simple as seeing your favorite band. Case in point: When Full

Frontal Assault, Serious Black, the Contra, and 38 38 music Strait A Students take the stage Fri., May 16 at the Rogue Hero to ruin your ears while simultane- FOOD PREVIEWS RUMOR HAS IT ously showing you a good time, you can watch

31 the show with a sense of self-satisfaction, knowing that your $5 cover has helped WhAAM move one step—or several dollars—closer to procuring the PA they so desperately need. And you can also CLASSIFIEDS be secure in the knowledge that when they actually raise the funds to buy the equipment, WhAAM 26 will duly reward you for your altruism by booking BY CAREY ROSS

FILM FILM shows that will sound better than they ever have. Philanthropy has never been so satisfying for all

22 involved. 22 22 Folklike If you ﬁnd yourself, due to age orr MUSIC MUSIC PUTTING THE “FUN” IN FUNDRAISING prior commitments, unable to see the 20 20 show at the Rogue

ART but still want to catch Serious Black

18 in all their glory, they’ll also play a

STAGE show the night before with Ill Intent,

17 A Crow’s Glory, and Sling Shot. While I’m BY CAREY ROSS not going to disclose GET OUT the show’s location here, if you’re even 16 the least bit intrepid (i.e. you walk around

WORDS with your eyes open and you know how

8 to read), you’ll be able to ﬁgure out where to go. THE LIBRARIANS And, although the show is technically “free,” bands

John MeloyJohn are traveling from both Vancouver, B.C. and Seattle

CURRENTS CURRENTS for the show, so bring a donation lest people think WHEN I was in high school, I was what my teachers polite- Although it operates as a nonprofit, Explo- you are a cheap chump. You may not have noticed, 6 ly described as a “disciplinary problem.” I was not a bad kid, per rations Academy is a private school—and but gas is pretty spendy these days. se—in fact, far from it. I was certainly that means tuition. Explorations does use In other musical action, Felix Sonnyboy and the VIEWS VIEWS hungry for knowledge and begging to a variety of means to try and soften the fi- Muddy Boots Band’s regular Monday-night gig at be challenged. My fatal flaw, however, nancial blow for students (and their parents), Boundary Bay will be supplanted this week by the 4 is that I couldn’t figure out how solv- however, and one of their more successful— Felix Sonnyboy and the Muddy Boots Band’s CD re-

MAIL MAIL ing for X in ﬁrst-period algebra could not to mention entertaining—fundraising lease show. Although I’m not certain what they’ve got up their sleeves—other than newly minted CDs,

possibly translate to my real life once efforts is the annual Folklike Music and Arts 3 I left the schoolyard. In short, I wasn’t Festival. that is—that will differentiate this show from their

DO IT IT DO exactly cut out for your standard-issue The centerpiece of Folklike, which takes regular set, I do believe what they are promising is

classroom setting—which was prob- LISTEN place Saturday and Sunday, May 17-18, is the a good time for all in attendance. Even if the debut

08 ably why I spent a great deal of my WHAT: Folklike Music big, fat party the school throws at Boundary of the new album doesn’t make your heart beat a

.14. high school career sitting on a chair and Arts Festival Bay Brewery. This year’s fundraiser-disguised- little faster, you still may want to check out the 5 outside the principal’s ofﬁce. WHEN: Sat.-Sun., as-shindig kicks off at 5:30pm Sat. with a si- show if you’re a fan of the band, as shortly after May 17-18

.03 What I needed, although I didn’t WHERE: Boundary lent auction and tasty salmon dinner in the they abandon Boundary’s stage, they’ll abandon 20

