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THE GRISTLE, P.06 + BOB BALLOT, P.23 + SUJIN'S KIMCHI, P.26 c a s c a d i a REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIA WHATCOM SKAGIT ISLAND COUNTIES 08-22-2018* • ISSUE:*34 • V.13 TOUR OF GRIEF What extinction looks like P.10 PIONEERING PARTY Hovander Homestead Bluegrass Festival P.16 ESCAPE TO ALGER Sh'Bang! and beyond P.13 CLASSIC RIDES Scenes from the saddle, P.12 MUSIC Haynie Opry: 3pm and 7pm, Mount Vernon Senior A brief overview of this Center 26 Concert for Kids: 4pm, Eagle Haven Winery, Sedro- Woolley FOOD week’s happenings Summer Dance Party: 4-8pm, Heart of Anacortes THISWEEK Kaeli Earle Trio: 7:30pm, Jansen Art Center, Lynden 22 WEDNESDAY [08.22.18] FILM The Princess Bride: Dusk, Fairhaven Village Green ONSTAGE Humans and canines can interact via demos, vendors, B-BOARD Young Frankenstein: 7:30pm, Performing Arts COMMUNITY Center, WWU games and more at Whatcom Humane Society’s annual Hagglefest: 9am-6pm, RE Store Summer Fun Rod Run: 10am-5pm, Deming Log 20 FOOD Dog Days of Summer Festival Sun., Aug. 26 Show Grounds Wednesday Market: 3-7pm, Fairhaven Village Green Ferndale Street Festival: 10am-11pm, downtown FILM Ferndale [08.23.18] A Day in Happyville: 11am-4pm, John Storvik park, THURSDAY Anacortes 16 ONSTAGE Summerfest: 2-9pm, Josh Vander Yacht Memorial The Rover: 7:30pm, Sylvia Center Park MUSIC Young Frankenstein: 7:30pm, Performing Arts Beach Bash: 3-8pm Holiday Inn Hotel and Suites Center, WWU Summer Fun in the Park: 5-10pm, Blaine Marine 14 Good, Bad, Ugly: 8pm, Upfront Theatre Park The Project: 10pm, Upfront Theatre ART GET OUT MUSIC Chuckanut Classic: 7:30am, Boundary Bay Brewery 13 Blues and Brews: 5-9pm, Hotel Bellwether terrace Aly Fell International Water Swim: 9am, Lake Jazz Jam: 5:30-8:30pm, Illuminati Brewing Padden Park Bluesberry Trail Run: 9:30am, Heather Meadows STAGE The Replayzments: 6-8pm, Elizabeth Park Bobby Holland and the Breadline: 6-8pm, Riverwalk Day Lodge Plaza, Mount Vernon Classic Bike Show: 11am-3pm, downtown Anacortes 12 Threefer: 7:30pm, Chuckanut Center Summer Party: 1-8pm, Community Boating Center Downtown Throwdown: 4-8pm, Bellingham Public COMMUNITY Market GET OUT Senior Day in the Park: 10am-1:30pm, Maiben Park, Burlington FOOD Anacortes Farmers Market: 9am-2pm, Depot Arts 12 FOOD Center Bow Farmers Market: 1-6pm, Samish Bay Cheese Mount Vernon Market: 9am-2pm, Riverwalk Park Lummi Island Market: 10am-1pm, the Islander WORDS [08.24.18] Lynden Farmers Market: 10am-2pm, Centennial FRIDAY Park 10 ONSTAGE Blaine Gardeners Market: 10am-2pm, H Street Once Upon a Mattress: 7pm, BAAY Theatre Plaza The Rover: 7:30pm, Sylvia Center Bellingham Farmers Market: 10am-3pm, Depot Market Square CURRENTS Young Frankenstein: 7:30pm, Performing Arts Center, WWU 6 Push it to the Limit: 9pm, Upfront Theatre VISUAL Plein Air Paint Out: 10am-4pm, downtown Bell- VIEWS MUSIC ingham Stacy Jones Band: 6-8pm, Seafarers Memorial Park, 4 Anacortes SUNDAY [08.26.18] Farm Tunes: 6-9pm, BelleWood Acres MAIL ONSTAGE Once Upon a Mattress: 7pm, BAAY Theatre COMMUNITY 2 2 Ferndale Street Festival: 6-11pm, downtown Ferndale Young Frankenstein: 2pm, Performing Arts Center, WWU DO IT DO IT GET OUT Comedy Competition Audition Showcase: 8pm, Sin & Gin Tour: 7pm, downtown Bellingham Upfront Theatre FOOD MUSIC The Walrus: 1-4pm, Gilkey Square, La Conner 08.22.18 Ferndale Market: 3-7pm, Riverwalk Park International Concert Series: 2pm, Peace Arch Park, Blaine .13 VISUAL 34 Fourth Friday Art Walk: 5-8pm, historic Fairhaven # COMMUNITY [08.25.18] Block Party and Car Show: 10am-2pm, Hillcrest SATURDAY Chapel ONSTAGE Dog Days of Summer: 10am-3pm, Whatcom Humane Once Upon a Mattress: 2pm and 7pm, BAAY Theatre Society Young Frankenstein: 2pm and 7:30pm, Performing Hagglefest: 10am-5pm, RE Store Arts Center, WWU FOOD CASCADIA WEEKLY The Rover: 7:30pm, Sylvia Center Circus on the Water: 7:30pm, Lookout Arts Quarry Edison Farmers Market: 10am-3pm, Edison Granary Bacon & Kegs Festival: 11am-9pm, Depot Market 2 Push it to the Limit: 9pm, Upfront Theatre Hear the best of the blues when the Stacy Jones Band Square DANCE performs Fri., Aug. 24 as part of a Summer Concert Series Summer Ice Show: 1:30pm and 5:30pm, Bellingham at Seafarers’ Park in Anacortes VISUAL Sportsplex Plein Air Paint Out: 10am-4pm, downtown Bellingham THISWEEK 26 FOOD Contact Cascadia Weekly: 360.647.8200 22 mail TOC LETTERS STAFF Editorial B-BOARD Editor & Publisher: Tim Johnson ext 260 20 editor@ cascadiaweekly.com FILM Arts & Entertainment Editor: Amy Kepferle ext 204 16 calendar@ cascadiaweekly.com MUSIC Music & Film Editor: Carey Ross 14 ext 203 ART music@ “I didn’t think my songs would become anthems for women. cascadiaweekly.com But I’m delighted. 