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34 34 cascadia FOOD Lauded pianist tickles 27 "--$&*#'..*) the ivories alongside the Whatcom

B-BOARD Symphony Orchestra March 27 at A glance at what’s happening this week the Mount Baker Theatre 24 [03. .11] FILM FILM 2 ) . 4 yz COMMUNITY

20 Nooksack Salmon Enhancement Celebration: 6-9pm, the Majestic MUSIC GET OUT Group Ride: 6pm, Boundary Bay Brewery 18 ART ART /#0-. 4[03.y{.11]

16 ON STAGE Stealing Home: 7:30pm, Sehome High School

STAGE STAGE Little Theatre Good, Bad, Ugly: 8pm, Upfront Theatre The Insane: 8:30pm, Honeymoon 14 The Project: 10pm, Upfront Theatre

GET OUT GET OUT A Hiker’s Tale: 7:15pm, Fairhaven Runners

FOOD 12 Wine Event: 6:30pm, Bellingham Cruise Terminal WORDS !-$ 4[03.y|.11] 8 ON STAGE Doc Holliday and the Angel of Mercy: 7:30pm, American Museum of Radio CURRENTS CURRENTS Stealing Home: 7:30pm, Sehome High School Little Theatre 6 Red, White and Tuna: 7:30pm, RiverBelle Dinner Theater, Mount Vernon VIEWS VIEWS Oklahoma: 8pm, Anacortes Community Theater Games Galore: 10pm, Upfront Theatre 4 DK & Morgan Standup Show: 11pm, iDiOM Theater MAIL MAIL -&./-*-# ./-channel the spirit

DANCE 2 Dancing for Joy: 6pm and 8pm, Firehouse Per- of the Grateful Dead when they visit the forming Arts Center DO IT IT DO DO IT 2

MUSIC Mount Baker Theatre March 30. 11 Chamber Chorale Beneﬁt: 6pm, Bellingham Golf

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.06 Alex Kuo: 7pm, Anchor Art Space, Anacortes DANCE Work Party: 9am-12pm, Maple Creek Reach Artists Talk: 1pm, Anchor Art Space, Anacortes 12

# Contra Dance: 7-10pm, Fairhaven Library Orchid Sale: 9am-5pm, Skagit Valley Gardens, Art and War Presentation: 3pm, Everson Mc- Mount Vernon Beath Community Library ./0- 4[03.y}.11] MUSIC Plant & Tree Sale: 10am-3pm, near Fairhaven Whispering Solo Piano Concert: 7pm, the Ama- Village Green ON STAGE deus Project Trail Run: 10am, Berthusen Park, Lynden .0) 4[03.y~.11] Camelot: 7pm, McIntyre Hall, Mount Vernon Stealing Home: 7:30pm, Sehome High School WORDS FOOD ON STAGE Little Theatre John Keeble: 4pm, Village Books Community Meal: 10am-12pm, United Church of Sideshow Garage Sale: 10am-2pm, Cirque Lab

CASCADIA WEEKLY Doc Holliday and the Angel of Mercy: 7:30pm, Ferndale Stealing Home: 2pm, Sehome High School Little American Museum of Radio COMMUNITY Mexican Fiesta: 6pm, Bellingham Senior Activity Theatre 2 Red, White and Tuna: 7:30pm, RiverBelle Dinner Celebrating Children Fundraiser: 5pm, Belling- Center Camelot: 2pm, McIntyre Hall, Mount Vernon Theater, Mount Vernon ham Golf & Country Club Best of BAAY: 6pm, the Majestic Oklahoma: 8pm, Anacortes Community Theater VISUAL ARTS Ryan Stiles & Friends: 8pm and 10pm, Upfront GET OUT Book Crafting for Beginners: 12-4pm, Whatcom MUSIC Theatre Birch Bay Road Race: 8:30am, Harborview Rd. Museum’s Lightcatcher Studio Canote Brothers: 2pm, Nancy’s Farm Whatcom Symphony Orchestra: 3pm, Mount

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COMMUNITY FOOD Bowl for Kids’ Sake: 10am-7pm, Park Bowl

GET OUT 27 Orchid Sale: 9am-5pm, Skagit Valley Gardens, Mount Vernon B-BOARD FOOD Brewery Tour: 12pm, Chuckanut Brewery 24

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Open Mic: 7pm, Village Books 20 Poetrynight: 8pm, the Amadeus Project

GET OUT MUSIC First Gear Class: 6pm, Birchwood Elementary FIGHTER WEIGH-INS 18

VISUAL ARTS ART Whatcom Art Guild Meeting: 7-9pm, Belling- APRIL 1 AT 7PM ham Public Library 16

/0 . 4[03.y.11] STAGE MUSIC Slough Dogs: 7pm, McIntyre Hall, Mount 14 Vernon

WORDS GET OUT Cara Lopez Lee: 7pm, Village Books Spoken Word: 7-9pm, Blue Horse Gallery 12 GET OUT

Nature Babies: 9:30am, Whatcom Falls Park WORDS 8 CURRENTS CURRENTS 6 VIEWS VIEWS 4 MAIL MAIL

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27 mail ô editor@ cascadiaweekly.com CONTENTS LETTERS STAFF Arts & Entertainment B-BOARD Editor: Amy Kepferle Eext 204 Knut, the four-year-old polar bear who was so famous his ô calendar@ 24 furry visage once graced the cover of Vanity Fair, died unex- cascadiaweekly.com pectedly Sunday in his outdoor enclosure at Germany’s Berlin

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6 28: Wellness E360-647-8200 x 253 big out there, and the biggest coal company of rolled by. And they all lived happily ever after— ô spelton@ 29: Crossword cascadiaweekly.com all was Peabody Energy. They were so big they or did they? VIEWS VIEWS 30: Free Will Astrology even had their own song. —Gary Coye, Bellingham Distribution Word had spread throughout the land that there 4

4 31: Advice Goddess JW Land & Associates was a shortage of coal in Whatcom County, so Mr. HOMELESSNESS ô distro@ MAIL MAIL MAIL 32: This Modern World, Peabody sprang into action. With the world’s larg- KNOWS NO BORDERS cascadiaweekly.com Tom the Dancing Bug est shovel, he loaded up his coal train, but he I can’t speak for the impoverished community

2 33: Sudoku, Troubletown Letters didn’t own any tracks. For help he turned to his within Washington State, although I admit that Send letters to letters@ friend, Mr. Buffett, who had his very own railroad. I picture it somewhat worse than even up here in DO IT IT DO 34: The bread of spring cascadiaweekly.com. As luck would have it, Mr. Buffett had a set of Canada and, most notably, British Columbia.

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11 cascadia REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIA WHATCOM*SKAGIT*ISLAND*LOWER B.C. 03.yz.11 :: #12, v.06 :: !- Now, there was a place in Whatcom County have a sometimes-great nemesis in mainstream .23.

03 called Cherry Point, where SSA Marine, the world’s society, its political ofﬁcials and in many promi-

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LUKAS NELSON: NOT YOUR AVERAGE MUSICIANS’ KID, P.20 }} FREE WILL: PROGNOSTICATION WITH PERSONALITY, P.30 County, after all. placing the polarized left- and right-wing camps Weekly may be distributed only by authorized distributors. Any person removing COMMON GROUND: WHO CONTROLS OUR BROKEN BORDERS? P.8 papers in bulk from our distribution points risks prosecution Happily, China and some other countries all of the past—all of which translate into “welfare” SUBMISSIONS: Cascadia Weekly welcomes freelance submissions. Send material Cover: Cover photo by Whatcom to either the News Editor or A&E Editor. Manuscripts will be returned if you Art Guild member Lynne the way across the Paciﬁc Ocean said they’d help and “social services” becoming dirty words. include a stamped, self-addressed envelope. To be considered for calendar list- Edwards, design by Jesse ings, notice of events must be received in writing no later than noon Wednesday out. They agreed to send ships to take away every Current ﬁscally conservative governments seem the week prior to publication. Photographs should be clearly labeled and will be Kinsman returned if accompanied by stamped, self-addressed envelope. single lump of coal and then burn it up to make to be the antithesis of a friend to the very poor, LETTERS POLICY: Cascadia Weekly reserves the right to edit letters for length and

CASCADIA WEEKLY it disappear. It was easy for them to do because allowing cuts to the social safety net during hard content. When apprised of them, we correct errors of fact promptly and courteously. In the interests of fostering dialog and a community forum, Cascadia Weekly does they didn’t have a bunch of annoying rules. But times, because it knows that society is, at best, 4 not publish letters that personally disparage other letter writers. Please keep your letters to fewer than 300 words. even better, burning coal helped them to make apathetic toward any form of “welfare bum.” all the stuff that was needed in the USA. In its fundamentalist form, this ideology basi- In a previous fairy tale, all the factories and cally translates into the survival of the richest jobs had already been sent to China, but that’s and the fully employed. NEWSPAPER ADVISORY GROUP: Robert Hall, Seth Murphy, Michael Petryni, David Syre another story…. Anyway, it seemed only right —Frank G. Sterle, Jr., White Rock, B.C. CLEAN WATER, GOOD JOBS Washington’s proposed Clean Water Jobs Act is good for our community. It creates a win-win situation for us 34

in Whatcom County. FOOD The act will provide jobs while at the same time prevent toxic runoff pollution. This kind of legislation is 27 sorely needed at a time when jobs are very much in demand. B-BOARD I, for one, have written our legis- lators to pass the bill. Please do the

same. 24 —Peter Huisman, Everson FILM FILM SUPPORT FAMILY

PLANNING 20 What a wonderful feeling it was to see so many in our community take MUSIC a stand for Planned Parenthood last

Saturday. Over 400 people turned 18

out to support our community health ART center and the valued services we provide—services like breast and More Than $12,000 Already Awarded! 16 cervical cancer screenings, birth control options and identiﬁcation 0DUFKWKURXJK$SULO0DUFK )ULGD\ 6DWXUGD\+RXUO\'UDZLQJV STAGE and treatment of sexually transmit- SPSPSP *XDUDQWHHGSHU:HHNHQGLQ&DVK3UL]HV ted infections. 14 Sixty percent of our patients have no other health care, see no other doctor and would have no other GET OUT place to go without us. And many 1HZ0HQX/RZHU3ULFHV

of the people we see are below the 12 poverty line. Thanks to champions 1HZ6LJQDWXUH6HDIRRG%XIIHW

like former Representative Kelli Lin- DWD/RZHU3ULFH WORDS ville, who spoke strongly in support )ULGD\VSP of family planning at the rally, we’ve 8 kept our doors open and see every ZLWK:LQQHU¶V&OXE&DUG person who walks through those doors. We’re also proud of the sup- CURRENTS port from City Council member Ter- -RLQRXUWH[WPHVVDJHJURXSWRUHFHLYHH[FOXVLYHZHHNO\-RLQ 6 ry Bornemann and people from all RRIIHUVGHOLYHUHGGLUHFWO\WR\RXUPRELOHSKRQHIIH walks of life, ages and backgrounds. VIEWS VIEWS Thanks also to Latte Republic and CTgCT c 4

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OYBOY F !" S ! 03 “we’re here and when you or someone you know needs us, we will con- .06 tinue to be here.” 12 WWW.NOOKSACKCASINOS.COM # —Stephanie Kountouros, Public Policy Coordinator, !" " Mt. Baker Planned Parenthood " "

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BLOOD IN THE WATER: Amid reports that the quality of

34 34 Bellingham’s drinking water supply continues to decline, the state Dept. of Ecology last week rejected FOOD the City of Bellingham’s petition to close the water- views shed to additional withdrawals as a means of protect- OPINIONS THE GRISTLE ing the city’s senior water right. In a petition ﬁled 27 at the ﬁrst of this year, the city claimed continued withdrawals from holders of subordinate water rights

B-BOARD feed development and urbanization of the watershed, resulting in a measurable decline in water quality. While Ecology doesn’t dispute the city’s data—based 24 as it is on the agency’s own conclusions about causes