# know it at the time, was exactly the Bay Brewery, 1107 brewery’s beer garden. And since no party in Bellingham as well, taking off for a spate of shows kind of educational experience Explo- Railroad Ave., work- Bellingham would be complete without music, in Alaska. Currently, they’re not slated for another rations Academy provides. Since 1995, shops at Explorations the varied talents of the lovely Librarians have show locally until the middle of July, although that, “Bellingham’s only fully accredited Academy, 1701 Ellis been called upon to provide a much higher of course, is subject to change. St. nonpublic high school” has been tak- COST: $5-$35 caliber of dinner music than typically filters Lastly, if you’re up early on Bike to Work day ing kids out of the classroom and into MORE INFO: through the speakers at your favorite eatery. (Fri., May 16), hungry for pancakes and itching the real world for a full slate of learn- 671-8085 or explora- And, if you’re not too stuffed with salmon to for a little music, the HUB will be flippin’ flap- CASCADIA WEEKLY ing that is as relevant to their actual tionsacademy.org get your groove on, come 9pm or so, Folklike jacks for all who ride up, appetites in tow, from

22 experience as my high school educa- transitions from dinner party to dance party 7:30-9:30am. Musical entertainment will be pro- tion was abstract. with the help of Issaquah bluesmen the Fabu- vided by the Shiitake Mushrooms, so you can get However, all this experiential learning comes with a price. CONTINUED ON PAGE 23 fed and get down, all at the same time. musicPREVIEW non-clubMUSIC

hands on and interactive, are also an integral part of THURS., MAY 15 joined by the Atlantics. Tick- FOLKLIKE, FROM ets are $7-$16. For more info: the festivities. Head to Explorations to, well, explore THIRD THURSDAY: The Free 671-1218. PREVIOUS PAGE any number of disciplines, from visual arts and music Range Radicals will give a free performance from 6-8pm at ALLAN THOMAS: Hawaiian to dance and theater performance. While you’re there, the Co-op’s Swan Café, 1220 singer and songwriter Allan 38 38 lous Roofshakers and Bellingham’s most danceworthy check out the school itself and all it has to offer, and re- N. Forest St. For more info: Thomas will perform at 8pm at jamsters, Savage Henry, who will take the party late assure yourself that your hard-earned dollars will work 734-8158. the Chuckanut Ridge Wine Com- FOOD into the night and put the “fun” back in fundraising. just as hard for those lucky kids for whom a “ﬁeld trip” pany, 1017 N. State St. Entry is

FRI., MAY 16 $10. For more info: 527-0900.

But Folklike isn’t just about the party. Workshops, doesn’t constitute a trip to the principal’s ofﬁce. FRITZ & FRIENDS: A free 31 concert by Fritz and the Free- MAY 17-18 loaders happens at 7pm at the WHATCOM SYMPHONY: musicPREVIEW Bellingham Public Market, 1530 “That’s Entertainment” will be the theme of the Whatcom Sym-

Cornwall Ave. For more info: CLASSIFIEDS 714-0800. phony Orchestra’s performances ON ENSEMBLE: Hear the On En- at 7:30pm Sat. and 3pm Sun. at 26 BY CAREY ROSS semble—a nontraditional taiko WWU’s Performing Arts Center. group—at 7:30pm at WWU’s The Bottom Line Duo will be FILM FILM Performing Arts Center Concert special guests at the shows. Hall. Tickets are $16-$25. For Tickets are $19-$23. For more 22 22 Looking at Jazz more info: 650-6146. info: 650-6146. 22 ALILO: The women’s ensemble SUN., MAY 18 Alilo will perform a capella MUSIC JOVINO SANTOS NETO CASCADE ENSEMBLE: A free MUSIC songs from around the globe at chamber concert happens when rediscovered the rhythms of 7:30pm at the Firehouse Per- the Cascade Ensemble performs his homeland. forming Arts Center, 1314 Har- at 2pm at the Whatcom Muse- 20 ris Ave. Suggested donation is um, 121 Prospect St. For more Santos Neto comes to Bell- ART $8. For more info: 647-9175. info: 778-8930. ingham as part of the Jazz FOUR HANDS: Pianists will SAT., MAY 17