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We can all learn a little Production something from each other, so whatever people can take Art Director: STAGE and be inspired by where my music is concerned is great.” Jesse Kinsman —Aretha Franklin, 1942-2018 jesse@ 12 kinsmancreative.com Design: Bill Kamphausen GET OUT Views & News Advertising Design: 04: Mailbag Roman Komarov roman@ 12 06: Gristle & Goodman cascadiaweekly.com 08: Last week’s news Send all advertising materials to [email protected] WORDS 09: Police blotter, Index Advertising 10: Breach the dams SAVING ORCAS The message that is needed is a call to ac- 10 Sales Manager: We do know how to make life better for orcas— tion and for leadership by our elected officials Stephanie Young Arts & Life 360-647-8200 it is really a question of political will. to make tough necessary decisions that will help advertising@ CURRENTS 12: Classic rides Thanks for your recent article on orca and orca and salmon and our communities, and to cascadiaweekly.com pipeline. However, as an advocate working on work regionally to help communities and people 6 13: Escape to Alger Distribution the frontlines of the battle to protect orca and through needed transitions. Protecting orca and 14: Set in stone salmon from extinction—and to restore healthy salmon will deliver huge benefits to Northwest VIEWS Distribution Manager: 16: Hovander hoedown functional ecosystems—I was frustrated with people and economies. Change, though hard, is Erik Burge 4 4 18: Clubs 360-647-8200 the message contained within the article that the only way forward. distribution@ there is confusion about how to help orca. —Joseph Bogaard, Save Our Wild Salmon Coalition, MAIL MAIL 20: Film Shorts cascadiaweekly.com There is little confusion. We must restore Seattle Whatcom: Erik Burge, 2 prey, reduce vessel noise and reduce toxin loads Stephanie Simms Rear End and pollution. DO NOT BOYCOTT DEMOCRACY Skagit: Linda Brown, DO IT 21: Crossword Barb Murdoch We have known this for a very long time. We In 2016 a lot of us thought it was a sure thing 22: Free Will Astrology have, as a state and region, been unwilling to that we would have government that stayed rea- Letters make the hard decisions to achieve these goals. sonably progressive. After all, the polls all pre- 23: Advice Goddess SEND LETTERS TO LETTERS@ Restoring the lower Snake River, for example, dicted it! CASCADIAWEEKLY.COM 08.22.18 24: Comix, Sudoku will deliver large numbers of chinook salmon we Sadly, many of us (more than 30 percent of 26: Sujin’s Kimchi know the orca eat and need more of. Our region eligible voters nationwide) took this for granted .13 34 has been talking about this option for two de- and didn’t bother to vote. As a result, we got the # cades but failed to act, and failed to implement most incompetent, corrupt federal government ©2018 CASCADIA WEEKLY (ISSN 1931-3292) is published each Wednesday by any viable alternative actions to protect Snake in our lifetime (and I’m 83!). Cascadia Newspaper Company LLC. Direct all correspondence to: Cascadia Weekly PO Box 2833 Bellingham WA 98227-2833 | Phone/Fax: 360.647.8200 River salmon from extinction and begin to rebuild They were wrong, of course. If just a small per- [email protected] their numbers. It is not a silver bullet, but a criti- centage of the nonvoters had cast their ballots, Though Cascadia Weekly is distributed free, please take just one copy. Cascadia Weekly may be distributed only by authorized distributors. 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In an era when every federal department is run These are tactics that have worked to avoid mak- by sycophants of the president; when Congress is ing needed changes to help orca and salmon and full of so-called leaders who care about nothing rivers and marine waters—and orcas especially, except raising campaign funds, stopping prog- but all of us, are paying the price.