FILM FILM of the decline of Lake Whatcom—the agency instead accepted the County Executive’s promise that his staff would redouble efforts to develop more protective 20 residential development standards and stormwater management practices. BY CHRIS GREGOIRE AND PETER GOLDMARK MUSIC “Ecology agrees with the city’s assertion that phos- phorus-laden runoff from cleared and developed land 18 has in the past impaired the city’s municipal water ART ART right and its ability to supply water to nearly 100,000 In Public Service people,” agency spokesperson Dan Partridge said. 16 Yet given the city submitted its petition after re- GOVERNOR PRAISES, MOURNS STATE EMPLOYEES ceiving clear signals Ecology was not prepared to act STAGE STAGE on its own, it’s not terribly surprising the agency IN THE ﬁrst two months of this State Department of Natural Re- would hand the matter back to the Lake Whatcom year, the state of Washington has sources heavy equipment operator

14 management team for local resolution. had three exemplary employees die who was killed while cutting brush Still, it’s a curious grant of continued license to a on the job while serving and protect- along a forest road on the Olympic

GET OUT county that has so famously stalled for years on ap- ing the public. Our hearts go out to Peninsula. Sam was devoted to his proving such a plan. In the same assurance of speedy their families and the loved ones that family, active in his community, and cooperation, Pete Kremen admitted his staff did not have been left behind. a longtime member of the Forks Li- 12 even know what Ecology’s standards might be or how Every day state employees perform ons Club. they might be defined. That’s an odd and unreassuring potentially dangerous jobs in uncer- These are the real stories of real WORDS admission, given the decades of dialogue and research tain and changing conditions. It people’s lives. Beyond the statis- (and foot dragging) on the causes of the decline of might be a law enforcement officer tics and the job descriptions, there 8 Lake Whatcom. working to preserve public safety, an are thousands of stories all across Ecology’s shy deference grows exponentially more inspector working to ensure roads and the state of public employees who curious when considering a county that has aggressive- bridges are safe, a firefighter putting put their safety and sometimes CURRENTS CURRENTS ly rolled back and forever nailed closed any additional out a forest blaze, or a social worker their lives at risk for our well-being. 6

6 funding for water quality projects, that has slashed working to protect our most vulner- beyond bone and marrow planning and engineering able children and elderly citizens. VIEWS VIEWS VIEWS staff dedicated to those projects, that has weakened We, as public ofﬁcials, want to ex- its own rules for monitoring sanitary septic systems press our gratitude to these men and WHEN A STATE EMPLOYEE LOSES THEIR LIFE ON 4 around Lake Whatcom, and has proven paralyzed to women. They operate out of a sense THE JOB, IT NOT ONLY AFFECTS THEIR FAMILY AND

MAIL MAIL move in any direction on the purchase or transfer of of public service to their community development rights out of the watershed. Even if Pete’s and enjoyment of a job well done. CO-WORKERS BUT ALSO THE COMMUNITIES WHERE

2 promised plan comes forward, funding and manpower When a state employee loses their THEY WORKED AND LIVED for implementing that plan has been destroyed. life on the job, it not only affects DO IT IT DO

Strange a state agency would accept the county’s their family and coworkers but also offer on good faith when all evidence demonstrates the communities where they worked 11 the county is moving—quickly—in a direction, and in and lived. It is the person on the next his crew. A 12-year veteran of WS- Let’s all take a moment to appreci- .23.

03 bad faith, opposite of state goals. The mind boggles stool over at the breakfast counter, DOT, Billy often volunteered to work ate their efforts. when one considers Ecology’s position that even good the usher at your church, or the vol- extra hours when roads became Whether they are friends, family

.06 faith movement toward these goals is in itself insuf- unteer at our children’s school. The flooded or snowed over. members, or just someone you know, 12 # ficient to restore the lake. Much of the built environ- loss tears at the fabric of our com- The Department of Corrections of- please take time to thank the teach- ment needs retrofit. More needs to be done; mean- munities, leaving us just that much ficer, Jayme Biendl from Monroe, was ers, firefighters, law enforcement of- while, the county legislates to do less. more fragile. tragically killed while on duty in a ficers, inspectors and other public Huxley’s Institute for Watershed Studies released the The Washington State Depart- prison chapel. At the age of 34, she employees you know for the hard most recent report on the lake’s decline last month, ment of Transportation (WSDOT) served the state for eight years and work they do in public service. observing unabated trends of algae growth and low employee, Billy Rhynalds from North was a 2008 Officer of the Year. Jayme We will be joining you in thanking oxygen content caused from phosphorous entering them for all they do. CASCADIA WEEKLY Bend, was helping secure a flooding grew up in Granite Falls, Washington the lake. A significant portion of that phosphorous roadway when a tree fell and took and is remembered as being a quiet, 6 comes from earth-moving activities and inadequate his life. He had promised to retire generous human being who loved her Chris Gregoire is governor of the State stormwater management practices. several times, but couldn’t give up family and horses. of Washington. Peter Goldmark is com- At the same time Kremen was drafting his promises serving the public and working with Sam Gaydeski was a Washington missioer of the state’s public lands. of increased cooperation with state goals, a Whatcom County Council majority was busy in a sleight-of-hand, VIEWS EXPRESSED ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF CASCADIA WEEKLY THE GRISTLE

approving an increase in the develop-

ment potential around Lake Whatcom, 34 agreeing to plans that might allow carv- ing some ﬁve-acre lots along the lake- FOOD front down into one- and two-acre lots, more than doubling the number of homes that might be built on these parcels. 27 The county executive signaled his support for these changes when he did not B-BOARD include them among items he warned he would veto as the council scrambles to complete the rural element to its com- 24

prehensive plan. Heaping injury upon in- FILM jury, council’s proposed changes to the Lake Whatcom chapter of that comp plan downplay the signiﬁcance of the nega- CHAMPAGNE BRUNCH BUFFET 20 tive impacts of residential development MUSIC and forest practices on Lake Whatcom water quality by inserting weak, equivo- 18 cal language into declarations formerly strongly understood. ART

“Declining oxygen levels may be from Join us for the live taping of residential development in the water- The Chuckanut 16 shed,” the council demurs in its proposed language. RADIO HOUR STAGE The law of gravity might apply. The in the Syre Auditorium at 14 Earth might be round. Whatcom Community College, “These proposals are in direct conﬂict 237 W. Kellogg Rd. Bellingham

with the county executive’s promises to GET OUT Featuring Author Ecology,” Mayor Dan Pike observed. “The people of Bellingham have invested mil- lions of dollars buying property and try- ALEXANDER 12 ing to limit the impacts of continued development around a public water supply.” WORDS The mayor asked Ecology officials for 8 comment on these changes before Coun- McCALL 95 ty Council approves them at the end of this month. $ Ecology’s refusal to act puts blood in SMITH 13. CURRENTS 6 the water, sending strong signals to the 6 development community to seize the VIEWS VIEWS SATURDAY, VIEWS moment and get their plans and permits TICKETS $20.00 in order for the final push to fully build Available NOW at Village April 2nd, 4 Books and on-line at out Lake Whatcom. The city continues brownpapertickets.com. 7:00pm Proceeds to benefit the to spar with a county committed to MAIL BOTSWANA ORPHAN roadbuilding above the lake’s northern PROGRAM.

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11 tion chopperchopper is over the Peace Arch where, on

.23. a Saturday, tthe lines to cross from one nation 03 BORDER to the next aare short. ThThee pilot, Brad, pulls the chopper eastward .06 Fwop fwop fwop fwop fwop fwop. alalongong the Canada-U.S.Ca border. He sees a man 12 SMUGGLERS, # The swooshing and chopping sound of an AStar helicopter’s rotor blades walking alalongon Zero Avenue, a chunk of Cana- BORDER diandian asphaasphaltlt laid along the nation’s southern PATROL AND tear through the near-freezing early afternoon air, spinning to produceroduce boundary,boundary, fromfr Blaine to the foothills of the enough lift to get the 2.5-ton behemoth off the tarmac at Bellinghamam IIn-n- Cascades.Cascades. He circles around. The G-forces pin POLICY- youyou to the sseat like a car skidding around a ternational Airport. Within a minute the craft lifts off and soars towardard thethe hairpinhairpin turnturn.. He slows from the cruising speed

CASCADIA WEEKLY MAKERS coast. To the south, a familiar plume of steam rises from the Bellinghamngham of 75 mph. The man, 500 feet down, turns around and looks up at the roaring white- waterfront. Farther north, houses dot the landscape, with roads slicingcing it 8 FIGHT FOR painted chchopper.o Brad circles again, peering CONTROL into parcels. Waves silently crash on the gray beaches below as theyey rusrushh dodownwn throughthroug the tinted visor of his helmet. by, nestled at the bottom of cliffs and bluffs. Offshore, a lone fishingg boat “L“Looksooks likelik he’s picking up trash,” the copilot, sittingsitt left-shotgun, says into his bobs in the white-capped waters of the Sound. headset,headset, hishis voice clear but flat. “Yep,” Brad agrees. implementing a militaristic, over-fortified boundary be- “I could get 23 lights and sirens to my house if I need The man below, dressed in a reflective vest, carries a tween two friendly nations. to within three to five minutes,” he says. “Where else

black plastic bag. Nothing too suspicious. Brad swings Not just farmworkers feel fear and frustration. Just a can I live that is that safe?”

back around and heads east, toward Sumas and the moun- few days after the release of the controversy-igniting The planes and helicopters in the air, local law en- 34 tains. The two Customs and Border Protection pilots are report on border security, Customs and Border Protec- forcement and the communities along the border work on the lookout for anything out of the ordinary. A stopped tion officials convened a town hall meeting in Blaine to together with the technology available to keep out FOOD car. A truck driving through a field. A lone man walking discuss the faltering relations between the communities drugs, weapons and undocumented immigration, Sinks down the road. All could be someone trying to smuggle and border agents. says. The pilots are usually just the eyes in the sky, re- 27 drugs, weapons, money or people across the border. The relationship was strained by the recent arrest of porting to units below. The AStar is equipped with a The U.S. federal government spent $3 billion in 2010 Wayne Groen, a Lynden man who allegedly—while in his heat sensing camera, and has the capability to stream to squash crime along the 4,000-mile stretch of pre- underwear in the early morning—shined a high-powered footage back to the Office of Air and Marine headquar- B-BOARD cious border between Washington and Maine. Accord- flashlight at an Air and Marine Office chopper, blinding ters near the airport. A monitor in the cockpit can either ing to a federal report released in early February, only the two pilots who were wearing night-vision goggles. show the video feed, or a two-dimensional map of the 32 miles had reached “an acceptable level of security.” Groen says he was fed up with the choppers making chopper’s location. Markers show the location of border 24

Some members of congress, such as Connecticut Sen. Joe noise. He was arrested and indicted on federal court protection cameras, as well. FILM Lieberman, chair of the Senate Homeland Security Com- charge for interfering with the flight of an aircraft and a Much of the border in Washington, before the foothills, mittee, have called the report a damning illustration of charge of incapacitating the pilot of an aircraft. If con- is consumed with farmland and large rural, residential 20 a broken border that allows drugs, weapons, extremists victed, he could face as many as 40 years in prison. lots. Apple tree orchards and rows of berry patches butt and terrorists to seep into the States. Agent Rick Sinks, who has patrolled the U.S. border up right next to it. Brad, who wishes to not share his last MUSIC The report and political backlash prompted President for 12 years, says residents want Border Patrol agents name due to the sensitivity of the operations he flies for Barack Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen to be more respectful, but that many are thankful for border protection, remembers a group of smugglers who 18 Harper to launch a joint initiative to secure more of the the agents’ presence. The Blaine Sector Chief John Bates used rented SUVs to smuggle drugs into the States. They border. Obama said in a speech that he and the Canadian agreed. And he agreed with Alper, too, that the report is would drive through the rows of berries, north to south. ART government want to work “more closely to improve bor- off-base in its definition of border security. “After a couple runs, we got ‘em,” he der security with better screening, new technologies and Relationships among law enforcement—like Sumas or says through the chopper’s intercom. 16 From then on, he says, the farmer STAGE STAGE planted his rows east to west. ”THERE’S NEVER GOING TO BE ENOUGH RESOURCES, AND EVEN IF Flurries of snow swirled past the front windshield of the AStar. The 14 THERE WERE, I WOULDN’T WANT A BORDER THAT WAS A WALL OF Cascades abruptly sprout from the