Project’s Looking at Jazz se- 18 SKAGIT SYMPHONY: Belling- perform “The Friend’s French ries, which pairs musicians ham cellist Amy Buckingham Finale” at 3pm at the Firehouse Performing Arts Center, 1314

whose expertise falls into a will be featured at a Skagit STAGE particular area of jazz with Symphony concert at 7:30pm at Harris Ave. Tickets are $10-$15. Mount Vernon’s McIntyre Hall, For more info: 671-6104 or bell- films that entertain and 17 LISTEN 2501 E. College Way. Tickets are inghamhouseconcerts@hot- WHO: Jovino Santos educate about the topic, era $22-$35. For more info: (866) mail.com. Neto or genre at hand. As men- 624-6897 or mcintyrehall.org. ELLIS: Minneapolis singer and WHEN: 7:30pm Sat., GET OUT tioned, Santos Neto is an ZIMBABWE SONGS: Mawun- songwriter Ellis performs songs May 17 expert practitioner of Latin gira Enharira plays traditional from her new album, Break the WHERE: Whatcom Spell, at 7:30pm at the Belling- Zimbabwean music at 7:30pm at 16 Museum of History & jazz, so, appropriately, his the Bellingham Senior Center, ham Unitarian Fellowship, 1708 Art, 121 Prospect St. May 17 visit is preceded by 315 Halleck St. Tickets are $12. I St. Tickets are $12-$15. For COST: $11-$15 WORDS a free showing of the docu- For more info: (360) 202-6254. more info: 733-3837. MORE INFO: mentary Calle 54 on Fri., May KULSHAN CHORUS: The TUES., MAY 20 650-1066 or 16 at the American Museum Kulshan Chorus celebrates its 8 jazzproject.org SPRING CONCERT: “The Birds ALTHOUGH HE hails from Brazil, pianist, of Radio and Electricity. The 20th anniversary with South and the Bs” will be the theme flutist and composer Jovino Santos Neto wasn’t born film is an exuberant explo- African freedom songs, moun- of a free Spring Concert by the tain music from the southeast- Western Washington University with the drive to bring Latin jazz to the masses. It ration of the very music Santos Neto is the living CURRENTS ern United States, and more at Concert Choir at 8pm at the col- wasn’t until he left Brazil for Montreal and switched embodiment of, making this a situation in which art 8pm at Bellingham High School, lege’s Performing Arts Center. his focus from music to biology that Santos Neto actually imitates art. 2020 Cornwall Ave. They’ll be For more info: 650-3130. 6 VIEWS VIEWS

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CLASSIFIEDS STRIKE A CHORD 26 26 REVIEWED BY TODD MCCARTHY THE TALKING Heads’ FILM FILM FILM FILM “Road to Nowhere,” the Ramones’ “I Wanna Be Sedated,” and the Bee Gees’ “Stayin’ Alive” take on 22 22 Prince Caspian entirely new meanings when sung by a bunch of old-timers with an MUSIC NARNIA, 1,300 YEARS LATER average age of 80. Young@Heart, a documentary 20 20 made for BBC television, is about

ART the Young@Heart Chorus, Mas- sachusetts retirees who for 25

18 years have performed rock and pop songs to adoring audiences here

STAGE and abroad. It’s a bit weird to watch these

17 white-haired (and often no-haired) AARP-ers singing the music they used to yell at their kids to turn GET OUT down. In interviews the performers note that they’re more inter- 16 ested in classical and show tunes. Why, then, do they torment

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CURRENTS CURRENTS peat the word “can” 71 times)? Part of it is fellowship. Part of 6 it is about finding a creative out- let. But most of all it seems to be VIEWS VIEWS UNQUESTIONABLY THE first film sequel with and a related assassination attempt on Prince Caspian (Ben about challenging yourself right the distinction of taking place 1,300 years after the initial Barnes). Forced to flee from his castle, Caspian ventures up to the point when your body re- 4 series installment, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian deep into a forest, where his kind are not meant to go. fuses to cooperate any more. And

