The Gristle, p.06 + FILM SHORTS, p.23 + HEALTHY EATS, p.30 cascadia REPORTINGREPORTING FROMFROM THE HEARTHEART OFOF CASCADIACASCADIA WHATCOMWHATCOM SKAGITSKAGIT ISLANDISLAND COUNTIESCOUNTIES 01-01-04-2017-20*17 • ISSUE:ISSUE:*0101 • V.12V.12 FAKEFAKE NEWSNEWS :// $QDVVDXOWRQGHPRFUDF\3 SKI AMBASSADORS Sussing out the 6QR3DUN3 THE FREE GOOD FIGHT FRIDAYS $UWDQGDFWLYLVP All bang, no bucks DW'DNRWD*DOOHU\3 DWWKH%XƬ3 Space Trek: 8pm, Upfront Theatre Doubles: 10pm, Upfront Theatre cascadia 30 DANCE USA Dance: 7:15-10pm, Presence Studio FOOD FOOD ThisWeek Salsa Night: 9:30pm-12am, Cafe Rumba A glance at this week’s MUSIC 24 Jim Armstrong Quintet: 2-5pm, VFW Hall happenings Eli Schille-Hudson: 7pm, First Congregational Church B-BOARD B-BOARD Hot Club of Troy: 7:30pm, Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship WEDNESDAY [01.04.17] 22 22 COMMUNITY ONSTAGE Musician Resolutions Workshops: 11am-4pm, Village Books FILM Panty Hoes: 9pm, Rumors Cabaret Interfaith Prayer Service: 4-6pm, Guru Nanak and author GurSikh Gurdwara, Lynden MUSIC Tar Sands Valve Turners: 7pm, Bellingham Unitar- 18 Michael Van Bebber Quartet: 7pm, Whatcom Jazz Franz Nicolay ian Fellowship Music Arts Center MUSIC reads from his GET OUT WORDS Nordic Ski Ambassadors: 10am-2pm, Salmon Ridge, 16 Afternoon Books and Tea: 2-3:30pm, Lynden bestselling Mt. 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Please keep your Now the U.S. government is not the recipient letters to fewer than 300 words. of these payments, but rather the corporations BIGGER AND BETTER THINGS that do business throughout the world. Trump On Dec. 30, Donald Trump is quoted in the New denouncing the existence of funding for the ar- York Times in regard to the Russian hacking of maments in Europe as well as the Far East are NEWSPAPER ADVISORY GROUP: Robert Hall, Seth Murphy, Michael Petryni, David Syre endangering U.S.