PEOPLE, OR A FENCE“ flat farmland about 25 miles east of GET OUT Blaine. Evergreen trees sprinkled with —DON ALPER, DIRECTOR OF THE WESTERN-AFFILIATED BORDER POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE // ) snow blanket the foothills. They could WHAT: “Envision- be Mother Nature’s border guards, 12 ing Immigration information-sharing among law enforcement, as well as Blaine Police departments—and federal agencies—like Reform: Views lined shoulder to shoulder, calmly WORDS identifying threats early.” the Department of Homeland Security’s offices of Cus- from Both watching except they don’t move For some minority people who work at the farms along toms and Border Protection—and the Royal Canadian Borders” when a smuggler passes by. The chop- 8 8 the border, the green uniforms of Border Patrol agents in- Mounted Police are strengthening, he says. The Border WHEN: 1-3:30pm, per flies straight toward the moun- voke fear. Rosalinda Guillen, executive director of grass- Patrol and office of border protection employ 322 agents Sat., April 2 tain, veering through a pass, the tips WHERE: Viking roots organization Community to Community Develop- in the Blaine sector, which makes up the major border of the guardian trees fewer than 50 CURRENTS CURRENTS Union 267, WWU CURRENTS ment, says a Border Patrol car followed a group of young crossings in Whatcom County, the Olympic Peninsula and campus feet from the underbelly of the chop-

Mexican-American men after they pulled out of Wal-Mart all of Oregon—89 land miles and 163 maritime miles. COST: Free per. Just over the ﬁrst peaks, the 6 parking lot. The agents had eyed them when they walked Thirty-two cameras mounted on thick steel poles as INFO: www.wwu. mountains give out to Peaceful Valley. into the store. The young men saw the agents and drove tall as a four-story building line the border in What- edu/bpri/ The snow is coming down too thick to VIEWS around aimlessly to see if they were really being fol- com County. The cameras stream live feeds to a control go any farther into the mountains. A 4 lowed. They were. When they parked at another store, room at the sector's headquarters, where two agents clear-cut strip about 50 feet across marks the physical bor- the agents boxed them in and questioned their citizen- survey the footage on monitors. der through the Cascades. Laser and seismic sensors line MAIL ship, and wouldn’t let them go for some time. At night, the night-vision camera is activated, which the way at frequented trails to alert border agents of il-

“That’s blatant racial proﬁling,” Guillen says. “It hap- detects heat signals. Again, the agents look for anything legal crossings. The sensors aren’t limited to the remote 2

pens all the time. There are too many agents for such a out of the ordinary. In his years patrolling the nation's areas; many sensors in wooded areas along Zero Avenue lay IT DO small community.” She wants a secure border and profes- borders, Agent Sinks has spent most of his duty in Arizona. resting, ready for a smuggler to trip it. sional law enforcement, not a militarized one. He says not too long ago one of the cameras captured drug Alper says the militarization of the border with sensors, 11 Don Alper, director of the WWU-afﬁliated Border Policy smugglers running bags full of marijuana from Zero Av- cameras and patrols is not something he wants. He be- .23.

Research Institute, which focuses on research that in- enue to the road leading, ironically, to the Smuggler’s Inn, lieves the border is broken in a different sense, that the 03 forms policymakers on issues relating to the border, said a bed and breakfast whose owner, Bill Boulé, encourages communities and families that thrive across the border are he ﬁnds the Obama-Harper initiative and the congressio- guests to peer out their windows at night for a sneak peak hindered from interacting, and for people of color, even .06 12 nal report are butting heads. Obama and Harper want coat cross-border drug drops. Their heat signatures show up threatened by agents. Before 9/11, Americans would sim- # operation, while some congressional members want more clear on the camera’s footage. The smugglers were arrested ply walk across the border to visit their Canadian neigh- boots on the ground to fend off smugglers. “It reﬂects an soon after with 118 pounds of B.C. Bud. bors, and vice versa. But now that would land a friendly ignorance about what really is border security,” he says. Boulé is used to both smugglers and Border Patrol neighbor in the back of a Border Patrol car. “Lieberman and others who are grandstanding about all agents. A lonely row of boulders lines his yard next to The snow is really coming down now, and it’s lying thick of this are completely off base in terms of their reaction Zero Avenue to deter those wanting to make a quick on the valley below. It’s time to head back to the airport.

to [the report]. There’s never going to be enough re- border crossing. Before the boulders, trucks would ﬂy Brad whips the chopper south. “It’s a pretty place to CASCADIA WEEKLY sources, and even if there were, I wouldn’t want a border through his front yard from the United States. work,” he says as he guides us through the snow-washed that was a wall of people, or a fence. I think we need to “It’s something else to be sitting down for breakfast evergreens and rocky outcrops of the foothills, the elu- 9 go in a different direction. The answer to a fence is a and see a semi drive through our yard,” Boulé says. With sive border at our backs, blending into the countryside. higher ladder, the answer to an even higher fence is an the recent controversy, he still says he’s supportive of From up here, it all looks the same. even higher ladder.” The social fabric woven across the the border patrol, even though the camera’s unfaltering Benjamin Woodard is a journalism graduate at Western border, he says, is much more important to preserve than eye peers at his home around the clock. Washington University. +$ 1 -/$. ( )/ One in a series of Whatcom County voices

34 34 FOOD City mayors ﬁ nd hope in 27 new shipping port. B-BOARD Recently, Mayors Scott Korthuis of Lynden and Gary Jensen of Ferndale discussed the potential for job creation and new tax revenue for Whatcom County. 24 FILM FILM 20 MUSIC 18 ART ART 16 STAGE STAGE 14 Economy at the crossroads Paciﬁ c Terminal will serve as a transfer Mayor Jensen facility for dry bulk commodities such as says the project

GET OUT “The bottom coal, grain and potash that arrive by rail will be carefully line is that from the U.S. and Canada. The container managed and Whatcom County 12 cars will be loaded onto large ships regulated is losing ground bound for Asian markets. SSA Marine, a to minimize to the rest of WORDS Northwest company, is behind the plan and environmental Washington hopes to break ground in early 2013. impacts. 8 8 State,” says “The Cherry Mayor Korthuis. “It’s very exciting,” says Mayor Jensen. “It’s estimated that during the two-year Point acreage “Over the last is already CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS two decades, construction period, Gateway will support as many as 4,000 direct and indirect Mayor Gary Jensen of Ferndale designated for

6 the county’s family-wage jobs in industrial use,” Mayor Scott Korthuis of Lynden personal income he explains. “And the naturally deep

VIEWS VIEWS our community, has fallen to waters require no dredging.” Both nearly 20 percent below the state average.” while producing 4 about $54 million Jensen and Korthuis are impressed Mayor Jensen concurs. “Part of the with SSA Marine’s strong record of

MAIL MAIL in tax revenue to problem,” he explains, “is that we’re losing support schools, environmental responsibility.

2 our good paying industrial jobs. Since 2007 law enforcement Mayor Korthuis believes the county’s manufacturing job base is

DO IT IT DO and other “Gateway Paciﬁ c Terminal is the down 18 percent, the lowest it’s been in 20 essential right project at the right time for years. Roughly 1,700 jobs have vanished

11 services.” Whatcom County.” Adds Mayor from our industrial payrolls.” .23. Mayor Korthuis Jensen, “We need it and we need to 03 Both mayors underscored the importance points to estimates support it.” of international trade as a source of jobs

.06 that the facility, To learn more about Gateway, visit

12 and tax revenue for Whatcom County. # once in full GatewayPaciﬁ cTerminal.com According to Korthuis, “We must leverage operation, will our proximity to Asia to create trade- generate some related jobs.” $10 million in yearly state and local tax revenue Proposed port project will and sustain about 1,500 jobs spur growth CASCADIA WEEKLY through a combination of That’s why Korthuis and Jensen have direct hires, purchased 10 high hopes for a major shipping terminal goods and spending, and that is planned for Cherry Point. Gateway employee spending. currents ›› last week’s news

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+.." . FOOD k th Shirley Forslof announces she will e retire after 24 years as Whatcom a County Auditor. Forslof has worked e 27 in the ofﬁce since 1960, more t than 40 years ago. The county’s chief elections ofﬁcer, Forslof ear- W B-BOARD ly on advocated for vote-by-mail,

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Supporters rallied with pink T-shirts and pink signs in downtown Bellingham over the MUSIC weekend to support continued federal funding for Planned Parenthood. Last month, the U.S. House passed an amendment that would bar Planned Parenthood from receiving any 18 federal funds, including Medicaid. A similar pink pep rally was held Saturday in Seattle. 03.x|.11 ART

TUESDAY chief economist predicted the earthquake and tsunami disaster in 16 Millennium Bulk Logistics, the Australian company seeking to build Japan and the conﬂict in the Middle East may add to problems fac- STAGE STAGE a coal export terminal west of Longview, withdraws its shoreline per- ing the state’s economic recovery. Gov. Chris Gregoire admits the mit application amid criticism that its application was poorly formed, problem can’t be solved by cuts alone. perhaps even deceptive. Supporters hope Millennium may resubmit a new 14 permit application. The U.S. Department of Health reports radiation levels in

Washington have not changed since power plants failed in Ja- GET OUT Meanwhile, SSA Marine attempts to cement early political support pan, and officials don’t immediately expect a surge in those lev- for a proposed Gateway Pacific coal export terminal at Cherry Point els. Officials caution against preemptive use of potassium iodide

Forslof endorsed her chief deputy, 12 north of Bellingham. Whatcom County Council pulls a resolution in sup- pills, saying they could pose health risks. Debbie Adelstein, as a replace- port of the facility from their evening agenda amid criticism the resolu- ment for her position as Auditor. tion was submitted at the last moment, without adequate notice for Two kayakers overturn near Deception Pass. A Coast Guard boat In her six years of service with the WORDS public response. rescues one man stranded on a rock. A second man was rescued ofﬁce, Adelstein helped usher in 8 8 from the water by Deception Pass State Park rangers. They are many innovations, including vote- by-mail and increased public access 03.x}.11 taken to shore and treated by medics. to Auditor documents. CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS WEDNESDAY Another mudslide again buries the Burlington Northern Santa

Whatcom County law enforcement bust an alleged drug-dealing op- Fe coastal tracks, this time near Mukilteo. Mud, trees and debris 6 eration in Sudden Valley. Two men are arrested, and 8 pounds of mari- about 5 feet deep covered 40 feet of the dual tracks this morning. juana and $11,000 in cash are seized in the Northwest Regional Drug Crews expect to reopen the line to freight trains by Friday, but VIEWS Taskforce operation. passenger trains won’t run until Monday. 4

Prosecutors charge a Bellingham man with allegedly possessing child 03.x.11 MAIL pornography. Bellingham Police took 26-year-old Timothy Brown into cus-

FRIDAY Clayton Petree says he will run 2 tody on Tuesday. He faces 24 separate counts related to child porn. for mayor of Bellingham, setting

The City of Ferndale accepts the resignation of a police ofﬁ- up an August primary with incum- IT DO

03.x~.11 cer believed to have been driving under the influence of alcohol bent Mayor Dan Pike and former when he crashed last month. Officer Richard Turner was off duty state legislator Kelli Linville. 11 THURSDAY and reportedly over the legal limit when his car left the road and Petree presents himself as a new generation alternative to two .23. The state’s revenue forecast is down another $780 million, further crashed into a tree. He was not wearing a seatbelt and suffered established candidates who share 03 deepening the projected deficit for the next two-year budget. The state’s serious injuries in the wreck. similar views. .06 12 # Can you survive a divorce? Let me help you. For ARTISAN LETTERPRESS PRINTING bellingham MAKE AN IMPRESSION Attorney Lauren E. Trent CASCADIA WEEKLY 11 Divorce / Dissolution of Marriage • Child Custody • Parenting washington Plans • Support Orders – Protection Orders The Lustick Law Firm Bellingham – Mount Vernon 0/..-,+* )(*-,/**'&%.* /$#/"/%& "!%/! (360) 685-4221 www.Lustick.com #!,/ )//$%/**'!" index spotted a shirtless, shoeless man running

up a Blaine street at 2:30 in the morning.