MAIL MAIL features more clanging swords than all the Robin Hood and By this time in Narnian history, the colorful assortment sometimes even beyond that— of creatures and talking animals familiar from the initial chorus members have been known

Ivanhoe movies put together. Closer to a straight-ahead 3 medieval battle picture than the fantastical, other-worldly story have been banished to the boonies, supplanted in the to defy their doctors and check

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new entry is a bit darker, more conventional and more crisply who speak with an unspeciﬁed Mediterranean accent. Suspi- as not to miss practice or a per-

08 made than its 2005 predecessor, which pulled in an amazing cious of any Telmarine by nature, the small band of dwarves, formance.

.14. $745 million worldwide. centaurs and chatty, furry critters aren’t sure what to make Walker follows the two dozen 5 The second of C.S. Lewis’ seven books in the early 1950s of Caspian, who has been usurped by his venal uncle, Lord Young@Heart singers over six

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STAGE to eat any vegetables other than carrots and potatoes. As a is a great one. Anyone wondering how to start incor- student living on my own for the ﬁrst time, I became a veg- porating local choices into their dining repertoire will

17 etarian, lustily experimenting with curries and stir fries and find all the tools necessary to begin the transition, refining my salad tastes (much to the including a guide to what’s in season. Experienced surprise of my parents). users will appreciate the new format, making it easy GET OUT Though the torrid passion that first to navigate through the 69 farms listed. overtook my student kitchen has abat- Through the choices we make, we can choose to 16 ed along with the strict vegetarianism, keep our local economy going strong. We can choose what’s come of the experience is a last- meals that represent the bounty of the county, and the storms and our economy, keeping a necessary

WORDS ing love affair with fresh produce. No are healthy for our land and ourselves. We can choose tradition of farming alive against ambivalence and longer do I look up complicated recipes to support businesses that, in turn, support our local “convenient” food options.

8 with hard-to-find vegetables. Instead, I food suppliers. Whether you’re in love with fresh produce, or are eagerly browse market stalls and stores ATTEND “Once you’ve got your Farm Map in hand, use looking for ways to support your community’s hard- WHAT: Community laden with the fruits of our county’s la- Plant Sale it!,” says Shonie Schlotzhauer, Sustainable Con- working farmers, fishers and food providers, find

CURRENTS CURRENTS bors. Most items I select require little WHEN: 9am-4pm nections’ Food and Farming Program Manager. “Buy your free copy of the Whatcom Farm Map & Guide at cooking or prep for maximum ﬂavor, Sat., May 17 your groceries from local farms. Try eating entirely any Whatcom County library, the Community Food 6 which is a boon in my busy life. The ﬂa- WHERE: Cascade from local farms for a week, then make it a month, Co-op, the Bellingham Farmers Market, or many vors of in-season, local food are one of Cuts Nursery, 632 then make it a way of life. It’s fun, it’s rewarding, other area businesses.

VIEWS VIEWS Montgomery Rd. life’s myriad pleasures. INFO: 709-3103 or and it’s awfully important to our community and You can also pick up a Farm Map May 17 at the I could not have been more thrilled sconnect.org our place and our whole world.” Cascade Cuts plant sale, which beneﬁts the Food 4 that my ﬁrst volunteer task for Sustain- You’ve likely heard that buying local and organic & Farming Program. For one day only, the whole-

MAIL MAIL able Connections was distributing the 2008 Whatcom Farm Map costs more, but this myth simply isn’t true. The hid- sale nursery is opening its doors to the general & Guide. It was also refreshing to see such an enthusiastic re- den costs of the conventional, global food system public to offer a selection of culinary and orna-

3 sponse to the map from the businesses where I distributed it. will catch up with us eventually. We’re seeing food mental treasures. That way, if you can’t make it

DO IT IT DO The truth is, we have excellent resources available to us within prices go up as transportation costs increase, while to a local farm to pick up your produce, you can

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