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WOTUS TO SCOTUS? P.08 + OFF-LEASH P.13 + BUSINESS BRIEFS P.22 c a s c a d i a REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIA WHATCOM*SKAGIT*SURROUNDING AREAS 01-29-2020 • ISSUE: 05 • V.15 CASCADIA PET GUIDE: INSIDE! INTO BELLINGHAM THE COCKTAIL WEEK COSMOS P.23 THE C.W. COCOANUTS STONEKING A MARX BROTHERS SONGS OF A BYGONE REMAKE P.14 ERA P.16 ship and Fine Arts Center Be Our Guest: 6pm-9pm, Sylvia Center for the Arts A brief overview of this The Good Doctor: 7:30pm, Bellingham Theatre 23 Guild week’s happenings Murder on the Orient Express: 7:30pm, Anacortes FOOD Community Theatre THISWEEK 7:30pm, Phil Tarro Theatre, Skagit The Cocoanuts: Valley College 20 Serial Killers: 7:30pm and 9:30pm, Sylvia Center Space Trek: 7:30pm and 9:30pm, Upfront Theatre B-BOARD Nationally touring DANCE BE in the Show: 6pm, Mount Baker Theatre comedian Andrew Sleighter Folkdance Party: 7pm-10pm, Squalicum Yacht Club 19 will be on the lineup at the MUSIC FILM Hot Jazz Party: 2pm-5pm, VFW Hall monthly Depot Comedy Nuages: 7:30pm, Lummi Island Congregational Church 16 Club Sun., Feb. 2 at Aslan Sounds of Siberia: 8pm, Firehouse Arts and Depot. Events Center MUSIC GET OUT Rowers Race: 10am, Swinomish Channel, La Conner 15 Deep Forest Experience: 11am-2pm, Rockport ART State Park 14 FOOD Anniversary Celebration: 12pm-11:30pm, Aslan Depot STAGE Wine Tasting: 2pm-4pm, Seifert & Jones Wine Merchants 13 VISUAL Birds of Winter Art Walk: 2pm-5pm, downtown GET OUT Mount Vernon Folly Opening: 4pm-6pm, i.e. gallery, Edison Interlacements Viewing: 4pm, Jansen Art Center, 12 Lynden PHOTO BY ROBERT MARE JR. BY PHOTO Bird’s Eye View Opening: 5pm-7pm, Smith & Val- lee Gallery, Edison WORDS WEDNESDAY [01.29.20] Arts & Jazz: 7pm-10pm, Blaine High School 10 ONSTAGE SUNDAY [02.02.20] Kilroy Was Here: 6:30pm, Lincoln Theatre, Mount Vernon ONSTAGE The Good Doctor: 2pm, Bellingham Theatre Guild CURRENTS WORDS The Cocoanuts: 2pm, Phil Tarro Theatre, SVC 6 Marty Wingate: 7pm, Village Books Depot Comedy Club: 8pm, Aslan Depot Gateway Show: 8pm, Upfront Theatre VIEWS [01.30.20] THURSDAY GET OUT 4 ONSTAGE Deep Forest Experience: 11am-2pm, Rockport Good, Bad, Ugly: 7:30pm, Upfront Theatre State Park MAIL Davis: 7:30pm, Sylvia Center for the Arts The Good Doctor: 7:30pm, Bellingham Theatre Guild FOOD 2 Community Breakfast: 8am-12pm, Rome Grange 2 The Cocoanuts: 7:30pm, Phil Tarro Theatre, Skagit Valley College, Mount Vernon Langar: 11am-2pm, Guru Nanak Gursikh Gurdwara, DO IT DO IT The Future of Modern Improv: 9:30pm, Upfront Lynden Theatre MONDAY [02.03.20] DANCE Violinist Carrie Krause and violist Victoria Gunn will ONSTAGE 01.29.20 Folk Dance: 7pm-9:30pm, Fairhaven Library be part of Salish Sea Early Music Festival concerts Guffawingham: 9pm, Firefly Lounge WORDS .15 7pm, Heiner Theater, WCC GET OUT 05 Chuckanut Radio Hour: Jan. 31 at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, and Feb. 4 at Fir- # All-Paces Run: 6pm, Fairhaven Runners FOOD Conway Lutheran Church. Backcountry Skiing Clinic: 6pm, REI Taylor Shellfish Winter Pop-Up: 6pm-9pm, Aslan Depot TUESDAY [02.04.20] Space Trek: 7:30pm and 9:30pm, Upfront Theatre State Park FRIDAY [01.31.20] Afterglow Comedy Hour: 9pm, Stemma Brewing Illuminight Winter Walk: 5:30pm, Riverwalk MUSIC Company Park Plaza, Mount Vernon Mozart Quartets: 7pm, Fir-Conway Lutheran Church CASCADIA WEEKLY ONSTAGE The Good Doctor: 7:30pm, Bellingham Theatre Guild MUSIC VISUAL Early Music Festival: 7pm, St. Paul’s Episcopal Vortex Closing: 6:30pm-9pm, Mindport Exhibits VISUAL 2 Davis: 7:30pm, Sylvia Center for the Arts Murder on the Orient Express: 7:30pm, Anacortes Church Museum in Mind: 1pm-3pm, Whatcom Museum’s Community Theatre SATURDAY [02.01.20] Lightcatcher Building The Cocoanuts: 7:30pm, Phil Tarro Theatre, Skagit GET OUT Valley College, Mount Vernon Wild Things: 9:30am-11am, Lake Padden Park ONSTAGE SEND YOUR EVENTS LISTINGS TO Serial Killers: 7:30pm and 9:30pm, Sylvia Center Deep Forest Experience: 11am-2pm, Rockport Cinderella: 1pm and 7pm, Lynden Christian Wor- [email protected] IS CLOSER THAN YOU THINK! 