34 34 FUZZ Blaine Police contacted the frantic jogger who explained to ofﬁcers he’d ingested a FOOD BUZZ quantity of methamphetamine in Birch Bay earlier in the evening. “His mouth started UNREPENTANT PENITENT to feel like it was on ﬁre and other bad 27 On March 18, a resident at the Special things started happening, so he headed Commitment Center (SCC) at the McNeil Is- home to Blaine, drinking from mud pud-

B-BOARD land corrections facility was sentenced to dles as he ran,” police reported. Medics 10 years in prison for possession of child were called to the scene to evaluate the pornography. Keith Rogers is a convicted man’s health, and his mother arrived to 24 sex offender who had been civilly commit- take her 24-year-old son home after he was

FILM FILM ted to the SCC since he was found to be released from the medic unit. a predator in 1993. A search of his room in 2007 turned up more than 370 images SCRATCH PINCHED 20 on his computer, primarily of girls under On March 21, a man told Bellingham Police

MUSIC the age of 12 being raped by men. Rog- that his galvanized trash can containing ers pleaded guilty to holding the images in chicken scratch had been stolen.

18 December. “You will do difﬁcult time,” the sentencing judge told the 70-year-old. “Re- THE CONTINUING CRISIS ART ART ﬂect, always, on the nature of your conduct On March 21, a man came to the Belling- and continue to battle your demons.” ham Police station to pen a statement de- 16 tailing psychological coercion on the part On March 18, a Ferndale man who pleaded of the police and government to cause him STAGE STAGE guilty to sexually abusing a goat in 2010 to do things against his will. was booked into jail on suspicion of child 14 molestation. The 28-year-old allegedly MUSTANG SALLY molested a young girl about two years ago, On March 11, a woman from Whatcom

GET OUT according to the Whatcom County Sheriff’s County was visiting friends in Illinois when Office. He was sentenced to one month in she reportedly received a car as a gift. She jail for having sex with the goat. drove the car back to Washington. A month 12 |z later the woman received a call from police PERCENT of Americans, a majority, who now support gay marriage and equal rights for homosexuals in the United States, a tremendous increase from earlier polls that FEISTY FIVES in Illinois, advising her that the car was WORDS indicated support for those rights at only 36 percent. On March 16, FBI officials confirmed that considered stolen property because it had a $10,000 reward offered for the “Barefoot been paid for with a fraudulent check. She 8 8 Bandit” has been split among five men who was instructed to turn the car over to po- helped Bahamian authorities in last sum- lice here in Washington. She ignored the mer’s manhunt for the talented teen. Col- instruction, and continued to use the ve- CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS ½ y YOUTH cigarette smoking has dropped USE of chewing tobacco has more than ton Harris-Moore was arrested in connec- hicle and even insured it. Federal agents 6 by about half since 2000, resulting in doubled in the same period, particularly tion with a two-year, cross-country string contacted local police after the car was about 70,000 fewer teen smokers in among 10th grade girls. Youths are of burglaries and thefts in the island na- observed parked at a Blaine address. Po- VIEWS VIEWS Washington. particularly interested in tobacco tion. The thefts included five planes and lice recovered the vehicle and arrested the products that are flavored to taste like dozens of cars and boats. Harris-Moore, woman who had failed to turn it over to 4 candy. 19, faces a five-count indictment in fed- authorities after she learned was stolen.

MAIL MAIL eral court, plus more than a dozen felony She was booked into jail. The car was im-

charges in three counties in Washington pounded and returned to Illinois. 2 ½ zx and in Nebraska.

DO IT IT DO USE of alcohol among 8th graders is PERCENT of U.S. teens who report A CHANGE IN SEASON

about half that estimated 30 years ago, drinking highly caffeinated energy On March 11, a Whatcom County gang On March 19, Bellingham Police cited from 29 percent in 1990 to 14 percent drinks, an increase of nearly 3 million

11 member was charged with threatening to a man spotted guzzling grain alcohol on in 2010. in three years.

.23. kill ﬁve Bellingham police ofﬁcers who North State Street.

03 went to his house Feb. 25. The 19-year-old is a member of the Brown Pride Surenos On March 19, Bellingham Police cited a .06 gang. Members of that gang were involved man spotted lapping up liquor on Roeder 12 |z }z # PERCENT of 12th graders in Washington PERCENT of 10th graders who reported in a drive-by shooting with a rival gang Avenue. who report having had sexual having sexual intercourse who also said near Texas Street in January. Police took intercourse, with about 17 percent they used a condom. the man into custody after he reportedly On March 20, Bellingham Police cited a saying they’ve had four or more sexual had threatened to harm himself. As he was man spotted swilling booze on East Holly partners. being handcuffed he began to threaten the Street. ofﬁcers, according to charging documents,

CASCADIA WEEKLY saying that he was going to give police of- On March 20, Bellingham Police cited a |z ficers “a run for their lives” and threaten- man spotted draining a bottle on Railroad NUMBER of people known to have ended their lives by taking a lethal prescription 12 ing to “kill as many” officers as possible Avenue. through Washington’s Death with Dignity law. More than 87 people have filled a prescription for a lethal dose. before they killed him. On March 20, Bellingham Police cited a SOURCES: U.S. Census Bureau, 2010 Census Redistricting Data; Office of Financial METH MARATHON man spotted thirstily chug-a-lugging on Management On March 10, U.S. Border Patrol agents East Magnolia Street. doit WORDS COMMUNITY

WED., MARCH 23 WED., MARCH 23 BOYNTON POETRY CONTEST: Sub- SALMON CELEBRATION: The 34 missions will be accepted through rescheduled Nooksack Salmon words 5pm Fri., April 1 for the 6th annual Enhancement Association’s Com- FOOD COMMUNITY LECTURES BOOKS Sue C. Boynton Poetry Contest. munity Celebration will take place WWW.BOYNTONPOETRYCONTEST. from 6-9pm at the Majestic, 1027

WORDPRESS.COM N. Forest St. The free event features 27 speakers, refreshments and more. THURS., MARCH 24 Entry is free.

MICROSOFT ESSENTIALS: Gail 715-0283 OR WWW.N-SEA.ORG B-BOARD Sexton leads a PowerPoint presentation focusing on her tutorial, I Just FRI., MARCH 25 Want to Know How to Use It: Microsoft JUNIOR GRANGE: Kids ages 5 to 14 24 Excel 2007 Essentials, at 7pm at Vil- can ﬁnd out more about the reorga- lage Books, 1200 11th St. Entry is nization of the Haynie Junior Grange BY AMY KEPFERLE FILM free. at a potluck and ceremony starting WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM at 6:30pmm at the Custer locale at

3344 Haynie Rd. 20 FRI., MARCH 25 332-2255 ALEX KUO: Award-winning author All in the Family MUSIC Alex Kuo reads from and signs his SAT., MARCH 26 MOM, POP AND A BUSINESS PLAN latest political thriller, The Man Who CELEBRATING CHILDREN: The Dammed the Yangtze, at 7pm at An- Whatcom Center for Early Learning 18 chor Art Space, 216 Commercial Ave., hosts its 7th annual “Celebrating ART ART “There are unique challenges in running a hus- Anacortes. Entry is free. Children: Creating Futures” fund- band-and-wife-owned business,” says Washington WWW.ANCHORARTSPACE.ORG raiser starting at 5:30pm at the Bell-

ingham Golf & Country Club. Tickets 16 Small Business Development Center’s Jennifer Shel- SAT., MARCH 26 ton. “Getting through the recent recession has worn are $75.

BROKEN GROUND: John Keeble 671-3660 OR WWW.WCEL.NET STAGE many of them out. We don’t want to lose their busi- reads from his new book, Broken nesses or the jobs they create.” Ground, at 4pm at Village Books, SUN., MARCH 27

Overall, Shelton says, bringing these types of 1200 11th St. BENEFIT FOR ROCKET: A schooling 14 businesses to the forefront of the community’s at- 671-2626 show, equine educators and a silent auction and bake sale will be part of

tention is a way to keep their momentum rolling. SUN., MARCH 27 today’s “Benefit for Rocket” at 9am GET OUT For a sampling of power couples that are making WRITE-O-RAMA: Kids ages 8 to 18 at Smith Road Stables, 517 E. Smith a go of it in Whatcom County, maps are currently can take part in the Young Writers Rd. The event will raise funds for 12 available at the Downtown Bellingham Partner- Studio’s “Write-O-Rama” at 4pm at the 12-year-old gelding who was re- 13 Village Books, 1200 11th St. ship and participating locales. cently diagnosed with a rare disease WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM (cryptoccoccus gattii). Marisa@ WORDS WORDS Examples include bakers Ralf and Kacy Sigl of fifthonsixth.com Ralf’s Bavarian Bakery (see MON., MARCH 28 BOWL FOR KIDS: The annual “Bowl OPEN MIC: Writing instructor Laurel 8 photo), Peregrine Expeditions’ for Kids’ Sake” fundraiser happens Leigh helms the monthly Open Mic at from 10am-7pm at Park Bowl, 4175 Michelle and Joseph Ander- 7pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St. Meridian St. son, Kids Northwest owners To read your words, sign up at the 671-6400 OR WWW.FIRSTGIVING. CURRENTS main counter on the first floor. Michael and Janet Hodgin, COM

Jessica and Mataio Gillis of 671-2626 6 Ciao Thyme/In the Kitchen, POETRYNIGHT: Read your original TUES., MARCH 29 verse at poetrynight at 8:30pm at FLARE CLASS: A free Financial DINNER TABLES are often the primary Kulshan Cycles’ Eric and Kae VIEWS the Amadeus Project, 1209 Cornwall Literacy and Renter Education class locale where those with familial bonds meet at the Moe, Erica and Chris Gerston ATTEND Ave. Sign-ups start at 8pm. (FLARE) starts today from 12-2pm 4 end of the day to catch up on what’s happened in WHAT: National of Backcountry Essentials, WWW.POETRYNIGHT.ORG and occurs every Tuesday for six their busy worlds since they scurried out the door in Mom and Pop and countless others. week at the Union Depot Building, MAIL the morning on the way to their separate lives. Business Owners Whether they’re feeding TUES., MARCH 29 1322 N. State St. Entry is on a ﬁrst-

ALASKAN MEMOIR: Cara Lopez 2 For a growing number of Whatcom County resi- Day and clothing the population, come, ﬁrst-served basis. Lee reads from her autobiographical 734-5121, EXT. 210 dents, however, there’s no need to share the minu- WHEN: Tuesday, ﬁxing vehicles, tricking out tome, They Only Eat Their Husbands: A IT DO March 29 tiae of every second, minute or hour spent apart. WHERE: At 92 boats, helping sporty folks Memoir of Alaskan Love, World Travel, WED., MARCH 30 This ability to communicate so easily isn’t due stay that way, checking ton- and the Power of Running Away, at PEACE CORPS EXPERIENCE: “Mad-

participating 11 to the lightning-fast capabilities of modern tech- local businesses. sils, roasting coffee, build- 7pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St. agascar and the Peace Corps Experi- WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM ence” will be the focus of talk with .23. nology, but instead the fact that, in many cases, Maps and directo- ing homes, planning wed- 03 OPEN MIC: The new weekly Spoken a returned volunteer at 6pm at REI, they’ve already spent a hefty portion of their ries are available dings or lighting up your at the Downtown Word, Poetry and Open Mic occurs 400 36th St. workdays together trying to make a success of Bellingham living rooms, one thing the from 7-9pm every Tuesday at the 650-3017 .06 12 their family-owned businesses. Partnership, 1304 duos have in common is that Blue Horse Gallery, 301 W. Holly St. HEALTHCARE MEETING: United # To draw attention to those who make commit- Cornwall Ave., as they’re all doing what they Entry is free. for National Healthcare will hold a ments well beyond those included in a typical re- well as partner can to make Whatcom Coun- WWW.BLUEHORSEGALLERY.COM meeting at 7pm at Bellingham’s La- borers Hall, 1700 N. State St. All are lationship, Western Washington University’s Small locations ty a viable place to both INFO: 778-1762 or WED., MARCH 30 welcome. Business Development Center is working with Sus- www.sconnect.org work and play. LEGACY OF IDA: Skagit author Ar- 398-2295 lene Sundquist Empie discusses her tainable Connections and the Downtown Bellingham “Mom-and-pop businesses TRIVIA BEE: Form a team now for award-winning book, The Legacy of have always been a vital, yet the Whatcom Literacy Council’s an- Partnership to urge community members to support CASCADIA WEEKLY Ida Lillbroanda: Finnish Emigrant to nual Trivia Bee, which happens April “National Mom and Pop Business Owners Day.” not fully appreciated part of the U.S. economy,” America 1893, at 4pm at Mount Ver- 1 at Bellingham High School, 2020 And although Tues., March 29 is the designated Shelton says. “There are many husband wife busi- non’s Skagit Valley Food Co-op. Entry 13 Cornwall Ave. Jeopardy! champ Ken is free. day to get out and about to do so, the event is ness owner teams here in Whatcom County that Jennings will join the fun. WWW.SKAGITFOODCOOP.COM also meant to be an encompassing shout-out to work together to provide local jobs and unique WWW.WHATCOMLITERACY.ORG those who manage to successfully merge their products/services, and we wanted to take the op- personal lives with their working ones. portunity to acknowledge these businesses.” doit

THURS., MARCH 24 HIKER’S TALE: Alan Fox discusses

“An Appalachian Trail Thru-Hikers 34 34 G Tale” at 7:15pm at Fairhaven Runners, 1209 11th St. Entry is free. FOOD etout WWW.FAIRHAVENRUNNERS.COM HIKING RUNNING CYCLING SKIING SAT., MARCH 26

27 BOATING SAFETY: The U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary will host an “About Boating Safety” course from 8am-

B-BOARD 4:30pm at the Squalicum Yacht Club, 2633 S. Harbor Loop Rd. Cost is $40. 739-1310

24 ROAD RACE: Choose from a 5K, 15K or 30K at the Birch Bay Road Race start-

FILM FILM ing at 8:30am at 8097 Harborview Rd., me in a blur, the more vivid and bountiful the pre- Blaine. Entry is $35-$75. scient presence of spring seemed to unfold. WWW.BIRCHBAYROADRACE.COM 20 Efflorescent archways of Indian plum blos- MAKE & TAKE: Register in advance soms crowded profusely into the thoroughfare. for today’s “Make It and Take It: Viola MUSIC Fulsome bursts of flowering red current ex- Wreath” class starting at 9am at the ploded through the gloom. Down in the muck, Garden Spot, 900 Alabama St. Cost is 18 $49 and includes all supplies. emergent tips of skunk cabbage glowed like WWW.GARDEN-SPOT.COM ART ART candlesticks. WORK PARTY: Join NSEA and the Sud- Stopping to behold a single silken frond den Valley Community Association 16 emerging from the primordial wood of a devil’s for a work party from 9am-12pm at club stalk, another hummingbird came torpedo- their new Maple Creek Reach property STAGE STAGE ing straight at my head. (just off the Mt. Baker Hwy in Maple Falls). Retreating into the nearest available canopy WWW.N-SEA.ORG 14 14 gap, I promptly took station inside a nice steamy PLANT & TREE SALE: The 23rd an- sunbeam and commenced my daily diaphragmatic nual Fairhaven Plant & Tree Sale takes place from 10am-3pm at the parking GET OUT GET OUT breathing meditation. I hadn’t even drawn my third deep breath when lot north of the Fairhaven Village I noticed some heavy shuffling in the treetops Green. Nurseries such as Bear Creek

12 Nursery, Blue Heron Farms, Cascade directly above. Although this creature remained Cuts, Joe’s Garden, Plantas Nativas, unseen, the deep, horsey croaking sounds it and many others will have their grow- WORDS made audibly marked it as a raven. ing goods on hand. “Hello!” I called. “And a ﬁne morning to you, 671-1559 8 sir!” TRAIL RUN: Join staff from Fairhaven Thinking everything was simpatico, I set up Runners for an outing at 10am at Lyn- den’s Berthusen Park. Meet by the to draw my next breath only to ﬁnd a rather in- playground for the free event. CURRENTS CURRENTS tensive shower of cones and branches raining BY TRAIL RAT WWW.FAIRHAVENRUNNERS.COM 6 down on me, followed by more horsey croak- ORCHID SALE: The Mt. Baker Orchid ing sounds, a few ear-piercing shrieks and a Society presents its annual show and

VIEWS VIEWS tremulous blast of incessant clucking for good sale from 9am-5pm Saturday and Sun- measure. day at Mount Vernon’s Skagit Valley 4 Raven Says Hello Gardens, 18923 Peter Johnson Rd. I could tell I was being scolded, but for what? WWW.ORCHID-SOCIETY.NET MAIL MAIL TRICKSTER IN THE TREES Perhaps the animal was merely defending its territory… or maybe I had placed myself right SUN., MARCH 27

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ation in the North Cascades” exhibit, without a hitch. way to the next available sunbeam. National Park Service’s Jesse Kennedy But by the third morning, with my lower back killing me and my almost- But Big Black Bird was hardly through with me will share stories and photos relating 11 brand-new chainsaw refusing to cooperate, the whole operation—along yet. to how the rugged pioneers played at .23. 2pm at La Conner’s Skagit County His- 03 with my heretofore positive attitude—came grinding to a halt. He shufﬂed through the branches right on top of torical Museum, 501 S. 4th St. Hunched tensely over that impetuous, two-stroke mechanical beaver, me cawing and squawking and knocking even more (360) 466-3365

.06 attempting to perform emergency field surgery on its inexplicably erratic debris down on me as I darted and dodged. 12 # centrifugal clutch, my breathing grew shallow and I started to sweat. And each sunbeam I tried to escape to, he MON., MARCH 28 Knuckle-deep in sprockets and springs, yet finding myself unable to doled out more of the same. FIRST GEAR: Everybody Bike offers up a “First Gear” confidence class alleviate the problem, sheer frustration inevitably took hold. After about 15 minutes of cat-and-mouse, I fi- focusing on traffic safety at 6pm at Fortunately, before I resorted to sledgehammer tactics, a humming- nally had to retreat. Birchwood Elementary, 3200 Pin- bird came buzzing auspiciously right past my face and jolted me back Even once I made it back onto the trail, the ewood Ave. to my senses. damn thing wouldn’t stop harassing me. It har- WWW.EVERYBODYBIKE.COM

CASCADIA WEEKLY “Time to step away, man,” I heard a little voice inside me advise. “Just ried me all the way back to the trailhead and a TUES., MARCH 29 chuck it all right now and go on a hike.” fair spell back down the road. ALPINE BASICS: An “Alpine Climbing 14 So that’s exactly what I did. That thing wasn’t even a bird anymore. It was Basics” clinic starts at 6pm at REI, 400 Out on the trail, freshly unencumbered by the gratuitous weight of my a shadow, a specter, an articulated passerine 36th St. Entry is free; please register saw, my body regained its natural buoyancy and my troubled mind broke soothsayer whose one and only mission in life in advance. 647-8955 splendidly free. was to school me in the ways of the forest, re- As frogs sang, robins darted and the dewy, moss-draped forest reeled past minding me as to the true nature of things.

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34 34 GOOD, BAD, UGLY: Watch “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” at 8pm every

FOOD G Thursday at the Upfront Theatre, 1208 sta e Bay St. At 10pm, stick around for “The THEATER DANCE PROFILES Project.” Entry is $7 for the early show,

27 $4 for the late one. 733-8855 OR WWW.THEUPFRONT.COM THE INSANE: Laughing Bone Design

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FILM FILM BY AMY KEPFERLE MARCH 24-27 STEALING HOME: Pat Cook’s “fren-

20 zied farce” about cat burglars and mis- taken identity, Stealing Home, shows at 7:30pm Thurs.-Sat. and 2pm Sunday MUSIC Holliday’s History at Sehome High School Little Theatre, THE DOCTOR IS IN 2700 Bill McDonald Parkway. Tickets 18 are $8 for students and $10 for adults.

ART ART 820-2316 OR WWW.SEHOMEDRAMA. CW: What’s something else people might not know WEEBLY.COM about you? 16 16 DH: Although it’s been said by some that I have killed FRI., MARCH 25 nine men, that is not true. I’ve shot at nine men, STANDUP SHOW: “The DK & Morgan STAGE STAGE STAGE STAGE Show Presents: Stand Up Comedy” but only hit ﬁve of them—and begins at 11pm at the iDiOM Theater, only two died. 1418 Cornwall Ave. Performers from 14 CW: When people come to see the Upfront Theatre and WWU’s Stand- you, what will the focus be? up Club will take part in the late-night show. Tickets are $5.

GET OUT DH: I’ll be preparing myself for a WWW.IDIOMTHEATER.COM ﬁght at a place called the OK Cor- ral and telling the story of the Old MARCH 25-26 12 West along the way. There’s lot’s STILES AND STUFF: Attend a “Games of bad information out there, so Galore” show at 10pm Friday night at the Upfront Theatre, 1208 Bay St. (the WORDS SEE IT I’ll set a few things straight. 8pm show has been bought out). At WHAT: Doc Holliday CW: What’s your biggest motiva- 8pm and 10pm Saturday night, “Ryan 8 and the Angel of tion in taking part in this historic Stiles & Friends” will take the stage. Mercy battle? Tickets are $10 for Friday’s show, $20 WHEN: 7:30pm Fri.- for Saturday’s (which is likely sold out Sat., March 25-26 DH: It’s real simple; the Earp CURRENTS CURRENTS by now). WHERE: American brothers are my friends—and 733-8855 OR WWW.THEUPFRONT.COM

6 Museum of Radio their lives are at risk. If you RED, WHITE AND TUNA: Head to Tex- & Electricity, 1312 mess with my friends, you mess as to check out the third installment in Bay St. VIEWS VIEWS with me. the Tuna trilogy, Red, White and Tuna, COST: $12-$15 CW: Who’s this “Angel of Mercy?” at 7:30pm at Mount Vernon’s RiverBelle

4 INFO: 739-2388 or Dinner Theatre, 100 E. Montgomery St. www.brownpaper DH: That would be Mattie, Tickets are $20-$40 and additional

MAIL MAIL tickets.com my cousin. Consanguinity be shows happen through April 16. damned—I loved that woman! WWW.RIVERBELLEDINNERTHEATRE.COM

2 We were gonna run off and marry, but when I found OKLAHOMA!: Rogers & Hammerstein’s out about my sickness, I left her to search for a mi- perennial favorite, Oklahoma! takes DO IT IT DO

raculous cure. Still looking. the stage this weekend with 8pm CW: You’re going to be demystifying your legend as a shows Friday and Saturday at the 11 Anacortes Community Theatre, 918 “fearless and cold-blooded killer.” Can you elaborate? .23. M Ave. Tickets are $18 and additional

03 DH: Seems I have a rather inﬂated reputation of showings happen every weekend CHANNELING HISTORIC ﬁgures of bygone eras has be- someone who is not afraid to die. That is absurd! through April 23.

.06 come a specialty for regional actor Frank Tabbita, who’s portrayed everyone You don’t live with tuberculosis without dwelling WWW.ACTTHEATRE.COM 12 # from author Jack Kerouac to visionary inventor Nikola Tesla. When you see on its inevitable result. It is a mortifying and per- MARCH 25-27 him this weekend at encore performances of Vaughn Marlowe’s one-man sistent companion. CAMELOT: Lyric Light Opera presents play Doc Holliday and the Angel of Mercy, he’ll be there with guns on. We CW: What dulls the pain? performances of the musical version of caught up with Tabbita’s alter ego to ﬁnd out just what to expect. DH: Laudanum and whiskey mostly—but sometimes a Camelot at 7:30pm Fri.-Sat. and 2pm Cascadia Weekly: Doc, you’re usually remembered as a gunﬁghter and gam- good whore can dull the pain, as well. Sunday at Mount Vernon’s McIntyre Hall, 2501 E. College Way. Tickets are bler, but weren’t you also a dentist? CW: What do you want people to take away from your $15-$38.