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The 18-year-old ext 2 musician took home five awards, including Best Album, calendar@ 14 Record and Song of the Year, Best New Artist, and Best cascadiaweekly.com Pop Vocal Album. Eilish made history by becoming the Music Editor: youngest winner of album of the year, and the second mu- STAGE Carey Ross sician since Christopher Cross to win all four general-field music@ categories in one year. cascadiaweekly.com 13 Production GET OUT Views & News Art Director: 04: Mailbag Jesse Kinsman jesse@ 12 06: Gristle and Views kinsmancreative.com 08: EPA alert Design: WORDS Bill Kamphausen 10: Last week’s news Advertising Design: Police blotter, Index Roman Komarov 10 11: roman@ cascadiaweekly.com Arts & Life Send all advertising materials to [email protected] CURRENTS CONCRETE PLANT IS THE ROAR OF A ‘MINORITY’ 12: Clean slate NOT SET IN STONE In response to a recent letter on the Sudden 6 13: Off-leash Distribution I am one of many residents of Sumas who do Valley Community Association from former di- 14: The Cocoanuts Distribution Manager: not wish to have our local environment harmed by rector Larry Brown, I note that he is quick to VIEWS Erik Burge a proposed concrete plant. The site is at high risk condemn anyone who might want to talk to the 15: Sedro sights distribution@ 4 4 of liquefaction, is over our aquifer, is adjacent to press about the situation in Sudden Valley as 16: Stoneking sings cascadiaweekly.com Whatcom: Erik Burge, our residential area, and will block a natural water “washing our dirty linen in public” and thereby MAIL MAIL 18: Clubs Stephanie Simms corridor if we ever have another flood. “lowering our property values”—but this is not 2 19: Film Shorts Skagit: Linda Brown, Backfill of another industrial site is already the first time he has done this himself. Barb Murdoch causing problems with the groundwater flow His letter is full of half-truths and omissions, DO IT Rear End in our protected wetlands area. Sumas Creek, a and fails to forthrightly address the current situ- Letters salmon stream, also runs through the site. ation. He makes it sound as if there are a hand- 20: Free Will, Sudoku SEND LETTERS TO LETTERS@ CASCADIAWEEKLY.COM We have presented our opposition and many ful of whiners in the Sudden Valley community 21: Crossword scientific government and private studies who are hellbent on ruining things for everyone. 01.29.20 22: Business Briefs thatshow this is a very bad place to build for this Nothing could be further from the truth. type of industry. A large portion of the community is now really .15 23: Bellingham Cocktail Week 05 When this area was zoned industrial 30 years coming together on issues of common interest, # ago there was not the present awareness of po- and that community is not in agreement with ©2020 CASCADIA WEEKLY (ISSN 1931-3292) is published each Wednesday by tential harm to our community’s environment. Brown’s views, something that he has not—in Cascadia Newspaper Company LLC. Direct all correspondence to: Cascadia Weekly PO Box 2833 Bellingham WA 98227-2833 | Phone/Fax: 360.647.8200 It needs to be subjected to a complete EIS and the past—apparently been able to accept. [email protected] rezoned. We have asked for an EIS but the local In a previous article in the Weekly, he went Though Cascadia Weekly is distributed free, please take just one copy. Cascadia Weekly may be distributed only by authorized distributors. Any person removing government does not deem this necessary. so far as to accuse Sudden Valley of “commit- COVER: Photo of Taylor papers in bulk from our distribution points risks prosecution We have done what we were able in this past ting community suicide” if any member of the SUBMISSIONS: Cascadia Weekly welcomes freelance submissions. Send material Melim at L&L Libations CASCADIA WEEKLY to either the News Editor or A&E Editor. Manuscripts will be returned if you year but are in need of other Whatcom resi- community disagreed with his views. 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