CASCADIA WEEKLY Doc Holliday: I’m from Georgia, and after the Civil War my father lost visit? WWW.MCINTYREHALL.ORG most of his real estate, as did almost everyone who fell in the path DH: I’d like to set the record straight about how 16 of Sherman’s rapists and murderers. My original plan was to be a doc- things really happened out here; tell the story in a SAT., MARCH 26 BEST OF BAAY: Celebrate the fifth tor, but that was not possible now that we were bankrupt. So I went flesh-and-blood sort of way. If they walk away and anniversary of the Bellingham Arts north to dental school. Later, when I found out I was afflicted with remember Doc, least for a while, I’ll be pretty satis- Academy for Youth at a “Best of BAAY” pulmonary tuberculosis, I had a tough time getting customers, so fied. Might even buy them a drink if we ever cross celebration at 6pm at the Majestic, gambling came in real handy! paths again. doit

1026 N. Forest St. Cost is $35; reserva- tions are required.

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ANACORTES AUDITIONS: If you’re FOOD interested in taking part in upcoming BEST PRICES IN TOWN performances of the comedic farce The $ 99 Servant of Two Masters, audition from box of 200 smokes 34 / 27 2-5pm Saturday and Sunday at the Ana- $ 99 cortes Community Theatre, 918 M Ave. 4 /box of 20 smokes WWW.ACTTHEATRE.COM B-BOARD SUN., MARCH 27 Machine SIDESHOW GARAGE SALE: Expect Rolled to be entertained at the Bellingham in 8 Minutes 24 Circus Guild’s “Sideshow Garage Sale”

from 10am-2pm at the Cirque Lab, FILM 2107 Iron St. (near Hardware Sales). USA GROWN TOBACCO Kids of all ages are welcome. Entry is No Chemicals / No Additives 20 by donation. MENTION THIS AD & SAVE $5 ON A BOX OF 200 WWW.BELLINGHAMCIRCUSGUILD.COM

TOBACCOJOESNETs MUSIC MARCH 31-APRIL 2 %-APLE3T 3UITE (across from Boomer’s) SPEED-THE-PLOW: Local actors Chris 18 Coombs, Mike Mathieu, and Jackie Mie- "ELLINGHAM 7ASHINGTON

dema take the stage when David Mamet’s ART Pulitzer prize-winning play, Speed-the- Plow, opens this weekend with 8pm 16 16 shows March 31-April 2 and 7-9 at the iDiOM Theater, 1418 Cornwall St. Tickets STAGE STAGE STAGE STAGE are $5 Thursdays, $10 otherwise. 201-5464 OR WWW.IDIOMTHEATER.COM 14 DANCE GET OUT THURSDAY, MARCH 24 FOLK DANCERS: Join the Fourth Cor-

ner Folk Dancers from 7-10pm every 12 Thursday at the Fairhaven Library, 1117 12th St. Entry is $5. WORDS 380-0456 TANGO LESSONS: David Imburgia and 8 Alana Huck lead Tango lessons at 6pm every Thursday at the Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce St. The drop-in fee is $12.

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Firehouse Performing Arts Center, 1314 4 Harris Ave. Suggested donation is $10.

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cus on swing, Latin and ballroom danc- 2 ing styles, take part in the Bellingham DO IT IT DO Dance Company’s weekly Dance Party Mix starting at 7pm at Core Kinetics, 1103 Railroad Ave. Cost is $10 and in- 11 cludes a 7:15pm dance lesson. .23. WWW.BELLINGHAMDANCECOMPANY.COM 03 SAT., MARCH 26 CONTRA DANCE: Vancouver B.C.’s Sybs .06 12

will provide live tunes at tonight’s Con- # tra Dance from 7-10pm at the Fairhaven Library, 1117 12th St. Suggested donation is $8-$12. 676-1554 OR WWW. BELLINGHAMCOUNTRYDANCE.ORG RAINBOW SQUARES: Mainstream square dancing with the Rainbow Squares hap- CASCADIA WEEKLY pens on the second and fourth Saturdays of the month from 8-10pm at Lynden’s 17 Ten Mile Grange, 6958 Hannegan Rd. Cost is $5 at the door. WWW.SQDANCE.ORG doit EVENTS

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34 34 CALL FOR ART: Appliance Depot is currently seeking submissions for the third

FOOD annual Appliance Art Revival. Appliance visual parts are available at 802 Marine Dr. Art GALLERIES OPENINGS PROFILES entry forms are due by April 1.

27 WWW.RESUSEWORKS.ORG SAT., MARCH 26 CURIOUS CANARY: Kids ages 8 to 12 B-BOARD can take part in a “Curious Canary” mixed media art class from 10am-12pm at the Center for Expressive Arts, 1317 Com- 24 “IT’S BROUGHT IN A mercial St. Rebecca Ogden leads the way. Cost is $17 and students are welcome to FILM FILM WHOLE NEW BREATH OF drop in or register in advance. 671-5355 OR WWW. CENTERFOREXPRESSIVEARTS.COM 20 ENERGY THAT WE DIDN’T BOOK CRAFTING: Ellen Clark will helm a “Book Crafting for Beginners” work- MUSIC HAVE BEFORE.” shop from 12-4pm at the Whatcom Mu- — LYNNE EDWARDS seum’s Lightcatcher Studio, 250 Flora St. 18 18 18 You’ll learn the basics, and leave with a ART ART ART ART changed understanding of the way you Without Edwards and others like her who read, write and design. Entry is $3 and have dedicated their time and talents, the includes admission. 16 canny cooperative—a nonproﬁt whose sim- WWW.WHATCOMMUSEUM.ORG ple mission focuses on advancing and pro- ART TALK: Artist Jasmine Valandani STAGE STAGE moting the visual arts in Whatcom County— and composer and musician Steve Peters likely wouldn’t have been on the scene for will talk about the processes related to the “Chamber Music 9: Northern Light” 14 the past 45 years (or been on the this year’s exhibit from 1-4pm at Anchor Art Space,

TORE OFTENESSTORE list as a Mayor’s Arts Award winner). 216 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. Entry is free. GET OUT It’s also prob- able that if the group WWW.ANCHORARTSPACE.ORG would’ve stuck to sim- ART AND WAR: Lynden Pioneer Museum 12 ply meeting once a director Troy Luginbill presents a free program on the “Ofﬁcial War Department month and calling it Art of WWII” at 3pm at the Everson Mc- WORDS good, Edwards and her Beath Community Library, 104 Kirsch Dr. ilk would’ve had to look 966-5100 8 ATTEND elsewhere for their MON., MARCH 28 WHAT: Whatcom networking needs. In- FIGURE DRAWING: From 6-8:30pm Mon- Art Guild’s monthly ARLINE MORTIMERARLINE BETH ROBERSON stead, in addition to days and 11:30am-2pm Wednesdays, sign CURRENTS CURRENTS meeting getting support from up for “Figure Drawing: Nude Model” ses- WHEN: 7-9pm Mon.,

6 sions at Dakota Art, 1415 Cornwall Ave. March 28 fellow artists, the Entry to the ongoing events are $14. WHERE: Bellingham members have oppor- 329-2787 OR [email protected] VIEWS VIEWS BY AMY KEPFERLE Public Library, 210 tunities to not only Central Ave. talk about their work, TUES., MARCH 29 4 COST: Entry is free but also to share it. TRUNK SHOW & TALK: Melanie Eberts, and the public is founder of ArtAndes, presents a trunk MAIL MAIL For example, in welcome show and talk focused on “Bringing INFO: www.whatcom addition to their bi- Whatcom Art Guild Historic Peruvian Textile Traditions to 2 artguild.org annual “Art by the Contemporary American Décor” from Lake” exhibits, for 6:30-9pm at the La Conner Quilt & Textile DO IT IT DO MEMBERS WITH BENEFITS

WHAT: Art Market the past year WAG has Museum, 703 2nd St. Entry is $10-$15. WHEN: 10am-6pm taken up residence in WWW.LACONNERQUILTS.COM 11 every Fri.-Sun. WHEN LYNNE Edwards joined the Whatcom Art Guild (WAG) three Fairhaven’s Waldron .23. WHERE: Fairhaven’s

03 years ago, she was a self-taught wildlife photographer with a yen to both ex- Waldron Building, building. Every Friday ONGOING pand and share her talents. 1314 12th St. through Sunday, mem- EXHIBITS .06 These days, in addition to her ongoing artistry behind the lens, the former bers man the multi-

12 ALLIED ARTS: View Allied Arts’ annual # telecommunications expert is also branching out by trying her hand at paint- artist Art Market. “Member’s Show” through March 26 at ing—something she says she likely wouldn’t have done without the support of It’s been successful on a number of lev- the organization’s digs at 1418 Cornwall fellow WAG members. els, Edwards says. Longtime artists get to Ave. “That’s why a group like this is so nice to belong to,” says Edwards, who expand their gallery choices, new artists WWW.ALLIEDARTS.ORG discovered the longtime collective shortly after she and her husband moved to get a taste of what it takes to sell their BLACK DROP: View “Digital Detourne- the area. “Yes, I’m a photographer, but I had a desire recently to start learning works, funds are raised for scholarships and, ments” through March 31 at the Black Drop Coffeehouse, 300 W. Champion St.

CASCADIA WEEKLY more about watercolors. I’m being taught by fellow members, so it’s not just a in some cases, those who’ve never heard of WWW.LAUGHINGBONE.BLOGSPOT.COM solitary thing.” WAG ﬁnd out more about the organization. BLUE HORSE: “Gigs, Jams and Solos” 18 While the expansion of her talents is the main reason she joined WAG, Edwards “It’s brought in a whole new breath of shows through March 26 at the Blue has also dedicated herself to the betterment of the organization as a whole. She’s energy that we didn’t have before,” Ed- Horse Gallery, 301 W. Holly St. on the board of directors, is involved in the group’s Art Market—more on that in wards says. “It’s also made it clear that WWW.BLUEHORSEGALLERY.COM a second—and is currently penning the monthly newsletter. In other words, she’s the spirit of art is alive and well in this CEDARWORKS: Peruse and purchase a what one might call an active member. community.” doit Irish Inspired Locavore Menu

variety of Native American art from 10am- Mar 24 Red Rocks, Cello & Guitar Duo 6pm Wed.-Sat. at the CedarWorks Art Gal- Mar 27 Brewery Tour at noon lery, 217 Holly St.

647-6933 HoPPY Hour 34 DEMING LIBRARY: Ken Speer’s “Visions Su-Th 4-6pm/Fri & Sat 8pm-close from the Clearcuts” can be visited through FOOD April 3 at the Deming Public Library, 5044 Mt. Baker Hwy.

592-2422 27 DEPOT ARTS CENTER: View a “Youth Art Show” through the month at the Depot Arts

Center, 611 R Ave., Anacortes. B-BOARD WWW.DEPOTARTS.COM FISHBOY GALLERY: Check out the con-

temporary folk art of RR Clark from 12-5pm 24 every Mon.-Fri. at the Fishboy Gallery, 617

Virginia St. FILM 714-0815 OR WWW.FISHBOYGALLERY.COM FOG: View a variety of works by noted art- 20 ists at the new Fairhaven Originals Gallery, 960 Harris Ave. MUSIC WWW.BELLINGHAMFOG.COM GALLERY CYGNUS: Mary Randlett’s and 18 18 Cathy Stevens’ “Searching for Soul” exhibit 18 ART ART shows until April 23 at La Conner’s Gallery ART Cygnus, 109 N. Commercial St. WWW.GALLERYCYGNUS.COM 16 GOOD EARTH POTTERY: A “Bowls Beneﬁt” will raise funds for the Bellingham Food Bank through March at Good Earth Pottery, This Week STAGE 1000 Harris Ave. WWW.GOODEARTHPOTS.COM 14 LOOMIS HALL: The group show “Northwest Sole & Prawn Sea and Sky” will be up through May 6 at

Blaine’s Loomis Hall Gallery, 288 Martin St. “NOW” Iodine Formulas GET OUT WWW.LOOMISHALL.COM Seafood Roll LUCIA DOUGLAS: Art by Suzanne DeCuir, “UPRISING” local seeds 12 Bill Evans, and E.V. Wick will be on display Meat & Vegetable Pies, Desserts & FreshFresh PPear through March 26 at Lucia Douglas Gallery, Hodges Herbary Salves 1415 13th St. Organic Blueberry Spread WORDS WWW.LUCIADOUGLAS.COM anda

MATZKE FINE ART: The “Northwest Design- ͙͝άơ͛ 8 er Craftsmen International” runs through Almo April 10 at Camano Island’s Matzke Fine Art Outstanding Sandwiches Almond & Sculpture Park, 2345 Blanch Way. WWW.MATZKEFINEART.COM Potato Goat Cheese SSweetweet PPie CURRENTS MONA: “Act 2: The Next Track,” “The Van- 6 ishing Landscape,” and pieces by James B. A World of OpenOpen 7 days/wk.days/wk Thompson’s and Jay Steensma from the per- Findd us on for our

Choices VIEWS manent collection can be seen through June 1215 Railroad Ave. daily lunch specials 12 at La Conner’s Museum of Northwest Art, Hiway 9 – Van Zandt Downtown B’Ham 121 S. First St. www.everybodys.com 4 WWW.MUSEUMOFNWART.ORG MAIL MAIL MT. BAKERY: Sara Morris’ pastels can be

perused through March at the Mt. Bakery, 2 308 W. Champion St. YOGA NORTHWEST

715-2195 IT DO THE B.K.S. IYENGAR YOGA CENTER OF BELLINGHAM REXVILLE GROCERY: Roger Small’s “Keep- ing the Magic Alive” oil paintings can be Yoga 11 viewed through March at Mount Vernon’s Rexville Grocery, 9271 Best Rd. 19 Classes! Apr 4-10 .23. FREE 03 WWW.REXVILLEGROCERY.COM SEASIDE GALLERY: “The Glory of Spring” exhibit will be on display through May 22 at .06 12 La Conner’s Seaside Gallery, 122 Morris St. # WWW.LACONNERSEASIDEGALLERY.COM SMITH & VALLEE: John Robbins’ “Por- traits, New Works” exhibit can be perused through March 27 at Edison’s Smith & Vallee Gallery, 5742 Gilkey Ave. 10-week WWW.SMITHANDVALLEE.COM Spring Session Voted Best

WHATCOM MUSEUM: See “Collection Se- starting Apr 11 CASCADIA WEEKLY lections/Two” and “Arts and Crafts Move- Yoga Studio ment of the Paciﬁc Northwest” at the What- 2010! 19 com Museum’s Lightcatcher Building, 250 Check our website: for our free and winter class schedules. Flora St. WWW.WHATCOMMUSEUM.ORG yoganorthwest.com

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34 34 I DON’T SUPPOSE I have to tell any of you anything about the opening weekend of the FOOD Shakedown, because I’m pretty sure that, between the time the bar ofﬁcially opened for music business Thursday until last call on Saturday 27 SHOW PREVIEWS ›› RUMOR HAS IT night, I ran into just about each and every one of you there.

B-BOARD But for those who were busy curing all major diseases or bringing about world peace or whatever other very important thing you were 24 doing that kept you away from State Street

FILM FILM last weekend, I can say (with only slight hy- BY CAREY ROSS perbole) that whatever you accomplished, it could not possibly have been as successful 20 20 as the Shakedown’s big debut. And as many of my most favorite MUSIC MUSIC Lukas Nelson members of Belling- ham’s music com- 18 HIS HEROES HAVE ALWAYS BEEN COWBOYS munity either own ART ART or work at the bar, I could not be hap- 16 pier about the whole thing. The bar will STAGE STAGE now also start to feature a couple of

14 events that will be weekly mainstays, BY CAREY ROSS

GET OUT including Jordan Rain, a.k.a. DJ Yogoman, who will spin records and encourage mass dancery every Tuesday 12 night and—I know you’ve all been waiting with bated breath for this one—’80s Night WORDS will mark its return to State Street on Thurs- day nights beginning March 31. And, in case 8 you’re wondering, yes, it will be helmed by the very same DJs who brought you all those ’80s Nights at the 3B and the Nightlight. Let CURRENTS CURRENTS the shitshow begin.

6 Now that I’ve dispensed with the Shakedown for the time being, it’s time to talk about my

VIEWS VIEWS other favorite thing happening in town at the moment: the second installment of the 4 Jinx Band Lottery. While the show itself won’t

MAIL MAIL take place until April 2, the bands have been drawn and announced—and, much like last

2 time, there are some lineups to be reckoned with. For instance, who doesn’t want to see DO IT IT DO

Biagio Biondolillo and Sarah Jerns take the stage with Boris Budd? Or want to watch what 11 THE CHILDREN of legendary musicians who go growing up in Texas and Hawaii, the happens when Audra Robson and Chris Gusta .23.

03 on to become musicians themselves often deal with the younger Nelson actually considers try to write songs together? Or, even better, burden of coming from a famous family in curious fash- his house to be the Honeysuckle witness the musical mash-up that is Ryan

.06 ion. They tend to either deny that their musical forefa- Rose—the name of Willie’s touring Greer, Aireekah Laudert, and Karen Kunkel? 12 # ther (or foremother, as the case may be) influenced their bus—and his home to be the road. This is just a random sampling, however, chosen path, or they become defensive at the sugges- Lukas first stepped on the bus as a as there are six bands featuring five members tion that being part of a musical dynasty has in any way kid, going on tour with his dad and each. This time around, not everyone who of- aided or abetted their career. ATTEND the rest of the Highwaymen, an out- fered themselves up to the whims of the Band Lukas Nelson, however, is not your average musician’s WHO: Lukas Nelson law country supergroup comprised Lottery was selected by Michelle Schutte’s kid. As the son of Willie Nelson, he’s managed to build a and the Promise of of Nelson, Johnny Cash, Waylon hand of fate, but as she plans to undertake the Real this experiment twice a year, it is her hope CASCADIA WEEKLY career of his own—without an inch of denial or an ounce Jennings, and Kris Kristofferson. WHEN: 8pm Sat., of defensiveness when it comes to his famous father. In March 26 To paraphrase his father’s famous that this game of musical chairs will come to 20 fact, he’s the first to say his father is his hero, and has WHERE: Wild song, it seems Lukas’ heroes have include everyone who wants to play. If you seemingly no issues with discussing at length what he’s Buffalo, 208 W. always been cowboys. happened to be present for the last Band Lot- called the “Willie stuff.” Holly St. These days, the Honeysuckle Rose tery, you already know this is a show you do To rehash, Lukas is the son of Willie’s fourth and cur- COST: $10-$12 has been rechristened as the Real not want to miss. If you weren’t there, same MORE INFO: rent wife, Annie. And while the official story has Lukas www.wildbuffalo.net Mobile and repurposed into the con- sentiment applies. showpreview musicevents

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Promise of the Real, from one tour stop to ian ST. Tickets are $65 and include 27 the next (Willie himself still rolls in anoth- musical entertainment, a multi- course dinner, ﬁne wines and silent er iteration of the Honeysuckle Rose). and live auctions. B-BOARD And many of the destinations that are on 428-5822 OR WWW. the Real Mobile’s itinerary are shared by the BELLINGHAMCHAMBERCHORALE.ORG

Honeysuckle Rose as well. This is not merely Aggressive. 24 SAT., MARCH 26 another convoluted way of saying Lukas is PIANO SOLOS: Florida’s Wayne

ǆƉĞƌŝĞŶĐĞĚ͘īĞĐƟǀĞ͘ FILM following in his father’s footsteps, rather Gratz, Seattle’s Joe Bongiorno, that when Lukas isn’t playing in his father’s and Pennsylvania’s Greg Maroney ͻ&ĞůŽŶǇ͕DŝƐĚĞŵĞĂŶŽƌ͕/ŶĨƌĂĐƟŽŶ͕h/͕ 20 Family Band with brother Micah, which he perform at tonight’s “Whispering ƐƐĂƵůƚ͕ƌƵŐΘ^ĞǆĂƐĞƐ͘ 20 does three or four months a year, the Prom- Solo” piano concert at 7pm at the Amadeus Project, 1209 Cornwall ͻ͞ZŝƐŝŶŐ^ƚĂƌ͕͟tĂƐŚŝŶŐƚŽŶ>ĂǁΘWŽůŝƟĐƐ͘ MUSIC ise of the Real can often be found opening MUSIC Ave. Tickets are $10-$20. for Willie, as at almost 80 years old, the el- 815-1825 OR WWW. ƩŽƌŶĞǇůĞǆZĂŶƐŽŵ der Nelson shows no sign of retiring either THEAMADEUSPROJECT.ORG ;ϯϲϬͿϲϳϭͲϴϱϬϬ ĂƌĂŶƐŽŵΛƚĂƌŝŽůĂǁ͘ĐŽŵ 18

himself or the Honeysuckle Rose. ART SUN., MARCH 27 However, although Lukas could not be CANOTE BROTHERS: Twin broth-

more proud of the man who fathered him, ers Greg and Jere Canote bring 16 nepotism is most decidedly not the name their instruments to town for a

of his musical game. Riding Willie’s coat- 2pm show featuring everything STAGE tails has only gotten him so far, and the from country songs to novelty numbers and swing at Nancy’s rest of the ground he’s covered—which Farm, 2030 E. Smith Rd. Suggested 14 has included stints opening for the Dave donation is $15. Mathews Band and B.B. King—he’s done 966-4640 OR GET OUT the old-fashioned way: through talent, WWW.NANCYSFARM.COM skill and sheer hard work. OHLSSON & WSO: Piano superstar Garrick Ohlsson joins the Whatcom !CROSSFROM"ELLIS&AIRDOWNFROM2OSSs-ERIDIAN3T"ELL!CROSSFROM"E INGHAM All this is well and good, but what peo- 12 1 w ple most want to know when they learn of Symphony Orchestra for a spring sWW PLATOSCLOSETBELLINGHAMCOM concert at 3pm at the Mount Baker

Lukas’ musical heritage can probably be WORDS Theatre, 104 N. Commercial St. summed up with three questions: Does Lu- Tickets are $10-$49. +6,:@6<9 kas sound like Willie? Does he play like Wil- 734-6080 OR 8 lie? And, last but certainly not least, does WWW.MOUNTBAKERTHEATRE.COM he play “Whiskey River” multiple times dur- ART OF JAZZ: The Josh Cook Quartet performs at the monthly ing a single set? The answers are simple: =63=6 CURRENTS “Art of Jazz” series starting at 4pm no, no and hell no. :PUJL PU)LSSPUNOHT at the Amadeus Project, 1209 Corn- :/66;-69 6 Although Lukas learned to play guitar at Diagnosis U Repair U Service U We Buy and Sell Volvos wall Ave. Entry is $5-$15. New & used parts in stock U Visa, MasterCard and Discover an early age at the behest of his father, the 650-1066 OR ;/,4665& 360.734.6117 VIEWS direction he’s taken his musical stylings in WWW.JAZZPROJECT.ORG rainbowautoservice.com is all his own. While Willie can pretty much 403,:(=. 4 TUES., MARCH 29 Open Monday to Thursday, 8-6 always be found strumming his battered

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his more upbeat songs) that belies his abil- Slough Dogs perform a free concert 2 ity, his son is an all-electric, head-bobbing at 7pm at Mount Vernon’s McIntyre

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as both a guitar player and overall performer JAZZ SHOW: Students from Mount .23. on the Late Show with David Letterman, and Vernon High School’s nationally 03 recognized jazz band perform at turned in four-and-a-half minutes of un- 7pm at Mount Vernon’s Lincoln .06

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Theatre, 712 S. First St. Tickets # However, that was just the barest tease of are $6. what he offers up at every live show, dur- WWW.LINCOLNTHEATRE.ORG ing which audiences watch, mouths agape, DARK STAR ORCHESTRA: The while Lukas, with nimble ﬁngers and passion Grateful Dead come back to musical life when the acclaimed Dark to spare, cranks out ferocious guitar jam af- Star Orchestra—an ensemble who’ve ter ferocious guitar jam. been performing from the Dead’s

PEPPER CASCADIA WEEKLY And maybe it’s these strong differences extensive catalog for more than 13 in style and substance that allow Lukas to years—take the stage at 7:30pm 21 be his father’s son so easily, without resent- at the Mount Baker Theatre, 104 N. Commercial St. Tickets are $30. ment, defensiveness or some overwhelming SISTERS 734-6080 OR WWW. urge to be everything and anything Willie MOUNTBAKERTHEATRE.COM COOKING OUTSIDE THE BOX SINCE 1988 is not. Or, maybe it’s just that his heroes really have always been cowboys. Open Nightly Except Monday 1055 N State St B’ham 671-3414 musicvenues 34 34 See below for venue FOOD addresses and phone 03.23.11 03.24.11 03.25.11 03.26.11 03.27.11 03.28.11 03.29.11 numbers WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY

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B-BOARD Mary becomes more and more clingy and des- perate for Tom and Gerri’s company, to the point where they have to consider gently but 24 24 firmly pushing her away. FILM FILM FILM FILM In its own quiet, naturalistic way, Another Year is one of Leigh’s best films. It takes his signature traits—a focus on ordinary people, 20 using improvisation to create dialogue, un- derplaying emotions—and creates a portrait MUSIC of life in later middle age that’s both life- affirming and achingly sad. The movie is full 18 of small, revealing moments when a charac- ART ART ter reaches out to another, or pushes away another, and the aftereffects of the gestures 16 are moving because they are so understated. The last scene in the film, for example, is STAGE STAGE completely heartbreaking, but most of the 14

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MAIL MAIL fuse Gerri and Tom with good humor and hu- REVIEWED BY ROB THOMAS manity, but there’s a steeliness underneath

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her romantic designs on their grown son Joe Another Year (Oliver Maltman). 11 But Manville, unfairly excluded from an .23. IF YOU’RE HAPPY AND YOU KNOW IT 03 Oscar nomination, is the one you really remember here. So brassy and forward in the

.06 HAPPINESS IS hard work. The 50-something couple Tom and Gerri at against more troubled souls around them. spring and summer sections of the movie, we 12 # the center of Mike Leigh’s ﬁlm Another Year are by any measure happily mar- Another Year opens with a largely unrelated see her life slowly crumple as she faces the ried, facing the onset of old age together with compassion and good humor. prologue, set in the clinic where Gerri (Ruth real possibility of growing old alone. Manville But you get the sense that they didn’t just luck into lifelong bliss, but Sheen) works, in which a coworker unsuc- plays Mary as an exasperating human being, have toiled away for years at building full and satisfying lives for themselves. cessfully tries to help a patient (Imelda self-centered to a fault, and yet ends up mak- Throughout the ﬁlm, Leigh includes interludes where we see Tom (Jim Broad- Staunton) who is so miserably depressed, ing you empathetic toward her. bent) and Gerri (Ruth Sheen) working in their community garden, nurturing she’s almost insulted by the suggestion that Watching Another Year, I was reminded of

CASCADIA WEEKLY the good things, pruning away the destructive ones. It’s a telling metaphor she could ever feel better. a line William Hurt said in Kiss of the Spider for a life well-lived. From there, Another Year is broken up into Woman: “The best thing about being happy 24 In that way, Another Year is a deeply felt companion piece to Leigh’s last four sections, each visiting Tom and Gerri is that you think you may never be unhappy ﬁlm, Happy-Go-Lucky, which followed the perpetually sunny Sally Hawkins as in a different season. Surrounding them are again.” The reverse is also true, and Another her optimism exasperated those around her, especially an eternally angry friends, coworkers, family members, most of Year is a masterful slice of life that eloquent- driving instructor. them noticeably less happy than Tom and ly shows what it’s like to live on both sides of In this ﬁlm as well, the main characters’ happiness is played in sharp relief Gerri. They’re in poor health, or they’re griev- that divide.

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B-BOARD The Adjustment Bureau: This movie—an actioner about strings, the men who pull them and their need to keep it all secret—is ample proof that Matt Damon is the kind of actor that can render any ﬁlm, no mat- 24 24 ter how improbable, not only palatable but downright watchable. ★★★★ 1(tISNJO FILM FILM FILM FILM 4VOTFU4RVBSF]]]

Another Year: See review previous page. ★★★★★ 20 1(tISTNJO Pickford Call 738-0735 for showtimes. MUSIC Battle: Los Angeles: Well, the aliens have landed. And they’re pissed. Frankly, I liked this movie better 18 when it starred Will Smith and was called Indepen-

ART ART dence Day (or, if you prefer, when it was every ﬁrst- person-shooter videogame to hit the market in the QBTUIBMGEFDBEF CVUUPFBDIIJTPXO★★ (PG-13 16 tISNJO 4FIPNF$BMMGPSTIPXUJNFT STAGE STAGE Beastly: Hollywood’s latest ﬁnd, Alex Pettyfer, shows up in his second starring vehicle to hit the-

14 aters in less than a month. This time, Vanessa Hud- gens plays Beauty to Pettyfer’s Beast. I’d like to be excited about that, but I’m not going to lie: the fact

GET OUT that this movie also stars an Olsen twin is pretty MARWENCOL much outweighing all else about it. ★★ 1(t ISNJO Gregg Araki’s fans have been waiting for. ★★★★ (Un- ★★★ Red Riding Hood: Working title: What Hollywood

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6 Paul: He’s a foul-mouthed alien who just wants to ing but disdain for this retelling of the Shakespeare tIST Limitless: Bradley Cooper has gone from being a bit phone home and they’re a couple of comic-book geeks classic via a group of unruly garden gnomes. But 4FIPNF$BMMGPSTIPXUJNFT comedic player to a sexy leading man in a Hollywood who just want to get laid (I haven’t seen the movie,

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4 Gnomes: not just for the garden anymore. ★★★★ (G player to sexy leading man. Art imitates life imitating shortly thereafter. ★★ 3tISNJO mid-XIX-century Japan, your life pretty much sucks. tISNJO art. Or something. ★★★ 1(tISNJO #FMMJT'BJS]] There’s also a love story and some honorable struggle MAIL MAIL #FMMJT'BJS] 4VOTFU4RVBSFBN]]]] at play, but that’s pretty much the gist. ★★★★ (Un- Rango: There’s a new sheriff in town—and it appears Just Go With It: In this movie, Jennifer Aniston is SBUFEtISTNJO 2 The Lincoln Lawyer: Watch Matthew McConaughey to be a big-eyed gangly green lizard voiced by Johnny involved in a sham marriage so that her faux husband 1JDLGPSE.BSDI! simultaneously restart his career and capably anchor Depp. I’d like to be opposed to this film—which seems can land a much more attractive woman. I know, I DO IT IT DO what is shaping up to be Hollywood’s latest film fran- to be some sort of animated, animal-populated West- thought it was a biopic too. As it turns out, it’s just Unknown: Liam Neeson is back in action—literal- chise simply by taking a role that does not require him ern—but I know how dangerous it is to underestimate ly—as a man who doesn’t exist. Consider this movie another subpar rom-com. ★★ 1(tISNJO ★★★★ 11 to take off his shirt. 3tISNJO Depp. After all, this is the man who helped turn a Dis- sort of like Taken 4VOTFU4RVBSF]]] BOPUIFS/FFTPOBDUJPOFS DSPTTFE 4VOTFU4RVBSF]]] neyland ride into a film megafranchise. His powers are with the Jason Bourne franchise—and then water it .23. Kaboom: A delirious and lighthearted pop spectacle

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6 In the language of ﬂowers, crocus symbolizes BY GRACE JACKSON ' (*)- cheerfulness; snowdrops, consolation and hope. From Tidewater on the Half Shell cookbook VIEWS VIEWS Hellebores are symbols found in art, literature INGREDIENTS and lore. In Loves Me, Loves Me Not: The Hidden

4 6 tablespoons butter Language of Flowers, Peter Loewer writes that 1 cup sugar

MAIL MAIL Signs of Spring hellebores are “thought to have magical pow- 2 eggs ers because they bloomed in very cold weather, 1½ cups ﬂour

2 THE BREAD ALSO RISES and if blooms appeared before Christmas it 1 teaspoon baking powder presaged a bountiful year ahead. Because the DO IT IT DO

½ cup milk (or ¼ cup lemon or orange “Every spring is the only spring—a perpetual astonishment.” roots are not edible, they are thought to con- juice, plus ¼ cup milk) — Ellis Peters tain evil spirits, hence the darker meanings of 11 grated rind of one lemon scandal or slander.” .23. 1 teaspoon coarsely chopped rosemary 03 EVERY MORNING, I walk up a steep street to get to work. When I pull When I see those pretty flowers I feel an ir- (don’t chop too fine, or the rosemary on my backpack and start the trudge, I feel grumpy and old. Midway to the top, rational happiness and a whirring impulsiveness, will look like little ants in the bread!) .06 I’m huffing and chuffing like a tired steam train. Tomorrow I shall take the bus, I which makes me want to dance, sing out loud, or 12 # think, which would conveniently deliver me to the front door of my workplace. kiss my husband for a second or two longer. GLAZE But in the last two weeks or so I have received a sweet gift that makes me I bake this lemon bread year round, but I 1/3 cup sugar forget my breathlessness and the bus. Near the top of the incline, I am re- especially enjoy baking it in the spring. Just Juice of one lemon warded by a lovely garden where two Adirondack chairs, painted sky blue, angle the color of it—bright yellow with flecks of toward each other as if in conversation. green—makes me feel like celebrating the Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Cream but- A gardener has planted crocus, snowdrops and hellebore. For a second or two possibilities the world has to offer. My son ter, sugar and eggs.

CASCADIA WEEKLY (can’t be late for work!) I stop and look at those sublime blooms and silently requests this bread every year on his birthday, Combine flour and baking powder; add thank the gardener who put them there. Then I give props to those smart little which is in the spring. I’ve served it at baby to egg mixture. Add milk and rind; mix 34 bulbs and rhizomes who know their divine purpose is to poke their heads up showers and wedding showers, and when a well. Pour into a greased eight-cup loaf from the subterranean darkness of the soil and sing: “Look at me: I am here! It neighbor pops over for tea. Luckily my rose- pan. Bake at 325 degrees for 60 minutes. is spring! It is spring!” mary bush grows year round, but if you can’t For glaze, poke some holes in bread with skewer. Mix sugar and juice well; pour over Nature speaks in symbols and signs, and the first color in the garden signals find fresh rosemary this sweet bread is fine bread while still warm. Cool slightly before a rebirth and a reawakening of the soul. without it. removing from pan. doit

THURS., MARCH 24

WINE EVENT: The Mount Baker Red Cross holds its annual fundraising “Wine Event” ABOUT YOU 34 from 6-8:30pm at the Bellingham Cruise FOOD Terminal, 355 Harris Ave. Tickets are $75. Name ______WWW.REDCROSSWINEEVENT.COM Email ______TRADITIONAL FOODS: Tanja Kanoa, Car- la Witham, and Daravan Marith present an City Residence ______27 “Introduction to Traditional Foods” from Phone # ______6:30-8:30pm at the Community Food Co-

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SAT., MARCH 26 +-$5 ./* ))*0) 24 COMMUNITY MEAL: All are welcome at

the free, bimonthly “Community Meal” FILM from 10am-12pm at the United Church of PEOPLE Best Outdoor Gear Supplier ______Ferndale, 2034 Washington St. 20 384-1422 Best Local Artist ______Best Grocery Store ______FARM TALK: Joshua Craft and Michelle Best Place To Buy Jewelry ______

Best Local Author ______MUSIC Zehr of Nooksack Nine Farms will present a talk about Community Supported Agri- Best Band/Musician ______Best Book Store ______

culture (CSA) and how they beneﬁt local Best Music/Video Store ______18 farms at 11am at Bellingham’s Joy of Pi- Best Bartender ______ART ART lates, 209 Prospect St. Entry is free, but Best Barista ______Best Place To Get Your Car Fixed ______please RSVP. Best Massage ______224-1433 OR WWW.NOOKSACK9.COM Best Waitperson ______16 MEXICAN FIESTA: Beneﬁt Meals on Wheels PLACES Best Thrift Store ______

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Best Music Festival ______Best Mexican______CURRENTS MON., MARCH 28 Best Italian ______SOUP KITCHEN: Volunteers and donations Best Place To Dance ______6 are welcome at the weekly Soup Kitchen, Best Place To Hear Live Music ______Best Greek ______

which for ﬁnal time this season from 6-7pm VIEWS at the Little Cheerful Café, 133 E. Holly St. Best Place To Gamble ______Best Indian ______

224-6429 4 Best Gallery ______Best Sushi ______MAKING CHEESE: Learn how to make whole

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